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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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The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Portrait of My Mother
December 2, 1935
Waist-up portrait of Emma Gillett, wife of Sherwin, mother of Lorin. She is wearing a scarf over her head, an apron and a sweater.
Lorin Gillett (1915-1985)
1936
Waist-up studio portrait of Lorin Gillett at approximately 21 years of age.
Emma Schmitt Gillett and Monday
1933
Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Gillett with their German Shepherd, Monday.
Sherwin and Emma Gillett with Children
1919
Indoor family portrait of Sherwin and Emma Gillett and their three children; Harry (b. 1910), Lorin (b. 1915) and Sherry (b. 1913).
Maria Schmitt
Quarter-length portrait of Maria Schmitt (b.1842), mother-in-law of Sherwin Gillett.
Sherwin and Emma Gillett — 60th Wedding Anniversary
1966
Sherwin and Emma Gillett posing for their 60th Wedding Anniversary with their 1906 portraits in a frame behind them.
