Central Wisconsin Digitization Project

View historical photos and documents of central Wisconsin, including libraries and schools, railroads, high school yearbooks and more! 

Central Wisconsin Digitization Project (CWDP) is a consortium of libraries, historical societies, genealogical societies and museums committed to preserving and disseminating the history of Marathon and Lincoln counties through the digitization of original sources and artifacts and their subsequent publication online. The organizing theme of the CWDPs digital collection is “Community Life” — i.e., all aspects of community life, past and present, in these two counties. Under this theme, the collections are organized by the topics of education, industry, transportation, work, home and family. 

Project Collections: 

• Documents of Central Wisconsin History
• Railroads of Lincoln and Marathon Counties
• Libraries and Schools in Marathon and Lincoln Counties
• Wausau Senior High and Wausau East Senior High Yearbooks
• D.C. Everest High School Yearbooks
• Wausau West High School Yearbooks
• Marathon County Historic Maps