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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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Professor Ezra S. Carr, Geologist
1866
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ezra S. Carr, geologist and California State Superintendent. He held chemistry professorships at various institutions. Bottom of image bears handwritten insc...
Jeanne Carr
August 20, 1919
Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of Jeanne Carr, the wife of Ezra S. Carr.
Leonard J. Farwell
1860
Leonard J. Farwell (1819-1889), Madison businessman-promoter and Wisconsin's only Whig governor (1852-1854). When this salted paper portrait was taken, Farwell was serving a single term in the Wisc...
Katharine Allen
1910
Oval-framed quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine Allen, assistant professor of Latin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Katharine was the daughter of historian and UW-Madison c...
Dr. Stephen H. Ambrose
April 1965
Head and shoulders portrait of Dr. Stephen H. Ambrose, a World War II veteran and physician from Whitewater. He was medical director of Fairhaven Residential Facility and a physician at the Univers...
