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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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Odanah Railroad Bridge
circa 1890-1899
A Northwestern Railroad train pulled by locomotive #967 across a bridge with steel supports.
Train on Bridge
View of one of the first locomotives of the Fox River Valley, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad on a wooden trestle over a wetland. The locomotive has brass trim and pulls a wood car.
Highway Bridge Over Railroad Tracks
November 16, 1939
Highway bridge on USH 41 with a train pulled by locomotive #496 traveling under the span.
Horseshoe Curve near Ableman
circa 1890-1899
View of a passenger train coming down the tracks at the Horseshoe Curve. Rock Springs was called Ableman until 1947.
Superior Depot
September 10, 1939
View down railroad tracks towards the Central Avenue depot and the railroad crossing.
Portage Railroad Depot
1909
Elevated view of the railroad yards and station. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards and Station, Portage, Wis."
