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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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Accessing Collections
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.
Cheese Wrapping
1950
Women wearing white smocks or aprons wrap slabs of cheese for distribution.
Stoking the Fire
1950
A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler.
Precison Cutting
1950
Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter.
Widmer's Cheese Cellars
February 10, 1978
"Widmer's Cheese Cellars. (l-r) Harvey Kamrath, Ralph, Joe, and John Widmer scoop brick cheese curds out of the vat. Widmers are now in their 56th year of cheesemaking."
Precise Cuts
1950
A jigsaw in the hands of Harry Westphal makes smooth curves on the end of a piece of wood.
