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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.
Prisoner Gustave Pete Sharlow
February 15, 1946
Prisoner Gustave Pete Sharlow, inmate number 28827, an Indian tailor convicted of larceny.
Prisoner Wilfred Leigh Mills
July 8, 1940
Prisoner photograph of Wilfred Leigh Mills, inmate number 25714, an English truck driver convicted of larceny.
Prisoner Harvey Wiles
January 22, 1940
Prisoner photograph of Harvey Wiles, inmate number 25371, who was a clerk convicted on three counts of embezzlement.
Prisoner Salvatore "Cono" Librizzi
April 3, 1946
Prisoner photograph of Salvatore "Cono" Librizzi, inmate number 28898, a laborer who was convicted of burglary.
Prisoner Edward Pendergast
January 20, 1940
Prison mug shot of Edward Pendergast, inmate number 25367, an Irish mill wright who was convicted of arson.
Prisoner Henry G. Baxter
November 8, 1951
Prison photograph of Henry G. Baxter, inmate number 32394, a tavern and restaurant keeper convicted of selling mortgaged property.
