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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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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.
Men on Loading Crane
August 6, 1914
View across water towards a man in a diving suit on a ladder that is just above the water. A group of men are standing on the dock nearby. A sign on the building behind the crane reads: "Great Lake...
View of Waterfront
August 6, 1914
View from shoreline of waterfront with docks and cranes, and factory buildings behind. Men are standing on a long barge near the cranes.
Man in Diving Suit
August 6, 1914
A man wearing a diving suit stands on a ladder coming out of a body of water (possibly the Chicago River). A sign in the background reads, "Dredge". The man likely worked for the Great Lakes Dredge...
Manufacturing Area at McCormick Works
View looking up towards the ceiling inside a factory building. Bricks are stacked on the floor near the base of a ladder propped against a steel beam. There is a crane on a beam high above the fact...
View of Waterfront
August 6, 1914
View from shoreline of waterfront with docks and cranes, and factory buildings behind.
Man on Ladder on Boxcar
July 1907
A man wearing a hat, bow tie and suspenders is posing standing on a ladder on the side of a boxcar at McCormick Works. There is a poster on the side that reads: "Deering Threshing Machines." The fr...
