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We’re delighted to welcome you back to campus and to invite you to consult the holdings of Special Collections in our reading …
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The Department of Special Collections will resume Library By Appointment for its reading room with appointments (Tuesday-Thursday, 1-4 PM) available beginning January …
Our doors are open, and we are delighted to welcome you back as part of the Library By Appointment service. Please make …
We welcome you to our new exhibit, Plants Plantations Labor Trade: An Exhibit of Holdings of the UW-Madison Libraries and Wisconsin Historical Society …
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To commemorate Earth Day 2019 and to honor the UW-Madison Arboretum, which was just added to the National Register of Historic Places, …
We call your attention to the new exhibit in Special Collections — “Aldo Leopold: Life, Land, Legacy.” Most of the photographs on …
Unseasonably warm temperatures here in Madison have recently melted what little snow we have received this season. By way of what we’re missing, …
One hundred years ago, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, fighting in the war to end …
We continue our exploration of so-called books of secrets (secreti italiani) in the Duveen Collection, recently digitized as part of the subcollection …
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Some of the smallest treasures of the Duveen Collection of Alchemy and Early Chemistry, cataloged under the collective title of “Miscellaneous …
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This year’s Madison Early Music Festival, with its theme “A Cabinet of Curiosities: Journey to Lübeck,” offers us the opportunity to showcase …
John James Audubon (best known for his double-elephant folio Birds of America) drew a sharp distinction between the North American badger and …