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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.
Rail Yard at Depot
1895
Railroad depot surrounded by stacked lumber for wood-burning locomotives. A few homes can be seen in the background.
Main Street
1895
Elevated view down Main Street, which crosses railroad tracks in the foreground. There are two signs in the foreground which say: "Look Out for the Cars" and "$500 Fine for any Person Riding or Dri...
Early Electric Streetcar
An early electric-powered streetcar in downtown Eau Claire, as it appeared about 1890-1895.
St. Croix River Log Jam
circa 1890-1899
Several men standing amidst a huge log jam on the St. Croix River. The men are standing in a line holding a rope. A bridge spans the river in the far background.
West Milwaukee Railroad Yard
Elevated view of the West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
Elevated View of Railroad Yard on Jones Island
October 28, 1938
Elevated view of railroad yard and railroads cars on Jones Island. On the right is a large derrick or crane, and in the background are a number of freighters with large smokestacks.
