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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.
"Old Vanderbilt" Locomotive
1890
Upham Lumber Company locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," built by the Taunton Locomotive Works in 1847 from the New York providence and Boston Railroad where she bore the name "Oregon." She was rebuilt a...
Engine No. 489
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 489. Five railroad employees stand in front of the locomotive.
Locomotive Engine No. 8240
Locomotive engine #8240 of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company.
Engine No. 207
Side view of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine no. 207, a yard engine.
Locomotive Engine No. 2861
Right side view of locomotive engine no. 2861, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company.
Wisconsin Central Railroad Locomotive No. 257
1901
Wisconsin Central locomotive no. 257 (left) and Abbotsford and Northeastern Railroad locomotive No.1. The engineer is Lew Choate and the fireman is Ole "Jim" Hanson.
