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Lumen

Viterbo University’s student newspaper, in print since 1954.

Mable (Mabel) Seep Photograph Collection

Mable (Mabel) Thompson Seep (1890-1981), a local artist, was born in Richland County, and later farmed in Ironton and Winfield townships with her husband Louis. Mabel’s granddaughter Genie Seep donated several of Mabel’s paintings and photographs to the Reedsburg Historic Preservation Commission in 2019. The paintings can be viewed on the Commission’s website. The Commission transferred the photographs to the Reedsburg Public Library in 2025. Two letters by Mabel, owned by the Richland County History Room, and included with their permission, illuminate Mabel Thompson Seep’s early years as a school teacher, artist and author.

Madison Central High School Yearbooks

Sixty-nine volumes of The Tychoberahn, the yearbook for Madison’s Central High School, published between 1900 and 1969. Alternate titles include Orange and Black and Mirror Magazine.

Madison Living History Project

This growing collection of oral history interviews and images gathered from community members offers a snapshot of Madison neighborhoods, places, people and events. Featured neighborhoods include Greenbush and South Madison.

Madison Mozart Club Collection

The Madison Mozart Club was an all-white male amateur singing group formed in 1901 and disbanded in 1958. During that time, the group gave over 200 concerts throughout southern Wisconsin. They sang a broad range of music ranging from traditional choral pieces to negro spirituals, to popular music, and more. The Club was founded by John Simpson, a Norwegian immigrant, and Elias Bredin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison music professor. As a significant part of the Madison music scene during the 20th century, the Club consisted of several prominent Madisonians, including Edward A. Birge (President of UW-Madison: 1900-1903 and 1918-1925), Glen D. Roberts (law partner of Robert “Fighting Bob” LaFollette), and Frank A. Maxwell (Madison’s city treasurer).

Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association Reports

This digital collection of historic reports provides accessibility to early information about the City of Madison around the turn of the 20th century. The Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association Reports denote the moneys received and expended and work done by the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association in order to attract attention to the city’s natural beauty and surrounding lakes. The impetus behind the association was that by making Madison’s natural surroundings more accessible, visitors would get a better idea of the magnificence of the location, and advantages of Madison as a summer resort or place of permanent residence.

Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Archives

This collection includes materials from the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation’s archives. For more information about this organization and its work to celebrate and advocate for the preservation of historic places in the Madison, Wisconsin area, visit their website.

Malcolm Rosholt Collection

Malcolm Rosholt was a journalist in pre-WWII China, an intelligence officer for the Flying Tigers and the author of works on lumbering, railroads and pioneer times, focused on central Wisconsin. With his family’s permission, eleven of his books about Wisconsin history, long out of print, have been digitized.