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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 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.
Neon Apothecary Sign
August 6, 1940
Modern neon sign and storefront of A.J. Affleck's Pharmacy.
Holscher Pharmacy Laboratory
November 12, 1940
A view of the main prescription preparation counter. The left side was used for eye prescriptions only.
Busy Pharmacy Scene
November 4, 1940
A busy scene at the Professional Pharmacy. James Robinson, proprietor, stands in front of the prescriptions counter.
Barnes' Pharmacy
1948
Prescription pick-up counter and waiting area of Barnes' Pharmacy.
Prescription Pick-Up Counter
March 2, 1947
View of the curved wooden prescription pick-up counter at Kelly's Prescription Shop.
Prescription Department
April 30, 1948
View of the prescription counter and waiting area of the Center Pharmacy. The ladder provided access to shelves of medications held above the counter.
