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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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Susan Shriver Meyer Sweeney
1845
Ninth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up portrait of Susan Shriver Meyer Sweeney. Half figure facing directly front, wearing round-rimmed spectacles and white untied bonnet, with left hand folded ov...
Leverett S. Kellogg with Wife and Son
circa 1870-1879
Quarter plate ambrotype. Group portrait of Leverett S. Kellogg and his wife are sitting, and their son is standing behind them in the center. Leverett and his son are wearing suits, vests and neck ...
Unidentified Woman
circa 1850-1859
Sixth plate daguerreotype of an unidentified woman. Waist-up portrait of her seated, facing forward, with her arm resting on a cloth covered table on the right. A cased photograph is standing open ...
Captain James Ward
1845
Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Captain James Ward. Ward was from Mason County, Kentucky, and a compatriot of General Simon Kenton.
Unidentified Man
circa 1850-1859
Sixth plate daguerreotype of unidentified man. Waist-up portrait, facing slightly left, wearing suit, cravat, and stand collar. Sideburns extend below his ears.
Unidentified Woman
circa 1850-1859
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up portrait of an unidentified woman. She is seated on an upholstered chair with carved top, facing front. Her hands are in her lap holding a book. She is weari...
