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| See the designs Wisconsin artists produced for the Centennial Stamp Contest. |
| Photographs and Poetic Texts |
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| Explore this online image collection from one of the country's most respected scholars in the field of photography and archives. |
| Documenting a Sense of Place |
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| View more than 8,000 images of Wisconsin communities: main streets, the built environment, prominent points of interests and some rural scenes. |
| Explore history and images of beekeeping in Wisconsin. |
| A Century of Aviation |
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| Browse by category through aviation images drawn from the image collections of various archives including the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin |
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| Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin. |
| Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976. |
| View these images of cranberry harvesting in Wisconsin. |
| Explore our Visual Materials collection of nearly 3 million images in more than 6,000 collections. Over 80,000 images are available online. |
| A Nostalgic Look at Wisconsin Winters |
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| Explore this gallery featuring the best and most interesting Wisconsin winter photographs. |
| View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights. |
| View images from Cornelius (Neal) L. Harrington’s collection of photographs highlighting Wisconsin state parks, preserves and forests. |
| View a pictorial review of the Wisconsin State Fair from 1851 when it began. |
| View a large gallery of Wisconsin residents playing: bowling, dancing, curling, sailing, skateboarding, skating, skiing and snowmobiling. |
| A Hand-Book for the Homeseeker |
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| Read about the dream of successful farming in northern Wisconsin in 1895. |
| The Photographs of Harold Hone |
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| This article describes the careers of Harold Hone and Frank Utpatel in relation to the W.P.A. |
| Allan Born, The Born Collection |
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| Allan Born's photographs of Northern Wisconsin during the 1930's and beyond. |
| Learn more about the 1904 fire that destroyed the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Learn about the long life of the mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Civil War Regiment, a bald eagle named 'Old Abe'. |
| Rural Wisconsin |
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| View the landscapes of rural Wisconsin through the eyes of photographer Paul Vanderbilt. |
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