Digital Collections
- Description: Digital collection documenting the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s, several years before the Soviet Union invaded the country. The photographs were taken by Harrison Forman in 1969. The online collection consists of 186 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the Harrison Forman Photographic Collection housed at the American Geographical Society Collection at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
- Coverage: 1969.
- Full-text: Unknown.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
- Coverage: 1000-1900.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A digital library of items from the Library of Congress and more than 100 other historical collections.
- Coverage: Unknown.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online FAQs are available. Pathfinders, lessons, and additional information are available from the American Memory Learning Page.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: The ARTstor Digital Library is comprised of digital images and related data and the tools to make active use of those images. ARTstor’s ‘Charter Collection” contains approximately 300,000 digital images of visual material from different cultures and disciplines, and it seeks to offer sufficient breadth and depth to support a wide range of non-commercial educational and scholarly activities. The Charter Collection is anticipated to grow to half a million images by the summer of 2006.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: n/a.
- Online guide or tutorial: An online tutorial is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
- Description: Digital collection of photographs, oral history tapes and abstracts, and select publications from the Belgian American Resource Collection of the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Some full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: The Ecology and Natural Resources Collection brings together in digital form two categories of primary and secondary publications: writings about research in ecology and natural resources conducted by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable titles in these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Some full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: An ongoing digitization project based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. ECCO contains nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
- Description: The Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection consists of about 12,000 postcards on a broad range of local, regional, national and international subjects. The digital collection consists of selected images from the larger postcard collection, and serves as an introduction to the overall collection. This digital presentation focuses on a portion of those Milwaukee postcards produced by Milwaukee publishers.
- Coverage: 1945-1998.
- Full-text: No.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: InSitu is the online catalog of the Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, emphasizing the digital holdings of the collection. UW-Madison has granted the UW Colleges courtesy access to this database. Click on the Guest Access button for this courtesy access. Images found on InSitu may be used for classroom presentations or for private study and research. Publication by any means (whether in print or on the web) or inclusion in a public performance of any kind requires permission of the copyright holder.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: n/a.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available from the search screens.
- Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
- Description: The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, providing free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The site archives Web pages, moving images, texts, audio files, and software.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A collection of free, open-access digitized texts. Sub-collections include Canadian Libraries, the Million Book Project, Open Source Books, Project Gutenberg, the Children’s Library, and Arpanet.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A joint digital venture between UW-La Crosse’s Murphy Library and the La Crosse Public Library, La Crosse History Unbound is a portal site to digitized cultural assets of the La Crosse County, Wisconsin, area. Over 180 titles exist on the site arranged by subject category, with a separate author and title list.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes, via the link to the left.
- Description: This digital collection provides a visual documentation of the development of the city of Milwaukee from the mid-1880s to the early 1990s. It includes images of residential and industrial facilities, local businesses, historic buildings, churches, and numerous Milwaukee parks. The photographs were selected from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library and the Archives Department at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Libraries. The image collection is accompanied by 12 maps of Milwaukee from the holdings of the American Geographical Society Library.
- Coverage: 1885-1992.
- Full-text: No.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A visual chronicle of the artistic productions of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in the years 1977-1994. The digital collection includes 1,800 images documenting 195 performances selected from the Mark Avery Collection housed at the Archives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
- Coverage: 1977-1994.
- Full-text: No.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: n/a.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A collection of images documenting the life of Golda Meir from childhood in Pinsk, Russia, through her school years in Milwaukee, her pioneer years in Palestine in the 1920s, to the peak of her political career as Prime Minister of Israel (1969 - 1974). The 160 images presented in this digital collection were selected from The Golda Meir Collection, 1904-1987 housed in the Archives Department of the UW-Milwaukee Libraries.
- Coverage: 1904-1987.
- Full-text: No.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to about 65% of the Division’s holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images — about one million digital images in all. Not all images displayed in this catalog are in the public domain. The Library offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship. It is the researcher’s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library’s collections.
- Coverage: Includes descriptions of selected single images cataloged since 1984 and groups of images cataloged since 1986.
- Full-text: n/a.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Documents and images from the UW-Milwaukee Archives of the Civil Rights movement in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1960s.
- Coverage: 1960-1969.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: The State of Wisconsin Collection brings together in digital form two categories of primary and secondary materials: writings about the State of Wisconsin and unique or valuable materials that relate to its history and ongoing development. The collection includes published material as well as archival materials. The materials were digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources deemed important to the study and teaching of the State of Wisconsin.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Some full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A digital collection of ‘stories” telling the history of the University of Wisconsin. Within these collections are images, manuscripts, papers, and books, all relating in some way to the University’s mission and history.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Digitized collections from the University of Wisconsin libraries.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Unknown.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Locally digitized collections from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Some full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Digital collections and exhibits created at UWM Libraries.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Unknown.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Digitized collections from the UW-Milwaukee Area Research Center and Archives.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Unknown.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals, and tidbits from Wisconsin history.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience is a collection of first person narrative accounts of Wisconsin soldiers and citizens. Through their letters, diaries, poems and other records, we learn about the state’s contributions to the Union victory that cost the lives of over 12,000 of the state’s men. The collections were originally selected for digitization among those of the Wisconsin Historical Society for use by Civil War history courses taught at UW Oshkosh. The original UW Oshkosh digital project has now been reconceived and enhanced by the UWDC. The first phase of the collection consists of 630 pages of materials dating from the years 1861 � 1866. When the entire project is completed it will consist of over 2600 pages of original Civil War documents.
- Coverage: 1861-1866.
- Full-text: Full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Historical images collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society from the 19th and 20th centuries. Images are primarily photographs but also include paintings, posters, advertising material, ephemera, and political cartoons. There are several thousand images currently available on the site, and new images are added daily. Reproductions may be purchased from the Society.
- Coverage: 1870-1970.
- Full-text: n/a.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Digital collections made and hosted by the Wisconsin Historical Society or through projects with partners. In all, more than 100,000 pages from the Society�s books, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, and other primary sources are available here.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: n/a.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Digital images of the labor-related newspaper published in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1886-1887 from the UW-La Crosse Archives. The Labor Advocate was unique because its editor and owner, George Edwin Taylor, was an African-American, born in Arkansas in 1857. As a black business owner, he was an anomaly in La Crosse in the 1880s. Taylor got his start in publishing working at other La Crosse newspapers. By 1904 he had left La Crosse and become involved in an all African-American political party called the National Liberty Party, whose nomination as its candidate for U.S. President he accepted that year. In doing so, Taylor was the first candidate of a national African-American party for the U.S. presidency.
- Coverage: 1886-1887.
- Full-text: Full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A digital collection of 16,000 historical and biographical newspaper articles published between 1860 and 1940 preserved in scrapbooks at the the Wisconsin Historical Society in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
- Coverage: 1860-1940.
- Full-text: Full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No. Basic instructions are available on each search page.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The historic papers included in the Wisconsin Pioneer Experience were drawn from the collections of the Area Research Centers (ARC), as well as the headquarters, of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
- Coverage: n/a.
- Full-text: Full-text is available.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: Selected letters from the UW-Milwaukee Archives of letters from Wisconsin soldiers in the major U.S. conflicts from the Mexican War to Afghanistan.
- Coverage: 1846-2000.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: No.
- Remote access: Yes.
- Description: A digital collection of over 2,000 19th century American fiction texts digitized by Indiana University, as listed in Lyle Wright’s bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.
- Coverage: 1851-1875.
- Full-text: Yes.
- Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
- Remote access: Yes.
