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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.
Community Polio Vaccine
circa 1955-1956
Tables are set up at a City Hall basement lobby as a venue for public access to the polio vaccine.
March of Dimes Contribution
January 5, 1955
A toddler is inserting a dime into a March of Dimes collection board as her mother is holding her in her arms and looking on. The collection is to raise money to eradicate polio.
Picketing Gimbel's
March 15, 1955
Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store.
