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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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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.
Man in Apiary
A well-dressed man stands in the middle of several beehives holding a flat box of honey comb covered with bees.
Man and Woman near Beehives
January 6, 1909
A man and woman sit in a field near a large stand of beehives.
Jesse Cochran and Beehives
Jesse Cochran of Virginia, demonstrating the use of smoke near his beehives.
White House Beehive
Beehive shaped like the White House. Two children stand behind.
Jennie Matzke and Bees
1924
Jennie Matzke holds up a slate of honey comb covered in bees, while sitting next to numerous beehives.
