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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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Sheriff Finn with Sledgehammer
July 11, 1933
Sheriff Finn holding sledgehammer used to break open the safe of Odin Tofsrud, carpenter and truck farmer, who was murdered during the theft of his safe by several men who drove off with it.
Martha Finn, Jail Matron
July 7, 1933
Portrait of Martha Finn, jail matron and wife of Sheriff Fred T. Finn, sitting at a table, reading a newspaper. Her duties consist of cooking for all the jail inmates as well as caring for women pr...
John Walker
June 15, 1933
John Walker, father of 16 children, standing outside a greenhouse with a pipe in his mouth.
Mrs. Thiel
September 28, 1933
Portrait of elderly Mrs. Thiel, Mrs. J. Randall's mother.
Curtis Thornton, Madison Marble Champion
May 20, 1933
Portrait of Curtis Thornton, Madison's 1933 marble champion.
Gladys Heacock, Escapee
October 12, 1931
Gladys Heacock, escapee from Indiana State School for Girls, who pleaded guilty to stealing a State car, and another woman sitting in the Dane County jail.
