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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 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.
Kenosha Trolley Station
View across tracks toward the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Station. Caption reads: "C. & M. Electric Station, Kenosha, Wis."
Whitefish Bay Resort
1911
The Whitefish Bay Resort and park. Caption reads: "Whitefish Bay Resort, Looking South, Milwaukee."
Horseshoe Curve near Ableman
View of a passenger train coming down the tracks at the Horseshoe Curve. Rock Springs was called Ableman until 1947.
Portage Railroad Depot
1909
Elevated view of the railroad yards and station. Caption reads: "R. R. Yards and Station, Portage, Wis."
First Locomotive
Locomotive with barrels of cargo, sits on the tracks. The caption reads: "First Locomotive, 1831."
Railroad Yard
1909
Colorized view depicting what was then the "new" Chicago, Northwestern Railroad Yard. Caption reads: "New C. & N. W. R. R. Yards, Janesville, Wis."
