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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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U.S.S. Wisconsin Launching
December 7, 1943
View of the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin launching. A large group of spectators is gathered in the foreground.
U.S.S. Wisconsin
Elevated view of the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin on the water. Another ship is in the background near the horizon.
U.S.S. Wisconsin
October 23, 1945
Aerial view of U.S.S. Wisconsin (BB-64) in San Francisco Bay. Several boats can be seen in the water near the ship and San Francisco is visible in the background.
57 (Fifty-Seven) Millimeter Gun Storage
1943
Fifty-seven millimeter artillery pieces stored in an International Harvester factory building. A flag and a poster are hanging from the rafters.
V-6 Naval Reservists
1947
New V-6 Naval Reserve enrollees in Naval Armory, 1610-20 University Avenue, for their first gunnery drill with Lieut. C.C. Templeton, Naval Reserve Unit, Div. 9-212, commanding officer, in charge o...
Ceremony on Board U.S.S. Wisconsin
1957
Ceremony beneath the guns on board the U.S.S. Wisconsin. A number of spectators and sailors are seated in the foreground, and uniformed sailors line both sides of the ship, as well as the gun turrets.
