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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.
Staircase Danger
July 1927
A girl holding a long coat or blanket, a broom, and a dustpan while descending a flight of stairs at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
Kitchen Storage Closet
July 1923
View into a storage closet in the kitchen of Marilla Zearing. A vacuum cleaner, broom ("bissel"), kerosene lantern, and other supplies are stored inside, and a pencil sharpener is attached to the c...
Coat Rack
July 1923
Coats, hats, and bags hanging from a coat rack inside a farmhouse entryway at the home of Adolph Betz. Two pairs of shoes are lined against the wall at the base of a set of wooden stairs.
Self-Wringing Mop
1923
Mrs. Jake George standing on a wooden porch while using a foot pedal to wring excess water from a mop.
Mrs. Granere with Maytag Washer
October 1923
Mrs. Granere starting a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine in order to power a Maytag washer.
Woman with Engine-Powered Washing Machine
October 1923
Mrs. Granere using a washing machine powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Farm).
