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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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Employee Outing
August 26, 1908
Women employees of Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. (TMERL) competing a foot race at the third company outing.
Embarking on an Outing
August 26, 1908
In a festive mood, Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company employees disembark from flag-decked trolley cars to enjoy a company-sponsored outing. The company hired trolley cars to Waukesha Bea...
Punch Table, Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co. Outing
August 26, 1906
Exterior view of the punch table at a company picnic under trees. A man stands in the foreground looking at the camera while holding a knife, and the woman standing behind him is cutting up lemons....
Students Outside the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys
1893
Students gather in the schoolyard at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. Several school buildings are seen in the background.
Babe Ruth
October 15, 1934
Babe Ruth, wearing dressing gown, stands in the doorway of a train and signs autographs for clamoring fans, with a train porter in uniform standing by.
James M. LaValle
June 10, 1935
James M. LaValle, Winona, Minn., posing next to a passenger car. Mr. LaValle had the most seniority in the Madison Division of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.
