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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.
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Sculptor Jo Davidson with La Follette Statue
1929
Sculptor Jo Davidson standing next to his larger than life statue of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. The statue was presented to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol in 192...
Vinnie Ream Hoxie
Head and shoulders portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Wisconsin sculptor. The only sculptor for whom Lincoln posed, Ream received the controversial commission to create a sculpture of the slain preside...
Unveiling Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Statue
1929
Members of the La Follette family and guests in front of the Robert M. La Follette, Sr., statue in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol at the time of its unveiling. The La Follette statue was by scul...
Jean Pond Miner with "Forward"
1893
Sculptor Jean Pond Miner working on her statue "Forward" in the Wisconsin Building at the Columbian Exposition.
Artist Chester Mayer and Bust of Lincoln
January 21, 1964
Artist and sculptor Chester Mayer shown with a bust of President Lincoln, which had been created by Chester's uncle, Louis Mayer. Chester is working on a likeness of John F. Kennedy as a companion ...
Bust of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Sculptor Louis Mayer, with his larger-than-life portrait bust of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., modeled in 1919. Mayer was a Milwaukee-born painter and sculptor and a founder of the Society o...
