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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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Families at Work in Community Gardens
May 1917
Men, women and children at work in community gardens at 38th and St. Louis streets in Chicago.
Deering Works Garden
1917
Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of vegetables throughout the season."
Boys at Work on Urban Garden
April 18, 1917
Boys from the Newberry School and Boys' Club No. 2 work on ground loaned by the Board of Education for a city garden.
Children at Work and Play in Schoolyard
1917
Boys working in a garden while smaller children dance in a circle on the grounds of Middlefield No. 2 Consolidated School in Ostego County. Teachers are looking on. The schoolhouse and other buildi...
Children Working in School Garden
1913
Group of children in a large school garden working on their crops.
Young Children Bugging and Hoeing Potatoes
1917
Two young children working barefoot in a field. J.C. Allen.
