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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.
Appomattox Keelsons
August 2007
An archaeologist investigates floor keelsons near the bow of the Appomattox.
Appomattox Steel Plating
August 2007
View of steel plating lining the central keelson on the wreckage of the Appomattox.
Appomattox Bilge
August 2007
View of the bottom, or bilge, of the Appomattox. The bilge was made entirely of wood, as on shipbuilder James Davidson’s other steamers. The heavy keelsons running the length of the hull added stre...
Appomattox Wooden Knees
August 2007
View of the wooden knees of the wrecked Appomattox at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Pretoria Bow
August 3, 2004
View of the Bow of the schooner-barge Pretoria at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Appomattox Propeller
2006
Underwater view of a propeller located off of the Appomattox wreck site, near Shorewood, in Lake Michigan. The diver is Kimm Stabelfeldt.
