Documents

Pamphlets, conference proceedings, reports, studies, sheet music, recipes, marriage records, military service records and other records.

Lucille B. Chapman Collection on the Menominee

Photographs and postcards of the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin and of Shawano, Wisconsin, including landmarks such as Smokey Falls, Wolf River Dells, Rainbow Falls and Spirit Rock, 1914-1975. Also contained in this collection are four programs from pageants written, produced and performed by members of the Menominee Nation from 1955-1957.

Mable (Mabel) Seep Photograph Collection

Mable (Mabel) Thompson Seep (1890-1981), a local artist, was born in Richland County, and later farmed in Ironton and Winfield townships with her husband Louis. Mabel’s granddaughter Genie Seep donated several of Mabel’s paintings and photographs to the Reedsburg Historic Preservation Commission in 2019. The paintings can be viewed on the Commission’s website. The Commission transferred the photographs to the Reedsburg Public Library in 2025. Two letters by Mabel, owned by the Richland County History Room, and included with their permission, illuminate Mabel Thompson Seep’s early years as a school teacher, artist and author.

Madison Mozart Club Collection

The Madison Mozart Club was an all-white male amateur singing group formed in 1901 and disbanded in 1958. During that time, the group gave over 200 concerts throughout southern Wisconsin. They sang a broad range of music ranging from traditional choral pieces to negro spirituals, to popular music, and more. The Club was founded by John Simpson, a Norwegian immigrant, and Elias Bredin, a University of Wisconsin-Madison music professor. As a significant part of the Madison music scene during the 20th century, the Club consisted of several prominent Madisonians, including Edward A. Birge (President of UW-Madison: 1900-1903 and 1918-1925), Glen D. Roberts (law partner of Robert “Fighting Bob” LaFollette), and Frank A. Maxwell (Madison’s city treasurer).

Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association Reports

This digital collection of historic reports provides accessibility to early information about the City of Madison around the turn of the 20th century. The Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association Reports denote the moneys received and expended and work done by the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association in order to attract attention to the city’s natural beauty and surrounding lakes. The impetus behind the association was that by making Madison’s natural surroundings more accessible, visitors would get a better idea of the magnificence of the location, and advantages of Madison as a summer resort or place of permanent residence.

Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Archives

This collection includes materials from the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation’s archives. For more information about this organization and its work to celebrate and advocate for the preservation of historic places in the Madison, Wisconsin area, visit their website.

Manitowoc Public Library

The Manitowoc Public Library County School Records collection contains daily registers belonging to various schools located in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin from the 1900s through the 1970s.

March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project

Primary sources from the UW-Milwaukee Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society that provide a window onto Milwaukee’s civil rights history in the 1960s. The efforts of civil rights activists and their opponents are documented in photographs, unedited news film footage, text documents and oral history interviews.

Marquette University – In the Spotlight

This collection presents unique materials from the Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives. In the Spotlight highlights materials that are relevant to current events, historical anniversaries, or that are central to Marquette University’s rich heritage.

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