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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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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.
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.
Crowd Rally
Elevated view of large crowd gathered in a railroad yard. Men are gathered around a podium in the middle of the crowd.
West Milwaukee Railroad Yard
Elevated view of the West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad
1940
Located in West Milwaukee. Trains, cars, tracks, and railroad buildings. The view is taken from the top of a building.
Railroad Yards
1940
Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, though other tracks are sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the background, as well as from smokestacks in the d...
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad Shops
1940
West Milwaukee. Elevated view of tracks, trains, and buildings. A train roundhouse is located in the background.
