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UWM Libraries Digital Collections

The Digital Collections at the UWM Libraries include over 180,000 photographic images, maps, and books drawn from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library, the Archives, Special Collections, and the Curriculum Collection.

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  • Harrison Forman slides online

    We have completed digitization of over 50,000 color slides from the AGSL’s Harrison Forman collection. Susan Dykes, who has been processing and describing the Forman images since 2011, provides a few highlights: The slide collection includes more than 7,500 images... Read More
  • Zoom and Teams Backgrounds from UWM Digital Collections

    UWM Libraries Digital Collections is a great resource for beautiful, historic, and uniquely Milwaukee images to customize your Zoom and Teams backgrounds. Browse through over 130,000 images of Milwaukee, the world, and historic maps and prints. To help you sort... Read More
  • News from the LGBTQ+ Audio Archive Mining Project

    The team working on the LGBTQ+ Audio Archive Mining Project has been hard at work and making progress on all fronts. Thanks to Cary Costello, we now have a website to showcase updates and notes on the project. First up... Read More
  • Milwaukee’s socialist tradition: The Emil Seidel Papers

    The Emil Seidel collection provides a first-hand view into the issues and concerns that drove his tenure as the first socialist mayor of Milwaukee, and into the early history of socialism in the United States. 
  • UWM Collections Everywhere

    Our digital collections have been harvested and collected to a host of other sites where you can find our materials alongside objects from hundreds of other institutions. The World Digital Library has added extensive metadata to 195 objects from the American... Read More
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    Anna Estelle Paddock
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    Archives of the American Geographical Society
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    Asia & Middle East
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    Celestial Atlas
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    Cities Around the World
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    Digital Map Collection
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    Europe
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    French World War I Posters
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    Harrison Forman Diaries
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    Images of Russia & Caucasus Region
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    Milwaukee Municipal Research Center Maps
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    Nazi Invasion of Poland
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    North & Central America
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    Oceania
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    Polar Exploration
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    Sanborn Maps of Milwaukee
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    South America
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    Tibet
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