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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 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.
Water Supply and Plumbing at Mexican Labor Settlement
July 15, 1948
Two outhouses and another building are in a field, with a water pump in the left foreground. Caption reads: "This Press picture shows the water supply and plumbing facilities — or lack of them — at...
Making Cheese
October 1929
Corner of Swiss cheese-making room, showing a cheesemaker stirring ingredients in a copper kettle.
Charles Pfeifer, Deutsche Apotheke (German Apothecary)
1888
Charles Pfeifer stands on the entrance steps to the drugstore with his wife Emma Pfeifer, who holds a baby. Other children and adults pose with them.
Young Farm Family
circa 1975
A young farm couple and their two children outdoors on their farm.
Rio Family Harvesting Cherries
1963
Migrant workers from Mexico, Joe Rio, his wife, and six of their eleven children, pose for a photo during a cherry harvest.
Hooping the Curd
1914
Workers hooping the curd to make cheddar cheese at the Plymouth Cheese factory.
