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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.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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 John Gilbert
1918
Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of actor John Gilbert wearing a tuxedo.
John Gilbert as a Baby with His Mother
1898
Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ankles are crossed. He is standing behind ...
Portrait of Harry Houdini
1919
Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini.
Joseph Downing
Head shot of actor Joseph Downing. He looks straight at the camera and smiles. Downing wears a suit coat, vest, tie and a carnation in his lapel.
Studio Portrait of Ivor Novello
1922
Publicity portrait of Ivor Novello by Herman Mishkin, New York.
