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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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Burnside Bridge at Antietam
1890
Site of the Battle of Antietam, the Burnside Bridge.
Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, Virginia
circa 1860-1869
The old fortifications at Fort Monroe, built to defend Hampton Roads and the mouth of the James River. Jefferson Davis was imprisoned here from 1865 to 1867.
Camp of the 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, near Fredericksburg, Virginia
June 1862
The 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment camp outside of Fredericksburg on the east side of the Rappahannock. Fredericksburg and a pontoon bridge leading to it over the Rappahannock can be se...
Governor Louis P. Harvey's Pocket Knife
circa 1860-1869
Pocket knife of Governor Harvey from the time of the Civil War.
Castle Thunder Confederate Prison, Richmond, Virginia
1864
A stereograph of the Confederate prison Castle Thunder.
Real Bronze Grand Army Emblem
circa 1860-1869
Bronze Grand Army Emblem manufactured by the Dayton MFG. Co.
