University archives
A page within Murphy Library
Special Collections actively seeks out and maintains archival materials related to UW-La Crosse. Materials in this collection include the student newspaper, photographs, yearbooks, university catalogs, various campus publications, and staff, student, and office records of a public nature.
Many historic UW-La Crosse photographs are digitized and can be viewed online here: UW Digital Collections - UW-La Crosse Historic Photographs.
The Racquet student newspaper and yearbooks, Alumnus/Lantern magazine, Catalyst, UW-La Crosse Course Catalogs, and more, are also digitized for online viewing on the Murphy Library Digital Collections webpage.
Hanging the homecoming lantern off Main Hall, 1967
In cooperation with the UW-La Crosse Oral History Program (OHP), Special Collections provides preservation storage and public accessibility for over 3,000 recorded hours of OHP interviews conducted from 1968 to the present. A small portion of OHP interviews are available online on Murphy Library Digital Collections, and additional recordings are being added each semester. Moreover, as a participating member of Recollection Wisconsin's Listening to War project, several of the collection's war-related oral histories can be found on that website. Please send any requests for copies of interviews directly to OHP.
