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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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Treaty Rights Cartoon
circa 1980-1989
A cartoon depicting a Native American Indian holding treaty rights and saying, "Great white fathers are sulking because we won't trade our heritage!". They refer to Governor Tommy Thompson and Cong...
Their Uncle Jere
March 28, 1892
Newspaper clipping cartoon drawing of Jeremiah Rusk as a towering figure standing above a small crowd of men in a field. Rusk wears a hat and vest, his sleeves are rolled up and he has one hand on ...
Portrait of Major Jeremiah "Jerry" Rusk
Three-quarter length oval-framed portrait of Major Jeremiah "Jerry" Rusk. He is wearing his military uniform with a sabre at his left side, and his right hand resting on a pillar covered by a flora...
Jeremiah Rusk
1862
Engraved portrait of Jeremiah Rusk, governor of Wisconsin and the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
Assemblyman Rusk
Portrait of Jeremiah Rusk as an assemblyman from Viroqua. He later served as congressman, governor of Wisconsin, and the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
