Category: manuscripts

• Exhibit Checklist for Plants Plantations Labor Trade

  Posted on Dec 8th

  Special Collections is part of the campus Library By Appointment system, and we welcome your visit to consult our holdings in the […]

• New Exhibit: Plants Plantations Labor Trade

  Posted on Jan 27th

  We welcome you to our new exhibit,  Plants  Plantations  Labor  Trade: An Exhibit of Holdings of the UW-Madison Libraries and Wisconsin Historical Society […]

• Special Exhibit Hours for UW-Madison Science Expeditions 2019

  Posted on Apr 4th

  We’re delighted to be one of the “destinations for exploration” in this year’s UW-Madison Science Expeditions, the annual campus-wide open house that […]

• Aldo Leopold and Wisconsin Winter

  Posted on Jan 22nd

  We call your attention to the new exhibit in Special Collections — “Aldo Leopold: Life, Land, Legacy.” Most of the photographs on […]

• Draining Land, 18th-Century Style

  Posted on Sep 3rd

  As Madison and Dane County cope with widespread flooding, we turn to earlier examples of water control – an 18th-century illustration of […]

• Aldo Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac”

  Posted on Mar 8th

  This weekend’s community reading of Aldo Leopold’s Sand county almanac at the UW-Madison Arboretum prompts us to highlight the rich resources related to […]

• Event Celebrating Acquisition of Woodland Pattern Book Center Archive

  Posted on Feb 6th

  Woodland Pattern Book Center Poetry for 30 Years and Beyond Please join us for a discussion with Woodland Pattern Book Center founders […]

• Last Week for Exhibit “On the Sunny Side”

  Posted on Oct 1st

  This will be the last week for our exhibit “On the Sunny Side,” showcasing books, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials from […]

• “Archives & Agential Life” Workshop

  Posted on Jun 18th

  Participants in a recent workshop entitled “Archives & Agential Life” made enthusiastic use of the holdings of Special Collections. Co-directed by Prof. […]

• Irish manuscript included in exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library

  Posted on Jan 25th

  An exhibition entitled “Nobility and newcomers in Renaissance Ireland,” which explores the Ireland of Shakespeare’s time, opened on January 19, 2013, at […]