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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.
Boy Holding Strainers
Child laborer standing barefoot near a pile of shells and holding a strainer in each hand.
Child Workers
1909
Caption on back: "Textile factory, girl spinner at frame, boy with a waste cart. (Child Labor in Cotton Mills, 1909-1913)."
Child Mine Worker
1908
Boy dressed in work clothes and covered with soot from working in a mine. He wears a hat with a rudimentary lantern on top.
Children Working In Vegetable Cannery
1912
Children working in a vegetable cannery as the supervisor with pipe in his mouth stands over them.
Glass Factory Workers
Group of men glassblowing. The boy at right is working the mold for the glassblower.
