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The Eastern European Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the study of this region including its history, literature, language, political science and more.
When John Sullivan was still a young boy in grade school, he walked down to what was then an airfield in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That piece of land not far from Lake Michigan belonged to Hart Smith, one of Kenosha's first aviators. Smith was working on…
Since its official creation by the state legislature in 1897, the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey has produced a wide range of documents describing the natural history, geography, geology, soils, and groundwater of the state. Wiscon…
The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, represents materials from two collections housed in three discrete but closely related repositories. The Collection reflects and documents the state's colorful pattern of immigration and occupational de…
The centerpiece of this collection is a reprint of Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film, by Ben Brewster and Lea Jacobs first published by Oxford University Press in 1997. While previous accounts of the relationship betw…
The files in this digital collection originate from the Midwest Deer and Wild Turkey Study Group (MDWTSG; 1975 – present) and the Great Lakes Deer Group (GLDG; 1944 – 1996). Most files are proceedings or notes from annual meetings of these groups. …
This collection of historic materials includes plat books, atlases and school yearbooks and school newspapers that document early Northeastern Wisconsin, specifically Brown, Door, Kewaunee and Shawano counties. Plat Books and Atlases A variety of p…
The UW Robinson Map Library partnered with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in a pilot project aimed at digitizing the entire collection of Wisconsin's topographic maps. This scanning project resulted in a digital archive of over 2,000 ma…