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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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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.
Mobile X-Ray Trailer
1945
Wisconsin State Board of Health Tuberculosis Survey bus with staff posing in front.
Mobile X-Ray Trailer
1945
Wisconsin State Board of Health Tuberculosis Survey bus with staff posing.
Tuberculosis Bus
1945
State Board of Health mobile tuberculosis x-ray unit. The ability to bring tuberculosis diagnostic technology to all parts of the state greatly aided the virtual eradication of TB.
James Parkin
1945
James Parkin, and a woman in eyeglasses, speak with another woman in a paper gown, apparently a patient.
Mobile X-Ray Machine
August 13, 1941
Bus containing mobile x-ray machine with sign, "Wisconsin State Board of Health, Tuberculosis Survey." A male technician is standing beside the bus. The bus is parked at the Oregon School for Girls.
Portable X-Ray Machine
March 17, 1949
Trailer with portable X-Ray machine for taking chest x-rays to detect tuberculosis.
