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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.
Attribution
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.
Surgical Tools
1927
Surgical instruments on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit
October 1946
Interior view of the Wisconsin Historical Society Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit. Pictured are several decorative showglobes, a leech jar, and shelves of various pharmaceutical jars.
Early Apothecary Shop Exhibit
Early Apothecary Shop exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Medicine Chest
1935
A medicine chest and its contents on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
Employees at Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit
August 25, 1936
Elevated view of Wisconsin Historical Society employees Dawn Young and Ray Lamb who are staffing the museum's historical drugstore exhibit.
Prehistoric Pottery
1945
A display of prehistoric pottery exhibited at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
