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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.
Man Smoothing Dirt Road
February 15, 1915
A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on a wooden grader while driving two mules along a dirt road. Beside the road behind him are cows in a fenced-in field near a barn and silo.
Fence Post Removal
1915
A man uses a "handy device for pulling old fence post" (original caption).
Rundown Farm Buildings
October 1930
View across a road and field of several rundown farm buildings located near a farmhouse. The image was used to illustre: "poor farm buildings."
Man with Plow and Mule
1914
A man is using a mule to pull a walking plow through a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance.
Horse-Drawn Carriage on Muddy Road
1915
A man is driving a horse-drawn carriage down a muddy dirt road. A wooden fence and several buildings are in the background.
Farm Building and Water Tower
1915
Small wooden building next to a tall water tower.
