Photographs and postcards by professional photographer Herman C. Benke from the 1890s and 1900s and images by amateur photographer Frances M. Kadow from the 1920s through the 1940s. Also includes historical texts concerning Manitowoc County, plat books and plat maps, and oral history interviews recorded with area residents in the 1970s.
The Manitowoc Public Library County School Records collection contains daily registers belonging to various schools located in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin from the 1900s through the 1970s.
Maps and atlases of La Crosse County including plat, highway, soil and topographic maps as well as zoning, park and street maps of the city of La Crosse and other La Crosse County municipalities. Also includes representative pre- and post-lock and dam charts and maps of the Upper Mississippi River.
This digital collection focuses on the history of the towns, villages and cities of Marathon County. It includes centennial histories written by local residents, with many illustrations documenting family life and economic development in central Wisconsin.
Primary sources from the UW-Milwaukee Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society that provide a window onto Milwaukee’s civil rights history in the 1960s. The efforts of civil rights activists and their opponents are documented in photographs, unedited news film footage, text documents and oral history interviews.
Plat books of Marinette County from the years 1905, 1912 and 1920 and Marinette High School yearbooks from 1919-1924.
Typewritten manuscripts documenting the histories of the Marinette County communities of Amberg, Coleman and Beaver Creek as well as a manuscript titled A Brief History of Marinette for Children (1960).
The Hilltop yearbooks from Marquette University offer a glimpse into the evolution of Wisconsin’s largest private university. The 82 volumes contain more than 28,000 pages and include a wealth of information about the faculty, the physical growth of the Marquette campus, intercollegiate athletics, and student activities.
The Marquette Tribune has been continuously produced by the students of Marquette University since it was first published in 1916, reporting on topics of campus, regional, national and international interest.
More than 1300 images and printed materials documenting the built environment through the course of Marquette University’s history.
