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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.
Burial Service at Zion Lutheran Church
February 16, 1978
"Lester Beck readies the casket for the burial service at Zion Lutheran Church."
Beck Funeral Home
February 15, 1978
"Lester Beck, Undertaker. In 1913, Lester's father, Fred Beck, and Robert Kietzer formed a partnership as undertakers and, in 1917, Fred went on his own in the business. In those days the dead were...
Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church
February 16, 1978
"Zion Lutheran Church, Town of Theresa. At this moment, funeral services of Herb Sellnow are taking place."
Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church
February 16, 1978
"Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site."
Corpse of an Elderly Man
1918
Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations.
Child in Coffin at Funeral Home
July 26, 1945
William E. Crossen, eighteen-months-old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Crossen, shown in a coffin at Joyce Funeral Home.
