All types of photographic images, including photo prints, slides and negatives.
Glass negatives created by the Taylor Brothers photographic studio of Adams County, Wisconsin, circa 1910-1930. Subjects are varied and include towns, buildings and street scenes in Adams County; construction and dedication of a new county courthouse; teachers, classes, and one-room school houses; road construction; and farmsteads, animals, and agricultural activities.
Changing Landscapes of Wisconsin creates wide accessibility to a rare collection of historic aerial photographs acquired by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1937-1941. These photographs provide a snapshot of Wisconsin’s landscapes and have become a baseline dataset for understanding environmental, social, and economic changes that have occurred since that time.
In the fall of 1965 Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, began offering a major in fashion design with a minor in clothing and textiles. The four-year Bachelor of Arts degree, which drew substance from an interdisciplinary combination of art, clothing, and textile courses, was the first of its kind in the nation. Explore the history of the Mount Mary Fashion Program through the images and documents in this exhibit.
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.
Images of Sawyer and Harris, the iconic bronze lions that have stood outside the Oshkosh Public Library since 1912. Includes photographs of their removal for restoration in 1998.
Wisconsin’s oldest theater organization, the Carroll Players, was inaugurated in June 1896 with a production staged by May N. Rankin, the first female professor at Carroll College. This collection includes photographic portraits of Rankin as well as notes and letters related to the drama program at Carroll University.
This collection documents the history of Theresa, Wisconsin through two books. The first, Life in the 1930’s / ’40’s, &’50’s As I Saw It and Lived It, is told through the eyes of local photographer Jim Widmer. Tagebush is a German-language diary and recollection of everyday life recorded in Theresa by author Friedrich Gorg Emanuel Ziemer.
Photographs and other materials from boys’ and girls’ summer camps in the Three Lakes area.
A collection of ink blotters featuring historic photographs from the Wisconsin Rapids area which were distributed by local insurance agent Tom Taylor to promote his business in the 1930s.
The Tom Taylor Book, also known as 100 Years of Pictorial & Descriptive History of Wisconsin Rapids, was compiled by T.A. Tayor between 1934-1939. The digital collection pairs the historical photographs gathered by Taylor along with the details he recorded about each image.
