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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.
Students Making Fly Trap
1913
Two boys construct fly traps in a Morton Grove School classroom.
School Boys Making the Frame of a Fly Trap
1913
Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school.
Boys Building Fly Traps
1915
Boys use various tools to make fly traps in a classroom. A man, probably their instructor, stands in the background in front of a chalkboard.
Bench Work
1919
View of a teacher watching over a group of male students as they practice woodwork at benches inside a classroom. The text on the blackboard hanging on the wall reads: "Rules for Planing."
Boys Making Fly Traps
1920
A group of boys at the Burton School construct wooden fly traps in a classroom.
Teachers at Extension Short Course
1919
A group of men and women are gathered around tables in a classroom during a teachers short course. Some of the teachers are working with various tools, including saws and planes.
