Publications including Eau Claire city directories 1880-1923, Eau Claire high school yearbooks 1900-1923, Eau Claire area histories, Wisconsin county histories and various periodicals published in Eau Claire in the early 20th century.
Documents
Pamphlets, conference proceedings, reports, studies, sheet music, recipes, marriage records, military service records and other records.
Cottage Grove Area Historical Society Historical Pamphlet Series
The Cottage Grove Area Historical Society published 46 historical pamphlets. Each saddle-stitched pamphlet has approximately 30-50 pages and focuses on a single topic in Cottage Grove history. These pamphlets ranged in topic from a two-issue series on former Wisconsin Governor William Taylor (a former resident of Cottage Grove) to Julia Skolas, a professional turn-of-the-century female photographer in Cottage Grove, to Cottage Grove Men in World War I.
Dane County Historical Society
The Dane County Historical Society digital collection is a growing compilation of yearbooks, documents, architectural drawings, oral histories, pamphlets, and more documenting the history of Dane County.
Daniel Klapproth World War II Photographs and Letters
Daniel Klapproth was a soldier and a Somers, Wisconsin native who was stationed in Panama during the Second World War. This collection consists of photographs taken by Daniel during his military service, as well as letters written by Daniel to his mother in Wisconsin.
Dr. James Cameron Pamphlet Collection
Thirty-eight self-published pamphlets by civil rights activist Dr. James Cameron (1914-2006). Dr. Cameron was the founder of America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. Topics addressed in the pamphlets include slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, lynching, the Ku Klux Klan, the civil rights movement and Milwaukee police/community relations.
Eager Free Public Library
This collection contains articles, photographs, and yearbooks for the Evansville Seminary.
Ecology and Natural Resources Collection
Research in ecology and natural resources conducted by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff and unique or valuable resources in these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. Sub-collections include unpublished works from the UW-Madison Arboretum, Crandon Mine and Kennecott Flambeau Mine reports, the Geology of Wisconsin Survey of 1873-1883, USGS topographic maps, technical bulletins from the Wisconsin DNR, slides and recordings of lectures by plant ecologist Virginia M. Kline and Wisconsin Bordner Survey maps.
Eldon Murray Papers
Eldon Murray was a prominent activist in the Milwaukee LGBT community. In addition to his work with the Gay Peoples Union (GPU) and the Milwaukee AIDS Project, Murray was the founder of SAGE/Milwaukee, the first organization in Wisconsin dedicated to serving the needs of older gay, lesbian, and bisexual people through community building and counseling services. The digital collection includes selections from the Eldon Murray Papers, including an extensive series of newspaper clippings from the 1940s to the 1970s, photographs, fiction and nonfiction writings, activist organization records, and a handful of publications.
Elkhart Lake Public Library
This growing collection contains oral history interviews of Elkhart Lake residents, programs and minutes of the Elkhart Lake Study Club going back as far as 1938, and more. We will continue to add materials to this collection to aid independent research of Elkhart Lake history.
Equal Opportunities, Equal Rights, and Fair Housing in Madison
The Dane County Historical Society has a number of documents that relate to the City of Madison’s efforts to develop Fair Housing, Equal Opportunities, and Equal Rights laws and commissions. Much of this activism took place in the 1950s and 1960s. Also included in this collection are two 1983 oral histories by Historic Madison, Inc., of John McGrath and James Wright, both of whom were directly involved in efforts to create and administer Madison laws that sought to advance equity.
