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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.
Rocking Newborns
1950
Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
Hospital Care
1950
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students care for a patient at the Fort Atkinson Hospital.
Television for Patients
1950
Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms.
Infant with Grandmother
1950
A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother.
Wisconsin General Hospital Interview of Patient
May 26, 1947
Patient being interviewed by nurse, at the State of Wisconsin General Hospital, 1300 University Avenue. For the State Medical Board of Health.
Red Cross Blood Drive
July 1, 1957
Chester L. Gill receives a blood transfusion from nurses Marion Hackett and Ann Drollinger at Madison General Hospital. The Gill family has been volunteer Red Cross blood donors for several years.
