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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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British Subjects
1915
White poster with red and blue text. Text reads: "British Subjects it is your duty to Enlist in the British or Canadian Army. Men are eligible for enlistment between the ages of 18 and 45 and in ce...
Madison Zouaves for the War!
1862
Poster calling for volunteers for the Civil War, claiming "Highest Bounty And Pay!".
War Notice! Bounty for Volunteers!
August 2, 1862
Civil War Union Army recruitment poster.
Attention! Mechanics
October 10, 1861
Recruiting poster. At the top is printed "Attention! Mechanics." Underneath is an eagle with a banner in his beak, which reads "Rally, Boys! Rally!" and "Your Country Needs You NOW!" Under that is ...
Petition for seeking redress from the Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement Company
1861
Petitioners Francis A. Palmer and Daniel Wells request to appropriate funding to pay out the bonds both hold that were issued from the state of Wisconsin and the Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement...
Petition for requesting payment due on bonds with the Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement Company
1861
Petitioner states that he has a claim against the state for payment of orders and bonds to pay for the state's improvement work on the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, which has been left unpaid despite h...
