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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.
Building Tires
Workroom in the Uniroyal factory where men and women are building tires.
Stacks of Tires at Uniroyal Factory
Elevated view of stacks of tires siting in the Uniroyal factory. Men work at machinery building tires.
Men at Uniroyal Factory
Elevated view of men working with long strips of rubber and fabric while making tires.
Assembling Tires at Uniroyal
Women assemble tires at the Uniroyal plant. Men are also working in the background.
Bagging a Tire
October 19, 1944
Bagging the first tire made in the Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are H.A. Berg, C.E. Stare, F.A. Cobb, F.J. Amundson, R.L. Chatterson, R.J. Hansen, M.L. Lindoo, A.B. Smith (bagging), Juli...
Women at Uniroyal Factory
A group of women work at machines making tires. Men are in the background on the right working on other machines.
