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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.
Railway Crane lifting Boxcar
Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track.
Railway Crane lifting Boxcar
Crowd watching a railway crane lift a boxcar from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway back on the track.
Derailed Locomotive
View down railroad tracks towards men standing and watching machinery clearing train wreckage.
Crowd at Railroad Tracks
A crowd of happy, well-dressed adults and children wait at the railroad tracks for a train.
Boxcar Traveler
1895
A man stands in the open doorway of a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha railway boxcar.
