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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 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.
Milwaukee Road Railroad
August 1974
View down double set of railroad tracks towards a Milwaukee Road train, with the engineer about to board. Other men are standing in the background.
Wisconsin Central Locomotive
View across snow-covered railroad tracks towards Wisconsin Central's locomotive #4002. Industrial buildings are sending steam or smoke through smokestacks in the background.
Wisconsin Central Locomotive
View of the Wisconsin Central Railroad crossing a railroad bridge at Knowlton.
Russians Working on Railroad
1918
View down railroad tracks toward a group of Russian residents working to clear another set of railroad tracks running alongside. In the far distance are trees and buildings.
Wisconsin Central Locomotives
February 2, 1988
Two Wisconsin Central Railroad locomotives near the Consolidated Papers pulpmill at Wisconsin Rapids. Snow is on the ground, and heavy smoke is coming out of the smokestacks.
Kidder's Radio Repair Department
October 23, 1930
Repairmen at Kidder's Radio repair department posing next to their workbench.
