Periodicals

Magazines, newsletters, newspapers (including news clippings) and other serial publications.

Sun Prairie Historical Library & Museum

Sun Prairie Historical Library & Museum‘s digital collection shares manuscripts that document the history of Sun Prairie and surrounding areas. This includes petitions and other records of the Village of Sun Prairie Board of Trustees, directories and telephone books, a scrapbook of the Sun Prairie 20th Century Club, as well as data sheets from an environmental study of bird nests at Sun Prairie’s Patrick Marsh from 1948 through 1951.

Tales of Old Portage

Dorothy McCarthy’s “Tales of Old Portage” series of local history columns appeared in the Portage Daily Register from 1958-1975.

The Catalyst

Since 1971, The Catalyst, an undergraduate publication for the UW-La Crosse community, has featured original prose (fiction and nonfiction), poetry, artwork, photography, videos, music and more from UW-L students, faculty, and staff.

The Home Front – Manitowoc County in World War II

The Home Front – Manitowoc County in World War II

This collection documents the history of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin 1939-1947, including both universal homefront experiences and activities as they played out locally, and more unique activities that defined the area during WWII, specifically shipbuilding and manufacturing.

The Racquet Newspaper

The Racquet student newspaper was first published by the La Crosse Normal School in 1910, and remains a paper publication on the UW-La Crosse campus to this day. New issues are added to the digital collection on an annual basis.

The Sphere: The Nation’s First and Only Grocery Fanzine

Published every full moon (approximately) from 1993-1995, The Sphere was a fanzine published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Mike Koppa and distributed at Koppa’s Farwell Foods. This digital collection includes the full run of this unique publication, with the exception of Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2, and 4.

Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters

The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is an independent, nonprofit membership organization chartered by the state legislature in 1870. Transactions, an annual journal (1870-2001), was central to the Academy’s goal of uniting scientists, humanities scholars and artists together to stimulate learning and exchange of research.

University of Wisconsin Collection

University of Wisconsin Collection

Images, manuscripts, books and other materials documenting the history and mission of the University of Wisconsin System. Includes content from all four-year campuses and nearly all of the two-year colleges in the UW System.

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