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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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Men Laying Railroad Track
circa 1890-1899
Lumber workers laying railroad tracks through the woods.
Horseshoe Curve near Ableman
circa 1890-1899
View of a passenger train coming down the tracks at the Horseshoe Curve. Rock Springs was called Ableman until 1947.
Odanah Railroad Bridge
circa 1890-1899
A Northwestern Railroad train pulled by locomotive #967 across a bridge with steel supports.
W. & M. R.R. Car
circa 1890-1899
Side view of a locomotive from the Wisconsin and Michigan Railway sitting on the railroad tracks.
Wisconsin Central Freight Cars
May 5, 1897
Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc.
Second Locomotive
circa 1890-1899
A depiction of the Second Locomotive is shown on the tracks and ready to roll. Caption reads: "Second Locomotive, 1845."
