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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Early plat map of Madison, circa 1904: http://ow.ly/E2so Click on image detail to open a new window and zoom in. Visit us on Twitter @UwDigiCollec and see what other cool maps we will be posting today! It's GIS Day!

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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections How cool would it be to see this in person? http://ow.ly/DHMr BTW, this entire collection is great for travel fantasies: http://ow.ly/DHNI

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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Interpretive dance with Bucky Badger? The 50s were weird, man. http://ow.ly/Dgsc

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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Doggy poetry...groovy, man! His bark in space will someday tell us what we knew...that blows my mind! http://ow.ly/BcTr

November 16 at 6:56am
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections On this day in 1954, Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants. http://ow.ly/Bwpk and http://ow.ly/Bwrs

November 12 at 9:40am
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Happy Veterans Day! Here in the office we can't have a parade like this one in Kenosha, WI, instead I thought I would highlight some of our war related collections. Maybe you can find an image of a family member in or find some of your war buddies!The World War II Veterans of Mount Horeb collect...
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Oh Halloween in Madison, what a fun and crazy time of the year. To celebrate here in the office we started looking through our collection of past badger yearbooks to see how UW Madison students used to celebrate.I found this article from 1977 about the state street chaos that still lives on toda...
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections First up, Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience. Wisconsin soldiers' letters, diaries, poems and more! http://ow.ly/ANb3

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Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience is a collection of first person narrative accounts of Wisconsin soldiers and citizens. Through their letters, diaries, poems and other records, we learn ...
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections One step closer to the goal indeed! This is the year Badger women won the NCAA championship for the first time: http://ow.ly/zE3a

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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Hah! My parents lied. Money DOES grow on trees. http://ow.ly/zncQ

November 5 at 9:49am
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Whistle stop in Kenosha of the ill-fated William McKinley: http://ow.ly/x6My and more formal pic: http://ow.ly/x6Ol

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This crowd was surrounding the rear of a special train bearing William McKinley as he was making a tour of the United States during his campaign for president in 1896. The train stopped for a short time ...
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections A lovely picture of sunrise from one of my favorite glass negative collections: http://ow.ly/yTmh

November 3 at 9:25am
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Tweeting scary pics over the next two day. We're @UWDigiCollec if you want to see them all. Here's what you can look forward to. Scary anatomy lesson. Quit giving me the evil eye: http://ow.ly/xi8K

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The following views are displayed: a ventral view of the head displaying muscles, vessels and glands; a ventral view of the bones of the skull; a view of the eye and its bony orbit; a view of the external ...
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections More from Pres. Roosevelt on the UW: http://ow.ly/wOjR Gosh, I think I'm blushing.

October 27 at 9:40am
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Don't these people know standing under a ladder is bad luck? http://ow.ly/wB8b Also bad luck? Standing at the top of a really big ladder.

October 26 at 8:35am