Education and Student Life

Elkhart Lake Public Library

This growing collection contains oral history interviews of Elkhart Lake residents, programs and minutes of the Elkhart Lake Study Club going back as far as 1938, and more. We will continue to add materials to this collection to aid independent research of Elkhart Lake history.

Ethel Everhard Memorial Library (Westfield)

The Ethel Everhard Memorial Library (Westfield) presents this collection of Westfield High School’s annual yearbooks with complete coverage from 1940 through 2014, along with a few scattered earlier volumes dated as early as 1906.

Farnsworth Public Library

The archives of Farnsworth Public Library are as varied as the people that have called this area home over the years. The Oconto High School Yearbooks Collection is a growing archive that preserves the history and spirit of Oconto High School through its annual publications. Spanning the decades, these yearbooks, most commonly titled The Okato, though referred to in some years as The Bay Mist, document student life, academics, athletics, and community events, offering a rich visual and textual record of changing trends, traditions, and local culture. They give a glimpse of how the teenage experience has changed and stayed the same over many years.

Gesu Parish Grade School

This collection of photos, directories, programs, alumni newsletters, and objects documents the Gesu School,  founded in 1895 after the combining of St. Gall and Holy Name parishes. After sixty-nine years of continuous educational service, Gesu School held its last graduation exercises on June 7, 1968.  

Greendale Historical Society

The Greendale Historical Society partnered with the Greendale School District to digitize photos and other resources documenting local residents’ school experiences. Currently available online are 1970s-era photographs from College Park Elementary School.

Herbert Gaytes Collection

Herbert Gaytes, Beloit College class of 1893, was a gifted amateur photographer who photographed campus activities and local scenes. This collection also includes Gaytes’ photographs of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

Histories of Beloit College

The Histories of Beloit College Collection includes published commencement addresses and essays as well as Beloit College President Edward Dwight Eaton’s 1928 history, which contains a thorough account of the College’s origins and development, and a history begun by faculty member Robert Richardson in the 1940s that updates Eaton’s account. Never published, this book contains a great deal of valuable footnotes and marginalia.

History of the Sciences at Beloit College

This collection features 92 photographs from the Beloit College Archives documenting a variety of scientific disciplines spanning the lifetime of the college, including biology, geology and chemistry.

History of UW-Eau Claire

The History of UW-Eau Claire Collection includes resources that document the history and evolution of this campus. The collection includes published material as well as archival materials and may eventually include additional books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources deemed important to the study of our state’s university system and its campuses.

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