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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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Lumber Rafts
1890
Elevated view of men working on lumber rafts on the Wisconsin River.
Upper Mississippi River Scenes
1890
Collage of scenes on the upper Mississippi River, including people canoeing and sailing on the river.
Oconomowoc Image Collage
1890
A collage of images including a sailboat, a fish, a man fishing, and a forest scene.
Remember Ellsworth!
1861
Letterhead illustration of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the first casualty of the Civil War, under the caption "Remember Ellsworth!" Colonel Ellsworth was killed at Alexandria, Virginia, on May 24, 1861.
Diaries of H. H. Bennett, volume 2, 1863-1864
Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908) of Wisconsin Dells became one of the nation's best professional photographers. But before that, at age 18, he enlisted in the 12th Wisconsin Infantry and fought i...
Diaries of H. H. Bennett, volume 1, 1863
Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908) of Wisconsin Dells became one of the nation's best professional photographers. But before that, at age 18, he enlisted in the 12th Wisconsin Infantry and fought i...
