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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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Cotton Bale on a Railroad Loading Dock
1921
A cotton bale sits on a platform next to a train, possibly awaiting shipment.
Boxcar Entering Plant Yard
February 18, 1915
Boxcar entering plant yard. A man is standing on the loading dock which is under the factory building. On the right alongside the building are railroad cars on an elevated platform.
Bales of Sisal
1919
Elevated view of baled sisal stacked in a field alongside a dirt road. Several structures and a railroad cars are on a hill in the background.
Cotton Bales On A Wharf
Elevated view of a large number of cotton bales on a wharf with a train crossing through the scene. "Frisco" is clearly written on all the cars of the train.
Cotton Bales in Wagon
1919
A wagon loaded with bales of cotton sits in front of a loading dock. The wagon was possibly made by the Weber Wagon Company.
