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This collection presents a variety of materials selected from the Department of Special Collections in the UW–Madison Libraries. Items have been chosen to showcase the department's holdings, highlight specific collections, and provide broader acces…
This collection of slides contains portraits of prominent American and international figures who made major contributions to the library world in areas such as cataloging, collection development, children's librarianship, public access, library sta…
Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience is a collection of first person narrative accounts of Wisconsin soldiers and citizens. Through their letters, diaries, poems and other records, we learn about the state's contributions to the Union vi…
Human ecology is an academic discipline that deals with the relationship between humans and their natural, social and created environments. Human ecology investigates how humans and human societies interact with nature and with their environment. T…
The main goal of this project is to host an electronic critical edition of the Portuguese medieval text Leal Conselheiro to be used by scholars and university students. Leal Conselheiro is a moral treatise written by Duarte, King of Portugal, comp…
The Charles C. Miller Apicultural Collection has an interesting history both in terms of its inspirational namesake and in how it came to be located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born in 1831, Charles C. Miller was a doctor, teacher, beek…
The Minnesota Folk Arts Collection features music-related items from the Minnesota Folk Arts (Philip Nusbaum) Collection, which emerged from John Berquist's and Philip Nusbaum's documentary work during their tenures as Folk Arts Program associates …
Barrett Memorial Library is the main repository of the photographs, scrapbooks, yearbooks, newsletters and other historical artifacts that document the village of Williams Bay's rich history. The "Williams Bay Treasure: 'Bay Leaves' 1933-40" digiti…