ASSOCIATED SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS 435°

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

JOSEPH SCHAFER, Ph.D., SUPERINTENDENT

This Society, organized in the early part of 1849, in the course of its
more than eighty years of activity, has attained an enviable position among
the educational institutions of the state and nation. The Society maintains
on the campus of the University the State Historical Library containing:
255,000 volumes and 275,000 pamphlets; also the Historical Museum on the,
fourth floor of the libraty building; and an active research and publications,
staff dealing with Wisconsin history. Its publications include the Wiscon-,
sin Magazine of History, a quarterly now in its thirteenth volume; Wiscon-

sin Historical Collections, of which thirty volumes have been issued in addi-.
tion to a general index of volumes I-XX; the Proceedings, separate annual.
publications containing reports with occasional historical papers; Bulletins.

   

of Information numbers 1-97; The Calendar Series of which three volumes.
of calendars of the Draper papers have been published; An Economic His~.
tory of Wisconsin by Frederick Merk; The Wisconsin Domesday Book, Gen-
eral Series, Volumes I and II, and Town Studies, Volume I; Wisconsin, His-.
tory Series, The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Novthwest, Kellogg;. Se
Wisconsin’s Gold Star List, Gregory; The Intimate Letters of Carl Schu ;
Carl Schurz, Militant Liberal (biography), Schafer.

The State Historical Library is unequaled in the field of Western. his;.
tory and has one of the most important newspaper and periodical collections.
in the United States. In local history, biography, American travels, etc. +s,
it is exceptionally well equipped. The printed colonial records and govern-
ment documents, state and federal, are equally satisfactory. For the study.
of upland Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, as well as. Ken-
tucky and Tennessee and the old Northwest, in the Colonial and Revolu,
tionary period, the Draper manuscripts in this library are the richest, ‘col,
lection extant. Resources for the study of the slavery question’ ‘and the
Civil War are notable and there is a vast amount of manuscript material
on Western economic history, particularly the trade in lumber and furs.

For English history and government, the library has ample sets of
official publications, including the Rolls Series, the Calendars of State
Papers, the Blue Books, the reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commis-.
sion, and other reports of the Records Commission; also the parliamentary.
proceedings, and the publications of many historical societies. For the.
study of Dutch history and institutions the Tank collection offers special
resources.

This library contains one of the three greatest collections of newspa-.
pers in the United States and it has the fullest files of labor papers to be
found anywhere in the country. It is the custodian of the extensive collec-'
tion of labor and employers’ papers, convention proceedings, agreements,
ete., secured through the American Bureau of Industrial Research. Tran-
scripts of unique manuscript material are constantly being added to this’
collection. Mr. William E. Walling, of Chicago, has presented important.
collections of books, papers, and pamphlets dealing with modern European.
socialism and social problems. Special attention is called to the Schlueter
collection of books, papers, and manuscripts, acquired from Mr. Herman
Schlueter, of New York City. It is one of the richest collections in exist-
ence relating to the early history of socialistic movements in Germany and
certain phases of similar movements in the United States and other coun-
tries, and is said to contain documents that cannot be found even in the
archives of the Social Democratic party in Germany. It is indispensable”
for any exhaustive scientific work in this field.

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