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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 Baltimore Patriot" Printing of "The Star Spangled Banner"
September 20, 1814
First newspaper printing of "The Star Spangled Banner". Printed six days after the Battle of Fort McHenry, where Frances Scott Key wrote the poem that would later become the national anthem of the ...
Tenement Court
1910
An entirely closed court in a tenement district. Two children are in a doorway.
Patriot war correspondence. Wisconsin wounded in Baltimore.
May 22, 1862
Interview with Bernice Bartosz, 04 October 1974 (Audio 936A/1
October 4, 1974
Bartosz (née Dumbrowski was born in 1904. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a German-trained architect. Her father was stuck in America during World War I, and his letters to her describe...
Portrait of Edgar Allen Poe
1893
Cabinet card of a pastel drawing, formal portrait, waist-up, of Edgar Allen Poe. The drawing was created by Oscar Halling, a little known Baltimore artist in the 1860s. The photographs of the drawi...
Western Maryland Railway Co. advertisement to visit Gettysburg, circa 1910-1912
circa 1910 to 1912
Advertisement for two-day excursion tickets to Gettysburg.
