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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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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.
Hospital Care
1950
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students care for a patient at the Fort Atkinson Hospital.
Stoking the Fire
1950
A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler.
Newspaper Print Shop
1950
Sports editor and sports reporter from the "Wisconsin State Journal" confer with a printer over trays of lead type.
Gem Cutter
1950
Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for simplification of form in his designs and his...
Metalworker
1950
The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker.
Clothing Enhancement
1950
A girl draws a design on a blouse worn by a mannequin while a woman observes her progress.
