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  • 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…

  • Menasha Local History Collection

    Menasha is located at the mouth of the Fox River on the north end of Lake Winnebago. Menasha, with settlers as early as 1835, became a village in 1849 and was incorporated as a city in 1874. Mrs. Doty, wife of Judge James Doty, used the Indian word…

  • Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey)

    Often called the "Bordner Survey" after its director, John Bordner, the Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory was a Depression-era project to inventory the land resources of Wisconsin so that they could be used more productively. Field workers, usually…

  • Department of Chemical Engineering Technical Papers

    The Department of Chemical Engineering Technical Papers were written by University of Wisconsin chemical engineers between 1900 and 1935. There are five volumes containing 190 papers. The papers have been made available online because they show the…

  • Communications from the International Brecht Society

    Communications from the International Brecht Society was originally conceived as a newsletter "for the exchange of ideas and information pertinent to [the IBS members'] ‘common cause.'" The Society was founded by members of the German departments a…

  • Nordic Translation Series

    The Nordic Translation Series was published by the University of Wisconsin Press between 1965 and 1970. The series presented here contains eleven texts by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors. The works were translated into English from their …

  • Chazen (Elvehjem) Museum Archival Documents

    This collection documents the Chazen Museum of Art's exhibition history dating back to 1970. Records may include content such as installation and event photography, gallery guides, promotional materials, administrative documents, and educational re…

  • Silver Buckle Press Collection

    Silver Buckle Press is a working museum of letterpress printing dedicated to preserving the craft of fine printing through educational programming, publications, exhibitions and tours. The Silver Buckle Press holdings of books, wood and metal type,…