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  • Berlin, Wisconsin Public Schools 1882-1883

    Lists the teachers and staff and pupils from the school year 1882-1883. Lists former graduates of classes from 1865 thru 1882 and where they were in 1882-1883. There is also a photo of the Berlin High School.

  • GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Wisconsin

    GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

  • Great Lakes Maritime History Project

    Great Lakes maritime history, Wisconsin history, Wisconsin immigrants, shipwrecks. The state of Wisconsin has a proud and colorful history. One of its richest and most romantic chapters is its maritime history, staged on the waters of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, on hundreds of smaller lakes and a whole network of rivers. Much of that fascinating story has been captured in photography and art and this web site brings to the public eye some of its highlights.Wisconsin pioneers of the 1830s and '40s, largely Irish, German and Scandinavian immigrants, came West on paddlewheel steamboats. Lumber from Wisconsin's forests was ferried to the markets of the East by hundreds of tall sailing ships. Fleets of swift propellers brought manufactured goods from the Atlantic states to burgeoning Wisconsin cities in the Civil War era, and took back grain and flour and dairy products from Badger State farms. Since the 1860s, natural resources mined in Wisconsin have been transported to distant cities and steel mills by distinctive Great Lakes bulk freighters. The ports of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior became favorite destinations for passenger cruise liners before the end of the Nineteenth Century. And more recently, the St. Lawrence Seaway has brought to Wisconsin's ports literally hundreds of picturesque ocean ships each year.

  • History of the Great Lakes States

    View or download digital historical and genealogical materials online, free. Books, magazines, newspapers, court records, documents, maps, archives, etc. for Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan & Wisconsin.

  • Pioneering the Upper Midwest

    Pioneering the Upper Midwest, ca. 1820-1910, contains seventeenth- to early twentieth-century accounts of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin as recorded in 138 books drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division.

  • The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871

    Research guide for genealogists and history buffs to America's most disastrous forest fire which occurred the same day as the more famous, but less deadly Chicago Fire.

  • The Milton House Museum Historic Site

    Includes information about the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin.

  • The State of Wisconsin Collection

    Numerous digitized histories of communities throughout Wisconsin.

  • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

    Promoting the Wisconsin idea by providing professional leadership in the creation of quality digital resources from libraries and archives for faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars at large.

    • Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

      The Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids presents archival finding aids prepared and contributed by the following institutions: The University of Wisconsin Archives and Records Management Service, University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Department of Special Collections, Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. These finding aids describe unpublished primary resources held in institutions throughout the Midwest. They serve as the primary access point for more detailed research information found in archival and manuscript repositories. In general, archival collections can include a variety of materials such as correspondence, diaries, maps, government records, film, photographs, and audio.

    • The State of Wisconsin Collection

      The State of Wisconsin Collection brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary materials: writings about the State of Wisconsin and unique or valuable materials that relate to its history and ongoing development. Compiled by librarians, archivists, and subject specialists, the collection includes published material as well as archival materials. The materials were digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources deemed important to the study and teaching of the State of Wisconsin. This collection is a work-in-progress. New titles are added frequently. All content is digital and available to the public.

    • Wisconsin Blue Books

      The digitization of 150 years of The State of Wisconsin Blue Book reference series provides worldwide access to facts and figures pertaining to the government, people, industry, lifestyle and history of the state. The project includes Blue Books from 1853

  • Wisconsin Electronic Reader

    The Wisconsin Electronic Reader is a cooperative project of the University of Wisconsin General Library System and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in celebration of the sesquicentennial of Wisconsin statehood which includes stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals, postcards and tidbits from Wisconsin history. This excellent site does include relationships to other states and has a SEARCH capability.

  • Wisconsin History Links

    A comprehensive guide to resources on Wisconsin history on the Internet.

  • Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles

    Historical and biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The original material was organized into two groups (people and communities) and arranged alphabetically. Most articles were published between 1860 and 1940, though a few published earlier or later than these years are also included. Hundreds of Wisconsin local newspapers, and a few from other states.

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