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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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RKO Parade
February 27, 1931
RKO parade on the 700 block of University Avenue, with the McVicar Photo Studio, and RKO-lians band.
Presentation of the Moose Prize Car
August 4, 1930
Mr. Larson presenting the Moose Whippet prize car to the winner at Whippet Knight Sales Company, 437 W. Gilman Street.
RKO Parade on 700 Block University Avenue
February 27, 1931
RKO parade on 700 block University Avenue.
Automobile Accident
August 10, 1930
A crowd of people gathered at an accident between a Hooper truck and a Willys-Knight automobile at a safety island at University Avenue and Murray Street.
"Dixiana" Parade
August 21, 1930
Automobiles and Chanticleer Band on back of a truck in a parade in the 300 block of East Johnson Street for the movie "Dixiana."
"Whoopee!" Movie Parade of Automobiles
November 8, 1930
Parade of new Buicks advertising the midnight preview of the movie "Whoopee" starring Eddie Cantor playing at the RKO Capitol Theatre.
