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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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Sculptor Jo Davidson with La Follette Statue
1929
Sculptor Jo Davidson standing next to his larger than life statue of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. The statue was presented to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol in 192...
Vinnie Ream Hoxie
Head and shoulders portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Wisconsin sculptor. The only sculptor for whom Lincoln posed, Ream received the controversial commission to create a sculpture of the slain preside...
Jean Pond Miner with "Forward"
1893
Sculptor Jean Pond Miner working on her statue "Forward" in the Wisconsin Building at the Columbian Exposition.
Attilio Piccirilli
Portrait of Attilio Piccirilli, sculptor of many figures adorning the Wisconsin State Capitol. Attilio was one of several brothers who operated a stonecarving business in New York city.
Bust of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Sculptor Louis Mayer, with his larger-than-life portrait bust of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., modeled in 1919. Mayer was a Milwaukee-born painter and sculptor and a founder of the Society o...
Max Davidson, publicity portrait
February 21, 1927
Head and shoulders star head publicity photograph of comedian Max Davidson in suit and necktie.
