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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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Fort Dearborn Evacuation Order
July 29, 1812
A handwritten order to evacuate Ft. Dearborn.
Letter: Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn
August 20, 1824
The front page of a letter writen by President Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn.
Back of Black's Fort Map
July 4, 1776
Notes written in red ink on the back of the map of the Battle of Black's Fort.
List of Prisoners of War
circa 1779
A list of prisoners of war. Governor Hamilton is at the top of the list.
Letter to Col. William Preston from Thomas Lewis, Back Page
June 19, 1775
The second page of a letter written to Col. William Preston from Thomas Lewis. From Preston and Virginia Papers [Calendar series Volume 1]: "Letter to [William Preston]. Governor Dunmore and the we...
Clinch River and Mountain Range
circa 1770-1779
Hand-drawn map including the Clinch River and Clinch mountain range. The Clinch River rises in Southwest Virginia near Tazewell, VA and flows southwest through the Great Appalachian Valley, gatheri...
