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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.
The National Democratic Convention
April 23, 1860
Drawing of The National Democratic Convention in session at Charleston, South Carolina.
Fort Sumter
1915
View across water toward Fort Sumter. Caption reads: "Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C."
Charleston Civil Rights Meeting
Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislature.
A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to the United States of America
circa 1790-1799
This extremely detailed map of the south-eastern states covers the region south from Virginia and east of the Mississippi River. It shows roads and paths, cities, towns, forts, mines, Native Americ...
Ruins in Charleston, S.C.
1865
The ruins of Charleston after General Sherman's men burned the town near the end of the Civil War. A man, smoking a pipe, and a boy sit on the shoreline of a river near ruins. Across the water is a...
