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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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Accessing Collections
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.
Railroad Yards
1940
Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, though other tracks are sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the background, as well as from smokestacks in the d...
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad
1940
Located in West Milwaukee. Trains, cars, tracks, and railroad buildings. The view is taken from the top of a building.
Railroad Yards
1940
Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, with other tracks sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the background, as well as from smokestacks in the distance.
West Milwaukee Railroad
1940
Elevated view of West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. Railroad train cars are stopped on the tracks and smoke is rising from the buildings in the background near sm...
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad Shops
1940
Located in West Milwaukee. View from atop a building of a large building located in the center, next to a smokestack. In the foreground is part of a rounded building (railroad roundhouse), with ra...
Man along Railroad Tracks
1940
A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background.
