Sarcophagus with Allegory of the Four Seasons

Featured Collections

Explore more by browsing all collections.

  • History of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Collection

    The History of UW-Green Bay Collection includes 400 images that represent a cross-section of this campus's history and evolution.  They document the campus selection site, construction of all campus buildings, student life, academic activities, pol…

  • Cyclopaedia, or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

    Ephraim Chambers' acclaimed eighteenth-century classic, Cyclopaedia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences, in two volumes, appeared in 1728. The supplement, also in two volumes, followed in 1753. Noteworthy features of this distinguishe…

  • Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources (HADES)

    The Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources (HADES) consists of advertisements from health sciences journals covering the disciplines of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health scien…

  • Nordic Translation Series

    The Nordic Translation Series was published by the University of Wisconsin Press between 1965 and 1970. The series presented here contains eleven texts by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors. The works were translated into English from their …

  • Joseph Philbrick Webster (ca. 1840s-1874)

    Joseph Philbrick Webster was born near Manchester, New Hampshire, on 18 February 1819. He was the son of Major John Webster, who fought in the Revolutionary War and died when Joseph was quite young. Webster showed musical talent at an early age an…

  • African Studies Collection

    The African Studies Collection brings together primary and secondary resources; research and teaching materials created by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to this field held by the University of Wisco…

  • Plant Ecology Laboratory Archive

    The University of Wisconsin Plant Ecology Laboratory has its origins in Dr. John T. Curtis's studies of the vegetation of Wisconsin, which began in the 1940s. From the start, the Laboratory integrated a dual rationale: a physical place to store ori…

  • South Central Wisconsin Local Histories

    The books in the Wisconsin Local Histories collection document and present the history of Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green, Portage, Sauk, and Wood Counties and communities therein. The collection includes: Written histories of all seven counties. …