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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 New Year
1903
A six-year-old Stuart Fargo is posing for a full length portrait dressed as the "New Year" while standing in front of a folding screen. He is wearing a top hat, heavy double breasted coat, and high...
Fargo Family at Lake
1889
A family posing in an open carriage pulled by a matched team of horses on the shore of Rock Lake near Lake Mills. A handwritten caption identifies the family members as "Grandma [Elizabeth Farnswor...
Stuart Fargo
1902
Hand-painted iris flowers decorate an album page featuring four photographs of Stuart Fargo. In the top two photographs, Stuart is "nearly 5." At left, he is posing outdoors in a white dress with a...
Stuart at Six Years of Age
1903
A standing, hand-colored three-quarter length portrait of Stuart Fargo. He is wearing a jacket over a shirt with an embroidered design at the neck. A caption written below the photograph reads: "6 ...
Two Boys and Their Dog
1903
Stuart Fargo, left, standing with his brother Frank behind their dog, Mark. The boys are wearing large bow ties. Behind them is a folding screen.
Fargo Children at Play
1903
A hand-painted nasturtium bud and leaf decorate an album page with five photographs of the children of Frank and Louise Mears Fargo. At top left, Frank Jr., aged three years, and his sister Dorothy...
