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  • Walworth County Plat Map (1857)

    The Walworth County Plat Map of 1857 is the oldest and one of the most frequently used map in the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater Archives collection. The 1857 Walworth County Plat map is frequently consulted by students, local historians and ge…

  • Civil War Band Collection : 1st Brigade Band of Brodhead, Wisconsin

    This collection may be searched by composer, title, or keywords. These searches will bring together all the compositions by one composer or all the parts for individual tunes. History of the 1st Brigade Band In 1857, a group of citizens of Brodhead…

  • Theatre to Cinema : Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film

    The centerpiece of this collection is a reprint of Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film, by Ben Brewster and Lea Jacobs first published by Oxford University Press in 1997. While previous accounts of the relationship betw…

  • Applications Technology Satellite Image Collection

    This collection represents a selection of images of weather events as seen from space. One of the first geostationary satellites, known as the Applications Technology Satellite-I, launched on December 7, 1966. It carried an instrument invented by U…

  • Ainu Komonjo (18th & 19th century records) : Ohnuki Collection

    This collection of books represents the earliest depictions of the Ainu by the Japanese. They are primarily about the Sakhalin Ainu, since the books were acquired by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney at the time she was studying them. The Ainu, who lived on Sak…

  • William W. Sage collection on Laos

    The Sage Collection consists of 1253 photographs taken primarily by William Sage, with additional photographs contributed by James Bowman, former International Voluntary Services volunteer (IVS) and United States Agency for International Developmen…

  • German-American Music Project Collection

    The German-American Music Project Collection documents significant aspects of German-American music and related cultural traditions in Wisconsin, mainly in Calumet, Dodge, Marathon, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee counties. The research and field…

  • Plat Books and Atlases of Kenosha and Racine Counties

    The history of Racine County comes alive through this collection of Plat Books and Atlases. Spanning the years 1887-1956 it's interesting to see the shifting landscape as more and more people moved from the dense urban environment of the City of Ra…