Great Cities, Small Treasures : The Ancient World of the Indus Valley

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  • Bruce Bollerud Collection

    Bruce Bollerud (1934-2020), was a professional musician in the Madison, WI area from the 1960s-2000s. He played bandoneon, piano accordion, jug, and trombone with a number of local bands, notably the Goose Island Ramblers and the Good Time Band. Th…

  • Olakh's Grassroots Feminist Political Posters in India

    Welcome to Olakh and the University of Wisconsin's digital archive of grassroots feminist posters from India. India has been home to a vibrant women's movement (or rather women's movements) with a global influence.  Historically, grassroots women's…

  • Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Programs

    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…

  • 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…

  • German American Correspondence Collection from the Max Kade Institute

    German American correspondence before 1940 was largely written in Kurrent (the old German script). Letters in the Sternberger and Anna Seifert collections have been transcribed by the Max Kade Institute Kurrent T…

  • Leonard Finseth Collection

    Leonard Finseth was a Norwegian-American folk fiddler, farmer, and factory worker in Mondovi, Wisconsin. Born February 11, 1911 after his parents emigrated to the United States from Norway, Finseth's first musical training was from one of his two s…

  • 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…

  • All Sewn Up : Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume

    This digital collection includes millinery, dressmaking, clothing and costume books from the UW-Madison collections. These books from the first half of the 20th century (1907 – 1940's) include the history of clothing, styles of dress, fashion drawi…