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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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Philleo Nash with Cranberries
1985
Prominent Wisconsin Democrat and cranberry grower Philleo Nash holding a large handful of freshly harvested cranberries.
Philleo Nash
1951
Philleo Nash, Wisconsin Rapids cranberry grower, Democratic Party leader, and lieutenant governor, 1959-1961. From 1946 to 1952 he was a special assistant to President Truman on minority issues and...
Man with Crated Cranberries
1948
Man posing with crates of newly harvested cranberries. The cranberries have not been cleaned as there is still plant debris in the crates.
Grocery Store Representatives at the Cranberry Marsh
1950
From left to right: W.A. Riordan, John Buck, Leo Sorenson, Jean Nash and Del Hammond. Miss Nash, the owner of the cranberry marsh, escorts representatives from Kroger Grocery Company to have a look...
Farmer Examining Cranberry Plant
1948
Farmer examining cranberry plant near an irrigation ditch.
