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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 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 Cooking on Electric Plate
October 1927
A woman mixing food in a pot heated on an electric plate.
Food Storage
1931
Jars of food are stored in an opened cabinet within a farmhouse kitchen.
Farmhouse Arbor
July 1923
Flowers and other plants growing on and around an arbor outside the Zearing farmhouse.
Sanitary Garbage Pail
1920
A metal sanitary garbage pail attaches underneath the kitchen sink and pipes at the farmhouse of Miss Lella Gaddis.
Woman Eating Canned Food
May 1926
A woman wearing a beaded dress and necklace is sitting at a table to eat canned corn and peaches.
Children Alone in Farmhouse
April 1926
Exterior view of two girls standing at the closed window of a farmhouse while their parents are away. Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrate ...
