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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 Wreck
1900
Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls.
Turner House
1875
Slightly elevated group portrait of men and women gathered around the Turner House, which was erected by John Turner to house railroad men and construction officers. There are railroad tracks and a...
Locomotive at Depot
View down railroad tracks of a train at the Darlington depot. A group of men are on the platform.
Stitzer Depot and Train
1921
View down side of railroad tracks towards the depot, with a locomotive and passenger cars arriving. People are standing on the platform. In the background are freight cars and a windmill, as well a...
Car Wrecked by Powder Explosion
March 9, 1911
Man standing in front of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad boxcar sitting on railroad tracks. The sides of the car are splintered, destroyed by an explosion, and wood debris is on the ground. In ...
Barnum Depot
1912
View down railroad tracks of a locomotive arriving at the Barnum Depot.
