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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.
Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well
Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
Man Pumping Water at Well
April 19, 1926
A man uses a well to pump water into a metal bucket while standing in front of a farmhouse.
Woman Drawing Water from Well
May 1923
Miss Neary drawing a bucket of water from a well next to a farmhouse. The original caption reads: "Drawing water from well. Miss Neary posing. Mr. Hyde photographer."
Gas-Powered Water Pump
October 1923
A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Farm).
Woman Cleaning Wooden Floor
1920
Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush.
Woman Throwing Out Wash Water
1925
Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
