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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.
Women Workers at Chaney Instrument Company
1943
Five women are sitting around a table with machinery and various pieces of equipment. Three of the women are drinking coffee, and one woman is smoking. Women are sitting and standing in the backgro...
Women Workers at Chaney Instruments
1943
A woman is using a metal rod to handle glass objects on a tray. Caption reads: "Women workers at Chaney Instruments." Another woman in the background is working with another tray of the glass objec...
Elderly Couple Smelling Herbs
April 18, 1945
Elderly couple standing in a room with dried herbs hanging from the rafters, and bottles on a shelf in the background. The man is smelling dried herbs in a jar held by the woman.
Men Working in Factory
circa 1950-1959
Men working at machinery on a large factory floor. Engine blocks are on conveying belts. The name on the machinery is "Footburt." Two men, both wearing eyeglasses and neckties, stand in the aisle t...
Canning Factory
1977
Slightly elevated view of women who are working processing corn on a canning assembly line at the Fall River Canning Company. They are wearing aprons and gloves, and many of them have scarves or hats.
