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The William J. Meuer Photoart Collection is an outstanding visual history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its surrounding community. The collection was compiled by renowned local photographer William J. Meuer who with his brother, Roman,…
This collection of correspondence, written mostly to Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), provides insight into the history of science, natural history, Sir Joseph Banks' life, Iceland, and early travel and world exploration. A British explorer and natura…
This collection contains photographs of art objects from the permanent collection of the Chazen Museum of Art. High resolution images for works in copyright are available to the UW-Madison community for research and instruction purposes.
The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The project has been made available through the partnership …
The Polka Music/Polka Culture Exhibit Collection consists of the 41 contemporary and historic images and selected caption information from the "Polka Music/Polka Culture" photo-text exhibit that toured Wisconsin in 1991. The collection represents t…
This digital collection provides a sampling of UW-Madison's World War I Special Collection. The complete collection is available in the Special Collections Department of Memorial Library. Most of these materials were acquired by the University duri…
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…
This small collection primarily reflects the music popular in the Yiddish-language community which flourished in New York City, circa 1880s to the mid-twentieth century. The majority of the sheet music dates from the 1890s to the 1930s, and is pub…