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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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Blackface Wedding in a Classroom
Interior group portrait over school desks towards children posing standing in a classroom wearing theatrical costumes and make-up.
Studio Group Portrait of Unidentified Wedding Party
Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an eight person wedding party. The bride and groom are in the center.
Blackface Musicians
Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three European American men, posing sitting. The men are wearing blackface make-up, and playing a guitar and banjos.
Men Dressed as Minstrels
Eight men posing together dressed as minstrels in blackface makeup.
Theatrical Cast
Large group portrait of men, women and children dressed in costume posing in front of, and on a stage. Probably a theatrical cast.
Studio Group Portrait of Unidentified European American Wedding Party
Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified wedding party of six. The bride and groom are on the right.
