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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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Warming Work
circa 1974
Two railroad workers are pulling on a chain next to a railroad car carrying coal.
Christmas is Coming
November 1976
A city worker putting up holiday decorations on a light pole using a telescopic forklift.
Winter Repair
December 1976
A workman is welding new cleats on a "Cat" (Caterpillar excavator) at an iron mine. Smoke obscures the cab.
Affirmative Action
1976
A woman and a man are working on a road construction crew, with a dump truck full of sand behind them. They are wearing work clothes and hard hats. In the background is a building with a sign that ...
Pomp and Circumstance
1977
Grade school children are pretending their diplomas are binoculars in a graduation ceremony. They are wearing hand made robes, and caps with a pom pom instead of a tassel.
American Plumbing & Heating Company
A group portrait of workers in the American Plumbing & Heating Company.
