An extensive selection from the American Geographical Society Library’s collection of western images by Timothy H. O’Sullivan–one of the most important landscape photographers of the 19th century–has now been made available online to a worldwide audience. The Western Photograph Collection …
Thirty-four years after the American Geographical Society Library received the Harrison Forman Collection, work to make the images in the collection accessible online was completed in May 2021. Donated by his wife Sandra Carlyle Forman in 1987, the photographic collection …
The UWM Libraries’ Distinctive Collections (American Geographical Society Library, Archives, and Special Collections) have reopened by appointment. For more information and a link to the appointment request form, please visit Distinctive Collections Reopening Plans.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we highlight three notable photography collections held in our American Geographical Society Library and the women who created them, Mary Light Meader, Louise Arner Boyd, and Mary Jo Read. Above, from left: woman and …
The UWM Libraries’ American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) has awarded fellowships to three visiting scholars for 2020: Lauren Beck, professor of Hispanic Studies and Visual & Material Culture Studies at Mount Allison University; Lindsay Frederick Braun, associate professor of African …
The UWM Libraries announce the new Division of Distinctive Collections, which brings together the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), Archives, and Special Collections. Marcy Bidney, curator of AGSL, has been named Assistant Director of the division. The reorganization follows a …
The UWM Libraries have completed the digitization of over 50,000 color slides from the American Geographical Society Library’s Harrison Forman collection, and, as of this July, more than 33,500 of those slides have been added to the Libraries’ Digital Collections. …
The Friends of the UWM Golda Meir Library present a discussion with former Alliance Française de Milwaukee president Mary Emory and UWM Professor of History Neal Pease. In 2018, the Van Alyea family donated 35 French World War I posters to the American Geographical …
The UWM Libraries are substantial contributors to two remarkable exhibitions in Milwaukee museums this summer—Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Look Here! at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. Look Here! …
The Look Here! Project is an experiment initiated by the UWM Libraries and aimed at encouraging artists from the community and the UWM Peck School of the Arts to work with and create art from our digitized cultural heritage holdings – archival materials, photographs, …
