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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.
Appomattox Diver
August 2007
View from below of an archaeologist diving toward the wreckage of the Appomattox.
Appomattox Steel Plating
August 2007
View of steel plating lining the central keelson on the wreckage of the Appomattox.
The Bow of the Rouse Simmons
July 16, 2007
Underwater view of two archaeologists surveying and investigating the bow of the Rouse Simmons (also known as the Christmas Tree ship). One person is swimming directly over the bow, while the other...
Appomattox
August 2007
Underwater view of the Apomattox's floor keelsons near the bow.
Documenting the Australasia
2009
Archaeologist documenting the wreckage of the Australasia at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Documenting the Lucerne
2004
View of an archaeologist documenting the capstan and windlass from the wreckage of the schooner Lucerne at the bottom of Lake Superior.
