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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Physical Examination
A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on.
Physical Examination of Young Girl
A nurse or doctor at the Health Center gives a girl a physical examination as the mother, who is holding a baby, looks on.
Baby with Nurse and Mother
A nurse undresses a baby in preparation for a physical examination as the fashionably-dressed mother looks on.
Two Nurses Outside Colby Health Center
Two nurses stand outside the Colby Health Center, a former dental office. This was the first county health center, in a village of 700 population.
Young Girl with Rickets
Annie Pagano of Marblehead, Wisconsin, diagnosed with rickets. She is of Italian nationality, aged 4 1/2 years. Nursed until 3 years old, then fed meat and spaghetti.
