Education and Student Life

University of Wisconsin Colleges Historic Photos Collection

University of Wisconsin Colleges Historic Photos Collection

Photographs, slides, posters and other images from UW Colleges, the two-year campuses in the University of Wisconsin System. Colleges represented are UW-Baraboo/Sauk County, UW-Barron County, UW-Fond du Lac, UW-Fox Valley, UW-Manitowoc, UW-Marinette, UW-Marshfield/Wood County, UW-Richland, UW-Rock County, UW-Sheboygan, UW-Washington County and UW-Waukesha. Selected images are also included from the Medford campus which closed in the 1980s.

UW-Eau Claire Historic Campus Photographs

Hundreds of images related to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and its predecessors from 1917 to the present, from the Special Collections and Archives Department, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire.

UW-Eau Claire Yearbooks: Periscope 1917-1995

The UW-Eau Claire campus yearbook, the Periscope, was published annually from 1917 to 1995, documenting the university and its predecessors, Eau Claire State Normal School, Eau Claire State Teacher’s College, Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire and Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire

UW-La Crosse Alumnus Collection

More recently known as the Lantern, the alumni publication for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse has gone by many names, including Alumnus, Crossties, La Crosse Alumnus and Alumni Briefs. It was first published as the Alumni Bulletin in 1941.

UW-La Crosse Commencement Program Collection

This collection features every University of Wisconsin-La Crosse commencement program that is housed in Special Collections, dating back to the “First Annual Commencement” of the State Normal School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on June 23, 1910. Additional materials are available for select years that may include everything from speeches and scripts to invitations and graduate lists. Each year expect that this collection will include the most recent commencement programs.

UW-La Crosse Course Catalog Collection

Course catalogs for the Wisconsin State Normal School, La Crosse State Teachers College, Wisconsin State College and UW-La Crosse from 1910 to the present, including undergraduate, graduate and summer session publications.

UW-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research

Since 1998, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research has served as a place for students to publish original research. Published annually by the Undergraduate Research Program, this collection contains individual articles written by UWL students on topics ranging from accounting and archaeology to theater and women’s studies, and everything in between.

UW-La Crosse Publications

Various newsletters distributed by UW-La Crosse departments and campus organizations, including Murphy Library, the Organization for Campus Women, the College of Business Administration, the College of Science and Health and the College of Liberal Studies.

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.

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