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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.
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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.
Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad Depot
1905
Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad depot, with first train into Willard on the Fairchild and Northeastern Line.
Fairchild & Northeastern Train at Greenwood
View from shoreline of the Fairchild & Northeastern steam locomotive pulling a load of logs over the Black River bridge near Greenwood. A man is standing on top of one of the boxcars.
The "Gracie May" Locomotive
1884
The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes and Ella Stearns.
Babcock Train Depot
1910
View towards platform of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway depot.
Burke Depot
1911
Photographic postcard view across railroad tracks of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Depot on Felland Road.
Railroad Depot
November 1941
View across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot at Sussex (formerly known as Templeton). Two cars are parked near the depot and a baggage cart.
