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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Planting Trees
1935
A large crew of men are bending to their work of planting seedling trees into furrows. Each man is carrying a spade-like tool with a long handle, and a box with a handle. On the reverse of the phot...
Telephone Linemen
1935
A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole in the background. Snow is on the ground. ...
River Improvement
June 1936
Elevated view of a man, on the left, approaching three youths working on the Thunder River. One of the youths is holding a bucket while the others, standing in shallow water, are working with shove...
Game Farm Laboratory
October 1935
A man wearing a white surgical gown and gloves is standing at a surgical table. He is performing a necropsy on a small animal. There is a double basin standing at the foot of the table. On the far ...
After the Fire
1935
Two logging roads diverge in a stand of burned jack pine trees, dividing the scene into three parts. In the background, near the left branch of the road, there are two men partially obscured by smo...
Roofer on Roof
May 10, 1935
View looking up towards a man laying new shingles on the roof of a house at 341 West Wilson Street.
