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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.
Refugees from Antwerp Returning Home
1914
Refugees from Antwerp awaiting the train that will take them home.
Belgian Refugees Returning Home
1914
View of the neutral train entering Merxen (Merskem), near Antwerp, bringing refugees from Holland.
Refugees from Antwerp Returning Home
1914
Refugees from Antwerp awaiting the train that will take them home.
Belgian Refugees Returning Home
1914
Belgian refugees returning home under military inspection.
Belgian Refugees in Merxen
1914
Belgian refugees in Merxen, near Antwerp, returning from the Netherlands.
Belgian Refugees Presenting their Identification Papers
1914
Before any refugees are allowed to re-enter Antwerp, they must prove their legitimate status.
