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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.
Working on a Chain-Gang
African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia.
Feeding Children Cod Liver Oil
A woman giving Highlander nursery school children cod liver oil.
Children with Train of Crates
A group of children, part of Highlander Folk School's nursery, making a train with wooden crates.
Frame 13: Working on the Chain Gang
1964
A group of correctional inmates work in a trench, while a man with a firearm watches from above.
Sheriff Padlocking Highlander Folk School
1958
Myles Horton watching as the local sheriff puts a padlock on Highlander Folk School, following a trial in which Highlander was accused of propagating Communism.
Working Men Walking Past a Building
Two men wearing hats, one of whom is carrying a bucket and a tool, walking across the street from a large building.
