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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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Man and Woman Showing Bees
A man and woman hold up slates of honey comb covered in bees.
Young Man Holding Swarm
circa 1900-1909
Young man standing next to a bee skep while holding a swarm of bees. German writing on back: "Mein John Felix."
Woman Catching Bees
A woman demonstrates the use of a homemade bee catcher on a tree in her yard.
"My First Catch" A Swarm of Bees
August 28, 1908
8-year-old Verna Hohman holding a tree branch with a swarm of bees. Caption reads: "'My First Catch' A Swarm of Bees." Sent to the American Bee Journal in Chicago.
George J. Gunther
George J. Gunther in a apiary with a swarm of bees covering his left arm.
