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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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Lettuce Strike Picket Line
January 18, 1961
The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike.
Police Surveillence of Farm Workers
1961
Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike.
Strike Surveillence
August 1958
Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the close police surveillance of the picketer...
Don't Buy Scab Meat
November 1955
United Packinghouse Workers of America picketers protest the hiring of temporary scab labor by the Colonial Provisions Company. Although no location or dated is noted on the original photograph, it...
Representation Election
September 1962
Vying to represent some Illinois packinghouse workers are (left to right) representatives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers (AMC...
Globe Company Picket Line
September 1945
View from road of picket line of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 284 at the Globe company plant.
