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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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Wilbur Corcoran Funeral
March 8, 1930
Five-year-old Wilbur Corcoran, son of Frank and Margaret Corcoran, 624 Williamson Street, lying in a coffin surrounded by flower arrangements and a three-tiered candelabra. At the front of the coff...
Photograph of Deceased Woman and Funeral Floral Arrangements
Funeral floral arrangements with a photograph of the deceased placed in the center of one of the tall arrangement in the center.
Memorial Photograph
1900
Memorial photograph, showing a draped coffin surrounded by floral offerings, among which appears a life-size head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of the deceased, an elderly woman.
Corpse of an Elderly Man
1918
Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations.
Child in Coffin at Funeral Home
July 26, 1945
William E. Crossen, eighteen-months-old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Crossen, shown in a coffin at Joyce Funeral Home.
Beck Funeral Home
February 15, 1978
"On Feb. 13, Herbert Sellnow died unexpectedly at the age of 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days. As events turned out, this was the last funeral in the Beck Funeral Home, of Theresa."
