Digital Collections
The Digital Collections provide free and instant access to digitized materials from the Archives and ARC, such as photographs, maps, sound recordings and more. For more information about our holdings, including materials not available online, see the Collection Overview.
The Brussel house hotel
Belgian-American Research Collection
The original materials in the Belgian-American Collection preserve the story of Belgian immigrants and their descendants who settled in northeastern Wisconsin. The digital collection consists of oral history interviews, photographs, and maps. The digital collection allows for keyword and subject searching.
Fort Howard along the Fox River, 1927
Green Bay Estuary Digital Archives Collection
The Green Bay Estuary Digital Archives Collection contains archival collections and materials that pertain to Northeastern Wisconsin’s water history, science, and cultural impact. These materials help tell the story of the Green Bay Estuary and its related waterways through photographs, postcards, maps, oral history interviews, films, and historical records.
To learn more about the Green Bay Estuary Digital Archives Collection and how to navigate it, check out our LibGuide.
Chancellor Edward W. Weidner, ca. 1966-67
Oral History Collection
The UW-Green Bay Oral History Collection contains interviews with individuals who are part of the University’s history. Interviews have been conducted with community members, faculty, staff, student, and alumni about a wide variety of topics pertaining to campus history. Major subjects discussed in the interviews include academic plans, administration, buildings and development of physical environment, curriculum, community relationships, student experiences, events and traditions, faculty and staff governance, and athletics. The interviews were primarily conducted by members of the UW-Green Bay Retirees Association during a project that began in 2009 and is ongoing.
The digital collection allows for keyword and subject searching. Some interviews have not been digitized and are available through the Archives Department. Contact us for more information.
Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin
Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin is an ongoing community archiving effort to document and preserve the voices of LGBTQ+ individuals in Northeastern Wisconsin. The oral history interviews in this digital collection cover a wide range of topics, from growing up years and schooling to work life and relationships, coming out, advocacy work, experiences in the LGBTQ+ community, and more. The narratives in Our Voices are diverse and distinctive, and the collection strives to be inclusive regardless of age, race, religion, education, gender, or sexual orientation.
In our physical holdings, Our Voices also contains historical documents, photographs, publications, and memorabilia pertaining to the local and regional LGBTQ+ community. Contact us for information about these items.
Aerial view of campus in autumn, ca. 1993-1999
Photographs
The University Archives has a small portion of its photograph collection available in digital format. The History of UW-Green Bay Collection includes 400 images that represent a cross-section of our campus history and evolution. The photos document the campus selection site, construction of all campus buildings, student life, academic activities, political activities, visitors of note, commencement ceremonies and other campus traditions.
Thousands of additional campus images exist in the Archives’ holdings. Contact us for information about these images.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay: From the Beginning cover image
UW-Green Bay Published History
As the cap to a long career as a writer and editor, Betty D. Brown researched and wrote a history of the first 25 years of UW-Green Bay titled University of Wisconsin-Green Bay: From the Beginning. Brown drew on original documents of the University, as well as personal observations gained as a member of the campus community. She was the founding head of UW-Green Bay news services, joining the academic staff in 1966 and serving for many years as director of news and publications. She retired in 1990.