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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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Allis Chalmers Picketers
November 1, 1946
Members of the United Automobile Workers on strike at the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee.
Picket Line at Milwaukee City Hall
September 23, 1946
Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street as pickets. Those here are just a few of t...
Police Arresting Allis-Chalmers Striker
December 4, 1946
Police arresting an Allis-Chalmers striker.
Strike Vote, Louis Allis Co.
April 1946
Members of Local 1131, United Electrical Workers (Louis Allis Company) cast votes for a strike.
Allis Chalmers Strike Parade
December 7, 1946
Striking Allis Chalmbers workers and CIO supporters on parade in 1946. In later years it was common suggested that the Communist-dominated Milwaukee CIO had contributed to the election of Senator ...
UAW Rally,
December 7, 1946
Rally of striking United Automobile Workers of America employed by Allis Chalmers.
