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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.
Warming Work
circa 1974
Two railroad workers are pulling on a chain next to a railroad car carrying coal.
Miscauno Island Depot
View down railroad tracks which pass the Miscauno Island depot. A railroad signal is on the left, and the platform for the depot is on the right.
Wisconsin Central Freight Cars
May 5, 1897
Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc.
Wisconsin & Michigan Employees
1907
Employees of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad posing in the roundhouse.
