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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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Accessing Collections
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.
Struggle on a Bridge During the Retreat from Manassas
July 1861
Etching of a battle scene during the retreat from Manassas. Originally published by Virtue & Company Publishers of New York.
First Battle of Bull Run
July 21, 1861
Depiction of the battlefield. Engraved by J.C. McRae and drawn by W. Momberger.
Siege of Vicksburg
1864
"Siege of Vicksburg." An etching published by Johnson, Fry & Company from a painting by Chappel of the Union lines during the battle.
Cave Life in Vicksburg During the Siege, from Confederate War Etchings
An etching of a Southern woman praying in a Vicksburg casement during the siege. Copied from "Confederate War Etchings" by A. Volck.
The Battle of Antietam, Advance Upon Rebel Centre at Dunker Church
August 1862
Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
