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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Veteran Butcher
September 8, 1956
Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat.
August Derleth
Wisconsin author August Derleth, photographed by the noted Edgar L. Obma of Dodgeville, Wisconsin.
Meat Market
1910
A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
Margaret McGuire and Family
1948
Margaret McGuire (wearing the crown) and her family, with the photographers, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Obma, posing outdoors on the lawn at the Dodgeville-Mineral Point Country Club. A note on the back re...
Rhinelander Butcher Shop
1911
Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter on a wood cabinet is a sign reading "Oleom...
