The most recent ingest of the Recollection Wisconsin collection into the Digital Public Library of American is complete and we’ve surpassed 600,000 historical photos, documents, and other resources in the collection! Among the additions this quarter are these two new collections:
Listening to War brings together first-person accounts of veterans and civilians in Wisconsin during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. These stories of everyday life during wartime come from men and women who served on the battlefront, made possible by over 20 partners, including the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, and other contributing libraries, archives, museums, and veterans’ organizations.
The Changing Landscapes of Wisconsin: A Digital Archive of Historic Aerial Photographs, from UW Digital Collections, is a rare collection of historic aerial photographs acquired by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1937-1941. These photographs provide a snapshot of Wisconsin’s landscapes seventy years ago, and have become a baseline dataset for understanding environmental, social, and economic changes that have occurred through that time.
