Digital Collections
The Digital Collections at the UWM Libraries include over 54,000 photographic images, maps, and books drawn from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library, the Archives, Special Collections, and the Curriculum Library. Read more about UWM Libraries Digital Collections ...
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Award-Winning
The March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project
This digital collection, which has won three state and national awards, presents primary sources from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society that provide a window onto Milwaukee’s civil rights history. The efforts of community activists and their opponents in the 1960s are documented in the primary sources found here, including photographs, unedited news film footage, text documents, and oral history interviews. This website also includes a bibliography and timeline.
Recent Additions
National Endowment for the Humanities: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Images
With generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) of the UWM Libraries has been able to institute two projects with the scope of re-housing, scanning, creating metadata for, and preserving on a long-term basis approximately 68,000 nitrate negatives, 35,000 safety negatives, and 25,000 feet of motion picture film in its historic photography collection.
The Tse-Tsung Chow Collection of Chinese Scrolls and Fan Paintings
This digital collection contains 50 images of Chinese scrolls and fan paintings from the collection of the UW-Madison Professor Emeritus Tse-Tsung Chow. The collection of over 120 calligraphic and painted Chinese scrolls and fans, ranging from the 18th through the 20th centuries, was donated to the Special Collections Department of the UWM Libraries. The digital collection contains bilingual English-Chinese descriptive information.
Peck School of the Arts Slide Collection
* Use restricted to UWM Faculty, Staff, and Students
Peck School of the Arts Slide Collection contains digital reproductions of the Arts Slide Collection, used for teaching, research, and student scholarship on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus.
Curriculum Library
Selections from the Curriculum Library’s Historical Collection consists of 30 full-text books that are representative of the Historical Collection located within the Curriculum Library. Included in the digital collection are historical picture books, instructional books and primary readers for teaching purposes.
World Digital Library
World Digital Library: Selections from the American Geographical Society Library map collection are available at the World Digital Library, a global collection of exhibits from UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.
UW Digital Collections
UW Digital Collections : Digitization projects developed by University of Wisconsin Libraries, including collections created individually and cooperatively by libraries.
UW Institutional Repository
MINDS@UW is designed to gather, distribute, and preserve digital materials related to the University of Wisconsin's research and instructional mission.