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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 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.
Derailed Locomotive
A group of men, some with shovels, are working near the front of a locomotive that has derailed. There is a pile of sacks in the background on the right. A number and identification plate on the fr...
Derailed Locomotive
View towards men standing on railroad tracks and near the wreckage of a train.
Derailed Locomotive
View down railroad tracks towards men standing and watching machinery clearing train wreckage.
Derailed Locomotive
View down railroad tracks towards the front of a locomotive tipped sideways on the set of railroad tracks on the right. On the left set of railroad tracks is a railroad car carrying parts on its op...
Railroad Bridge
View looking up towards a locomotive and five railroad cars on a railroad bridge crossing a river.
Train Derailment Clean-Up
Close-up of a group of men cleaning up the wreck of a train. Pieces of railroad cars are in piles of dirt. A railroad car is on the right. A town is in the background.
