All types of photographic images, including photo prints, slides and negatives.
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.
The Mimi Bird Historical Collection consists of forty volumes of photographs, clippings and other materials compiled by local resident Mimi Bird. Bird’s primary focus was the history of Whitefish Bay, but she also collected historical information on area communities including Glendale and River Hills as well as the construction of Highway 141.
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.
Photographs of school buildings from across Winnebago County.
This digital collection provides access to primary sources documenting the activities and output of Works Project Administration (WPA) arts projects in Wisconsin from 1935-1943, especially the work of the Milwaukee Handicrafts Project. Materials include design portfolios, oral history interviews with artists and selections from the papers of Elsa Emile Ulbricht, director of the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, and Charlotte Russell Partridge and Miriam Frink, co-founders of the Layton School of Art.
Photographs taken by emergency management officials documenting natural and man-made disasters that have hit Wisconsin and images of emergency response training and other historic materials related to emergency preparedness.
Materials from two collections from Mills Music Library at UW-Madison: field recordings, notes and photographs made by UW-Madison faculty member Helene Stratman-Thomas as part of the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project during the summers of 1940, 1941 and 1946 and recordings collected by song catcher Sidney Robertson Cowell during the summer of 1937 for the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration.
Images of people and buildings contributing to Wisconsin’s social care system, including asylums, hospitals and orphanages.
Images from the Wisconsin Conservation Department (1930s to 1960s) and Department of Natural Resources (1960s to present) illustrating fishing, camping, hunting and other recreational activities as well as the work of park wardens, foresters and other conservation professionals.
This collection features nearly 2,000 images documenting women’s intercollegiate athletics at Marquette University from 1975 through 2000.
