Tomah Area Historical Society and Museum‘s Frank O. King Collection features a selection of original cartoons, sketches, correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia from Frank O. King, the creator of the comic strip Gasoline Alley. This digital collection offers insight into King’s creative process and the cultural impact of his work, providing a unique window into the history of 20th-century American comics and daily life.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is an independent, nonprofit membership organization chartered by the state legislature in 1870. Transactions, an annual journal (1870-2001), was central to the Academy’s goal of uniting scientists, humanities scholars and artists together to stimulate learning and exchange of research.
Images of everyday life in Trempealeau County captured by photographer Wade Britzius in 1976. The digital collection is made possible through the combined efforts of the Arcadia Historical Society, Old Main Historical and Community Arts Center in Galesville, and the Trempealeau County Historical Society, with partial funding from Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
Photographs of Two Rivers selected from the collection of Hubert R. Wentorf (circa late 1800s to mid 1950s), and product catalogs from the Fisher-Hamilton Company, a major employer in Two Rivers since 1880 (now known as Thermo-Fisher Scientific).
Historical images of Viterbo University.
The Upper Mississippi River Conservation Survey Committee was established in Dubuque, IA, in 1943, originally comprised of 22 biologists from Iowa and the surrounding states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Missouri. Since then, the UMRCC dropped “Survey” from their name and has grown to more than 200 resource managers working in multiple disciplines including fisheries, mussels, recreation, wildlife, water quality, vegetation, education, and law enforcement. This collection is a result of a partnership between the UMRCC and Murphy Library to provide both digital and physical access to the UMRCC Library, now housed at Murphy Library.
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.
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.
Selections from the more than 3,000 hours of interviews recorded by the UW-La Crosse Oral History Program and housed in Murphy Library’s Special Collections.
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.
