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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.
Coal Miners at Mine Entrance
1903
View down set of two railroad tracks towards four coal miners posing in front of a mine entrance near a coal car. The caption in the book reads, "Strike-breaking coal miners in Utah." At this time ...
Breaker Boy
1902
Andrew Chippa hired on with Markle & Co., miners of anthracite coal to pay off his father's debt of $54 to the company store since his father's death in the mines. Young Chippa was one of a number ...
A Donkey Cart
View of a man in a hat, sitting on a donkey drawn cart filled with fire wood. The cart sits on a dirt road with woods in the background. Caption reads: "A Donkey Cart."
Smiling Miners
circa 1910-1919
Group portrait of smiling miners, who are all young boys.
Man Sitting on Donkey
1949
A man wearing a cowboy hat and chaps and holding ropes sits on a small donkey. In the background are sheds and fences.
