Archdiocese of Milwaukee Archives

3501 S. Lake Drive
PO Box 070912
Milwaukee, WI 53207
http://www.archmil.org/aboutus/dept.asp?ID=469

Shelly Solberg
Associate Director of Archives
Tel: (414) 769-3407
Email: solbergs[at]archmil.org

In accordance with Canon 482 of the Code of Canon Law, the mission of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Archives is to collect, preserve, organize, and make available for research the appropriate records and artifacts that represent the history of the Catholic Church in southeastern Wisconsin. The Archives works to promote an understanding of the history of the Archdiocese through its records and artifacts and those of related entities. By preserving and managing the records that reflect the work of the Church, its people, and its institutions, the Archives participates in the strengthening of Catholic faith in Southeastern Wisconsin, the United States and throughout the Church Universal.

Collections
The Archives' collections date back to the 1820s when Catholics began settling in Southeastern Wisconsin. Their strongest collections document the various offices within the Archdiocese and St. Francis Seminary – the oldest seminary in the United States still in existence today. This includes the papers of the Archbishops and Auxiliary Bishops of Milwaukee, as well as papers of a few individual priests. The Archives also has historical information on all the parishes within the Archdiocese, including more substantial records from several churches that have merged or closed over the years. In addition there is a strong collection of photographs. Of particular interest to genealogists are pre-1921 sacramental records which include baptism, marriage and death records.


Diary of Fr. Martin Kundig, one of the first priests in Wisconsin, 1828.


Baptismal record from Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary parish, Franklin, 1862.


Sacred Heart parish, Milwaukee.


Sisters participating in a Civil Rights march.

Images courtesy of Archdiocese of Milwaukee Archives.

Entry compiled by Katie Scanlan

Rock County Archives and Research Center

933 Mineral Point Avenue
Janesville, WI 53548
Phone: 608-756-4509 or 608-752-5891
Email: rchs[at]rchs.us
http://www.rchs.us
Rock County Genealogical Society Library and offices in the building:
Email: Rock_wi_genealogy[at]yahoo.com
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wircgs/

The Lincoln-Tallman House in Janesville is a facility maintained by the Rock County Historical Society (RCHS). William Morrison Tallman was a lawyer who traveled from Brooklyn to Wisconsin in 1848, buying land in western Wisconsin. He established law firms in Wisconsin and moved his family to Janesville in 1850, building his family's new home, which was to become the Lincoln-Tallman House in 1853. Abraham Lincoln conducted a speaking tour with a stop in Janesville, spending a weekend in October 1859 at the Tallman House. The Lincoln-Tallman House is an important historical and architectural monument in Rock County.

The Rock County Historical Society also owns and operates the Rock County Archives and Research Center. Volunteer staff from RCHS and The Rock County Genealogical Society help maintain the collection and assist researchers by written or telephone request or in person visits.

Collections
The collection includes photographs, postcards, maps, plat books, the Tallman Family archives, city directories, probate records, diaries, family papers, business records, school yearbooks and records, local organization records, books, indexes to Rock County birth, marriage and death records, cemetery records and scrapbooks.


William Morrison Tallman and bicycle.


Postcard of the Fountain at the Corn Exchange, Janesville, WI.


New acquisitions – ledgers from a local insurance company.

Top image: The Wilson-King Stone House, home to the Rock County Archives & Research Center.

Images courtesy of the Rock County Archives and Research Center.

Entry compiled by Sarah Mueller

University of Wisconsin-Parkside Archives and Area Research Center

D-276 Wyllie Library Learning Center
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
900 Wood Road
Kenosha, WI 53141-2000
Phone: 262/595-2077 or 262/595-2411
FAX: 262/595-2545
Email: archives[at]uwp.edu
http://www.uwp.edu/departments/library/archives/

The Parkside Area Research Center (ARC) was opened in 1977 and operates in connection with the Wisconsin Historical Society. It is part of a network of fourteen Wisconsin centers which make local public records and historical manuscripts available to the public. By participating in this statewide network of ARCs, the Archives is able to provide access to the holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society and other ARCs via the ARC transfer system.

University Records
It is the Archives' primary mission to document the history of UW-Parkside by preserving and making accessible the records of the university and its predecessor institutions. We acquire records from all levels of the university, including administrative and governance units; academic departments; athletic programs; and student organizations.

Local Manuscript Collection
In addition to its ARC holdings, the Archives Department also houses a variety of local and regional manuscript collections. These holdings include the Vincent F. Ruffolo Collection of Nash and AMC materials, the Irving Wallace collection, the National Association of College Learning Association records, and the records of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, among others.

Special Collections
The UW-Parkside’s Special Collections include a rich selection of Artists’ Books, small press publications and monographs published in or about Racine and Kenosha. It also contains first and rare editions as well as a number of signed editions.


Non-tenured college instructors at UW-Parkside protest the decision to not renew their contracts.


The interior of the Truck Assembly Room at the Winther Motor and Truck Company factory.


Warren Fenn Bodurtha Gardner, almost 5, poses with empty Horlick's Malted Milk bottles as testament to the benefits of drinking Horlick's. Young Gardner's mother died shortly after he was born, and he couldn't tolerate pure cow's milk. His aunt and grandmothers fed him Horlick's, resulting in the healthy boy pictured here.

Images Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Archives and Area Research Center.

Entry compiled by Becky Julson

Marquette University Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Raynor Memorial Libraries
1355 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53201
(414) 288-5901
http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/

Founded in 1961, Marquette University Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives (SPARC) preserves and provides access to more than 17,500 cubic feet of manuscripts and university records and more than 7,500 volumes of rare books. Marquette's University Archives preserves the documentary heritage of Wisconsin's largest private university, with vast holdings about student life, intercollegiate athletics, and faculty teaching and research.

Collections
Marquette maintains several manuscript acquisition programs, including two that are national in scope. The Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection and the records of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference are just a few of the cornerstone collections within Marquette's Catholic social action collecting program. Marquette University also preserves Catholic Church records of documenting Native America, including extensive school and mission records. The papers of several prominent Wisconsin politicians are available at Marquette, including Joseph R. McCarthy, Tommy Thompson, and Clement J. Zablocki. Finally, Marquette preserves the J.R.R. Tolkien Collection, containing the manuscripts of both "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," plus nearly 1200 secondary titles that augment the manuscripts.

Links
Digital collections can be accessed here:
http://www.marquette.edu/library/MUDC/

General information about Marquette's collections can be found here:
http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/collpol.html#general


Students take to Wisconsin Avenue following Marquette's victory in the 1977 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament.


Detail of St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei (The City of God), a 1473 edition from the printing press of Gutenberg's successors in Mainz.

Top image: Peace activist Kathy Kelly delivering the records of Voices in the Wilderness to the Raynor Library, 2004.

Entry compiled by Becky Julson

Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, UW-La Crosse

Murphy Library Resource Center
1631 Pine St.
La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone: 608-785-8511
Email: specoll[at]uwlax.edu
http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/departments/archome.html

The Area Research Center in La Crosse is also the Special Collections department in Murphy Library, the main research facility on the UW-La Crosse campus. It serves and documents five Wisconsin counties; Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Trempealeau, and Vernon. Along with special collections and the ARC, it houses the rare book and Wisconsiana collections. The Wisconsiana materials consist of over 5000 works of non-fiction dealing with state and local topics, including histories of Wisconsin towns, villages and communities. There are also oral history collections, maps, photographs and university archives.

The Oral History program was started in 1968 under the direction of Howard Fredericks, UW-La Crosse professor and oral historian. Since then, the collection has grown to include over 3000 hours of recorded histories, focusing on the community and the history of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The significance of these recordings goes beyond the five counties served, and garners national interest especially in the areas of the Hmong refugee experience, European ethnic groups, turn of the century small city manners and daily life, Midwestern rural life and culture, and women’s experience.

The photographic collections total approximately 150,000 images. A major portion of the photograph collection is historic photos of La Crosse and the surrounding area. Of these, approximately 50,000 are of inland river steamboats and river scenes, making it one of the nation's largest collections for this subject. Just recently, in 2007-2008, this collection of steamboat photographs has been digitized by the Digital Collection Center of the UW Madison campus. The digitized photographs are available at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/LaCrosseSteamboat/.


This is the Admiral sidewheel paddle excursion boat, built in 1940 in St. Louis, where this photo was taken. Undated.


Photo of a lumber raft on the Mississippi River near La Crosse, WI, includes the towboat “Kit Carson” and the bow boat “Scotia”. This photo was taken in the 1870’s. Negative number 339


Overhead view of Levee Park in La Crosse, WI about 1913 with the steamboat “David Tipton” in the center. Negative number 389

Images courtesy of Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, UW-La Crosse.

Entry compiled by Rachel Pieper

Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives & Area Research Center

506 University Library
900 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481
Phone: 715-346-2586
e-mail: archives[at]uwsp.edu
http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/archives/archives.htm

The Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point was dedicated on Thursday, May 22, 1997. The facility was named in honor of Nelis R. Kampenga, Professor Emeritus, who served the university from 1941 until his retirement in 1974. During his 33-year tenure at UWSP, Kampenga also served as library director and was instrumental in the establishment of the first Area Research Center. Active in the Portage County Historical Society, he played an important role in having the collections of the society housed and cared for in the University Archives. He also served on the Portage County Preservation Projects Inc. and the Plover Plan Commission.

Collections
The Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives is the home for a variety of materials related to the history, development, traditions, and activities of the UWSP and the local community. Holdings include manuscripts, books, pamphlets, audio and video tapes, photographs, printed reports, minutes, memoranda, student publications, slides, newspapers, and artifacts. Of particular interest: 40 boxes of resource materials documenting UWSP’s involvement in educational development in South Vietnam; printed materials covering the Women’s Liberation and Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s, and several collections relating to industrial forestry and natural resources.

The Area Research Center Network (ARC) is composed of 14 sites located throughout the State of Wisconsin. Each ARC serves and houses the records for a specific geographic area. The UWSP Archives serves a nine county area that includes Adams, Juneau, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Portage, Waupaca, Waushara, and Wood Counties. The ARC contains public records, corporate records, personal papers and genealogical sources.

The University Archives houses and preserves historic records owned by the Portage County Historical Society that pertain to the history of Stevens Point and Central Wisconsin. The University also hosts the Society's Web site at http://www.pchswi.org/. Among the holdings are state and local histories, local newspapers, genealogical resources, plat maps, city directories, indices, biographical and subject files, and the Portage County Historical Society Photo Collection.


Logging, Stevens Point.


Stevens Point Brewing Company.

Images courtesy of the Portage County Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point University Archives.

Entry compiled by Lisa Muccigrosso

Wisconsin Historical Society

816 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
http://wisconsinhistory.org/

The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, two years before Wisconsin became the 30th state, and it ranks as one of the largest, most active, and most diversified state historical societies in the nation. Its headquarters were dedicated in 1900 as the home of Wisconsin history.

Highlights:
Wisconsin Historical Society Image Collections
The Wisconsin Historical Society's Archives collections include approximately three million photographs, negatives, films, cartoons, lithographs, posters, and ephemeral materials from private, business, and governmental sources that document the rich social, economic, and political history of Wisconsin and the upper Midwest as well as those ethnic groups who helped shape its history. In addition to strong holdings in regional history, the collections have a national focus in the areas of nineteenth century expeditionary photography, Native American images, mass communications, and social action movements, including labor and civil rights.

Wisconsin Genealogical Index
Patrons can search for pre-1907 Vital Records, including birth, death, and marriage records as well as for 150,000 Wisconsin Name Index records, including biographical sketches, obituaries, and newspaper articles published before 2000.

Odd Wisconsin
From its beginnings as a blog to a book and now a museum exhibit, Odd Wisconsin aims to amuse, surprise, perplex, astonish, and otherwise connect Wisconsinites with their past.


Construction of the Wisconsin Historical Society building, 1898. Image courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society.


"Attempting to fly," from the Wright Days Gallery in the Sky High online exhibit. WHS Image ID 2077


"Original Wisconsin Historical Society Library," featuring the 3x4 foot bookcase from which the WHS Library eventually grew. Read about it here. WHS Image ID 40286

Images courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Entry compiled by Lisa Muccigrosso