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…
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…
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…
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…
More than 200 of William H. Wessa’s photographs of the 107th Trench Mortar Battery Company (TMB) of Antigo, Wisconsin are now online from the Langlade County Historical Society. Wessa was a professional photographer and lifelong Antigo resident. He brought his camera with him when he signed up for service with the TMB during World War… Read More…
The Grant County Historical Society maintains two locations in southwest Wisconsin: the Cunningham Museum in Lancaster and the Mitchell-Rountree Stone Cottage in Platteville. They’ve also made many items from their extensive photo archives available online in a variety of ways — on Facebook, on their own website, and now through Recollection Wisconsin. Volunteer Dennis Wilson… Read More…
A new digital collection from the University of Wisconsin-Stout Archives looks at more than a century of vocational education in northwest Wisconsin. In 1891, James Huff Stout, heir to the Knapp, Stout and Company lumber fortune, established a school in his home city of Menomonie. Inspired by the industrial arts education movement of its day,… Read More…
To mark the beginning of both the men’s and women’s basketball seasons in November, the Ripon College Archives has digitized selections from its basketball photograph collections. Intercollegiate basketball teams have competed at Ripon since at least 1907. The new digital collection showcases almost 200 photos of men’s and women’s intercollegiate and intramural basketball teams at… Read More…
Fifteen college catalogs from St. Norbert College, spanning the years 1902-1916, are now available online through Recollection Wisconsin. This collection complements a digital collection of yearbooks from 1917-1926 made available earlier in 2013 by the Miriam B. and James J. Mulva Library at the College. St. Norbert College was founded in De Pere, Wisconsin in… Read More…
During World War II, Wisconsinites contributed to the war effort in many ways. Wisconsin’s shipbuilding industry flourished in communities along the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, where manufacturers such as the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company and Globe Shipbuilding of Superior built submarines, cargo ships, and other vessels for the United States military. In 1941,… Read More…
