What is Wisconsin Heritage Online?
Wisconsin Heritage Online is an expanding digital resource providing access to digitized materials from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across Wisconsin. Browse or search the WHO portal to discover over 55,000 photographs, diaries, letters, maps, books, magazines, newspaper clippings, postcards, artworks, oral histories, museum artifacts, and much more.
Online Exhibit Highlights WHO Collection
Discover colorful art pottery made in Edgerton, Wisconsin around the turn of the 20th century in the online exhibition Behind the Brush: The Women of the Pauline Pottery. This digital exhibit features objects from the collections of museums and historical societies throughout the state, all documented in the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database, a Wisconsin Heritage Online collection hosted by the Wisconsin Historical Society and supported by the Chipstone Foundation. The exhibit was created to demonstrate Pachyderm, a web-based multimedia authoring tool developed by the New Media Consortium and available for use by WHO members.
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