Geocaching the kids’ honeymoon

An interactive honeymoon – Wisconsin side of Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands Submitted by Linda McShannock Chuck and I spent the last couple of years building a log cabin on his property on the Wisconsin side of Lake Superior. When my daughter and her boyfriend came up to spend a weekend with us at the… Read More…

Portraits of Wisconsin workers

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

Des Peres, St. Norbert College yearbook, 1919.

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

A photo collage from the 1939 college yearbook shows students in history, math, and science classes. Mount Mary College Archives.

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…