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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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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.
Gross Anatomy
1902
Medical students dissect a cadaver at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois. Surnames on the students' aprons include: Cornell (possibly John), Shepherd, Gourley(?)...
Anatomy Lab
1900
Cadavers are laid out on gurneys in a sky-lit anatomy lab at Rush Medical College.
Operating Theater
1902
Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College.
Trouble Shooting
September 29, 1962
Electronics training at the United School of Electronic Trades gives a student the opportunity to trouble shoot problems.
A White Glove Event
November 4, 1956
Sophomores at Alverno College greet incoming freshmen with an annual tea party.
Weldering, Agricultural Short Course
1950
Two students welding at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Short Course.
