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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.
Men Registering for CWA Employment
November 20, 1933
Doris Brobst, clerk for the Public Employment Office, sitting at her desk, 111 W. Main Street, registering a group of men for CWA (Civil Work Administration) employment.
People Wait in International Harvester Office
circa 1940-1949
Men and women wait in an International Harvester company office among desks, typewriters, and other office equipment.
County Clerk's Office
1910
Elmer S. Hall and his daughter, Olive Hall, in the County Clerk's office.
Men in Office
Man posing sitting and a man posing standing in a office behind a counter with a wire window for customers. Equipment in the office includes an adding machine, telephone and typewriter.
Interior of Wisconsin State Employment Service
1912
Interior of an office of the Wisconsin State Employment Service, with applicants for work, and officials.
Unemployed Men in Line for Jobs
November 20, 1933
Unemployed men stand in line for CWA (Civil Works Administration) jobs, inside the Public Employment Office, 111 W. Main Street.
