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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.
Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane
1874
Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute) near Madison.
Anti-Tuberculosis Railway Exhibit
1906
1904 Exhibit of the Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, in a railway coach. Photograph taken in Milwaukee.
Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane Staff Members
1890
Staff members of the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane pose at the hospital doors. Mendota Mental Health Institute
Hospital Patient Watching Television
January 17, 1958
The installation of televisions in hospital rooms is a welcome addition to this patient at Misericordia Hospital.
Conditions at Mendota State Hospital
February 7, 1947
Woman patients at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) sitting in rocking chairs in the sun room. One of a series of photographs calling attention to the inadequacies in per...
