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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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"Rag Doll" Testing
1913
Class of girls and teacher running a seed germination test ("rag-doll" test) in the classroom. The class is standing around a table, and are using a pail to test the corn which is wrapped in newspa...
Children Testing Corn
1917
A group of children from Mount Prospect High School standing around a table in a classroom to conduct corn testing while their instructor is looking on from the left.
Student Testing Corn
1917
A boy at Mount Prospect High School testing corn as part of the Cook County School Home Project.
Classroom Presentation on Flies
1915
A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture charts about flies are hanging on the chalkboar...
Testing Milk with Babcock Tester
1915
Teachers and students using a "Babcock Tester" in a classroom. Original caption reads: "Pupils of grammar grades testing milk with Babcock Tester; County Superintendent Tobin and rural life leader ...
Lesson at Mount Prospect High School
1917
View from the back of a classroom towards a teacher holding an ear of corn while standing near a chalkboard which reads: "Mt. Prospect Twp. High School, Mt. Prospect, Ill." A small group of childre...
