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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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Early dealers and traders of Madison
Jul 21, 1906
Madison Democrat
Jairus Fairchild
1862
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801-1862), the first mayor of the city Madison (1856). Fairchild was also the father of Lucius Fairchild, governor and Civil War gen...
J. C. Fairchild, in 1856, was first of city's 36 mayors
Dec 19, 1921
Wisconsin State Journal
