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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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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.
Wisconsin & Michigan Employees
1907
Employees of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad posing in the roundhouse.
Green Bay & Western Railroad Roundhouse
1930
Elevated view of the Green Bay & Western Railroad roundhouse.
Ice-Damaged Railroad Bridge
April 4, 1913
Elevated view of the Soo Line train crossing a bridge over the Black River near Withee. The three x's indicate places where the bridge had been damaged by an ice jam.
Portage Railroad Depot
1909
Elevated view of the railroad yards and station. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards and Station, Portage, Wis."
Roundhouse Train Depot
View of west yards train depot roundhouse. Railroad workers pose with locomotive engines in the roundhouse. The train in the foreground, no. "804," is on a turntable and a worker is posed on the fr...
First Train
May 3, 1948
Elevated view of a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, which is the first across a new bridge in Sheboygan. There is a group of people standing near the railroad train.
