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Digging into Wisconsin history through images, objects and texts from libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across the state. Find more at Recollection Wisconsin.

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Tuhus and Ecklor families at Thanksgiving, La Farge, Wisconsin, 1909.

via: La Farge Public Library by way of Winding Rivers Library System ECHO Project

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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, led by Fannie Lou Hamer and others, elected its own delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention to protest voter discrimination in Mississippi.   

Learn how the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and voting rights activism contributed to African American political empowerment in presidential elections in our new exhibition, Battle on the Ballot: Political Outsiders in US Presidential Elections.

This photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer giving a televised speech comes from the collection of Wisconsin Historical Society via Recollection Wisconsin.

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Carson Gulley: Madison, Wisconsin’s first celebrity chef

Born in rural Arkansas in 1897, Carson Gulley worked for 27 years as the head chef for the Housing Division at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He published two cookbooks, hosted cooking programs on local radio and TV, and fought against Madison's segregated housing laws.

Read more about Gulley in this excerpt from Madison Food: A History of Capital Cuisine by Nichole Fromm and JonMichael Rasmus. 

Images via: Wisconsin Historical Society (1); UW-Madison Archives/ University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (2,3)

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We are thrilled to announce that the collections of Recollection Wisconsin, are now ‘live’ in DPLA! As our newest Service Hub, Recollection Wisconsin has made some 400,000 new records representing photographs, books, maps, artifacts and other historical resources from more than 200 Wisconsin collections accessible in DPLA.

Highlights from the Wisconsin Hub include local stories and specialities as well as rich resources on the World War II Home Front, LGBT History, the Civil Rights Movement and much more!

https://dp.la/info/2016/08/04/welcome-wisconsin/

These selections {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] come from the collections of @uwmadarchives and UW-Superior, UW Digital Collections, Wisconsin Historical Society and @uwmarchives.

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We’re so excited to share Wisconsin’s amazing collections with the world through DPLA! 

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Wisconsin is now part of the Digital Public Library of America!

Read more about it at recollectionwisconsin.org/wi-joins-dpla.

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Woman’s Relief Corps float for 4th of July parade, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1907.

via: Crandon Community Building Collection, Crandon Public Library

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Scenes from 4th of July parade celebrating Whitefish Bay’s centennial, 1992.

From volume 29 in a series of 40 scrapbooks compiled by Mimi Bird of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin.

via: Mimi Bird Historical Collection, Whitefish Bay Public Library

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Dancing at Summerfest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1984. 

via: Milwaukee Historic Photos Collection, Milwaukee Public Library

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Emelia and Elizabeth Snyder, Richland Center, Wisconsin, ca. 1950s.

via: Richland County History Room

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Emelia and Elizabeth Snyder of Richland County, Wisconsin at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.

via: Richland County History Room

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Ed Piller plays concertina at a backyard party, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1976.

via: German-American Music Project Collection, Mills Music Library, UW-Madison, by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center

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Children sing at Holzhacker Lodge celebration, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1984.

via: German-American Music Project Collection, Mills Music Library, UW-Madison, by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center

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William and Fanny Van Zile's new home, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1900-1905.

“William and Fanny Van Zile, their children, and a neighbor couple pose with justifiable pride in front of what appears to be their newly completed home on the northeast corner of Wildwood Avenue and Washington Street.”

The house remains standing in the same location today. Google Street View.

via: Crandon Public Library

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Baseball team, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1905-1910.

via: Crandon Public Library

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Customers sitting outside Grand View Cafe, Kewaskum, Wisconsin, 1940.

via: Kewaskum Historical Society

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Mary and Agnes Sheldon at the Town of Milwaukee Town Hall, Shorewood, Wisconsin, April 1925.

Photo by Charles Sheldon.

via: Shorewood Historical Society

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Agnes Sheldon and her daughter Mary in front of a Milwaukee Transit double-decker bus, Shorewood, Wisconsin, May 1923.

Photo by Charles Sheldon.

via: Shorewood Historical Society