There is new Recollection Wisconsin content available in both the Digital Public Library of America and Recollection Wisconsin! We are excited to welcome new content partners Waunakee Public Library, Milton Public Library, and Pauline Haass Public Library in Sussex! Their collections have been added to Recollection Wisconsin along with these new collections from Viterbo University: Lumen, Viterbo’s student newspaper since 1954. University… Read More…
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Supporting Digital Projects in Southcentral Wisconsin
This post is contributed by Tamara Ramski, Digitization Specialist, South Central Library System (SCLS). The South Central Library System (SCLS) provides services to public libraries in seven counties in south-central Wisconsin. In 2017, SCLS began offering member libraries assistance with local history digitization projects through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant funded by… Read More…
Wisconsin state government documents online
More than 15,000 state government documents are now available through Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA, thanks to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB). These collections are in active development, with new content added each month. The Wisconsin Digital Archives, maintained by DPI, includes materials from the executive and… Read More…
ECHO: Exploring Cultural History Online, Winding Rivers Library System
This post was contributed by Barry McKnight, current Digital Assistant for the ECHO Project at Winding Rivers Library System and Cassandra Torgerson, who held the position of Digital Assistant at WRLS in 2014. The Winding Rivers Library System, based in La Crosse, wanted to increase access to the unique history materials owned by our system… Read More…
CCC Camp 657, Langlade County Historical Society
In March 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the first New Deal programs designed to create jobs for Americans during the Great Depression. From 1933-1942, the CCC put nearly three million unemployed young men to work building parks, planting trees, stocking streams and rivers, and other environmental conservation projects. The… Read More…
Medical College of Wisconsin
Six digital collections of documents, photographs and artifacts from the Medical College of Wisconsin can now be discovered through Recollection Wisconsin. The collections, created by the MCW Libraries, trace the development and consolidation of Wisconsin’s first medical schools beginning in the 1890s. Additional digital projects in the works from the MCW Libraries include an oral… Read More…
Historic Trade Cards, Milwaukee Public Library
In the late nineteenth century, one of the most prevalent and eye-catching forms of advertising could fit easily in your pocket: the trade card. Retailers and manufacturers distributed small printed cards, known as trade cards or advertising cards, to shoppers along with packaged goods such as soap and medicines. Printers took advantage of the newly… Read More…
Madison Central High School yearbooks, Dane County Historical Society
A digital collection of Madison Central High School yearbooks from the Dane County Historical Society has been added to the Recollection Wisconsin syllabus. Madison Central High School was Dane County’s oldest high school, opening as Madison High School in 1853 with 90 students and only one teacher. It became Madison Central High School in 1922… Read More…
East Troy Electric Railroad Collection
A new digital collection has zoomed in from East Troy, providing a history of electric railroads, streetcars and buses in southeastern Wisconsin. The East Troy Electric Railroad dates to 1907 as a branch of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company (TMER&L Co.). Established in 1896, TMER&L operated the largest electric railway system in Wisconsin…. Read More…
Mineral Point Library Archives
In A Field Guide To Mineral Point (Mineral Point Historical Society, 2012), Nancy Pfotenhauer writes: Mineral Point started as a wild and wooly frontier town. The discovery of lead in 1828 attracted dirt-poor hard-scrabble diggers, educated second sons, land speculators, lawyers, and lawless desperadoes . . . The very first to arrive were Yankees from… Read More…
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