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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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August Derleth and his Comic Collection
August Derleth posed with part of his comic collection. The image is from a tinted photograph by Carmie Thompson.
August Derleth at His Desk
1942
Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk.
August Derleth and Group
Wisconsin writer August Derleth, wearing a boldly patterned sweater and sitting with an unidentified group on a lawn in front of a house. Probably friends and family.
Derleth and His Home
1952
Wisconsin author August Derleth standing in front of his Sauk City home, "the Place of the Hawks."
Derleth and Arkham House Press
Wisconsin writer August Derleth examining the stock of the Arkham House press. He established it in Sauk City to publish in hard cover the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Derleth Autographing Books
Wisconsin writer August Derleth (center) autographing copies of his book, Sac Prairie People. The other individuals in the photograph are not known. Sac Prairie People, which was published in 1948,...
