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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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Superdome Coach in the Wisconsin Dells
circa 1953
Exterior view of the Milwaukee Railroad superdome passenger car passing through the Wisconsin Dells.
Hiawatha Observation Car
circa 1946
Interior view of people seated in the Hiawatha's observation parlor with sky-top solar lounge. The Hiawatha was signature high-speed passenger train for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad...
In the Emigrant Train
January 1874
Interior of a coach on an emigration train to the west.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Car
March 1953
A sleek, deluxe sleeping railroad passenger car made of high-strength, low-alloy steel.
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. .
Railroad Official with Train Workers
Well-dressed railroad official with uniformed train workers. Conductors carry lanterns, ticket punches and tickets.
