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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.
Crucible Steel Casting Company
1946
Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting.
Factory Workers at West Pullman Works
1944
Factory workers handle metal parts at West Pullman Works.
Women Workers at Chaney Instruments
1943
A woman is using a metal rod to handle glass objects on a tray. Caption reads: "Women workers at Chaney Instruments." Another woman in the background is working with another tray of the glass objec...
Metal Foundry
1960
Joe Weyenberg and two other men work with molten metal at the Roloff Manufacturing Company.
Gisholt Machine Company Employee Pouring Molten Metal
A Gisholt Machine Company factory worker, wearing protective glasses, is using a wheel to position a large cauldron for pouring molten metal into a mold to cast parts. Other workers are in the back...
Metal Spinning
1958
Elevated view of a machine shop, where several people are standing and working at lathes. Around the shop are piles of machined parts, all of which are cylindrical or conical.
