This collection contains local history documents, images, and audio files from the City of Mequon, Village of Thiensville, and Ozaukee County.
Frank L. Weyenberg Library of Mequon-Thiensville
Documents
Pamphlets, conference proceedings, reports, studies, sheet music, recipes, marriage records, military service records and other records.
Freedom Summer Digital Collection
The Wisconsin Historical Society has one of the richest collections of Civil Rights movement records in the nation, which includes more than 100 manuscript collections documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. More than 25,000 pages from the Freedom Summer manuscripts — enough to fill several file cabinets — are available online. In them you will find official records of organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); the personal papers of movement leaders and activists such as Amzie Moore, Mary King and Howard Zinn, letters and diaries of northern college students who went South to volunteer for the summer; newsletters produced in Freedom Schools; racist propaganda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and brochures, magazine articles, telephone call logs, candid snapshots, internal memos, press releases and much more.
Gesu Parish Grade School
This collection of photos, directories, programs, alumni newsletters, and objects documents the Gesu School, founded in 1895 after the combining of St. Gall and Holy Name parishes. After sixty-nine years of continuous educational service, Gesu School held its last graduation exercises on June 7, 1968.
Great Lakes Maritime History Project
An overview of Wisconsin’s maritime history. Includes records on individual ships as well as photographs, postcards and pamphlets related to commerce and tourism on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.
Green Lake County Reporter
The Green Lake County Reporter, digitized by the Caestecker Public Library in Green Lake, includes all editions from 1919-2005. The original microfilm collection was created by the Dartford Historical Society. The more recent issues are shared with permission from the Berlin Journal Newspapers publishing company. Editions of the Green Lake County reporter from 2005 to present (with a 90-day embargo) can be found at the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers. For the most current news in the area, please visit Caestecker Library or a local newsstand for this week’s edition of the Green Lake Reporter.
Green Lake Spectator
The Green Lake Spectator was published from 1860-1866 and was preserved in microfilm by the Dartford Historical Society. The Caestecker Public Library in Green Lake digitized all owned copies ranging from mid-1861 through the end of publication.
Helen Brace Emerson Correspondence
This collection includes letters written to Helen Brace Emerson from her cousin, suffragist and president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Frances Willard, between the late 1860s and Willard’s death in 1898. Correspondence from other writers provide details about Willard’s final days.
Historic Madison Inc. Oral History Collection
During the 1980s, Historic Madison Inc. board members Ruth Doyle and Hallie Lou Blum led an initiative to conduct a series of oral histories with prominent and impactful Madisonians. The HMI volunteers finished the last interview in 1991. Collectively, they interviewed over 60 Madisonians, some of whom were over 100 years old.
Historic Recipe File
From the 1960s until the 1980s, librarians at the Milwaukee Public Library clipped hundreds of recipes from the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. These clipped recipes are the nucleus of the Historic Recipe File digital collection, which provides a glimpse into the local and ethnic foods that were popular in Milwaukee in the second half of the 20th century.
Histories of Beloit College
The Histories of Beloit College Collection includes published commencement addresses and essays as well as Beloit College President Edward Dwight Eaton’s 1928 history, which contains a thorough account of the College’s origins and development, and a history begun by faculty member Robert Richardson in the 1940s that updates Eaton’s account. Never published, this book contains a great deal of valuable footnotes and marginalia.
