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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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Empty Classroom
1919
Interior view of an empty classroom in rural school. Original caption reads: "No city school can excel this two-roomed school... Miss McMahon, teacher."
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.
Students Serving Lunch
1918
Girls serving trays loaded with mugs of soup to students seated at desks in a classroom. A chalkboard, portraits of presidents, and an American flag are in the background. A large round woodstove i...
Students Preparing Lunch in Classroom
1919
Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall reads, "Agricultural Lecture Charts. A Good H...
Stovetop
1920
Pots, kitchen utensils, and two irons sitting on the stove of a wood-burning oven. A framed painting and a dustpan hang on the wall in the background.
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...
