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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.
Men Working on Tipped Train Cars
A panoramic view of many men gathered on the railroad tracks on an embankment, working to up-right train cars that have tipped over. On the right is a locomotive and three of the cars, which are no...
Train Wreck
1900
Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls.
Derailed Locomotive
View towards men standing on railroad tracks and near the wreckage of a train.
Copy Photograph; Train Cars Loaded with Tree Trunks
Copy photograph of a steam train pulling railroad cars loaded with large trees.
Train Derailment
View down railroad tracks towards a large group of people standing near the wreck of a train. Railroad cars have fallen over to the left of the tracks. Two men are working with shovels on one set o...
J.T. Case Train
View across open ground towards a group of men and boys moving towards a train. The train is identified as the train for J.T. Case.
