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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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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.
Alice in Dairyland at Frigo Cheese Co.
July 26, 1960
Alice in Dairyland, Joan Engh, watching as a man ties a provolone cheese.
Cheese Making
1967
A man is filling hoops with cheese curd and another man is placing the cloths in the hoops at the Stella Cheese Factory.
Casper Jaggi and Workers
Casper Jaggi, on right, with cheese harp, and three brothers of the Erb family, (holding stirrers), standing outdoors at the Coldren Cheese factory. They are all wearing long aprons and boots.
Weighing the Curd
November 7, 1979
Cheesemaker Laurel Ettien, measuring the weight of cheese curd after it was separated from the whey.
Wheels of Wisconsin Cheese
1948
Wheels of cheese stacked for curing at a cheese factory.
