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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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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.
Man in Three-Piece Suit
1865
Tintype/ferrotype waist-up oval portrait of an African American man wearing a suit jacket, shirt, and partially buttoned vest.
Two Girls Sitting on Bench
1885
Two young girls in white dresses trimmed with lace posing for a studio portrait on a bench covered with a kilim rug.
Woman in Striped Shirtwaist
1865
Tintype/ferrotype oval waist-up portrait of an African American woman in a striped shirtwaist with white collar and waistband, wearing earrings and a cameo brooch that appear to be hand-colored on ...
Memorial Cross
circa 1890-1899
Funeral memorial card with a floral cross and bouquets.
Woman Posing with Dog
1888
Woman in a long dress wearing a glove and holding a book [?] in her hand posing before a painted backdrop. There is a small white dog seated on a fur rug at her feet.
Memorial Wreath: At Rest
circa 1890-1899
Funeral memorial card of floral wreaths with a banner reading, "AT REST," and an animal tail [?].
