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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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Emma and Elena Schmitt
1901
Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena.
Emma Schmitt Gillett and Monday
1933
Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Gillett with their German Shepherd, Monday.
Maria Schmitt
Quarter-length portrait of Maria Schmitt (b.1842), mother-in-law of Sherwin Gillett.
The Conrad Schmitt Family
1892
Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Conrad Schmitt family of Muscoda. Emma Schmitt married Sherwin Gillett in 1906.
The Gillett Children
1916
Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Gillett children, left to right: Sherry (b. 1913), Lorin (b. 1915), and Harry (b. 1910).
