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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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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.
Sewer Shoveling
1935
As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner.
Work Relief Sewing Project
January 11, 1935
Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families. Sewing project of Wis. work relief program."
Disease Immunization, 5th and Hadley
February 15, 1935
A man and a woman administer immunization shots to a line of children.
Women Sewing for Civil Works Administration Project
1934
A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933 to April 1934 and put 4,000,000 Americans...
War Relief Services
June 15, 1950
World War II war relief services. Woman using sewing machine.
WPA Exhibit
1937
Opening ceremonies for a Work Progress Administration (WPA) exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair.
