Category: UW Digital Collections

• Winter Break Hours

  Posted on Dec 21st

  The Department of Special Collections will resume Library By Appointment for its reading room with appointments (Tuesday-Thursday, 1-4 PM) available beginning January […]

• Special Collections Open By Appointment

  Posted on Aug 10th

  Our doors are open, and we are delighted to welcome you back as part of the Library By Appointment service. Please make […]

• 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 […]

• Earth Day and the Arboretum

  Posted on Apr 22nd

  To commemorate Earth Day 2019 and to honor the UW-Madison Arboretum, which was just added to the National Register of Historic Places, […]

• 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 […]

• Tracing Snowflakes

  Posted on Dec 19th

  Unseasonably warm temperatures here in Madison have recently melted what little snow we have received this season. By way of what we’re missing, […]

• Commemorating the Armistice

  Posted on Nov 11th

  One hundred years ago, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, fighting in the war to end […]

• “Stupendous and Marvelous Secrets”: Secret No More (Part II)

  Posted on Oct 3rd

  We continue our exploration of so-called books of secrets (secreti italiani) in the Duveen Collection, recently digitized as part of the subcollection […]

• “Stupendous and Marvelous Secrets”: Secret No More (Part I)

  Posted on Sep 9th

    Some of the smallest treasures of the Duveen Collection of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, cataloged under the collective title of “Miscellaneous […]

• Alchemy and Other Curiosities

  Posted on Jul 6th

  This year’s Madison Early Music Festival, with its theme “A Cabinet of Curiosities: Journey to Lübeck,” offers us the opportunity to showcase […]

• Go, Badgers!

  Posted on Mar 24th

  John James Audubon (best known for his double-elephant folio Birds of America) drew a sharp distinction between the North American badger and […]

• To Welcome Spring

  Posted on Mar 19th

  To welcome the first day of spring tomorrow, we offer details of hand-colored engravings and distinctive bindings from our holdings. Our copy […]