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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 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.
Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State
August 1955
Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking.
Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State
August 1955
Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, arranges a floral centerpiece on a table in front of a floral pattern of wallpaper.
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wise, Sr.
January 8, 1955
Wisconsin's new Secretary of State, Glenn M. Wise, pours coffee for her husband, John E. Wise, Sr., who is an electrical engineer with the state Industrial Commission.
Inauguration of Secretary of State
January 3, 1955
Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John E. Wise) raises her hand while taking her oath of office before a robed judge. An audience looks on from the background. The original newspaper caption states: "Mrs. John E...
Three Wise Men in a Christmas Pageant
November 14, 1952
Three boys dressed as wise men posed in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Doris Porter, Secretary
October 3, 1951
Doris Porter, of 1224 Jennifer Street, sits behind a desk in an office. She is the private secretary to Governor Walter J. Kohler.
