Great Lakes Maritime History Project An overview of Wisconsin’s maritime history. Includes records on individual ships as well as photographs, postcards and pamphlets related to commerce and tourism on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. View collection. History of UW-Superior Images depicting student life, academic activities, athletics, the campus, and campus traditions. View collection. Wisconsin Pioneer… Read More…

History of UW-Stevens Point Photographs and books documenting the history of UW-Stevens Point including athletics, aerial views of campus, classrooms and daily life. View collection. Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The historic papers included in the Wisconsin Pioneer Experience… Read More…

History of UW-River Falls Photographs documenting the history of UW-River Falls and River Falls Normal School, including athletics and campus life. View collection. Ku Klux Klan in Northwestern Wisconsin circa 1915-1950 Records, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and artifacts documenting a popular movement that most Americans would rather forget – a so-called “reform” movement driven by… Read More…

History of UW-Platteville Images and publications documenting the histories of the Platteville Academy, the State Teachers College and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. View collection. Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The historic papers included in the Wisconsin Pioneer Experience were… Read More…

U.S. Forest Products Lab Centennial Oral History Project Digital audio recorded interviews with 52 current and former employees of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. View collection. Visit Forest Products Laboratory website…. Read More…

Aviation History of Racine and Kenosha Kenosha pilot and aviation history enthusiast John Sullivan donated his archive of over 400 photographs, newspaper clippings, and aviator biographies to UW-Parkside in 2009. The digital collection includes aerial views of the Kenosha and Racine airports and portraits of pilots with their planes. View collection. History of UW-Parkside Photographs… Read More…

History of UW-Oshkosh Photographs and books documenting the history of UW-Oshkosh including athletic events and campus life. View collection. Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The historic papers included in the Wisconsin Pioneer Experience were drawn from the collections of… Read More…

Architectural Drawings of Willis and Lillian Leenhouts More than 80 architectural drawings and sketches for eleven projects by Milwaukee architects Willis and Lillian Leenhouts. View collection. Digital Sanborn Maps of Milwaukee 1894 and 1900 Two fire insurance atlases featuring detailed color maps of Milwaukee. Produced by the Sanborn Map Company, the 1894 atlas includes four… Read More…

Libraries and Schools in Marathon and Lincoln Counties This collection documents schools and libraries in the central Wisconsin counties of Lincoln and Marathon. A project of the Central Wisconsin Digitization Project, a consortium of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies in Lincoln and Marathon counties. View collection. Visit University of Wisconsin-Marathon County website…. Read More…

Aldo Leopold Archives The Aldo Leopold Archives houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold’s rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948. The collection includes more than 500 unpublished essays, reports, and memoranda of significance as… Read More…