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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.
Train Yard with "Hiawatha"
Front view of three trains in a snow-filled train yard. The middle train is an old-fashioned steam engine flanked by more modern trains. Three men are standing nearby.
Men Escorting Woman on Railroad Platform
1897
Two men escorting a fashionably dressed woman with a feathered boa obscuring part of her face. People are standing in the background near a train next to the platform. A dog is running on the sidew...
Men Pulling Carts
1897
Men pushing and pulling two carts, one with a barrel, around a street corner.
Men at the Crossing Store
Men walking near the railroad Crossing Store. Above the store is a bridge providing a walkway over the railroad tracks.
'Electro Motive' Train
1940
A man in a suit and hat is standing on the side of a train engine in a train yard. Railroad employees can be seen in and on the train, and a group of men are on the railroad tracks in the distance....
Special Train
The Milwaukee Merchants & Manufacturers Special Train. A steam engine with several cars stretching to the horizon is sitting on the tracks in front of a platform and water tower. A man is standing ...
