This collection illustrates the accomplishments of Marquette University’s most elite athletes and coaches, all enshrined in the M Club Athletic Hall of Fame. The bulk of this collection presents photographs, negatives, and color transparencies. Select paintings, sketches, plaques, and textual materials have also been digitized.
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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.”
Senator Joe McCarthy – Audio Excerpts 1950-1954
Audio files containing public remarks made by Joseph McCarthy, the Republican senator from Wisconsin, during his controversial campaign to remove communists and communist sympathizers from government.
Service at Marquette
150 images from 1969 through 2006 illustrating community service activities at Marquette, from the early days of the Marquette University Community Action Program through hurricane relief efforts in New Orleans.
Tommy G. Thompson Collection
Images documenting the public career of former Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson. Most of the photographs were taken during Thompson’s 14-year gubernatorial career (1987-2001); however, some images depict his service in the Wisconsin State Assembly (1966-1986) and as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (2001-2005).
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.
