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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.
Mrs. Granere Washing Clothing
October 1923
Mrs. Granere using a Maytag wringer and two metal rinsing buckets to wash clothing on the International Harvester demonstration farm.
Laundry Line
1920
Clothing hanging on a clothesline strung between a farmhouse and two small farm buildings. Corn and other crops are planted around the farmhouse.
Woman Ironing
October 1927
A woman sitting in a wooden chair while using an electric iron on clothing. A laundry basket is at her feet.
Landscaping in Residential Neighborhood
September 1928
Backyard landscaping, including a decorative fence, in a residential neighborhood demonstrates its extensive planning and upkeep.
Electric Clothing Ironer
October 1927
Freshly pressed clothing hanging on a metal bar off an Apex electric ironing machine.
