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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.
Using the Scale
April 15, 1949
Two pharmacists behind the prescription counter check the scale at the Pekin Prescription Shop. Cabinets of "sick room" supplies are on the left.
Adelman's Drugstore
September 2, 1949
Customers wait for their prescriptions to be filled at Morris Adelman's Drugstore.
North Town Apothecary
November 29, 1949
Exterior view of the North Town Apothecary.
Eugene Phillips
June 14, 1949
Eugene Phillips poses in his pharmacy's prescription department.
