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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.
Picking Cotton
June 1931
African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia.
Holly Springs Baptist College Burning
Charred remains of a Baptist College after having been burned.
Building on Cinder Blocks
A wooden building standing on a foundation of cinder blocks, possibly at Highlander Folk School.
African American Tenant Farmers Picking Cotton
1900
Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand.
Farmer with Straw Hat
An unidentified farmer wearing overalls and a straw hat standing in a field.
