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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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Capping Tin Cans
May 1915
Mae Gribbon uses a soldering tool to seal tin cans in a home canning operation.
Canning Equipment
1925
A covered pot with a thermometer, can sealer, and stacks of metal cans stand on a table beside a stove in a kitchen near a window.
Various Kitchen Implements
Several kitchen implements, including some skillets, sauce pans, a coffee grinder, and a colander.
Husking and Silking Corn
July 1926
A woman and a girl sitting at a table, husking and silking corn at the Harvester Farm. The image is one of a series illustrating canning methods.
Pressure Kettle
November 1919
A woman wearing a full-length apron using a pressure kettle on a stove top, probably for home canning.
Canning Chicken
May 1924
Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm.
