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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.
Fort Sumter Monument and Grave
A view of a grave and a monument at Fort Sumter. A flag waves in the distance. The stone entrance can be seen on the far right.
Fort Sumter, Charlston Harbor, South Carolina
Interior view of Fort Sumter. Two open doors show a staircase in the distance, and two dates, "1776" and "1917" are written on the wall. Construction on the fort began in 1827.
Fort Sumter, Charlston Harbor, South Carolina
A view of Fort Moultrie from across a body of water. A doorway leads into the fort, and to the left a sign reads, "Cable Crossing Do Not Anchor." Past the wall are two dwellings.
Exterior View of Fort Sumpter
1866
Exterior of Fort Sumter. A cannon has fallen on the steep shoreline and waves are hitting the rocks.Plate 58
Fort Sumter
1915
View across water toward Fort Sumter. Caption reads: "Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C."
Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
A view of the ruins of Fort Sumter from across a road showing a set of stairs leading up to a building. A path leads to other buildings which remain intact in the background on the right.
