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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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State Public School
1893
Exterior of the State Public School grounds, with numerous school buildings.
State Public School Records Room
1893
Records room at the State Public School. Volumes of "analyzed accounts" are seen in the foreground, and small drawers line the right wall.
Dining Hall at the State Public School
1893
Dining hall at the State Public School, with numerous tables and place settings.
Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Laundry
1893
Sinks, tubs, and cylindrical washing machines on pulleys make up the laundry facilities at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
Dining room of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys
1893
Dining room at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys.
Weaving Room at the State School for the Blind
1893
Several looms in the instructional weaving facility at the State School for the Blind.
