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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 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.
Operating Theater
1902
Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College.
Scrabble Game
April 11, 1965
A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist.
Student Nurse Susan Beckman
May 1, 1971
Susan Beckman, a student nurse at County General Hospital, carries a sign protesting the portrayal of nurses in a movie "The Student Nurses".
Cuba City Hospital and Clinic
February 2, 1954
Surgeon Dr. K.K. Rossmann preparing for surgery at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. He is scrubbed up for the operating room in his gloves, hat and robe. A nurse is sitting behind him administeri...
Optometrist's Office
1906
View of an optometrist's office, with equipment and supplies awaiting a patient.
