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.
Great Lakes Maritime History Project
Documents
Pamphlets, conference proceedings, reports, studies, sheet music, recipes, marriage records, military service records and other records.
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.
Hedberg Public Library
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Hedberg Public Library (Janesville) provides this collection of oral interviews, and transcripts, with General Motors employees, union members, and others involved in Janesville’s manufacturing history, recorded as part of Janesville’s Bicentennial Oral History Project in 1976.
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.
History of the Reedsburg Library Documents Collection
The History of the Reedsburg Library Documents Collection (HRLD) consists of papers and writings documenting the history of the Reedsburg Public Library including its earliest inception, the building of the Carnegie Library in 1911, and the building of the 370 Vine Street Location in the late 1990s. Some papers and publicity relating to library services into the early 2000s are included.
History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life
The History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life collection is based on a bibliography compiled as part of the National Preservation Project for Agricultural Literature. Content includes reports from county agricultural and home agents for the UW-Extension and annual publications including the Wisconsin Crop and Livestock Reporter, Milwaukee Milk Producer, Transactions of the Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association, proceedings from the annual meetings of the Southern Wisconsin Cheesemakers’ and Dairymen’s Association, and catalogs for the “short course” offered by the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture.
