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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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Auction at Bailey Farm
1883
Broadside advertising an auction at the L.P. Bailey farm near Delavan. Sale included cattle, horses and hogs.
Auction Sale on the Leo Melcher Farm
1889
Broadside advertising an auction on the Leo Melcher farm. Items for sale included livestock, feed and crops, farm machinery, and household items including a pool table.
International Ensilage Cutters Catalog
1918
Cover of an advertising catalog for International ensilage cutters, featuring an illustration of farmers using an ensilage cutter to fill a silo. At the bottom are illustrations of cow heads.
Ensilage Cutters and Hay Choppers Brochure
1939
Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering ensilage cutters, featuring an illustration of five cow heads flanking a picture of a feed storage silo.
International Stalk Cutter Catalog Cover
1914
Cover of and advertising catalog for International Harvester stalk cutters. Includes the text: "Look for this - IHC - on the genuine trademark" and the company's logo.
Wisconsin Center Art Auction
March 30, 1971
Poster advertising the Wisconsin Center Art Auction (formerly Art on the Park). The proceeds of the auction provided scholarship funds.
