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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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Self-Taken Group Photo
1913
Group portrait of men and women in a tree. The photograph was taken by Peter Jacobson, at left, by operating the shutter with a string.
Jacobson Family in Living Room
Living room scene in the Jacobson home, with a blurred image of a man running in front of the camera. A woman sits at a piano while three men are posed at a table.
Self-Taken Group Photo
1913
Group portrait of men and women kneeling as if in prayer on a wooden bridge. The photograph was taken by Peter Jacobson, at right, by operating the shutter with a string.
Christmas Scene
December 28, 1928
A little girl posing in a living room with a Christmas tree, toys, and a doll she got for Christmas.
Toasting Marshmallows with Professor Jacobson
1910
Seven people gather around the fireplace at the home of Professor Jacobson, toasting marshamallows (probably).
J. Robert Taylor Family Posed near Christmas Tree
1910
Family grouping at Christmas tree. From left, J. Robert Taylor's wife, Alma Reinhardt Taylor, daughter Donna, son Frederick, and daughter Ellen.
