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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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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 Spraying Field Crops
1919
Young man in a field spraying pesticide on crops for the Bowker Insecticide Company.
Dusting Potatoes with Pesticide
1919
A man dusting a potato crop in a field with arsenate of lead.
Children Gardening
1920
Children working in garden. One child is pulling beets, while another child is digging up potatoes with a hoe. Another child is sitting in a wheelbarrow looking at a potato.
Girl Peeling Potatoes
1920
Baskets of potatoes surround a young girl as she peels and cuts them outdoors near the side of a building.
Wheat Field
November 1929
Field of young winter wheat with a farmhouse and windbreak in the background.
Horse-Drawn Wagon
March 1926
A wagon hitched to two horses is standing alongside a dirt road as a man uses a hoe or shovel in the field to the left.
