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This digital collection represents a subset of the paper holdings of early 20th-century Russian political and satirical journals held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in the Department of Special Collections. These journals are, for…
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…
The Atlas des Deutschen Reichs by Ludwig Ravenstein is relatively rare in libraries of the United States. Besides Germany, the maps of this atlas also cover the bordering portions of present-day Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France…
Beginning in 1967, the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Directory and Records Book was published annually in order to provide a written record of the individual and team accomplishments for those sports sponsored by the confere…
From the shores of Lake Michigan to the banks of the Mississippi, the Wisconsin Local Histories collection showcases the awesome resources of public libraries and historical societies from across the state. Assembled and digitized over a nine-year …
The Minnesota Folk Arts Collection features music-related items from the Minnesota Folk Arts (Philip Nusbaum) Collection, which emerged from John Berquist's and Philip Nusbaum's documentary work during their tenures as Folk Arts Program associates …
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…
John Berquist (1947-2016) was a musician, composer, storyteller and folklorist from Eveleth, Minnesota. He wrote and sang songs about the people of the Iron Range area of Minnesota: miners, lumberjacks, and immigrants from Scandinavian and Slavic r…