Education and Student Life

Milwaukee Medical College

Course catalogs and commencement programs from the Milwaukee Medical College and School of Dentistry. In 1913, Milwaukee Medical College merged with the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons to become the Marquette University School of Medicine and later the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Mount Mary College Student Yearbooks

Student yearbooks of Mount Mary College, a Catholic women’s college in Milwaukee. Arches was published from 1930 through 1970 with the exception of 1939 when it was published as The Autobiography of a College. EXIT was published from 1971 to 1995.

North Fond du Lac Yearbooks

This collection contains North Fond du Lac School yearbooks, currently starting with the year 1956, and covering most years up to the year 1985. (Yearbooks will leave at least a 10-year gap to present to allow school yearbook sales to not be affected by the digital collection.) Early yearbooks were called “The Oriole” and later yearbooks transitioned to the name “Horace Mann High School Yearbook.” Yearbooks display photos of students, faculty, and student sports activities and academic clubs.

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

The archives of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College illustrate how vocational education began in the city schools of Green Bay and Marinette in 1912 and eventually expanded to include all Northeast Wisconsin and beyond. This collection was digitized and shared as NWTC prepared to celebrate 110 years of education.

Oshkosh Yearbooks

This collection contains 138 issues of The Index, the Oshkosh High School student publication, dating between 1906 and 1940. The Index began as a monthly school publication containing poetry, short creative writings, editorials, alumni information, student photos, sports statistics and summaries, and other writings and reporting about various school events and issues. Winter and Spring issues included photos of graduating students. The Index became an annual yearbook in 1926.

Past and Present

A pictorial and descriptive history, from 1870 through 1970, of some of Wisconsin’s Independent colleges and universities, including Alverno, Edgewood, Lakeland, Mount Mary, Ripon, Silver Lake, and Viterbo.

Pauline Haass Public Library Historic Digital Collection

This collection includes memorabilia from Sussex, Wisconsin’s schools, highlighting the everyday lives and special moments of students in Sussex from the beginning of the 20th century to the 21st century. Included are yearbooks from Hamilton High School spanning 1964-2010s, newsletters published by students of the Sussex School from 1920s to the 1940s, and photos of local students and teachers from the 1890s through the 1950s. Through these materials, we are able to catch a glimpse of what life was like for children growing up in the Sussex area.

Portage County Public Library

The Portage County Public Library collection contains Tattler yearbooks from 1916 to 1976, covering Stevens Point High School, Emerson High School, PJ Jacobs High School, and Stevens Point Area Senior High.

Quiver Yearbooks 1897-1974

From 1897-1974, The Quiver yearbook recorded the people, activities and achievements of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and its predecessor institutions (Oshkosh Normal School, Oshkosh State Teachers College, Oshkosh State College and WSU Oshkosh). The pages of the school’s annual document the evolution of a campus growing from a teachers training institution of 700 students into a comprehensive university of over 10,000 and a member of one of the country’s greatest public university systems.

Ralph Metcalfe – The Olympic Years 1932-1936

Photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials documenting sprinter Ralph Metcalfe between 1932-1936, when the Marquette undergraduate was known as “The World’s Fastest Human.”

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