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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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For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
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Accessing Collections
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.
E.P. Allis & Co. Reliance Works
1880
E.P. Allis & Co's Reliance Works: steam cranes and ovens.
Men Working on Water Wheel
Men work on a huge, metal water wheel at Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company.
Allis-Chalmers Strike
1941
View overlooking crowd of Allis-Chalmers employees on strike.
Edward P. Allis Reliance Works
1900
Main factory with South Foundry in lower left. Lake Michigan is in the background. Later the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
Milwaukee Exchange
1883
Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange.
Edward P. Allis Reliance Works
1890
Section of the factory at a crossroads with road construction workers outside. Name of company visible on building.
