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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.
Sanitary Garbage Pail
1920
A metal sanitary garbage pail attaches underneath the kitchen sink and pipes at the farmhouse of Miss Lella Gaddis.
Woman with Dumbwaiter
1920
Mrs. John Bowers removing a plate of food from the dumbwaiter in her Benton County farmhouse.
Breakfast Nook
1931
Two benches, and a table covered with a cloth is set with a vase of flowers and a creamer dish, are standing beneath curtained windows in a farmhouse breakfast nook.
Kitchen Cabinet and Table
June 1923
A table with built-in cabinets and shelf space standing in the middle of a farmhouse kitchen, next to a wooden chair to the left and a stove and ovens to the right.
Early Electric Stove
June 1923
Electric stove in the rural farmhouse kitchen of Adolph Betz.
Community Canning Kitchen
September 1926
Man searching through cans of food piled in a wooden basket on a shelf in the distributing room of a community canning kitchen.
