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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.
Appleton Woolen Mills Advertisement
March 1876
Advertising circular printed on Appleton Woolen Mills letterhead. The letterhead features color illustrations of a flock of sheep, a domestic spinning wheel, and an industrial loom spilling a ribbo...
Appleton Woolen Mills
1893
View of the Appleton Woolen Mills from the south, circa 1895. The three-story building in the right front was constructed in 1893. The long, two-story building behind it was built after the fire o...
Appleton Woolen Mills Fabric Samples
1881
Two swatches of colorful patterned wool fabric in an Appleton Woolen Mills sample book. Each sample consists of a brown background with irregular vertical and horizontal stripes of red, yellow, blu...
1893 World's Fair Award, Appleton Woolen Mills
1893
Award certificate presented to the Appleton Woolen Mills at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The company won a bronze medal at the Fair for its paper makers' felts and other textiles.The certificate...
