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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Welder
1952
A man is working in a welding shop stick welding on a large bracket. He is wearing a welding helmet and leather gloves. On the left is an air exhaust pipe to carry away the smoke.
Construction Graphics
1976
A construction worker is perched on top of steel beams during construction of a large building.
Machine Shop Worker
A man wearing safety goggles and an apron while working in a machine shop. He may be part of a safety program.
Vanishing Ways
1955
A blacksmith working at his forge. He is wearing a leather apron to protect his clothes from the heat.
