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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.
Capping Tin Cans
May 1915
Mae Gribbon uses a soldering tool to seal tin cans in a home canning operation.
African American Cotton Farmer
1915
Farmer L.C. Carter standing beside bales of cotton and a farm building.
Dairy Department
1915
Max Ballard at the separator and Harvie Connell churning in the dairy department of the Pickens County High School.
International Scout Garbage Truck
1961
International Scout truck with dump box loading refuse into a garbage truck in a suburban neighborhood.
Filipino Cart
A Philippine Islands man sits in a cart drawn by several water buffalo. The man may have worked in International Harvester's sisal and twine operation.
Refuse Pile
March 1926
A refuse pile consisting of glass, a broken basket, bottles, cans, and other items behind a farmhouse. A crumbling foundation is in the background.
