New in Recollection Wisconsin for Spring 2023

Sylvester Sims poses with the young members of the Copper Gloves Boxing Club at the Booker T. Washington YMCA.
Copper Gloves Boxing Club, c. 1940-1948. Milwaukee Public Library.

This quarter, we added some new collections to Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA!

Winnefox Library System premiered the Princeton Newspaper Collection from Princeton Public Library and Berlin High School Mascoutin Yearbooks from Berlin Public Library.

Milwaukee Public Library debuted the Irene Bishop Goggans Collection. Bishop Googans documented the African-American community in Milwaukee and across the country in the latter half of the 20th century and into the early 21st through newspaper clippings, photographs, event programs, and more.