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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.
Empty Classroom
View from back of room towards the front of a classroom. Identified as a room in the school building built in 1872 in Black River Falls.
Teacher in a Classroom
View from rear of classroom towards a woman posing sitting at a desk in front of a classroom. Identified as a room in the school building built in 1872 in Black River Falls.
People Eating in a Classroom
Indoor group portrait of men and women posing sitting in a classroom and eating. Identified as a classroom in the high school building built in 1897.
Blackface Wedding in a Classroom
Interior group portrait over school desks towards children posing standing in a classroom wearing theatrical costumes and make-up.
Classroom at Christmastime
1900
Interior view, with desks in the foreground, of an elementary classroom decorated with a Christmas tree near the blackboard, and other holiday decorations, including dolls, portraits, and signs.
Women in a Parlour
Four women are posing sitting in a parlor in front of an organ. One of the women is sitting on the floor holding a kitten.
