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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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Young Increase A. Lapham
1859
Studio portrait of Increase A. Lapham in suit and tie.
Louisville and Portland Railroad
February 15, 1830
Increase Lapham's drawing of a railroad tunnel and railroad tracks.
Sir Charles Lyell, Geologist
1869
Carte-de-visite portrait of Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish lawyer, geologist, and advocate of uniformitarianism. Handwritten text at the bottom of the image reads, "Sir Chas Lyell, 1869."
