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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.
Medicine Chest
1935
A medicine chest and its contents on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
Lanterns in Exhibition
May 15, 1943
Wisconsin Historical Society museum display of railroad lanterns in the "Building Wisconsin Railroads" exhibit.
English Drug Compounds
At the University of Wisconsin, an ornate wooden case holds a display of 18th or 19th century English drugs next to a mixing vessel used to blend the components.
Loan Collection Day
1947
Loan collection day at the Memorial Union. Paintings were loaned to students for exhibition.
Weighing In
June 1958
A little girl watching as a healthcare worker slides the weights along a balance beam scale to measure her weight.
The Conklin Fire
1915
Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames.
