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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.
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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.
Plucking Chickens
Some unidentified people plucking chicken feathers at an unidentified location.
Woman Plucking Chicken Feathers
A woman plucking feathers out of a chicken at an unknown location.
Myles Horton Searching for Doodle Bugs
Myles Horton doodling for doodle bugs outside the Highlander Library.
Myles Horton near Highlander Library
Myles Horton (right), standing in front of the library building with unidentified individual, at Highlander Folk School.
Myles Horton and Grace Hamilton
Myles Horton and Grace Towns Hamilton during an Urban League meeting at Highlander Folk School.
Chicken Slaughtering
1925
A man wearing a hat and suspenders is using an axe to slaughter a chicken, using a log as a base. A large pile of firewood is behind him.
