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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.
View of Oshkosh Harbor
1855
Half plate daguerreotype, with view across water of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin harbor showing the bridge over the Fox River. Moored on the opposite shore are the small steamboats W.A. Knapp and Peytona.
View Along East Bank of Galena River
April 5, 1852
Whole plate daguerreotype of view along the east bank of the Galena River (also known as the Fevre River). From a full plate daguerreotype by Alexander Hesler, Chicago photographer.
W.Y. Martin
circa 1850-1859
Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of W.Y. Martin of Tennessee.
William Lamont
circa 1850-1859
Sixth plate daguerreotype of William Lamont, quarter length, facing forward, torso slightly left.
William Hall
1850
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Hall of Tennessee.
Unidentified Young Man
circa 1850-1859
Sixteenth plate daguerreotype of an unidentified young man. Head and shoulders portrait facing forward. He is wearing a white shirt, suit coat and cravat.
