Over 11,000 photographs illustrating the history of Marquette University in Milwaukee are now available online thanks to the University Archives’ ongoing scan-on-demand program. For the past six years, the Archives has digitized materials in response to research requests from students, faculty, alumni and the general public. Some of the most heavily-requested subjects include athletics, campus… Read More…
Counting down the most popular posts on our Tumblr blog, Wisco Histo, in September and October. 3. Warming up with a hot toddy 2. Celebrating Labor Day 1. Observing Indigenous Peoples’ Day Art Shegonee, executive director of the Native American Center, watches speakers during a rally celebrating cultural resistance and survival on Columbus Day, 1992. UW-Madison… Read More…
We’re very excited to have hit a major milestone this fall — more than 200,000 photos, maps, books and other digital historical resources can now be discovered through the Recollection Wisconsin portal. We’ve grown so much since the portal first launched (as Wisconsin Heritage Online) in 2006, thanks to expanding digitization efforts from libraries, archives,… Read More…
The South Wood County Historical Museum in Wisconsin Rapids has shared online nearly 200 postcards from the cities of Grand Rapids, Nekoosa and Port Edwards. This new digital collection showcases just some of the Museum’s sizable archive of postcards. Intern Emily Ho worked with Museum board president Phil Brown to create descriptions and build the digital… Read More…
This exhibit was created in collaboration with Emily Nelson, an undergraduate History major at UW-Madison graduating in May 2015. She’s volunteering with Recollection Wisconsin in order to gain experience in historical writing and social media. Emily is a native of Ladysmith, Wisconsin and her Norwegian heritage inspired her to explore the art of rosemaling. Rosemaling… Read More…
At the centennial of the start of World War I, the Milwaukee Public Library has launched an extensive new digital collection documenting the men and women of Milwaukee County who served in the war. The bulk of the collection consists of more than 30,000 handwritten service record cards compiled by the Milwaukee County Chapter of… Read More…
Counting down the most-liked and most-shared posts on our Tumblr blog, Wisco Histo, for July and August. 3. Celebrating Bastille Days in Milwaukee 2. Traditional Norwegian craft and music in southwest Wisconsin 1. College recruiting in another era Blogger Cool Chicks from History shared this post and added: “Apparently the “femininity” campaign was unsuccessful as Viterbo… Read More…
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries has launched an exciting (and enormous!) new digital collection — Milwaukee Polonia: The Roman Kwasniewski Photographs — now available for searching through Recollection Wisconsin. Roman Kwasniewski was a studio photographer in the Polish-American community on Milwaukee’s south side from 1907-1947. Using a unique rapid-capture system that we blogged about last year, UWM has… Read More…
Slides from the Capital Region’s regional meeting for the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Council for Local History, hosted by the Brodhead Historical Society, Brodhead, Wisconsin, August 14, 2014…. Read More…
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are essential resources for historic preservationists, genealogists and other researchers looking for detailed documentation of American cities and towns and how they’ve changed over time. Thanks to a generous grant from the Caxambas Foundation, the Wisconsin Historical Society is currently building a digital collection of its Sanborn maps, representing more than… Read More…
