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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.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Cutting the Cheese
1950
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese.
Snow Cones for the Kids
1950
Children enjoy cold treats while being entertained, as nuns and an adult male look on.
Coffee Club
1950
Two men clink coffee mugs as they prepare to drink their morning coffee.
Lab Work
1950
Holding a dropper over racks of test tubes, a man in a lab coat aims to place drops in the receptacles.
Visiting a Lead Mine
1950
Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted.
