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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.
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.
Mendota State Hospital Employees
Employees of the Mendota State Hospital posing outdoors in front of a tree.
Mendota Mental Health Institute
June 28, 1962
Interior view of a historically-restored hallway in the Mendota Mental Health Institute (Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane).
Mendota State Hospital
Elevated view from the south of the Mendota State Hospital. There are several horses in a paddock in the foreground.
Wisconsin State Hospital For The Insane
1893
Winter view of the Wisconsin State Hospital For The Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane
1889
Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute)
Mendota State Hospital Baseball Team
A group portrait, on the lawn in front of a building, of the Mendota State Hospital baseball team in uniform.
