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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.
Donna, Ellen, and Fred Taylor
1913
Group portrait taken in a neighborhood yard of J. Robert Taylor's children.
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.
Car Buried in Fresh Snow
1940
Winter scene with a car buried in fresh snow while parked outside a building.
Railroad Yard with Snow and Smoke
January 18, 1940
Elevated view of railroad yard, with engines and cars on some of the tracks. Smoke is billowing out from many of the engines, covering much of the yard. Buildings and rail equipment are on the left.
Train Yard from Hillside
Elevated view of the Milwaukee Electric Rapid Transit at 20-23rd Streets and St. Paul, looking southeast from a hillside. Snow is on the ground, the buildings, and the large piles of coal or coke i...
