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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
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.
Men Dressed as Minstrels
Eight men posing together dressed as minstrels in blackface makeup.
Workers on Railroad Platform
Exterior view of work men posing sitting on a wagon on the platform at the railroad station.
Train Travelers
Portrait of a group of men, women, and a child on a railroad platform. Railroad cars are in the background.
Man Giving Speech on Train
Crowd listening to a whistle-stop speaker at the railroad station, possibly Taft.
Copy Photograph; Train Cars Loaded with Tree Trunks
Copy photograph of a steam train pulling railroad cars loaded with large trees.
Railroad Depot
Men approaching a train at the railroad depot carrying farm machinery from the J.I. Case Company.