Selections from the more than 3,000 hours of interviews recorded by the UW-La Crosse Oral History Program and housed in Murphy Library’s Special Collections.
UW-La Crosse Oral History Collection
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UW-La Crosse Publications
Various newsletters distributed by UW-La Crosse departments and campus organizations, including Murphy Library, the Organization for Campus Women, the College of Business Administration, the College of Science and Health and the College of Liberal Studies.
UW-La Crosse ROTC Scrapbook & Photograph Collection
Donated to UW-La Crosse Murphy Library Special Collections in 2018, these three large scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and other materials related to the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) and the Military Science department on the UWL campus. In addition to the scrapbooks, this collection contains other photographs, multiple issues of The Cadence newspaper, and several cadet handbooks. Additional manuscript material is available in UWL Special Collections.
UW-La Crosse Student Handbooks Collection
Student handbooks from the Wisconsin State Normal School and State Teachers College (precursors to UW-La Crosse) from the 1920s through the 1960s, featuring campus organizations, activities, procedures, regulations, maps and other campus and community information.
UW-La Crosse Theatre Posters and Playbills Collection
More than 400 playbills and posters from various theatrical productions on the UW-La Crosse campus from 1916 to the present.
UW-La Crosse Yearbooks Collection
The UW-La Crosse yearbook, The Racquet, from 1911 through the final volume, published in 1990.
UW-Madison Collection
Books, manuscripts, photographs and other resources documenting the history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sub-collections and themes include yearbooks, student handbooks, class albums and student scrapbooks; the Badger Bites cookbook collection; Campus Voices oral history collections, campus humor publications; Wisconsin Alumni Magazine; Hoofers Club; Athletic Department; Multicultural Student Center and the Mildred Fish Harnack Collection.
UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Digital Collection
This is a collection of digital images, mostly taken from yearlogs, and assembled by students at the School of Library and Information Studies (formerly the Wisconsin Library School, currently the UW-Madison iSchool) to document the highlights of their activities. The earliest yearlog dates from the first class to graduate in 1907.
UW-Milwaukee Book Arts Collection
Digital representations of 31 artists’ books from the Special Collections at UWM Libraries. This collection presents artists’ books – books designed and handmade by artists – that provide examples of the expressive use of the book arts including binding, papermaking, printing, typography and page design.
UW-Milwaukee Latino Activism
This collection includes photographs, documents, newspaper articles and video documenting efforts during the 1970-71 academic year to improve conditions for the Latino community at UW-Milwaukee. In November 1970, UWM opened its Spanish Speaking Outreach Institute, a forerunner of today’s Roberto Hernandez Center.
