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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
Weighing In
June 1958
A little girl watching as a healthcare worker slides the weights along a balance beam scale to measure her weight.
Rocking Newborns
1950
Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
A Penny a Pound
February 22, 1957
Girls being weighed to determine their donations of a penny a pound to the YWCA camp.
Mother Feeding Infant
September 1, 1971
A young mother feeds her infant baby food outdoors.
