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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.
War Ruins
1917
Ruins of a French house. Captioned: "The first real ruins of the war that any of S.S.U. 12 ever saw. Our way to the front lead over the battlefield of the Marne. We were here prom night, 1917."
Church Hit by German Shell
February 1, 1919
A church with a hole in the wall. Captioned: "The hole made by a Boche shell entering the Dombasle church. It exploded inside and left little except ruins."
Ruins of Moscou Sugar Refinery
February 1, 1919
Sugar refinery and forest in France left in ruins. Captioned: "Ruins of the Moscou sugar refinery. It was the largest in France, we are told."
French Trench
circa 1910-1919
A French trench. Captioned: "Notice the workmanship on this French trench - and imagine the water in the springtime."
French Torpedoes
circa 1910-1919
French torpedoes (torpilles) shot by compressed gas.
American Ambulance and French Ambulance
February 1, 1919
Two ambulances parked near a building. Captioned: "My ambulance contrasted with a French one."
