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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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"Peter's Special" Stock Train
December 6, 1910
View from snowy ditch looking down side of stock train. The engineer is looking out of the locomotive window, and another man stands on the tracks near the side of the locomotive on the right. Anot...
Pedestrians in a Snowstorm
December 29, 1954
Winter scene with pedestrians standing on the sidewalk near a downtown street waiting for bus transportation in a snowstorm. Probably at Capitol Square.
Railroad Wreck
1900
View looking down at men gathered at railroad wreck The locomotive is on its side, and the freight cars are demolished.
Railroad Official
1910
Unidentified railroad station officials, seated at their office desks.
Special Train Engine 1
1905
A group of women and children and one man pose standing on the railroad tracks behind a saddle back train. On the low hill behind them is a log building, and snow is on the ground. Painted on the s...
Depot and Train
View down platform toward the Waunakee depot and an arriving train. Freight cars are on the tracks on the left. A group of men are standing on the platform, and a bearded man sits on a cart at the ...
