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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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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.
Unkempt Backyard
July 1923
Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse.
Woman Disposing of Ashes
April 23, 1926
A woman wearing a dress and bonnet empties a pail of ashes into a refuse pile in the front yard of a farmhouse.
Cluttered Farm Yard
May 1926
Farm yard littered with parts of old farm machines, wagons and other items, farm buildings and an automobile.
Farmhouse and Barnyard
April 1926
Chickens stand in a barnyard surrounding a farmhouse. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrate the hazards of keeping a manure pile too...
Woman Washing Laundry in Tub
May 1923
Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no improved equipment. Mrs. Eshe posing."
