Geography

New Recollection Wisconsin Collections

The most recent ingest of the Recollection Wisconsin collection into the Digital Public Library of American is complete and we’ve surpassed 600,000 historical photos, documents, and other resources in the collection! Among the additions this quarter are these two new collections: Listening to War brings together first-person accounts of veterans and civilians in Wisconsin during… Read More…

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Wisconsin Historical Society

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…