Magazines, newsletters, newspapers (including news clippings) and other serial publications.
Bay Leaves, a newsletter published by the community of Williams Bay on Geneva Lake, documents Williams Bay’s historic recreational camps; the Yerkes Observatory; the Belfry Theater, Wisconsin’s first summer stock theater; and the names and activities of both the year-round and summer residents who have influenced the appearance, culture and tourism of the village.
Badger Highways, published by the Wisconsin Highway Commission from 1925-1929, includes information about state and federal laws impacting drivers, progress reports from division engineers managing road construction projects throughout the state, and other features related to state transportation issues in the early 20th century.
Football statistics, records, yearbooks and team member information for past seasons of UW-Eau Claire football, 1967-2000s
Statistics, records and team member information for past seasons of UW-Eau Claire men’s basketball, 1966-2008.
Statistics, records, yearbooks and team member information for past seasons of UW-Eau Claire women’s basketball, 1999-2009.
A local newspaper from Brandon, Wisconsin, dating back to the 1800s with search results presented in original format/context.
Materials documenting the history of the Village of Brown Deer including brochures, booklets, pamphlets, photographs, unpublished reports and full issues of the Brown Deer Historical Society Newsletter, published quarterly since 1973.
Plat books, atlases, school yearbooks and school newspapers documenting northeastern Wisconsin, specifically Brown, Door, Kewaunee and Shawano counties. School yearbooks and newspapers included in this collection are The Okato (1922-1926), The Bay Mist (1910, 1912, 1922), The Aeroplane (1914-1921), East High Aeroplane (1924-1925), The Flashes (1912-1925), The Thistle (1908, 1913), The Crescent Beach Echoes (1909-1911, 1913, 1917, 1920, 1923), The Bugler (1918, 1922), Scroll of the Wolves (1929) and Lake Whispers (1915-1916, 1921-1925).
The Carroll University Student Newspaper Collection includes over 100 years of papers, dating from 1854 to the present. The first was the Carroll College Student, which appeared in 1854. The next appeared in 1874, named the Carroll Echo. In 1968, the name of the paper was changed from the Echo to the Perspective and in 1976, changed again to the New Perspective, which has been its name to the present.
The Staubitz Archives at Carthage College collects, preserves, and provides access to records representing the history of Carthage College. The collection includes administrative records, college publications, photographs, audio/visual media, and materials related to student organizations, academic pursuits, and student life.
Publications including Eau Claire city directories 1880-1923, Eau Claire high school yearbooks 1900-1923, Eau Claire area histories, Wisconsin county histories and various periodicals published in Eau Claire in the early 20th century.
Items pertaining to the history of Clintonville, Wisconsin including portraits of local residents photographed by J. Alva Carter in 1927, Waupaca County plat books and atlases, and photographs and a scrapbook detailing the history of Wisconsin Central Airlines and the Clintonville Municipal Airport from the 1930s through the 1970s.
UW-Oshkosh’s Community magazine (1978-2002) focused on the news and events of campus but also grew to include longer-form articles on a variety of topics of mutual interest. In the last years, the magazine also included the university’s annual report.
Photographs and books documenting the history of the Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, later Consolidated Papers, Inc., including the Consolidated News employee magazine, published monthly between February 1926 and December 1931.
UW-Oshkosh’s Context magazine (1976-2001) was dedicated to sharing the important research and creative activities of the University’s faculty and academic staff. In addition to longer essays, the magazine includes lists of recent academic and professional publications and presentations of staff.
A history of the Dane County Library Service, covering 50 years of service to the residents of Dane County, Wisconsin. Includes news clippings, photos of bookmobiles and oral history interviews with bookmobile drivers and other staff.
Daniel Klapproth was a soldier and a Somers, Wisconsin native who was stationed in Panama during the Second World War. This collection consists of photographs taken by Daniel during his military service, as well as letters written by Daniel to his mother in Wisconsin.
This collection includes full issues of two newspaper titles: the Delavan Republican (1868-1924), a weekly newspaper published in Delavan and the Wisconsin Times (1884-1968), a newspaper published by the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. Select yearbooks from Delavan-Darien High School 1932-1999 and Wisconsin School for the Deaf yearbooks from 1924-2015 are also included.
Four early issues of The Flashes, a student publication produced by Sturgeon Bay High School beginning in 1903, and several pamphlets published in the 1910s and 1920s to promote tourism and recreation in Door County, Wisconsin.
Objects related to the operation of the East Troy Electric Railroad such as fare boxes, uniforms and ticket stubs. The collection also includes 27 volumes of Rail and Wire, an employee newsletter published by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company (TMER&L) 1935-1937.
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp 657 was established in Elcho, Langlade County, Wisconsin in 1933. The digital collection includes photos of barracks and work activities taken by CCC recruits Edward Drab, Alois Fisher and Warren Schabell as well as ephemera collected by recruit Ken Eliot, including newsletters published by the camp, menus, badges and a federally-published handbook for CCC enrollees.
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.
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.
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.
The History of UW–Waukesha Collection includes resources that document the history and evolution of this campus. The collection currently includes published material and photographs. Founded by Phil Zweifel in 1978, the Windy Hill Review is the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha’s student-run literary magazine. This annual publication features the short stories, poems, and artwork of students, faculty, and local writers and artists.
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.
The Invictus, launched in 1977, was published by the UWM Black Student Union (BSU), giving voice to the University’s African American student body with news features, profiles, and poetry. The paper had two significant idle periods – one in the early 1980s and another between 1988 and 1993 – but was relaunched after both by the BSU.
The Irene Bishop Goggans collection contains materials pertaining to the African American community in Milwaukee and across the country. Materials collected by Irene Goggans (1926-2017) are mostly from the 1950s to the early 2010s and include newspaper clippings, photographs, event programs, and more.
Legal, administrative, educational and political documents, including correspondence and news clippings, describing events and people involved during the Menominee Termination and Restoration era, 1961-1973.
The Leaping La Crosse News, a monthly newsletter published from 1979-2007, was a source of information for lesbians living in the La Crosse, Wisconsin, area. Topics covered include national, state and local news of legal cases, entertainment and events as well as social and political activities of the La Crosse area lesbian community.
Viterbo University’s student newspaper, in print since 1954.
The Marquette Tribune has been continuously produced by the students of Marquette University since it was first published in 1916, reporting on topics of campus, regional, national and international interest.
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.
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.
The digital collections from the Three Lakes Historical Society document culture and social life in Northwoods Wisconsin in the 20th century. The Northernaire Resort Collection features photographs, postcards and newsletters related to the history of the Northernaire Resort, founded by Carl Marty, Jr. in 1947.
In 1975, a group known as the Menominee Warrior Society took over the Alexian Brothers’ former Novitiate near Gresham, Wisconsin in Shawano County, claiming treaty rights to the property. Various groups responded in different ways to this event, including local residents, the national media, the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin, and the Menominee Warrior Society dissident faction. This digital collection from the Shawano City-County Library consists of news clippings about the event and its aftermath, originally published in the Shawano Leader.
The Winnebago Mental Health Institute admitted its first patient on April 23, 1873 and was known as the Northern Hospital for the Insane. In 1935, the facility name was changed to the Winnebago State Hospital and was changed again in 1973 to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. This collection includes annual reports authored by physician superintendents and issues of The Cue, a newsletter written and edited by patients at the hospital from 1968-1973.
Photographs, newspaper articles, postcards, pamphlets and catalogs of businesses that once flourished in Oshkosh, including Deltox Rug Co., Oshkosh Trunk Co., and Stein’s clothing store.
Newspaper clippings from the Pardeeville-Wyocena Times about residents from Pardeeville, Wisconsin and surrounding areas who served in the military in World War II.
English translations of selected articles from the Pionier Presse, a German-language newspaper published in Sauk City 1853-1927. Alternate titles include Pionier am Wisconsin and Sauk City Presse.
Preservation Racine, Inc. began publishing a newsletter in 1976, providing information about local events, local history, Century Building Certificates and historic buildings in Racine County.
This digitized collection of newspapers from Princeton, Wisconsin includes all available documents from Green Lake County Democrat, Princeton Republic, Princeton Star, Princeton Republic-Star, Princeton Times, and Princeton Times-Republic. The digitization of this collection was made possible with contributions from the Princeton Historical Society, Princeton Public Library, the Caestecker (Green Lake) Library’s Tom Gnewuch Memorial Fund, a Wisconsin Humanities grant, and the Winnefox Library System.
Reform was a Norwegian-language newspaper published in Eau Claire, Wisconsin by novelist and journalist Waldemar Ager. The digital collection includes approximately 2400 issues of this weekly newspaper, from 1896 until 1941. It is made available online by the Waldemar Ager Association in partnership with the McIntyre Library Special Collections and Archives Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Access a variety of historical Ripon newspapers with near continuous coverage from 1853 to the present day. Includes the Ripon Commonwealth from 1864-1968, Press from 1875-1957, and Commonweath-Press from 1965-2004. Newspaper archives from 2005 and up are available through BadgerLink.
This collection showcases and preserves the history of South Milwaukee through digitized images, texts, and other media. The collection is a collaboration of resources held by both the library and the South Milwaukee Historical Society.
Founded in 1996 by members of the UW-La Crosse English department, Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review is a nationally-distributed annual literary journal that publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and artwork from writers and artists around the world.
Dorothy McCarthy’s “Tales of Old Portage” series of local history columns appeared in the Portage Daily Register from 1958-1975.
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.
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 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.
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.
Photographs and other materials from boys’ and girls’ summer camps in the Three Lakes area.
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.
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.
Full issues of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student newspaper, The Spectator, from its founding in 1923 through 2002.
More recently known as the Lantern, the alumni publication for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse has gone by many names, including Alumnus, Crossties, La Crosse Alumnus and Alumni Briefs. It was first published as the Alumni Bulletin in 1941.
Various newsletters distributed by UW-La Crosse departments and campus organizations, including Murphy Library, the Organization for Campus Women, the College of Business Administration, the College of Science and Health and the College of Liberal Studies.
Donated to UW-La Crosse Murphy Library Special Collections in 2018, these three large scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and other materials related to the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) and the Military Science department on the UWL campus. In addition to the scrapbooks, this collection contains other photographs, multiple issues of The Cadence newspaper, and several cadet handbooks. Additional manuscript material is available in UWL Special Collections.
Books, manuscripts, photographs and other resources documenting the history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sub-collections and themes include yearbooks, student handbooks, class albums and student scrapbooks; the Badger Bites cookbook collection; Campus Voices oral history collections, campus humor publications; Wisconsin Alumni Magazine; Hoofers Club; Athletic Department; Multicultural Student Center and the Mildred Fish Harnack Collection.
This collection includes photographs, documents, newspaper articles and video documenting efforts during the 1970-71 academic year to improve conditions for the Latino community at UW-Milwaukee. In November 1970, UWM opened its Spanish Speaking Outreach Institute, a forerunner of today’s Roberto Hernandez Center.
Since 1956, the UWM Post has served as UW-Milwaukee’s unofficial news outlet and a primary source of news about campus activities, the university administration, and the greater Milwaukee area. Published weekly and operated entirely by student staff, the Post printed its last issue in November 2012 and has published online exclusively since 2013. The digital collection represents an almost complete run of the Post; gaps in the digital collection reflect gaps in the physical collection housed in the UWM Archives.
The Verona Public Library’s Local History digitization project is a growing selection of digital materials culled from the physical archives of their Local History Collection. This digital archive will include access to photographs, city directories, and community writing projects.Â
The Waunakee Public Library local history collection features photographs, newspaper clippings, books, government documents, board minutes, and more from the local Waunakee area and surrounding towns. There is a wide range of materials ranging from the early 1900’s until present day.
Newsletters of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps in Buffalo, Eau Claire, Price, Rusk, Sawyer and Taylor Counties, from the Special Collections and Archives Department, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire.
Cranberries have been grown commercially in Wisconsin for over 150 years. This collection includes photographs, clippings, pamphlets and recipes related to the cranberry industry in Wisconsin as well as eight decades of Cranberries, a national trade publication.
A series of biographies of early local settlers, published in the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune 1920-1922.
Published quarterly by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Wisconsin Academy Review (now known as Wisconsin People and Ideas) focuses on contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture. Issues in the digital collection date from 1958-2008.
To mark the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), the Wisconsin Historical Society created this digital collection containing dozens of diaries, regimental histories and book-length memoirs, thousands of soldiers’ letters, hundreds of newspaper articles and more than 1,000 photographs, maps and other images.
The Wisconsin Labor Advocate was a weekly newspaper published in La Crosse in 1886-1887. La Crosse was a hotbed of Labor political party activity in the 1880s and the Labor Advocate was one of at least four La Crosse area Labor-related newspapers from that time. George Edwin Taylor, the newspaper’s editor and owner, was African-American, born in Arkansas in 1857.
More than 2,000 feature articles totaling over 35,000 pages, exactly as they originally appeared in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Includes the entire archive of previous issues, back to 1917.
Issues of the Wisconsin Traffic Safety Reporter newsletter from 1959, published by the Safety Division of the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department.
