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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
Accessing Collections
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.
Documenting the Australasia
2009
Archaeologist documenting the wreckage of the Australasia at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Australasia Steel Cross-Bracing
2009
View of the steel cross-bracing of the wrecked Australasia at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Maritime Archeologists Surveying the Northerner
January 21, 2011
Underwater view of five maritime archeologists measuring and surveying the bow of the sunken Northerner. Much of the ship appears intact, except the foremast which is bent over the starboard side.
The Bow of the Pathfinder
May 12, 2015
Underwater view of the bow of the Pathfinder. Algae is growing along the sides, and clumps of sand are on the ship. A maritime archeologist is surveying the bow.
Surveying the Bow of the Milwaukee
August 3, 2014
Underwater view of an archeologist examining the bow of the Milwaukee.
Appomattox Diver
August 2007
View from below of an archaeologist diving toward the wreckage of the Appomattox.
