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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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General Labor Strike at Allis Reliance Works
May 4, 1886
Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the Eight Hour Riots of May 1886.
E.P. Allis & Co. Reliance Works
1875
Elevated view of factory with lake and ships in the background. Trains, people, horses, and carriages, with a multitude of smokestacks in foreground. The factory is made of several mostly connected...
Edward P. Allis Reliance Works
1890
Section of the factory at a crossroads with road construction workers outside. Name of company visible on building.
Allis-Chalmer's Company
1910
Aerial view of the factory surrounded by fields, roads, and several houses, as well as the railroad tracks that go around the building. Caption reads: "West Allis Works, of Allis Chalmers Company a...
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.
South Pierce Street
1910
Light factory district. The street is 44 feet between curbs, with vitrified brick pavement. Telephone poles line the road.
