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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.
Train on Bridge
View of one of the first locomotives of the Fox River Valley, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad on a wooden trestle over a wetland. The locomotive has brass trim and pulls a wood car.
Steam Train Speeds Over Trestle
1910
The railroad trestle over the Red Cedar River with a steam train passing over.
Train Crossing a Bridge
View upriver towards a train passing over a bridge. Smoke is trailing behind the locomotive, and a man is standing on top of the first railroad car.
Man and Woman on a Pathway
1900
Overhead view of a man and woman on a pathway, she in white against a dark background, and he in shirt and vest.
Portrait in a Mirror
1900
A woman photographer catches reflections of herself, a young girl and a woman in a bedroom bureau mirror.
Wood Burning Locomotive
circa 1890-1899
View from below of wood burning locomotive and single car on elevated railroad bridge and approach trestle, somewhere along the upper Mississippi River. Large timbers are stacked and strewn below t...
