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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.
Milkmaid with Cow
1911
Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
Milking on the Greene Farm
Barn interior on the Greene Farm with cows in stalls, with one man milking a cow, and another man standing and holding a bucket and milking stool.
Cows Resting in Hilltop Pasture
2004
Holstein cows resting on a sunny day in a hilltop pasture. View to horizon towards wooded hills with clouds in the sky.
Rolla B. Shurfelt Farm
1900
Barnyard scene on the Rollo Shurfelt farm with people milking the cows. Several horses are in the yard as well.
Dairy Farm and Vide Valley
Elevated view of one man and two women tending the cows near a farm building at a dairy farm in Vide Saeter, Norway. The Vide Valley is in the background.
Woman with Two Jersey Cows
An illustration of two jersey cows and a woman holding a milking pail. Text at bottom reads: Two Jersey Cows — Beauty and Jersey — The Property of the Illinois Breeding Association.
