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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 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.
Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well
Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
Woman Hauling Water
1920
A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
Woman Washing Wooden Porch
April 23, 1926
A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse.
Woman Cleaning Wooden Floor
1920
Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush.
Woman Vacuuming Rug
October 1927
Woman vacuuming rug with a "Vacuette" sweeper in a farmhouse living room.
Woman Cleaning Kerosene Lamps
1925
Woman cleaning kerosene lamps on the front porch(?) of her house.
