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.
Documents
Pamphlets, conference proceedings, reports, studies, sheet music, recipes, marriage records, military service records and other records.
Mead Public Library
The collection, which is an invaluable resource for those studying local genealogy and history, includes photographs, scrapbooks, pamphlets, newsletters, programs, yearbooks, catalogs and memorabilia relating to the City of Sheboygan and Sheboygan County from the 1840s through 2016. Subjects covered include buildings, businesses, farms, organizations, churches, and individuals.
Menominee Collection on the Termination and Restoration Era, 1961-1973
In 1954, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin was terminated under federal policy that stripped them of their status as a recognized federal tribe. The 1973 Restoration Act allowed the Menominee Indian Tribe to restore their federally-recognized tribal status. The materials in this digital collection tell a personal and national story of the Menominee struggle for sovereignty during the Termination period.
Menomonee Falls Public Library
The Maude Shunk Local History Room Archives, located in the Menomonee Falls Public Library, highlights and preserves the history of the Village of Menomonee Falls and now defunct Fussville through photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, government documents, and postcards. The full collection is a collaboration of resources and contributions by both the library and the Menomonee Falls Historical Society and also includes private donations. There is a wide range of materials from the 1850s until present day. This online portion of the collection contains resources we feel are important areas of discovery including but not limited to people, industry, families, schools, churches and cultural events.
Milwaukee Annual Reports
These yearbooks for city government were produced by the Milwaukee Common Council from 1921 until 2000, after which they were replaced by the city’s website. Designed to be a way to communicate directly with Milwaukee’s citizens, they highlighted activities by the various departments and were a quick-reference guide for city information. In addition to yearly accomplishments, most of the later years’ editions feature biographies of elected officials, maps of aldermanic districts, budget summaries, phone directories, photos, and handy facts about the city.
Milwaukee County Historical Society
The Milwaukee County Historical Society (MCHS)’s photograph collection is one of its key archival collections, alongside county records, manuscript collections, maps, and a small non-circulating library of books. MCHS’s photograph collection documents the history of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County and comprises photographic prints, slides, and negatives. The bulk of the photograph collection documents the 1890s through the 1980s, although older and more recent materials are also represented. The collection is divided into multiple portions, including those corresponding to individual photographers, subjects, and streets in Milwaukee County.
Milwaukee County Marriage Certificates
This collection of more than 20,000 marriage certificates dating from 1822-1876 was digitized from microfilm and indexed by the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society.
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design’s Guido Brink collection contains ephemera concerning the life and artwork of Midwest artist and educator Guido Peter Brink (1913-2002) in addition to the art collection endowed to the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design from his estate.
Milwaukee Socialism: The Emil Seidel Era
This digital resource offers an introduction to some of the rich materials related to the history of socialist politics in Milwaukee contained in the collections of the UWM Archives. Our collections are focused especially on Milwaukee’s first socialist mayor, Emil Seidel. This digital collection includes the entirety of Seidel’s personal papers, his official papers from his time serving as Mayor of Milwaukee, and his unpublished autobiography. Additionally, the digital collection includes selections from the UWM Special Collections’ monographs by and about the Milwaukee Turners.
Milwaukee Street Name Index
This collection of index cards, compiled by unknown city employees, lists locations of and changes to street names in the city of Milwaukee and neighboring communities in Milwaukee County, some of which were annexed by the city. As the card titled “Uniform Street Numbering System” explains, most of the city’s current street names were enacted in 1930, but many were changed individually by stand-alone legislation.
