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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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One-Handed Typewriter
1946
Colonel Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist before World War II, lost his arm while on active duty in Europe. He is seated here with Dr Anton Dvorak, the inventor of a one-arm typewriter that ...
Robert S. Allen in Military Uniform
November 1945
Waist-up studio portrait of Robert Allen in his military uniform.
Easter Seals to Help the Handicapped
Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist who lost his arm while serving during World War II, purchases Easter Seals from a handicapped girl. Allen was active in the efforts to help handicapped vet...
Robert S. Allen
Portrait of Robert Allen standing next to a truck, wearing military fatigues and with his hands on his hips.
Robert S. Allen
1968
Quarter-length portrait of journalist Robert S. Allen, best known for his association with Drew Pearson and for his own syndicated column, "Inside Washington."
Ruth Finney
1937
Journalist Ruth Finney, one of the few women journalists who covered hard news in Washington D.C. Finney was married to columnist Robert S. Allen, but continued to write under her own name. She app...
