UW-La Crosse

UW-La Crosse ROTC Scrapbook & Photograph Collection

Donated to UW-La Crosse Murphy Library Special Collections in 2018, these three large scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and other materials related to the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) and the Military Science department on the UWL campus. In addition to the scrapbooks, this collection contains other photographs, multiple issues of The Cadence newspaper, and several cadet handbooks. Additional manuscript material is available in UWL Special Collections.

UW-La Crosse Student Handbooks Collection

Student handbooks from the Wisconsin State Normal School and State Teachers College (precursors to UW-La Crosse) from the 1920s through the 1960s, featuring campus organizations, activities, procedures, regulations, maps and other campus and community information.

UW-La Crosse Theatre Posters and Playbills Collection

More than 400 playbills and posters from various theatrical productions on the UW-La Crosse campus from 1916 to the present.

UW-La Crosse Yearbooks Collection

The UW-La Crosse yearbook, The Racquet, from 1911 through the final volume, published in 1990.

Wisconsin Labor Advocate Newspaper

The Wisconsin Labor Advocate was a weekly newspaper published in La Crosse in 1886-1887. La Crosse was a hotbed of Labor political party activity in the 1880s and the Labor Advocate was one of at least four La Crosse area Labor-related newspapers from that time. George Edwin Taylor, the newspaper’s editor and owner, was African-American, born in Arkansas in 1857.

Wisconsin Pioneer Experience

A digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. These materials were selected from the collections of the Wisconsin Area Research Centers (ARCs) as well as the headquarters of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

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