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The Wisconsin State Capitol Historic Structure Report presents the architectural history of the state's capitol building in 6 volumes published between 1995 and 2005. The first volume describes the Capitol Building as a whole and details its histor…
The Primate Collection brings together thousands of illustrations and photographs as well as other information about non-human mammals of the order Primate. All of these materials were once held at the Lawrence Jacobsen Library, also known as the P…
This group of materials includes maps and atlases of La Crosse County of a variety of types, including plat (rural land ownership), highway, soil, topographic; city of La Crosse (Wisconsin) including zoning, parks, and street; other La Crosse Count…
"The Long Nineteenth Century" is a term used by Eric Hobsbawm and others to frame an understanding of European history extending beyond the boundaries of the years 1800–99. In this collection, it is used to refer to the turbulent period of Irish hi…
The William Hervie Dobson collection presents images of the Yeungkong area in southern China, and its residents, as documented by Dr. Williams Hervie Dobson, pioneer missionary, doctor, and lifelong inhabitant of this area. William Hervie Dobson (1…
The Dovie Horvitz Collection consists of over 1,300 images and scanned texts representing objects and printed matter that reflect the lives of women from the mid 1800s through the mid 1900s. The items themselves were collected by Mrs. Dovie Horvitz…
From 1848-1870 the French government was headed by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, first as President of the Republic and then as the Emperor Napoleon III. To the astonishment of many (and to the dismay of some) he succeeded in reestablishing the politic…
This collection consists of the annual reports of the organization currently known as the Madison Public Library (Madison, WI). It begins with the earliest published report from the organization available, the 1879 ‘Annual report of the Board of Di…