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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 Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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Accessing Collections
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.
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.
John Brady
1850
Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of John Brady of Virginia, son of Captain Samuel Brady. Half-length, facing front with torso turned slightly to right.
William Beers
circa 1850-1859
Quarter plate daguerreotype of William Beers, facing foward, wearing dark suit and tie, and chin whiskers.
Leroy Lumbard
circa 1850-1859
Ninth plate daguerreotype of Leroy Lumbard, taken at the age of 2 after his death. The portrait is three-quarter length with the child laying back and turned slightly to the right.
W.Y. Martin
circa 1850-1859
Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of W.Y. Martin of Tennessee.
William Hall
1850
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Hall of Tennessee.
