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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.
Farm Refuse in Attic
1926
Close-up view of a pile of garbage in a farmhouse attic consisting of metal pieces, pipes, machine parts, and other items.
Kitchen Sink
June 1923
A sink standing against a wall inside a farmhouse kitchen. A stove is to the right of the sink, and a garbage bin stands beneath it.
Woman with Dumbwaiter
1920
Mrs. John Bowers removing a plate of food from the dumbwaiter in her Benton County farmhouse.
Food Storage
1931
Jars of food are stored in an opened cabinet within a farmhouse kitchen.
Display of Home Economics Tools
1920
View of five kitchen(?) tools laid on a light-colored background.
Farmhouse Arbor
July 1923
Flowers and other plants growing on and around an arbor outside the Zearing farmhouse.
