Photographs

All types of photographic images, including photo prints, slides and negatives.

Ach Ya! The Story of German Music in Wisconsin

“Ach Ya!: The Story of German Music in Wisconsin” presents images from the nineteenth through the late twentieth century that evoke the long-standing heritage and rich diversity of Wisconsin’s German musical traditions, especially in German-American communities in Calumet, Dodge, Marathon, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, and Sheboygan counties.

African American Catholics of the United States

African American Catholics of the United States contains over 200 images of African American clergy, religious, and laity, plus others in ministry to them, in parishes and schools, religious communities, and lay organizations since 1900. Archives staff selected the images from the records of the Black and Indian Mission Collection, the Catholic Negro-American Mission Board, and the National Black Sisters Conference (NBSC). The Black and Indian Mission Collection and the Catholic Negro-American Mission Board are fundraising organizations founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops in 1884 and 1907 respectively, now administered by the Black and Indian Mission Office and allied with the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. The NBSC is an advocacy and support association of African-American religious sisters founded in 1968.

Alan Williams Collection

This collection of four scrapbooks with photographs, postcards, documents, and booklets was donated to the Angie W. Cox Public Library by Alan Williams in July 2022. Alan Williams’ father, Payson (P. K.) Williams, was the cousin of Pardeeville Public Library’s founder Angie Williams Cox. He is the grandson of Charles Harvey (C. H.) Williams, who was the founder of the Pardeeville Times newspaper. His great-uncle, Robert Thompson, was the publisher of the Crank newspaper.

Aldo Leopold Archives

Aldo Leopold

The Aldo Leopold Archives documents not only Leopold’s rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948. The collection includes more than 500 unpublished essays and reports as well as detailed diaries and journals of Leopold’s Forest Service activity, his travels, hunting and field experience, and observations and activities at his Sand County farm.

Antigo’s 107th Trench Mortar Battery Company in World War I

Photographs by William Wessa of Antigo documenting the 107th Trench Mortar Battery Company during World War I. The images include the company’s first drills in Antigo; training at Camp Douglas, Wisconsin and Camp McArthur, Texas; action in the Alsace region of France and the Argonne offensive; and their return to Antigo in 1919.

Appleton Memory Project

This growing selection of local history materials includes images of former Appleton mayors with descriptions of key events during their terms, the publications Appleton, Wis., Illustrated (1892) and Pioneers of Outagamie County (1895), city and telephone directories for the Appleton area from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and other items pertaining to city and town life, the library, schools and tourism.

Ashland Historical Society Museum

The Ashland Historical Society Museum’s digital collection is a sampling of photographic collections depicting historic buildings in Ashland, Wisconsin and the Chequamegon Bay ore docks.

Aviation History of Racine and Kenosha

Aviation History of Racine and Kenosha

Kenosha pilot and aviation history enthusiast John Sullivan donated his archive of over 400 photographs, newspaper clippings and aviator biographies to UW-Parkside in 2009. The digital collection includes aerial views of the Kenosha and Racine airports and portraits of pilots with their planes.

Barneveld Local History Collection

Barneveld Local History Collection

This collection spans more than a century of Barneveld’s history, from early settlement through the devastation of the 1984 tornado and the rebuilding effort. Content includes books, photographs, video, business and village records, and personal scrapbooks and memorabilia.

View All