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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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Derleth Wedding Card by Dwig
1953
Original wedding cartoon presented to Wisconsin writer August Derleth on the occasion of his marriage to Sandra Winters by cartoonist Clare V. "Dwig" Dwiggins. Derleth and Dwig collaborated on sev...
Whistling Past the Graveyard after Dark
Cartoon drawn by Clare V. "Dwig" Dwiggins depicting a youthful August Derleth walking by a graveyard that is haunted by ghosts and spirits. Derleth was fond of the literature of the macabre and as...
August Derleth and his Comic Collection
August Derleth posed with part of his comic collection. The image is from a tinted photograph by Carmie Thompson.
Caspar Milquetoast, Cartoon Character
circa 1920-1929
Cartoon portrait of Caspar Milquetoast, the Timid Soul, a character created by Harold T. Webster, who was raised in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
Clare Briggs Book Cover
1922
Front cover for a book version of the popular comic strip by Clare Briggs (1875-1930), who was raised in Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
