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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.
Dissecting the Cadaver
1894
Students surround a partially-dissected cadaver at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery.
Anatomy Lab
1900
Cadavers are laid out on gurneys in a sky-lit anatomy lab at Rush Medical College.
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(?)...
Operating Room
1911
Doctors and nurses surround a patient on a gurney in an operating room at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
Beaver Hunting Techniques
An early drawing depicting various beaver hunting techniques.
Stroboscopic Photography Technique
April 1950
A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash.
