We are moving our blog to a new platform – please come check us out! We’ll be launching a series of new posts this summer to let you know all about the goings on in Digital Collections, so stay tuned. And please resubscribe over at our new home: https://uwmdigitalcollections.blogspot.com/ Continue reading UWM Digital Collections blog is moving!
The award-winning March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project was relaunched this week. The updated digital collection, which provides online access to primary sources telling the story of the Milwaukee civil rights movement, has been entirely redesigned. New content includes over 500 pages from the papers of Vel Phillips, the first woman and first African-American to serve on the Common Council, recently donated to the Wisconsin … Continue reading March on Milwaukee relaunched!
In recognition of World AIDS Day, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archives and Digital Collections announce the launch of the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) digital collection. The digital collection includes posters, photographs and selected audio-visual materials documenting ARCW’s pioneering work to eradicate HIV/AIDS in Wisconsin. The digitized items represent a small portion of a much larger collection of ARCW records that were donated to … Continue reading AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) Digital Collection Launches Today
“Milwaukee Polonia: The Roman Kwasniewski Photographs” collection was awarded the Polish American Congress-Wisconsin Division’s Congressman Clement J. Zablocki “Civic Achievement Award” at an event on Nov. 8, 2015. The award is given to to individuals and organizations that are making a major difference within the Polish community both here in the Milwaukee area and throughout the state of Wisconsin. It is an honor to be … Continue reading Milwaukee Polonia receives award
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The fall of 1956 was an exciting time in Milwaukee. Not only was it the start of the fall semester, but there was a new school, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a new student newspaper, the UWM Post. This fall, the UWM Archives and Digital Collections are excited to announce something new as well—the first volume of the UWM Post is now digitized and fully searchable … Continue reading UWM Post: Volume One online
By Hailey Strickon In 1967, Vietnam, the Beatles, and interracial marriages graced the covers of Time magazine. The Velvet Underground released their first album. So did Jimi Hendrix. Psychedelia bloomed. 1967 was also the year of the long hot summer when many cities, including Milwaukee, experienced rioting and civil unrest. This was the scene at the time of Kaleidoscope‘s premiere in October of that year. Milwaukee’s … Continue reading The full run of Kaleidoscope is online
Today we launch Milwaukee Polonia, a digital collection of nearly 32,000 historic photographs of our city’s historic Polish-American community. The launch is just in time for Milwaukee’s annual Polish Fest celebration, June 13-15, 2014. We’ve been blogging about our progress here since last year; and if you’ve been following along, you know that today represents a significant accomplishment. Today’s launch isn’t just photographs: our online … Continue reading Milwaukee Polonia Digital Collection is live!
by Emma Cobb The UWM Libraries recently published the video archives of the Milwaukee Gay/Lesbian Cable Network (MGLCN), an important media collection relating to local LGBT history. MGLCN was a volunteer group that produced regular and special programming on gay and lesbian issues for Milwaukee’s public access channel from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Its most significant programs were Tri-Cable Tonight and New Tri-Cable. … Continue reading Milwaukee Gay/Lesbian Cable Network Videos Available Online
By Dan Hauck The Roman Kwasniewski photograph collection includes many photographs of the Tadeusz Kosciuszko monument at Kosciuszko Park on Milwaukee’s south side. Most of the photographs were taken in the 1920s when the monument was located in its original location on the north side of the park. Those photographs all include two cannons flanking the mounted general. I frequently pass the park these days, … Continue reading The Cannons of Kosciuszko Park
Digital Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 