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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 Cabbage Patch
October 20, 1988
A man is sitting on a flatbed covered in baskets of cabbages, and is holding up two cabbages. He is wearing overalls, and a cap that reads: "Puerto Rico." Caption reads: "THE CABBAGE PATCH — Luis F...
Tubing Down Mule Hill
January 2, 1988
Bundled-up boys ride their tubes down an icy slope in Mee-Kwon Park.
Jim Kreilkamp and Roy Heldt
September 29, 1983
Two shirtless men are standing in freshly poured cement using shovels. A third man is standing behind them. Caption reads: "Jim Kreilkamp (left) and Roy Heldt, employes of Cape Construction Co., sp...
Summer Harrowing
July 7, 1934
Farmer George Kopp giving a ride on his horse-drawn harrow to a young friend as he cultivates his field.
Saukville Driveway Construction
October 23, 1985
A group of five people are working on freshly poured cement outside a shop called Mac's Archery Supplies, Inc. Caption reads: "A group from Wiggins Construction Co., Menomonee Falls, worked on a dr...
Truck for Laying Asphalt
October 1, 1928
A man is standing at the front of a truck parked on a ramp. Further back on the right a group of men are working laying asphalt with large machinery. A group of people are watching them work in the...