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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 "Gracie May" Locomotive
1884
The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes and Ella Stearns.
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad
1884
View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large homes are on a hill in the background.
Wisconsin Central Pile Driver Car
1907
Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks.
Fairchild & Northeastern Train at Greenwood
View from shoreline of the Fairchild & Northeastern steam locomotive pulling a load of logs over the Black River bridge near Greenwood. A man is standing on top of one of the boxcars.
Train Wreck
June 21, 1900
Wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Little Rapids. A group of men and boys are viewing the damage to the locomotive.
Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Locomotive
1850
Drawing of an early locomotive that the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad rebuilt to run on the M.& M. R.R. line (which was later absorbed into the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad).
