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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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Swift Workers on Strike
September 1959
Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul.
Butchering Beef
Using a power tool, a member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is cutting up a hanging beef carcass.
Contract Bargaining
1961
Heated contract negotiations of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America.
Swift Strikers
1959
Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being loaded on a train.
Pickets in Uniform
May 1948
The message of United Packinghouse Workers of American picketers gained force when members who were veterans wore their uniforms. One picket sign reads "We fought and won the war; Swift got the pro...
Meat Cutters
1945
Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago.
