The thirteen photographs in this slideshow depict farm laborers, factory employees, and other Wisconsin workers from the 1890s to the 1970s. Looking at these images, we wonder: what was on the minds of these now-anonymous men and women as they posed for the photographer? Were they proud of their work, their uniforms, their employers? Were… Read More…
Memorial day with the NEW family
While my sisters and I were growing up we hardly ever saw our father as he worked two or three jobs at a time. Then my parents divorced and we all thought we would never see him. Then came the first holiday as a family separated by divorce. It was Memorial day 1982. My father… Read More…
St. Norbert College Yearbooks
Another set of yearbooks has recently been added to Recollection Wisconsin, providing an interesting counterpart to the yearbooks now available online from Mount Mary College. St. Norbert College in De Pere is, like Mount Mary in Milwaukee, a four-year private Catholic college founded in Wisconsin in the 19th century and still in operation today. But… Read More…
Mount Mary College Yearbooks
Yearbooks from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s oldest four-year women’s college, are now available through Recollection Wisconsin. This digital collection includes fully searchable issues of Arches, the college yearbook published from 1930-1970, and EXIT, a smaller publication focused on graduating seniors, published between 1971 and 1995. The digitization project was funded by the Mount Mary… Read More…
Tumblr Top Three: April 2013
Counting down the most-liked and most-shared posts on our Tumblr blog, Wisco Histo, for the month of April. 3. and 2. Spencer Tracy in Manitowoc; Stacking hay in Waukesha County Two very different photographs tied for April’s second-place spot. Actor Spencer Tracy was born in Milwaukee on April 5, 1900 and went on to star in dozens of… Read More…
WAPL 2013
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WAAL 2013
Handout – Resources for Identifying and Selecting Digital Content for Preservation Handout – Sample Inventory Fields You’ve Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media. Ricky Elway, OCLC Research, August 2012…. Read More…
About our logo
Like our new name, our new logo reflects what we do – our program “re-collects” a wide variety of historical resources from collections around the state into a single (virtual) access point. Rounded up in one place, these diverse materials can lead to new ways of exploring, experiencing, and understanding Wisconsin’s past. Our new logo… Read More…
WEMTA 2013
Download handout (pdf) – Recollection Wisconsin WEMTA 2013… Read More…
Alfalfa production at Cornfalfa Farms, New Berlin Historical Society
The New Berlin Historical Society is home to an archive of photos and documents from the Swartz family, whose experimental farming methods at Cornfalfa Farms in Waukesha County gained national recognition in the 1910s and 20s. The Swartzes led the way in making alfalfa a viable crop in the state, earning Peter C. Swartz the… Read More…
