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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Early Electric Stove
June 1923
Electric stove in the rural farmhouse kitchen of Adolph Betz.
Oil Stove Accident Prevention
August 1927
A woman wearing an apron pouring oil into a hot stove at the International Harvester Hinsdale experimental farm, illustrating a dangerous scenario for International Harvester's Agricultural Extensi...
Farmhouse Hazards
August 1927
An unattended child turning the knobs of a gas stove in a farmhouse.
Kitchen Cabinet and Table
June 1923
A table with built-in cabinets and shelf space standing in the middle of a farmhouse kitchen, next to a wooden chair to the left and a stove and ovens to the right.
Woman Cooking at Electric Stove
1927
A woman stirs a pot on a six-burner electric stove. Two Hotpoint automatic electric ovens stand beside the stove, and canisters and teapots stand on the stove and on surrounding counters and shelves.
Canning Equipment
1925
A covered pot with a thermometer, can sealer, and stacks of metal cans stand on a table beside a stove in a kitchen near a window.
