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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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Taking out the Kernels
1914
A young girl and two young boys looking at samples of corn cobs set up on a table.
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.
Teachers Constructing Germination Box
1917
Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
Teachers at Extension Short Course
1919
View from back of classroom of a group of teachers sitting at desks in a classroom while observing an instructor demonstrate knot tying. Several posters hang on the wall behind the instructor.
Bulgarian Peasants
1915
Bulgarian peasants attend school to learn American methods of corn culture.
Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks
1917
Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.