More than 80 architectural drawings and sketches for eleven projects by Milwaukee architects Willis and Lillian Leenhouts.
Artwork
Painting, sculpture, illustration and other works of art.
Cyril Colnik Archives
Drawings and blueprints created by master blacksmith Cyril Colnik, his Ornamental Iron Shop and the Colnik Manufacturing Company. Includes designs for architectural commissions in the Milwaukee area and beyond.
Ferdinand L. Kronenberg Plans and Drawings Collections
Ferdinand L. Kronenberg’s (1877-1944) work spanned nearly five decades in Madison and many Kronenberg-designed buildings survive today. Together they give Madison much of its unique historic architectural identity. Some impressive Kronenberg residential structures survive, but many believe Kronenberg’s most exciting buildings were his commercial designs.
Go Tell It at the Quilt Show!
Short video interviews with quilters in Lodi, Wisconsin, recorded in 2018. The Lodi Woman’s Club Public Library and the Lodi Valley Quilters Guild partnered with the non-profit Quilt Alliance to record the stories of local quilters and quilts as part of the Quilt Alliance’s Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! project.
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
This collection showcases Hamilton’s rare collection of vintage posters and related printing plates dating from 1920 – 1960. Whether you love lions or adore road races, this collection has something for everyone. This collection showcases the best of two 20th century printshops, Globe Printing in Chicago and Enquirer Printing in Cincinnati. Take a tour of American advertising art today.
Jay “Ding” Darling Collection
Jay Norwood Darling was a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist who attended Beloit College from 1895-1900, where he served as art director for the college yearbook. The digital collection features illustrations Darling created for the 1899 yearbook as well as a selection of Darling’s letters and other writings.
Kaukauna Memory Project
Local history materials from the community of Kaukauna, Wisconsin including early 20th century postcards, marriage licenses ca. 1905-1959, materials related to the Riverview Sanatorium tuburculosis hospital, a membership roll for the local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, high school graduation programs and publications including Kaukauna 175th Jubilee Album (1965) and Industrial Kaukauna (1939).
Marquette University Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame
This collection illustrates the accomplishments of Marquette University’s most elite athletes and coaches, all enshrined in the M Club Athletic Hall of Fame. The bulk of this collection presents photographs, negatives, and color transparencies. Select paintings, sketches, plaques, and textual materials have also been digitized.
Medical College of Wisconsin Heritage Portrait Gallery
Painted portraits of deans, presidents and other notable figures in the history of the College.
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
The archives of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College illustrate how vocational education began in the city schools of Green Bay and Marinette in 1912 and eventually expanded to include all Northeast Wisconsin and beyond. This collection was digitized and shared as NWTC prepared to celebrate 110 years of education.
Odin J. Oyen Collection
The Odin J. Oyen firm was once a thriving business in downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin, that created original watercolors as proposed interior designs. The firm, or variations of it, existed from the late-1800s up to the Great Depression, generating countless watercolor designs for the interiors of courthouses, churches, fraternal organizations, and private residences, in locations across the Upper Midwest and beyond. Several hundred original watercolors reside in Murphy Library Special Collections, owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, and local attorney Nicholas J. Passe acquired over 100 Oyen interior renditions and was willing to allow the Murphy Library Digital Collections to digitize and include those items in the Digital Collections. These items currently make up the Odin J. Oyen Collection.
Richland County Digital History Room
Images of a wide variety of people and places pertaining to Richland County in southwest Wisconsin, from the collections of the Richland County History Room, part of the Brewer Public Library in Richland Center.
Story of a Raftsman’s Life on the Wisconsin River
38 engravings based on a series of photographs taken by H.H. Bennett in 1886 of a group of raftsmen from the Grand Rapids (Wisconsin Rapids) area during their journey down the Wisconsin River.
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.
Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA
This digital collection provides access to primary sources documenting the activities and output of Works Project Administration (WPA) arts projects in Wisconsin from 1935-1943, especially the work of the Milwaukee Handicrafts Project. Materials include design portfolios, oral history interviews with artists and selections from the papers of Elsa Emile Ulbricht, director of the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, and Charlotte Russell Partridge and Miriam Frink, co-founders of the Layton School of Art.
Wisconsin Concert Posters
Posters and flyers advertising a variety of concerts, mostly rock and punk shows that took place in the early 1980s in and around Milwaukee. Milwaukee-area bands represented include Colour Radio, Die Kreuzen and the Violent Femmes.
