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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.
Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming
1958
Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
Contour Farming
1950
Aerial view of a farm and surrounding fields farmed with the contour method. Shocks of grain dot several of the fields.
A Wisconsin Farm in Mid-Winter
1948
Aerial view of a farm in mid-winter. Snow blankets the ground and some of the buildings. An orchard is in the foreground.
Contour of Land in Coulee Region
July 1964
Aerial view of fields along hills, surrounded by forests. There are roads and buildings, and hay bales in the field.
Columbia County from Gibralter
November 23, 1949
Elevated view of a field, with farmland, roads, houses, and groves of trees.
