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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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Cornish Miner's House
1925
View from road looking down slope toward the house of a Cornish miner. Other buildings are in the background on the right.
Cornish Miner Homes on Shake Rag Street
1935
Cornish miner homes on Shake Rag Street. The home at the right, which has since been demolished, was constructed of clay mixed with marsh grass, pressed into woven willow branches, and covered with...
Cornish House
1940
A Cornish home in Mineral Point. In the background is a small hill with trees.
Pendarvis House
1942
The Pendarvis home, a restored Cornish miner's home now owned by Robert M. Neal.
Shake Rag Street
1935
Shake Rag Street, showing Cornish miner's homes. The street was formerly called Hoard Street in honor of R.C. Hoard who was stationed at Fort Defiance during the Black Hawk War (1831-1832).
