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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.
Campion College Building
1864
Oval-framed view of Lawler Hall at Campion College. This image was made during the Civil War when the building was used as a U.S. Military hospital. Prior to the war, it was Brisbois Hotel, built i...
Union Troops at Lawler Hall, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
1864
Union troops at Lawler Hall which was used as a U.S. military hospital during the Civil War. Originally built as the Brisbois Hotel in 1857, it was given for use as a beginning for a College of Pra...
Campion College
1920
View across grounds towards Campion College. Caption reads: "1st Division, Campion College, Prairie-du-Chien, Wis."
Fort Crawford
1864
Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military hospital and recruiting depot. This photogra...
Campion College, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
1920
View across grounds towards Campion College. Caption at bottom reads: "'Campion' Prairie du Chien, Wis."
