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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.
Polio Shot Time
November 15, 1955
All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
Big Baby
October 4, 1958
A new mother is looking on as her 13-pound newborn infant is weighed by the nurse.
Public Health Physicians, Nurse, and Four Children
1926
Four siblings await their physical examination. Three of the children are triplets. In the background are the public health nurse and examining physician.
Two Nurses Outside Colby Health Center
Two nurses stand outside the Colby Health Center, a former dental office. This was the first county health center, in a village of 700 population.
Weighing In
June 1958
A little girl watching as a healthcare worker slides the weights along a balance beam scale to measure her weight.
Young Girl with Rickets
Annie Pagano of Marblehead, Wisconsin, diagnosed with rickets. She is of Italian nationality, aged 4 1/2 years. Nursed until 3 years old, then fed meat and spaghetti.
