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Yearbook covers UWM YEARBOOK COLLECTION. The collection includes 25 volumes of the student yearbook, The Ivy. The annual was published from 1942 to 1968. It documents the history of both the Milwaukee State Teachers College--later renamed the Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee--and the formative years of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Greetings from Milwaukee: Selections from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection Greetings from Milwaukee: Selections from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection. The collection presents 200 postcards from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection (UWM Manuscript Collection 171). The digital collection focuses on the postcards with images of Milwaukee produced by Milwaukee publishers from 1900 to 1959.
Kwasniewski Photographic Collection Kwasniewski Photographic Collection. Collection includes over thirty images from the Roman B.J. Kwasniewski Photograph Collection (UWM Manuscript Collection 19). Kwasniewski was a photographer who worked in the Polish-American community on Milwaukee's south side during the first half of the twentieth century.
Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps 1885 -1992 Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps 1885-1992. The collection provides a visual documentation of the development of Milwaukee neighborhoods. Drawn from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library and the Archives Department at the UWM Libraries, the project includes 638 photographs and twelve maps.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History. This collection includes 1,800 images documenting 195 performances of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. The images were selected from the Mark Avery Collection (UWM Manuscript Collection 155). Avery worked as the staff photographer for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. His photographs document the artistic productions of the Theater from 1977 to 1994.
Picturing Golda Meir Picturing Golda Meir: Photographs from the Collection at the UWM Libraries. The 160 images presented in this digital collection were selected from the Golda Meir Collection (UWM Manuscript Collection 21). The digital collection documents the life of Golda Meir from her 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).
Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Collection The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience. Collection includes diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the nineteenth century. The project has been made available through the partnership of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL) and the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS). From the holdings of the UWM Archives Department, the digital collection includes Enoch Chase Reminiscences, 1876 (Milwaukee Small Collection 32); James and Margaret Douglas Letters, 1840-1843 (Milwaukee Small Collection 162); Lyman Goodnow Recollection, 1880 [?] (Milwaukee Small Collection 19); and Gerard Brandt Letters, 1850-1860 (Milwaukee Small Collection 47).

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