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History of UW-Platteville

History of UW-Platteville

The History of UW-Platteville Collection includes resources that document the history and evolution of this campus. The collection includes images and publications documenting the histories of the Platteville Academy, the State Teachers College, the Wisconsin Mining School and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

History of UW-River Falls

History of UW-River Falls

The History of UW-River Falls Collection includes resources that document the history and evolution of this campus. The collection includes photographs documenting the history of UW-River Falls and River Falls Normal School, with athletics and campus life.

History of UW-Stevens Point

History of UW-Stevens Point

The History of UW-Stevens Point Collection includes resources that document the history and evolution of this campus. The collection includes photographs and books documenting the history of UW-Stevens Point including athletics, aerial views of campus, classrooms and daily life.

History of UW-Stout

History of UW-Stout

The History of UW-Stout Collection includes materials that represent the students, faculty, campus, events, and classroom work on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Stout and its predecessors. This collection is representative of the institution’s long-standing polytechnic educational tradition. The collection contains more than 500 photographs illustrating the history of manual training, industrial arts, and domestic science at UW-Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin, from its founding as Stout Manual Training School in 1891 into the 1990s.

History of UW-Superior

History of UW-Superior

The History of UW-Superior Collection includes images that represent a cross-section of this campus’s history and evolution.  They document student life, academic activities, athletics, the campus, and campus traditions.

History of UW-Waukesha

The History of UW–Waukesha Collection includes resources that document the history and evolution of this campus. The collection currently includes published material and photographs. Founded by Phil Zweifel in 1978, the Windy Hill Review is the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha’s student-run literary magazine. This annual publication features the short stories, poems, and artwork of students, faculty, and local writers and artists.

History of UW-Whitewater

History of UW-Whitewater

The History of UW-Whitewater Collection includes resources that document the history and evolution of this campus. The collection includes images of buildings on the UW-Whitewater campus as well as three published histories: Campus Cornerstones (1997), A History of Wisconsin State University Whitewater (1967) and Historical sketches of the first quarter-century of the State Normal School at Whitewater, Wisconsin (1893).

History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life

The History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life collection is based on a bibliography compiled as part of the National Preservation Project for Agricultural Literature. Content includes reports from county agricultural and home agents for the UW-Extension and annual publications including the Wisconsin Crop and Livestock Reporter, Milwaukee Milk Producer, Transactions of the Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association, proceedings from the annual meetings of the Southern Wisconsin Cheesemakers’ and Dairymen’s Association, and catalogs for the “short course” offered by the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture.

History of Wisconsin Rapids Libraries

McMillan Memorial Library moved to its current location in 1970, but the Library pre-dates the city’s name change from Grand Rapids to Wisconsin Rapids (1920) and the merging of Centralia and Grand Rapids (1900). This collection features photographs and publications documenting the history of libraries in the city, including the J.D. Witter Traveling Libraries, collections of books that were moved to 49 stations in Wood County between 1896 and 1947.

Home Economics to Human Ecology – A Centennial History at the UW

Home Economics to Human Ecology – A Centennial History at the UW

Home Economics to Human Ecology: A Centennial History at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is a digital collection of photographs and ephemera illustrating aspects of the past 100 years at the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, including examples of student activities involving life in the Home Management House, work in laboratories, and the functions of student organizations such as Phi Upsilon Nu, Omicron Nu, and the Euthenics Club; portraits of administrators and past faculty; scenes of classrooms and buildings; illustrations of faculty and students working together; and illustrations of extension projects.