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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 Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin
Battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin at sea with several men on deck. The mounted photograph was a promotional item for Northwestern National Insurance, Co.
U.S.S Wisconsin
October 26, 1945
Elevated view of the USS Wisconsin Silver Presentation ceremony, with the ship's guns in the foreground.
Fuel Transfer
View from the USS Wisconsin making contact with two destroyers at sea. The ships are transferring fuel.
U.S.S. Wisconsin
1947
The six sixteen-inch guns of the U.S.S. Wisconsin shooting at a target fifteen miles away.
U.S.S. Wisconsin Decommissioning Ceremony
November 1957
Uniformed sailors gathered on the deck of the U.S.S. Wisconsin during decommissioning ceremonies.
U.S.S. Wisconsin Launching
December 7, 1943
View of the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin launching. A large group of spectators is gathered in the foreground.
