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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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Accessing Collections
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.
Elizabeth Mills
Studio portrait of Elizabeth Mills in large, feathered hat. She is the daughter of Arthur Mills and granddaughter of General Simeon Mills.
Dorothy Fargo
1917
Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Dorothy Fargo Curry (1894-1960). A handwritten caption read: "When Dorothy was at Northwestern University, Evanston Ill. 1917."
Angus McVicar in His Darkroom
Angus McVicar, commercial photographer in Madison, works intently in his darkroom.
Fred Abbott
1890
Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of a man wearing a hat and bolero jacket (chaquetilla). Caption identifies him as Fred Abbott of the Chicago Mandolin Orchestra.
Lars Reque and Martha Rothie Nelson
Studio portrait of Lars Davidson Reque, age 90, seated showing a book to his grandniece Martha Rothie Nelson, age 5.