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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 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.
Women at War
May 25, 1917
A World War I female factory worker dressed in a uniform repairing her own machinery.
Protective Gear for Mosquitos
July 30, 1917
For these World War I recruits seen at an unidentified training camp on Long Island, the enemy was not the Germans, but ferocious "Jersey mosquitos" and the protective gear they are wearing are bug...
New Army Recruits
September 13, 1917
New army recruits still in their civilian clothes arriving at an unidentified World War I training camp. Many barracks, some still under construction, are visible in the background.
Soldiers Off to Camp
August 1, 1917
National Guard troops unloading their supplies from New York Central railroad cars into a transport wagon to be taken to camp.
Treasure and Trinket Fund
January 1918
Mrs. William Bartlett of the Aviation Committee of the National Special Aid Society, examines metal objects donated by members to be sold to benefit American aviators during World War I.
Rolling Kitchen in France
September 16, 1918
Food being prepared on a moving kitchen for soldiers fighting in Sainte-Mihiel, France.
