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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.
Baron Von Prittwitz, German Ambassador
March 22, 1932
German Ambassador to the United States, Baron Friedrich Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, standing outdoors next to a railroad passenger train car.
Truck and Train Crash
November 5, 1930
People looking at the train cars and undamaged front end of the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck involved in the Milwaukee Road passenger train-truck accident.
Steam Locomotive
June 7, 1935
Railroad Week publicity photograph steam locomotive, with a girl in the cab and a railroad worker standing on the engine steps.
Railroad Car of Refrigerators
August 12, 1928
Men unloading Frigidaire refrigerators from New York Central/Cincinnati Northern railroad box car to truck. The delivery is for the Gay Brothers Apartments located on Main street.
Babe Ruth
October 15, 1934
Babe Ruth, wearing dressing gown, stands in the doorway of a train and signs autographs for clamoring fans, with a train porter in uniform standing by.
Babe Ruth
October 15, 1934
Babe Ruth, wearing a dressing gown, standing in the doorway of a train car and signing autographs.
