Visit their site this week to view an example of ROTC uniforms from 1921-1925 and scrapbook photos commemorating Armistice Day in Madison, 1918.
Feel free to link or to share Found in the Archives! with friends and colleagues. The site is also accessible from the UW-Madison Archives Website.
The University Archives recognizes volunteer and library school grad, Molly Temple, for creating the site, and generating its content.
With thanks to Vicki T., Images/Media Archivist, for this blog post.
As you plan to attend Homecoming festivities, take a look at the UW-Archives/UW-Digital Collections Flickr set to see how UW Madison Homecoming has been celebrated over the years. For more information about these photos or other aspects of UW-Madison campus history, contact the UW-Madison Archives or visit the Archives Images site.
Additionally, take a peek at the UW-Madison Collection, UW Digital Collections for more imagery and digitized (print) collections that explore the history of the university and the evolution of campus life.
In the spirit of Homecoming, take a look at the UW-Archives, Flickr set of Football Uniforms and Equipment (1890s-1980s). This particular collection was organized by Marcus Bacher for the University Archives. For more information about these photos or other aspects of UW-Madison campus history, contact the UW-Madison Archives or visit the Archives Images site.
Additionally, take a peek at the UW-Madison Collection, UW Digital Collections for more imagery and digitized (print) collections that explore the history of the university and the evolution of campus life.
Come celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Babcock Hall on October 14 (3:00-5:30 PM) in Rooms 205, 222 and Food Application Lab, Babcock Hall. The festivities will include a social hour and tour of the Food Applications and Ice Cream Lab. You are invited to register online by October 3, 2011. Babcock Hall first opened for use in 1951 and was named for pioneering agricultural/dairy chemist and professor, Stephen Babcock. Professor Babcock was also instrumental in the genesis of Steenbock Library with the donation of his first paycheck to seed a library for the University’s College of Agriculture.
This week on Flickr, University Archives features a small set of historic photos showing student campus housing from the late 1890s through 2008. How has "Move-in Week" and student accommodations changed during the years?! Be sure to take a peek (and reply to this post!) 100 Years of Student Housing at UW-Madison
The photos featured in this Flickr set will be added to UW Digital Collections-UW Madison Collection later this year.
For more information about the photo collections, visit the University Archives Images site.
With thanks to Vicki T., Images/Media Archivist, for this blog post.
Where were you on August 24, 1970? Beginning this August 23, the Wisconsin Story Project will install the Wisconsin Storybooth in Memorial Library (west corridor) to collect personal recollections of the Sterling Hall bombing. These personal stories will be added to the collections of the UW-Madison Archives and used as research for the Wisconsin Story Project’s next documentary theater project which will be based on the Sterling Hall event and the era of protest in Madison that preceded it.
The booth will remain in Memorial Library through August 29 and is open to the public. Representatives from the partnering units of the UW‐Madison Oral History Program and the Wisconsin Story Project will be on hand to assist community members with sharing and recording their stories.
About UW‐Madison Libraries & its Oral History Program
The UW-Madison Libraries’ staff and resources are vital to the teaching, learning, and research and outreach mission of the state’s flagship university. The campus oral history program aligns with the libraries’ vision by gathering, preserving, and providing access to audio recordings, transcripts, and other related material to people both on and off campus. The program also works with individuals and groups throughout Wisconsin to assist in the oral history interviews and projects.
About the Wisconsin Story Project
Founded in 2008 by Talish Barrow, Mike Lawler, and Christina Martin‐Wright, the Wisconsin Story Project is a non-profit artist collective dedicated to the gathering and creative-sharing of stories from Wisconsin. WSP recently staged its first full theatrical production, Cancer Stories, in The Playhouse at the Overture Center. It hosts monthly Storyshares, live storytelling events at The Project Lodge in Madison, and also produces a semi‐regular podcast called the Wisconsin Storycast, available on iTunes or at wisconsinstory.org.
About the Storybooth
Built with the generous support of the Spring Green Area Arts Coalition and American Players Theatre, the Wisconsin Storybooth debuted as part of an art installation called Cancer Stories…Art in the Playhouse Gallery of the Overture Center in May 2010. It will next be used at the annual event for the charity organization 4PeteSake in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and then be used to collect local memories of the Sterling Hall bombing of 1970 during the fortieth anniversary of the event.
Of related interest, visit the Campus Voices page (Oral History Program and UW Digital Collections)
and History of 20th Century Protests & Social Action at UW-Madison (UW-Madison Archives)
With thanks to Troy Reeves, Head, Oral History Program, for supplying this blog post.
Have you ever wondered about those individuals for whom our campus buildings are named--who they were and how they have come to be so honored? As part of an ongoing series from University Communications, you can learn a little more about the people behind the buildings. About Harry Steenbock, Biochemistry Department, Steenbock Symposium
And, of related interest: Buildings of the University of Wisconsin
The UW-Madison Oral History Program, in collaboration with the Forest Products Laboratory and the UW Digital Collections Center has launched a new web presentation of oral histories that celebrates the centennial anniversary of the lab and documents its history as a leading research facility dedicated to the study of wood and its judicious use as a renewable resource. Through audio recordings and transcripts, the narrators (current and former staff) share their anecdotes and perspectives about the history and research of the lab. Visitors to the site will be able to browse or search the oral histories and listen to the recorded interviews.
Visit the History of 20th Century Protests & Social Action site.
The University Archives welcomes visitors during its two open house occasions, October 30 and November 1 from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM. During the late summer and early fall, the offices for the University Archives and Records Management Services consolidated into renovated space on the fourth floor of Steenbock Library.
Come tour the new office space and storage facilities, browse collections and special displays. (Tours commence on the hour).
Offices for the University Archives and Records Management Services have consolidated into renovated space on the fourth floor of Steenbock Library. Archives Director David Null and remaining staff have arrived with collections from Memorial Library to join forces with those already at Steenbock. The Archives has also recently hired Troy Reeves as head of its Oral History Program.
Please join Steenbock Library in welcoming the archivists to their new space, and we invite you to visit the next time you enter our building! The Archives is open from
