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| The richest resource about Sen. William Proxmire's life and times. Unpublished papers fill over 200 boxes, more than 7,500 pages are available online. |
| See original maps from this Depression-era project that documented Wisconsin's land resources between 1929 and 1949. |
| Begin your family history research with these tips for using census, birth, death and marriage records. |
| Find out more about the McCormick-IHC Collection. |
| U.S. General Land Office Surveyors' Field Notes and Plat Maps |
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| Hand-drawn township plat maps and surveyors field notes about tree cover, soils, streams, rock outcroppings, villages, trails and roads from 1833-1866. |
| Learn tips for using passenger lists for family history research. |
| Learn how to access and explore the Henry and Elizabeth Baird Papers. |
| See links to helpful websites offering tips on caring for and maintaining family treasures. |
| See an overview of the Society's Draper Manuscripts Collection. |
| Access approximately 200 modern maps of basic cultural and geographical data about Wisconsin and its history. Perfect for teachers, students. |
| The Society owns one of the nation's richest collections of Civil Rights movement records, including more than 100 manuscript collections on Freedom Summer |
| Learn about the Wisconsin Historical Society Web Archives (Archive-It) collection. |
| Learn how to use our newspapers, obituaries and biographical articles for genealogy research. |
| See our genealogy webinars, workshops and classes offered every spring and fall. |
| The 1849 Sketches of James F. Wilkins |
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| View this selection of drawings by James F. Wilkins, created on his journey on the Overland Trail from Missouri to Califonia in 1849. |
| Learn how to start researching your family history using our physical and online family history resources. |
| Learn tips for using our collections of over 40,000 published family histories for geneaology research. |
| See a list of reliable preservation and conservation resources for museums, historical societies, libraries and other cultural collecting institutions. |
| Photographs and Poetic Texts |
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| Learn about the experimental style of one of the country's most respected scholars in the field of photography and archives. |
| Common questions about the Wisconsin Historical Society Web Archives collection. |
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