[Midwest][Urban Development] Photo Archive documenting the construction of one of the first McDonalds franchise locations in Wisconsin. The archive chronicles the development of roadside land on South Hastings Way into a branded fast food franchise in 1958-1960, a direct record of how postwar commercial urbanization reached west central Wisconsin through.....

[Radical Activism] [Student Protest] Wisconsin, Madison student protest press photo archive documenting antiwar mobilization and police suppression in Madison, Wisconsin, 1965 to 1970, a concentrated visual record of how campus dissent, municipal policing, and press transmission operated during the Vietnam War era. The group centers on successive flashpoints in Madison.....

Wisconsin military family photo album, ca 1900s to 1920s, a regional visual record that combines World War I era training camp activity with domestic and labor life in the Upper Midwest. The album preserves a sequence of soldier training images alongside family gatherings and logging scenes, documenting the integration of.....

1950s crime investigation archive documenting police evidence work during a period when departments increasingly relied on crime-scene photography, forensic comparison procedure, footwear evidence analysis, fingerprint comparison, and organized mid-century police evidence methodology to connect suspects to burglaries, thefts, and other property crimes. The material records officers inside a commercial or.....

Electrical utility and powerhouse photo archive depicting steam driven generating equipment, industrial boiler systems, and municipal electrification infrastructure in La Crosse, Wisconsin, during the period when regional utilities expanded centralized electric service across Midwestern cities and manufacturing districts. Wisconsin communities rapidly modernized electrical distribution between the 1910s and postwar decades.....

Filer & Stowell machinery photo archive, circa 1920s, preserving a substantial visual record of American industrialization at the moment when specialized regional manufacturers supplied the machinery that made large-scale lumber processing, milling, brewing, transportation, and factory production possible. Founded in Milwaukee in 1856, Filer & Stowell became one of the.....

[LGBTQ] GPU News Magazine Archive of four issues. Milwaukee: Gay People's Union. This archive includes: Oct 1979 (Vol. 9, No. 1), Dec. 1979 (Vol. 9, No. 3), Sept 1980 (Vol. 9, No.1 2),Oct. 1980 (Vol. 10, No. 1). Measures 8.5" x 11" inches. Each magazine 40-50 pages including covers. Semi-slick.....

The Enthusiast, a monthly publication produced by the Harley-Davidson Motor Company, chronicling American motorcycle culture at mid-century. Milwaukee, WI: Harley-Davidson Motor Co., February–November 1950. Archive of five issues, each 23 pages and measuring 9" x 6". Each issue covers racing, club news, technical updates, reader-submitted photographs, and interestingly, the emergence.....

[Feminism][Socialism][Labor][LGBTQ] Underground newspaper Kaleidoscope, Milwaukee, WI, archive of two issues. Vol. 1, No. 7 (Oct. 29–Nov. 11, 1970); Vol. 3, No. 23 (Jan. 15–22, 1971). Two original issues from Milwaukee’s radical newspaper Kaleidoscope, a cornerstone of New Left, feminist, and countercultural expression in the Midwest. These issues exemplify the intersectional.....

[Women in Science][Medical] Women's Education] Rosa, Delaphine Grace. The Variability of Caseolytic and Sucrose-Fermenting Characteristics of Certain Bacteria. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1938. 40 pages of typed text, accompanied by 12 pages of microphotography. Solid black hardcover with gilt engraved spine "Rosa, D.G. - PH.D. Thesis - 1938". 8.5" x......