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We are excited to welcome three new content partners to Recollection Wisconsin this quarter! Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design‘s Guido Brink collection contains ephemera concerning the life and artwork of Midwest artist and educator Guido Peter Brink (1913-2002) in addition to the art collection endowed to the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design from… Read More…

This quarter, Recollection Wisconsin welcomed three new content partners and their unique collections to the consortium. Menomonee Falls Public Library’s digital collection, from the Maude Shunk Local History Room Archives located in the library, contains photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, government documents, and postcards from the 1850s until present day. The collection documents the people, industries,… Read More…

We recently added some brand new digital collections to Recollection Wisconsin! Belleville Public Library’s collection focuses on the history of the French immigrant settlement in the Belleville/Montrose/Exeter area as they began arriving in the 1850s through the 1920s. The collection currently contains documents and postcards but will grow to include photos and other historical materials…. Read More…

This quarter, we welcome the Eagle River Historical Society as our newest content partner! The Eagle River Historical Society / Craig Moore Research Library collection consists of several thousand images of the Eagle River area from approximately 1880 to 2000. A number of these images come from photographs taken by residents, tourists, and local photography… Read More…

This quarter, we welcomed two new content partners into the Recollection Wisconsin community!  The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Archives collection includes newsletters from the 70s through 2011 as well as Parade of Homes Plan Books from 1953 through 1990. The Milwaukee County Historical Society’s digital collection documents the history of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County from the 1890s… Read More…

This quarter, we added some new collections to Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA! Winnefox Library System premiered the Princeton Newspaper Collection from Princeton Public Library and Berlin High School Mascoutin Yearbooks from Berlin Public Library. Milwaukee Public Library debuted the Irene Bishop Goggans Collection. Bishop Googans documented the African-American community in Milwaukee and across the country in… Read More…

This quarter, we added collections from four Winnefox Library System libraries: Brandon Public Library, Caestecker Public Library (Green Lake), Patterson Memorial Library (Wild Rose), and Spillman Public Library (North Fond Du Lac). These collections contain historical newspapers, high school yearbooks, scrapbooks, family histories, and more.  We also added a collection from our new content partners at Carthage College,… Read More…