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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.
Loading Ore Cars
Trains transported iron ore through St. George every twenty minutes. A view of the city can be seen behind the railroad yard.
Railroad Track Clean-up
1910
Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive #2035 and a work train on a track clean-up assignment. Locomotive #102 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1887.
Locomotive No. 539
1882
View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works for the Chica...
Railroad Station and Train
The Arkville Train Station was a stop on the Deleware and Ulster Railroad.
Locomotive Engine No. 518
View of locomotive engine no. 518 on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. Two men are posing on the train.
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...
