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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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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.
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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.
Land Economic Inventory Mapping Crew
Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction.
Young Boys in Cutover Land
October 29, 1937
Two boys standing among stumps in northern Wisocnsin cutover land. T. 34N R. 9E on Highway 17. Trees cut approximately 40 years before photograph was taken (ca. 1897).
Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Field Camp
1932
A man and a woman standing next to a tent in the Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory field camp.
Sand Barrens
April 23, 1937
Sand barrens being used for poor crops. Note on back of print reads: "This should be in timber."
Native American with McCormick Grain Binder
1910
A member of the Blackfoot Native American tribe uses a McCormick grain binder.
