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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.
Attribution
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Ham Inspection at Oscar Mayer
November 19, 1931
Oscar Mayer workers inspecting hams at a work table.
Meat Packing
August 30, 1965
Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
Oscar Mayer Company Cafeteria
October 15, 1943
Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria with workers sitting at tables.
Looking in the Microscope
October 30, 1931
A food scientist looking through a microscope at Oscar Mayer.
