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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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Methodists Ministers Welcome Bishop
November 16, 1947
Left to right are the Rev. J. Pierce Newell, Madison, superintendent of the southern Wisconsin district of the Western Wisconsin Conference of Methodist churches; Dr. Merrill R. Abbey, pastor of th...
Methodist Pastors Greet New Bishop
March 16, 1947
Newly installed Methodist Bishop, Ernest G. Richardson (center), is greeted by Rev. J. Pierce Newell, on left, Southern District Superintendent, and Rev. Merrill Abbey, on right, pastor of First-Un...
Bishop Northcott
July 15, 1948
Methodist bishop, H. Clifford Northcott, seated at a desk.
Methodist Church Meeting
October 4, 1949
Three Methodist Bishops, honored guests at a national meeting to promote the program, "Advance for Christ and His Church". Shown in clergy robes: seated, H. Clifford Northcott, resident bishop of t...
Professor Fayette H. Elwell
October 8, 1947
Portrait of Professor Fayette H. Elwell, Dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Commerce.