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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.
Woman Using Spinning Wheel
Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool.
Young Woman with Spinning Wheel
1940
A seated young woman in a nineteenth century style dress poses with a tapestry or carpet bag and spinning wheel. A bonnet rests on an antiquer dresser behind her.
Woman with Spinning Wheel
View of a woman standing near a tree in the yard with a large spinning wheel.
Woman Spinning
A woman uses a spinning wheel outdoors while a barefoot girl stands on a porch behind her. Published by Jos. Milner & Son.
Woman Spinning Wool
1915
Woman sitting outdoors at a spinning wheel, turning a large pile of wool in the foreground into yarn.
