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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.
Madison City Railways Crew
1911
Streetcar and crew of the Madison City Railways Company. The streetcar number is #50 and the route sign says Wingra Park.
Milwaukee Electric Railway Ticket Collector
1917
A ticket collector for the Milwaukee Electric Railway is sitting at her station.
Electric Streetcar
circa 1900-1909
An electric streetcar in Milwaukee with a large Gimbels sign in the background.
Buses Replace Streetcars
September 20, 1953
A posed photograph taken for the Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. to mark the substitution of buses for streetcars on the West Burnham Street line.
Milwaukee Streetcar
1905
A TMERL streetcar on the Delaware and Oakland line advertising special 1905 rates (25 for a dollar or 6 for 25 cents) and universal transfers.
