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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 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.
Large Tomato Plant
August 30, 1949
Earl L. Vanderhoef Sr., 312 N. Blair Street, standing on the ground near a ladder and showing his tomato plant, which grew to a height of 14 feet. He was challenged by another tomato grower who had...
Dahlia Garden
September 14, 1950
Edwin and Genevieve Larsen standing in their dahlia garden at 1245 East Dayton Street. Ed is holding a Miss Madison variety that he developed himself.
Salesman and New Ford Car
May 14, 1936
Salesman standing beside new Ford car, parked beside the U.W. YMCA, 740 Langdon Street, with Harry Stuhldreher, University of Wisconsin-Madison football coach, sitting inside.
Man Standing on Ladder
November 4, 1943
Man standing on folding ladder in Madison-Kipp Corp., with scene of factory floor in the background.
Consolidated Coal Company Town Garden
View of a garden in the company town of Consolidation Coal. Features a woman in a bountiful tomato garden carrying a basket full of tomatoes.
Castor Bean Plant Towers Over Barbara Culver, Age 11
August 27, 1965
Barbara Culver (11), 1123 Edgehill Drive admiring a 10-foot tall castor bean plant planted by Mrs. Carl Dutton, 1101 Edgehill Drive.
