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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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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.
Tunnel at Tunnel City
View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City.
Wisconsin & Michigan Employees
1907
Employees of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad posing in the roundhouse.
Wisconsin Central Pile Driver Car
1907
Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks.
Warming Work
circa 1974
Two railroad workers are pulling on a chain next to a railroad car carrying coal.
Milwaukee Road Repair Crew
September 1980
View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over the track is seen in the background.
Railroad Mail Car
November 3, 1967
Workers sort mail into bins in a railroad mail car.
