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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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Gesell Children
circa 1890-1899
Studio portrait of Gesell children. Two boys, Arnold in center, pulling girl in wagon.
Girls in Nightgowns
circa 1900-1909
Group of little girls posed wearing nightgowns. Each holds an identically dressed doll and a candle.
Christine Gesell and Son Arnold Gesell
1880
Oval studio portrait of Christine Gesell, the photographer's wife, and son Arnold Gesell. Caption on reverse reads "1/2 yr - 1 yr."
Gerhard Gesell Portrait
1900
Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell sitting in a chair reading an issue of the "Photographic Recorder".
Inkle Looms
circa 1890-1899
Two girls seated on a bench outdoors and working inkle looms.
Young Women Posing by a Bench
circa 1900-1909
Six young women posing playfully beneath a bench.
