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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 Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes
December 28, 1954
Mrs. Arnold (Elizabeth) Griswold sitting in a wheelchair beside her family. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
Women Aid Monona Grove's Blood Drive
September 11, 1959
Betty Leiser, left, and Carmen Van Gorden, both of whom use wheelchairs because of the after effects of polio, fill out recruitment cards for the Monona Grove Blood Drive.
McFarland Home Talent League Baseball Team
May 27, 1956
Group portrait of the McFarland Home Talent League baseball team.
Wheelchair Patient Outside at Wisconsin General Hospital
February 8, 1945
Patient in wheelchair being taken outdoors in the snow between two buildings at Wisconsin General Hospital.
Wisconsin General Hospital Room
February 8, 1945
Wisconsin General Hospital room with two patients and a medical aide in crowded conditions.
Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes
December 28, 1954
Everett L. Liddicoat, an insurance agent and 4-year veteran of the Army Air Corps, was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
