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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.
Attribution
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.
Casting Aluminum
Two men casting molten aluminum into slabs by hand at the Mirro Aluminum Company.
Polishing Aluminum
March 19, 1905
Women polishing aluminum items with belt-driven polishing machinery at Manitowoc Aluminum Novelty Co.
Manufacturing Enameled Metalware
Several men dip pitchers and pails to apply metal at Vollrath Company.
Vanishing Ways
1955
A blacksmith working at his forge. He is wearing a leather apron to protect his clothes from the heat.
