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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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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.
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.
Nurse with Mothers and Babies
A nurse sits between two mothers with babies on their laps. They are discussing "individual problems of maternal and child health."
Bathing Baby in Tub
1937
Dr. Amy Louise Hunter of the Wisconsin Board of Health bathes a baby in a tub of water.
Child Welfare Special Vehicle
1937
Wisconsin State Board of Health's vehicle the "Child Welfare Special".