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  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Collection

    This collection brings together several publications from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as well a selection of photographs covering the history of the department.

  • American Institute of the History of Pharmacy Collection

    The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy is a not-for-profit historical society housed at the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy. Founded in 1941, the Institute fosters a variety of historical collections in cooperation with the UW-Madison and…

  • Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings

    This digital collection was originally developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison to complement the University of Iceland's Internet course Icelandic Online and was developed side by side with it. The project as a whole consists of three part…

  • Secrets Reveal'd : Early Modern Printed Books of Alchemy and "Chymistry"

    The Duveen Collection of early chemistry and alchemy is part of the holdings of the Department of Special Collections at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here one can find selections from that collection which have been digitized in their entirety.…

  • Two Rivers History : Hubert R. Wentorf Photo Collection and Fisher-Hamilton Industries Product Catalogs

    This charming glimpse into Two Rivers' past is a unique blend of photographs selected from the collection of Hubert R. Wentorf (circa late 1800s to mid 1950s), and vintage product catalogs from the Fisher-Hamilton Company, a major employer in Two R…

  • Americana Sheet Music Collection

    The Americana Sheet Music Collection database was developed to provide bibliographic access to the Americana Collection of sheet music, one of the special collections of the Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some records for sel…

  • A Williams Bay Treasure : "Bay Leaves," 1933-1940

    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…

  • Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain

    This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain taken by the late Eugene Casselman (1912-1996) during his thirty years of travel throughout the Iberian peninsula. The images span over one t…