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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.
Attribution
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Senior Citizens Card Game
September 10, 1968
Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center.
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.
Stock Exchange Display
April 28, 1968
A group of businessmen and customers watch a board that displays the stock amounts of the American Stock Exchange in a board room.
Steam Fire Engine at Soldiers Home
May 19, 1887
Firefighters stand with steam fire engine in front of fire station at National Soldiers Home.
