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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.
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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.
Wheelchair Patient Outside at Wisconsin General Hospital
February 8, 1945
Patient in wheelchair being taken outdoors in the snow between two buildings at Wisconsin General Hospital.
Patient in Wisconsin General Hospital Hallway
February 8, 1945
Patient being wheeled past laundry baskets and lockers in overcrowded Wisconsin General Hospital basement hallway.
Madison General Hospital Junior Aide Program
May 13, 1957
Madison General Hospital Junior Aide volunteer Betsy Dye delivers a plant to Mrs. M.C. Palmer at her bedside.
Madison General Hospital Junior Aide Program
May 13, 1957
Junior Aide volunteer Kathleen Hensen reading a story to 4-year-old Jennifer Bahowick at her bedside in Madison General Hospital.
Doctors Examining Patient
May 19, 1947
Three doctors examining a patient for the Cancer Society.
Conditions at Mendota State Hospital
February 7, 1947
Woman patients at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) sitting in rocking chairs in the sun room. One of a series of photographs calling attention to the inadequacies in per...
