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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Girder Climbing
Construction workers sitting atop a steel girder placed by a crane, bolting it together at the corners.
Public Works Department
December 1954
Department of Public Works workers look over signs to be posted on city streets.
Pots and Pans Storage
A woman shows how her variety of pots and pans are stored on a sliding rack under the oven in her kitchen.
Construction Workers Picket
1955
A man wearing a construction workers' union sign pickets in the bright sun, followed by a young boy with a homemade sign of support.
