Message-ID: <7F9156C0AA044F4E9761E24C934C0C3C@JensenPC> From: "Don Jensen" <dnjkenosha@wi.rr.com> Subject: Re: New WHO collections now available; more to follow! Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:34:17 -0600
The additions to WHO mentioned below are, indeed, interesting and
important.
I should point out though that there is a significant error in the
identification of the Kenosha Comets team of the 1940s.
The Comets was a girls' baseball, NOT SOFTBALL team. As the film A
LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN fictionally depicted
a few years ago, during WWII and a few subsequent post-war years, there
was a professional girls' baseball league
in the Midwest. They played baseball (albeit with a slightly larger
hardball). The league included two Wisconsin
teams, the Racine Belles and the Kenosha Comets, with teams in places
like Rockford (Peaches), IL, Muskegon (Lassies), MI
and elsewhere.
--don jensen
BoD Kenosha History Center
From: Debbie Cardinal
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:31 AM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: New WHO collections now available; more to follow!
1200 new items from 11 new collections now available in Wisconsin
Heritage Online portal
Wisconsin Heritage Online is excited to announce that 1200 photographs,
documents and artifacts from eleven new digital collections were
recently added to the WHO portal, http://wisconsinheritage.org Ten of
these new collections are local history projects hosted by the Milwaukee
Public Library and supported by the Nicholas Family Foundation Outreach
and Training Grant. The last is a group of beaded bandolier bags
harvested from the Milwaukee Public Museum’s extensive anthropology
collections. Museum staff worked with the University of Wisconsin’s
Shared Development Group to extract a special feed of images and data
from the Museum’s server.
The new collections bring the total number of WHO resources to nearly
50,000 digital items from collections across the state and further our
mission to provide a one-stop source for state and local history
research. For example, searching the portal for “corn” leads to
photographs of corn harvests in Mineral Point, Richland Center, and
Wisconsin Rapids as well as oral histories from Belgian farmers in
Brussels, Wisconsin and a fur trader’s account of crops raised by the
Fox and Sauk Indians. A search for “baseball” brings up images of
early baseball teams at St. Norbert College, a 1940s program from
women’s softball team the Kenosha Comets, and a snapshot of former
governor Tommy Thompson shaking hands with the mascot for the Madison
Muskies.
Routine data harvesting for the WHO portal has resumed thanks to funding
provided by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Division for
Libraries, Technology and Community Learning via a Library Services and
Technology Act (LSTA) grant as well as a grant from the Nicholas Family
Foundation. Technical support for the harvest is provided by the
University of Wisconsin’s Shared Development Group. By early 2011, a
total of 32 new collections will be added to the portal. Stay tuned for
further updates!
Search the WHO portal, http://wisconsinheritage.org to explore these new
and growing collections:
· Blanchardville Historical Society: local history publications
· Hales Corners Historical Society: a “visual census” of
local homes and businesses
· Langlade County Historical Society, Antigo: images of Ojibwe
and Menominee settlements in northern Wisconsin by photographer A. J.
Kingsbury
· McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids: local history
books, clippings, photos and postcards
· Milwaukee Public Museum: beaded bandolier bags from Great
Lakes tribes
· Portage Historical Society: “Tales of Old Portage” news
clippings
· Preservation Racine, Inc.: four decades of member newsletters
· Richland County History Room, Richland Center: local history
photographs
· South Wood County Historical Corporation, Wisconsin Rapids:
images of farm and community life by photographer Lawrence Oliver
· St. Norbert College Mulva Library, De Pere: photographs of
life on campus and the Norbertines of St. Norbert Abbey
· Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee: original
drawings by master blacksmith Cyril Colnik
--Debbie Cardinal Wisconsin Heritage Online Program Manager 608 265-2138 http://wisconsinheritage.org (portal) http://wiheritage.pbwiki.com (resources site)