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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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Odanah Railroad Bridge
circa 1890-1899
A Northwestern Railroad train pulled by locomotive #967 across a bridge with steel supports.
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.
First Locomotive
circa 1880-1889
Locomotive with barrels of cargo, sits on the tracks. The caption reads: "First Locomotive, 1831."
Modern Locomotive
1902
Depiction of the "modern" locomotive at the beginning of the 20th century.
Highway Bridge Over Railroad Tracks
November 16, 1939
Highway bridge on USH 41 with a train pulled by locomotive #496 traveling under the span.
