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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.
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Armed Forces Day Parade
May 20, 1950
Spectators are shown standing on the steps at the Capitol Square looking down State street at approaching U.W. ROTC marching units. The view includes the entire length of State street and Bascom hi...
Armed Forces Day Parade
May 20, 1950
University of Wisconsin ROTC marching units moving south down South Carroll street during a parade commemorating Armed Forces Day. The Episcopal cathedral is in the upper right hand corner. Spectat...
Armed Forces Day Air Show and Parade
May 17, 1958
Two boys admiring the Wisconsin 32nd Division troops parading at the Capitol Square during the Armed Forces Day air show and parade.
Memorial Day Activities
May 30, 1952
Elevated view of part of the crowd watching as military units from Truax Field march down South Carroll Street during the Memorial Day parade at Madison's Capitol Square. The Park Hotel is on the l...
Mobile Civil Defense Test
October 31, 1951
Elevated view of a parade of vehicles for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison approaching along South Carroll Street and turning onto West Main Street at the Capitol S...
United States Armed Forces Institute
December 30, 1947
Commander O.W. Goepner standing in front of a map showing overseas armed forces units being served by the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) which provides college level course work to se...
