Sarcophagus with Allegory of the Four Seasons

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  • UW-Madison Class Albums

    From at least 1872 until the early 1890s, when the Badger Yearbook seemed on pretty firm footing, most classes at the University of Wisconsin created a class album, providing invaluable sources for the early history of students on campus. All of th…

  • 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.

  • William Hervie Dobson Collection

    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…

  • Images of Angkor Wat

    This collection of 120 photos was taken by Miss Margaret Parx Hays during her Christmas vacation to Siem Reap in 1954 while she was stationed in Manila as a Consul of the American State Department. Taken ninety years after Henri Mouhot's first visi…

  • PrimateImages : Natural History Collection

    The PrimateImages database is a collection of photographs and information about nonhuman primates. These images were contributed by numerous photographers through the Lawrence Jacobsen Library at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Univ…

  • Max Kade Institute Collection

    The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies is an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to preserving American print culture and personal documents in the German language and making them part of America's story and historiography. Two distinct co…

  • Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin

    Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin, commonly known as Wisconsin Public Documents (WPD), consists of the annual and biennial reports of all important Wisconsin state agencies from 1852 through 1914. It was issued annually for 1852 to 1881/82…

  • Opening the Doors : Wisconsin Mental Health Heritage

    The Julaine Farrow Museum opened in 1973 at the Blacksmith shop on the grounds of the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The museum is the repository of the various artifacts (furniture, patient made items, photographs and many written materials wh…