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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.
Warming Work
circa 1974
Two railroad workers are pulling on a chain next to a railroad car carrying coal.
Parallel Progressions
1977
Skiers on a slope make an interesting parallel pattern against the snow.
Milwaukee Road Repair Crew
September 1980
View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over the track is seen in the background.
Snow Removal Operation in Railroad Yard
Men are working along the side of a brick building removing snow from against railroad cars.
Railroad Tracks
September 6, 1917
View down two sets of railroad tracks towards men standing near a switch mechanism. There is wooden fence and building on the left. Further down is a railroad car near buildings.
