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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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Slumbercoach
Two women boarding the Slumbercoach car on a B&O Railroad passenger train. A Pullman porter carries two suitcases as a stewardess greets customers. .
Superdome Railroad Coach
circa 1952
Passengers seated on the upper level of a Milwaukee Railroad superdome coach.
Railroad Official with Train Workers
Well-dressed railroad official with uniformed train workers. Conductors carry lanterns, ticket punches and tickets.
Norman Wiese on Location for "The Emigrants"
September 1969
Close-up of a man wearing a conductor's hat. A train is in the background. Caption reads: "Norman Wiese, North Freedom, Mid-Century RR Museum. Was also in movie - The Immigrants." [Actual title, "T...
