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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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Cutover Shacker Hanging Laundry
In a photograph taken for the Farm Security Administration, a man hangs socks to dry on a clothesline on land where trees have been cut down, or cutover.
Woman Hanging Clothes to Dry
1935
View of a woman wearing a plaid dress standing outdoors hanging up clean laundry, specifically light-colored shirts and towels, on the clothesline.
Life is a Breeze
February 17, 1981
Overhead view of a man hanging clothes on a clothesline, while holding a clothespin in his mouth. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "LIFE IS A BREEZE — Nearly everyone has found a way to take a...
Woman with Wringer Washtub and Basket
1920
Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline.
J. Robert Taylor Family Outdoors
1910
A group portrait taken outdoors in front of what appears to be a cabin with laundry hanging to dry on a clothesline. J. Robert Taylor's three young children appear in the middle of the image, embr...
