Photographs

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

Williams, Alan 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.

Winnebago County Rural Schools

Photographs of school buildings from across Winnebago County.

Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA

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.

Wisconsin Emergency Management Images and Historic Materials

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.

Wisconsin Folksong Collection 1937-1946

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.

Wisconsin Traditions of Social Care

Images of people and buildings contributing to Wisconsin’s social care system, including asylums, hospitals and orphanages.

Wisconsin’s Historic Natural Resources Photos

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.

Women in Blue and Gold – Marquette Women’s Athletics

This collection features nearly 2,000 images documenting women’s intercollegiate athletics at Marquette University from 1975 through 2000.

Women of Edgewood College

This collection highlights several Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters who led and shaped Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. Materials include video oral history interviews and portrait photographs of each Sister as well as some published biographies.

World War I Military Portraits

This collection of more than 30,000 items includes World War I service records transcribed by the Milwaukee County Chapter of the American War Mothers, portraits of service men and women in military uniform, snapshots of individuals at their homes or serving in the theater of war, and records from the publication A Record of the Heroes of Milwaukee County Who Answered Their Country’s Call in the World War.

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