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Digital Collections
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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The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Husking Corn
circa 1940-1949
Families sit amid piles of corn and remove the husks in the Meskovesd district near Budapest, Hungary.
Barn Fire
circa 1940-1949
Spectators watch at night as intense flames burn a barn down to its stone foundation.
Algerian FLN Members with Dead Camel
August 1957
Algerian National Liberation Front members posing with a dead camel. The men are wearing turbans and loose, light clothing. The camel has been skinned. Behind them is a large tent in the desert.
Pasta Factory
circa 1940-1949
Workers posing with racks of fresh pasta drying in the sun in Naples, Italy.
100-Ton Hydraulic Press
circa 1940-1949
Workers operate a hydraulic press and make stacks of mass-produced metal parts.
