In honor of Hmong Heritage Month 2021, we’re pleased to celebrate and share several Hmong collections shared by Recollection Wisconsin and our partner organizations. Hmong Heritage Month began in 2004 as an opportunity for Wisconsinites to reflect on the many sacrifices that the Hmong, or Hmoob, people have made in service to our country and… Read More…
Immigration and Settlement
The art of rosemaling
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…
Milwaukee Polonia, UW-Milwaukee
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…
Wisconsin memoirs
This post is contributed by Ally Hrkac, our current Material Culture Summer Service Learner. Ally recently completed her B.S. in Secondary Education at UW-Madison and is working with Recollection Wisconsin this summer to develop online exhibits and educational resources. This exhibit highlights multiple forms of memoirs written by Wisconsin residents. In viewing these accounts, we… Read More…
Welsh in Wisconsin
The earliest immigrants from Wales to Wisconsin arrived in 1840, with peak immigration between about 1850 and 1860. To read more about Welsh settlement in the state, see Phillips G. Davies, Welsh in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2006). Tell everyone who inquires after us that we think the country will prove very agreeable to us…. Read More…
