Newspaper clippings from the Pardeeville-Wyocena Times about residents from Pardeeville, Wisconsin and surrounding areas who served in the military in World War II.
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Past and Present
A pictorial and descriptive history, from 1870 through 1970, of some of Wisconsin’s Independent colleges and universities, including Alverno, Edgewood, Lakeland, Mount Mary, Ripon, Silver Lake, and Viterbo.
Pauline Haass Public Library Historic Digital Collection
This collection includes memorabilia from Sussex, Wisconsin’s schools, highlighting the everyday lives and special moments of students in Sussex from the beginning of the 20th century to the 21st century. Included are yearbooks from Hamilton High School spanning 1964-2010s, newsletters published by students of the Sussex School from 1920s to the 1940s, and photos of local students and teachers from the 1890s through the 1950s. Through these materials, we are able to catch a glimpse of what life was like for children growing up in the Sussex area.
Pearsons Hall Collection
Pearsons Hall was commissioned and built in the late 19th century to serve as Beloit College’s science hall. To oversee its construction, College officials sought renowned architect and urban planner Daniel Hudson Burnham. This collection contains over 70 letters, postcards and images documenting the early life of the building.
Phillip and Faith Sealy Collection on the Menominee Arts
Photographs of members of the Menominee Nation community including Barney Doud, Jim Frechette, Jerome Sanapaw, Merciline Sanapaw, Karen Washinawatok, Hilary Waukau, Theresa Wescott and others.
Phyllis Miller Collection
This collection of postcards and other ephermal material is part of the Phyllis Miller Collection. Phyllis Miller (1941-2024) was an avid local historian and collector. In 2003, she published the book “Reedsburg in Vintage Postcards.” Her children donated her local history collections to the Reedsburg Public Library and the Reedsburg Historic Preservation Commission.
Picturing Golda Meir
This collection of images documents the life of Golda Meir from her childhood in Pinsk, Russia, through her school years in Milwaukee, her pioneer years in Palestine in the 1920s, to the peak of her political career as Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974).
Pioneer Churches
Oshkosh Public Library partnered with Wisconsin photographer Michael Cooney to create this collection, which documents early church buildings still standing in Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Marquette, Calumet, and Waushara counties.
Pionier Presse Translations
English translations of selected articles from the Pionier Presse, a German-language newspaper published in Sauk City 1853-1927. Alternate titles include Pionier am Wisconsin and Sauk City Presse.
Plat Maps of Racine and Kenosha Counties
The State of Wisconsin was surveyed by the federal government between 1833 and 1866 in order to divide the vast public domain into properly-sized lots that could be sold or otherwise divested to raise funds for the federal government and to encourage settlement. The work was done using the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), which divides land into six-mile square townships and one-mile square sections. Plat books and maps make use of the Public Land Survey System to represent land ownership patterns on a county-by-county basis. They are a great resource for tracing property owners and borders. The plat map for each year depicts the most updated information for the property at the time the County Register of Deeds’ records were consulted. Such information includes the land owner, number of acres, placement of a house and sometimes other features.
