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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Scandinavian Chests
1930
Two Scandinavian chests with handmade metal fittings and decorative rosemaling. The chest on the right is dated 1831.
Norwegian Chest
1930
A Scandinavian chest with old script and rosemaling. The metal fittings are handmade.
Bed and Cupboards
1930
The head and foot boards of a maple bed lean against two cupboards. The cupboards hold pewter ware as well as crockery.
Mrs. Alice Kent Trimpey
1920
Portrait of Alice Kent Trimpey, an authority and writer on American decorative arts and historic dolls.
Alice Kent Trimpey
1930
Mrs. Ephraim Burt Trimpey points to a zinnia blooming in a late summer garden. She us wearing a hat and fur-trimmed coat.
Self-Portrait of Photographer
1930
A studio self-portrait of Ephraim B. Trimpey with goatee, wearing eyeglasses and a large cravat.
