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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
1915
View across water toward Fort Sumter. Caption reads: "Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C."
Interior of Fort Sumter after Confederate Bombardment
April 15, 1861
Fort Sumter after bombardment by the Confederates.
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.
Bombardment of Fort Sumter
1861
Color lithograph of the fort in the midst of the bombardment, published by Bingham & Dodd, Hartford, Connecticut.
