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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.
James Robertson
1850
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of James Robertson. Robertson was a contemporary of Daniel Boone and was active in the exploration of the State of Tennessee.
Judge Christopher S. Wood
1850
Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Judge Christopher S. Wood. Wood fought with General Simon Kenton. Hand coloring on cheeks.
Felix Walker
1850
Ninth plate daguerreotype of a painted quarter-length portrait of Felix Walker, 1793-1828. Mr. Walker fought in the Revolutionary War alongside Daniel Boone, and later became a Congressman for Nort...
W.Y. Martin
circa 1850-1859
Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of W.Y. Martin of Tennessee.
Unidentified Man
circa 1850-1859
Quarter plate daguerreotype. Quarter-length portrait of a man wearing a suit and necktie.
William Hall
1850
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Hall of Tennessee.
