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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.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
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.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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
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.
Railroad Bridge
View looking up towards a locomotive and five railroad cars on a railroad bridge crossing a river.
Train Crossing a Bridge
View upriver towards a train passing over a bridge. Smoke is trailing behind the locomotive, and a man is standing on top of the first railroad car.
Locomotives in a Train Yard
View down center of railroad tracks towards a train yard, showing several trains with locomotives. A man is standing near a building on the right has a sign that reads: "Lunch Room." Image not in f...
Railroad Station
View from a railroad platform and railroad tracks. A locomotive with railroad cars is parked on the far track. One man is standing next to the locomotive; another man is standing on the platform in...
