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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.
Wisconsin Central Railway Construction
December 11, 1895
View of the construction area of the Wisconsin Central Railway, looking southeast at Shipyard Point with workers and a team of horses.
Manitowoc and Two Rivers Railway
circa 1910-1919
Manitowoc and Two Rivers Railway streetcar full of passengers.
East River with Train Crossing
Aerial view of a train crossing the East River in a rural community south of Green Bay. Some buildings are visible to the right and the background of the image, but most of the land is cropland. We...
Tunnel at Tunnel City
View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City.
Wisconsin Central Freight Cars
May 5, 1897
Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc.
American Express Wagons
1913
Horse-drawn American Express wagons in front of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway depot.