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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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Ready for Inspection
1918
World War I equipment placed for inspection as photographed by Victor Morris at Camp Curtis.
World War I Group
March 1918
World War I soldiers at Camp Custer seated on Winchester rifle crates.
Airing Bunks
January 1918
World War I soldiers airing out their bunks at Camp Curtis.
Trench Warfare
July 1917
ROTC engineers at Fort Leavenworth learn about trench work, an important skill for World War I combat.
African American Soldiers
June 1918
Gravel screening and separating plant of the 310th Engineers in operation on a road near Camp Custer. All of the soldiers at work on this road construction drill are African Americans.