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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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Empty Classroom
1930
Interior view of empty classroom of rural school. On the far left is a large, round, wood stove with decorative metal work.
Students Making Fly Trap
1913
Two boys construct fly traps in a Morton Grove School classroom.
Boys Learning to Sew
1913
Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons."
Demonstration on Rope Tying
1919
Rope tying demonstration for a group of rural school teachers. Original caption reads: "County Supt. Tobin, Country Life Director, and rural school teachers of Cook county, perfect their knowledge ...
Rural School Room
1919
Interior view of a school room at Mohegan Lake Public School, filled with rows of desks, an organ, and several chalkboards. The text on the chalkboard reads: "Mohegan Lake Public School. June 2, 19...
Students Sitting at Desks
1919
View from front of a classroom of students sitting at their desks in the Sedan Prairie School. A large round woodstove is in the back right corner of the room.
