Special Collections and Archives: Digital Resources

Through funding provided by the Student Differential Tuition for the Jim Dan Hill Library, the historic University catalogs (1898-2012), yearbooks (1908-1972) and student newspapers (1920-2007) have been digitized and placed in an online database. The database is keyword searchable.
View instructions for using the Student Newspapers and Yearbooks.

A selection of digitized UW-Superior Campus' History Images from the History of the University Collection, UW Digital Collections.

Roughly 25,000 pages of original documents about Wisconsin in the Civil War are available online including soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs; regimental histories and rosters; photographs, maps, biographies and battle summaries.

Extensive regional, historical maps, including: Panoramic and Birds-eye views; Surveyor's notes and plat maps; WI exploration and economic, land ownership, and reference maps; and Kaysen Railroad Maps. WHS is currently digitizing its collection of Sanborn Perris Insurance maps; Superior Sanborn maps from 1887, 1889, 1892, and 1914 have already been digitized and are available.

The Wisconsin Historical Society has one of the richest collections of Civil Rights movement records in the nation, which includes more than 100 manuscript collections documenting the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.
More than 25,000 pages from the Freedom Summer manuscripts are available online.

Search by keyword, topic, community, or personal name. You can also browse by volume and scan article titles.

Browse the Wisconsin Historical Society webpage for more collections and resources.

The watercraft described in this website are some of the vessels that have made Wisconsin's history so rich. They also represent a sampling of the maritime resources in Wisconsin's libraries and universities.

The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century.

The UWDC contains dozens of collections, with over 1 million individual pages. Examples include WI Public Lands Survey Records; Ecology & Natural Resources; WI Geological & Natural History; Aldo Leopold Collection; and more.

Includes "Minnesota Reflections"

Includes Cleveland Cliffs Co. Records

Includes Keweenaw Digital Archives

(including the American Memory Project)

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1925 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Publications about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including Chief of Engineers annual reports and budget justifications. Includes Chief of Engineers reports dating back to 1901.