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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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Meat Locker
1922
Sides of beef and hams hang from meathooks in the meat storage area of the Goeden & Krueger market.
Fire Fighter at Work
1934
Fire chief at work. He is also a student earning his way through the University of Wisconsin.
Veteran Butcher
September 8, 1956
Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat.
Man in Hemp Field
1912
View of a man wearing a suit and a straw hat standing among tall stalks of hemp in a field.
