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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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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.
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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.
The Favored Captive
1844
A young woman looks out her arched window with a bird cage hanging outdoors.
The Love Token
1845
Illustration of a young couple romancing by a well as another young woman watches from behind.
The Unwilling Bride
1847
An unhappy looking bride is seated in a chair looking out the window as another woman sits on the floor holding her hand. A third woman looks on angrily.
The Pet Bird
January 1852
A colored engraving depicting a bird under a glass dome with flowers and plants on a decorative shelf.
Mrs. John Adams (Abigail Smith)
Lithographic portrait of Abigail Smith, future wife of President John Adams. Smith is depicted as a young woman, seated in a chair and holding a sprig of an unidentified plant. A caption reads: "Mr...
The Novel Reader
1847
A woman sits at a table reading while apparently neglecting her whole family.
