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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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The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Labor Day Parade
September 5, 1949
Elevated view of Madison's Labor Day parade, showing the electrical workers' unit, the largest unit in the parade, and the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers float.
Labor Day Parade and Wienermobile
September 1, 1952
The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile passes by spectators watching the Labor Day parade on Capitol Square. City Hall is visible in the background.
Labor Day Parade Reviewing Stand
September 1, 1952
Reviewing stand at the Labor Day parade on Capitol Square.
Labor Day Parade Crowd
September 1, 1952
Spectators crowd the curb while watching the Labor Day parade on Capitol Square. Storefronts are behind them, including Forbes-Meagher.
Parking Lot Block 53
August 7, 1952
View of a filled parking lot at Block 53, 300 block of West Mifflin Street.
Pigeon-Hole Parking
August 1, 1952
A group of Davenport, Iowa, city officials and business leaders visited Madison to study the city's unique pigeon-hole parking unit at the Harry S. Manchester, Inc. department store in downtown Mad...
