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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.
The First Passenger Train in Michigan
circa 1830-1839
Locomotive with coal car and one passenger car passing through rural landscape. People wave from a log cabin and a horse-drawn vehicle in the background and a man cutting down trees in a field wave...
Soo Line Tracks
August 1988
"For nostalgia, a steam locomotive made a run on the Soo Line tracks."
Train Arriving at the Depot
The station at Sylvan Beach was essential in providing transportation to central New York's recreational resort area. Caption reads: "Train Time. Sylvan Beach, N.Y."
Loading Ore Cars
Trains transported iron ore through St. George every twenty minutes. A view of the city can be seen behind the railroad yard.
Depot and Train
A steaming train at the depot platform on a snowy day. A group stands at the platform.
Train on Bridge
View of one of the first locomotives of the Fox River Valley, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad on a wooden trestle over a wetland. The locomotive has brass trim and pulls a wood car.
