This collection of images documents the life of Golda Meir from her childhood in Pinsk, Russia, through her school years in Milwaukee, her pioneer years in Palestine in the 1920s, to the peak of her political career as Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974).
Photographs
All types of photographic images, including photo prints, slides and negatives.
Pioneer Churches
Oshkosh Public Library partnered with Wisconsin photographer Michael Cooney to create this collection, which documents early church buildings still standing in Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Marquette, Calumet, and Waushara counties.
Plymouth Public Library
The Plymouth Public Library’s digitization project is a growing selection of materials collected since the library was founded in 1871. Initially, this digital collection will include access to photographs and letters sent or received from the library. Check back with us periodically, as we will continue to add materials.
Polka Music/Polka Culture
Contemporary and historic images and selected caption information representing the history and significance of polka music in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest. Content was compiled for the “Polka Music/Polka Culture” photo-text exhibit that toured Wisconsin in 1991.
Portage Historic Homes
Turn-of-the-century photographs of historic Portage residences from the collection of the Portage Public Library.
Posselt, Theodore (Ted) Keith Collection
The Theodore (Ted) Keith Posselt collection of materials was donated to the Angie Williams Cox Public Library by an unknown source. The collection was discovered in a box in a closet during 2025. Theodore (Ted) Keith Posselt (1910 – 1989) was a resident of Columbia County, Wisconsin for many years graduating from Pardeeville High School in 1925. He was a reporter for local newspapers as well as wrote and directed a few community plays. Mr. Posselt served in the military during World War II and his Mission Report Book is part of this collection. Along with the items digitized in this collection, there is personal correspondence available for viewing by appointment at the library. Theodore Keith Posselt is buried in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Public Enemies – Tinseltown Comes to Oshkosh
In April 2008, downtown Oshkosh, Wisconsin was transformed into a movie set for the film Public Enemies. This collection features photographs submitted by the residents of Oshkosh who experienced Tinseltown in their hometown.
R. W. Troxel Glass Plate Negative Collection
Roley William Troxel was born in 1883 in Richland County, Wisconsin and died in 1967 in Prairie du Chien. The photographs were taken mostly around Eastman, Wisconsin and other areas surrounding Prairie du Chien, likely between 1910 and 1920. Images include posed portraits, sports teams, various buildings and other landscape and street views.
Railroads of Lincoln and Marathon Counties
Photographs, maps and documents relating to the railroads of Lincoln and Marathon Counties assembled by the Central Wisconsin Digitization Project, a consortium of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies in Lincoln and Marathon counties.
Ralph Metcalfe – The Olympic Years 1932-1936
Photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials documenting sprinter Ralph Metcalfe between 1932-1936, when the Marquette undergraduate was known as “The World’s Fastest Human.”
