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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.
Big Baby
October 4, 1958
A new mother is looking on as her 13-pound newborn infant is weighed by the nurse.
Baseball Player Sliding Into Base
Baseball player sliding into base as the umpire looks on.
Operating Room
1911
Doctors and nurses surround a patient on a gurney in an operating room at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
Polio Shot Time
November 15, 1955
All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
