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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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Woman Washing Dishes
View of a woman wearing an apron sitting on a stool and washing dishes at a kitchen sink. Kitchen utensils are hanging on the wall above her.
Woman Drying Dishes
1916
A woman wearing an apron is standing near a wheeled butler's tray while drying dishes in a kitchen. A sink, table, chair and utensils are behind her.
Mrs. Guener Washing Dishes
October 1923
Mrs. Guener washing dishes while sitting on a stool attached to a sink in J.O. Waggoner's home.
Woman in Kitchen
1919
A woman wearing an apron standing near a wheeled butler's tray in a kitchen. A sink, table, and chair are standing against the wall, and various cooking utensils and dishes are on the table and on ...
Woman Wringing Clothes with Early Washing Machine
October 1923
Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm.
Woman and Young Girl Canning Beans
1926
Woman and young girl working in a kitchen canning beans. The girl is standing at the sink running a faucet while the woman is seated at a table using a bean cutter. Original caption reads, "good st...
