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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.
Prisoners of War Washing Clothes
July 13, 1945
Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agricultural work at a local cannery.
German Prisoners of War and American Officers near Barracks
July 13, 1945
Two German prisoners and two American officers discussing some papers while standing outdoors. In the background, German prisoners of war are lined up for inspection outside their barracks before g...
German Prisoners of War Marching to Truck
July 13, 1945
Elevated view of a work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.
German Prisoner of War with Pea Vines
July 13, 1945
German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery.
German Prisoners of War Marching to Trucks
July 13, 1945
A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.
Prisoners of War in a Truck Bed
July 13, 1945
A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp are being loaded onto a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.
