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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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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.
Wisconsin Central Pile Driver Car
1907
Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks.
Oxen Hauling Logs
circa 1890-1899
Three men pose with a team of oxen hauling a log on the Spaulding holdings in Clark County
Bridge over Wolf River
1907
View from shoreline of men standing on the bridge over west branch of the Wolf River. They are constructing the Wisconsin & Northern railroad bridge.
Engine No. 207
Side view of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine no. 207, a yard engine.
Narrow Gauge Railroad
1900
Group of men transferring bodies of a standard gauge box car (of the Wisconsin Coal Co.) to the narrow gauge tracks of the Fond du Lac, Amboy & Peoria Railway at Iron Mountain, Wisconsin.
Racine Trolley
1891
View across road construction towards a horse-drawn trolley on railroad tracks on Racine Street. Men and children are standing near piles of road building materials near the trolley.
