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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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Manicuring Class
circa 1910-1919
Women seated at a table learning to give manicures as part of a manicuring class. Behind the group another woman is sitting in a chair receiving a scalp massage.
Students Learn to Bake
These young men and boys are students in a baking class at a vocational school.
Painting and Decorating Class
1910
Two young boys work on a wall in a school room as part of a vocational painting and decorating class.
Women Learning Factory Work
circa 1910-1919
View of young women learning to operate machines in a shirt and overall factory.
Students Sitting at Desks
1919
View from front of a classroom of students sitting at their desks in the Sedan Prairie School. A large round woodstove is in the back right corner of the room.
Mechanical Drawing and Workshop Mathematics Class
1910
Students are seated at desks in a mechanical drawing and workshop mathematics class at the Milwaukee School of Trades.
