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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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Manufacturing Machines for Twine
1900
Manufacturing machines for twine at McCormick Works.
Manila Fiber Produced at McCormick Works
1900
Manila fiber feeding into production machines to make twine. A white sheet is hanging from the ceiling in the background.
Manila Fiber Machine at McCormick Works
1900
Manila fiber feeding into manufacturing machine. The manila is pooled on the floor. A white sheet is hanging in the background as a backdrop.
Manufacturing Machine for Twine
1900
Bales of twine next to a manufacturing machine at McCormick Works. Coils of manila are fed into the machine, which is belt-driven from the ceiling.
Man with Spreader Machine at McCormick Twine Mill
1900
A factory worker uses a spreader machine to work with sisal fiber during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. White sheets are hanging in the background as backdrops.
