Nancy Truog scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Tuesday, October 27, the Nancy Truog Scrapbook is being featured in the Archives Month blog. Another of the many scrapbooks in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s expansive holdings, Nancy Troug’s scrapbook, kept from 1927 to 1939, is an intimate portrait of family life in Madison in the early 1900s. Presumably started as a baby book, it is also a journal detailing birthdays, holidays, and family vacations which Nancy was a part of. It contains many greeting cards, postcards, clippings, souvenirs, report cards, and other memorabilia, along with notes of people and places visited by the family.

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Albany Historical Society featured in Archives Month blog

Today Friday, October 23, the Albany Historical Society Museum home to the Wilbur Dehmer Collection and his personal scrapbook are being featured in the Archives Month blog. Dehmer, a local druggist (or pharmaceutist, in modern parlance), collector, outdoorsman, and musician, he ran Albany’s locally owned Dehmer Rexall Drugs from 1940 to 1973, and along with Wilbur’s personal scrapbook, the museum is also home to the soda fountain and decorations that were once used in Wilbur’s drug store.

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Caledonia Historical Society scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Wednesday, October 21, the Scrapbook of Mrs. Margaret Ellis-Caledonia Historical Society is being featured in the Archives Month blog. This beautiful scrapbook dates from December 25, 1886. It was created by Mrs. Margaret Ellis, who came to America in 1854 as part of the Potter Immigration Society.

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Rusk county featured in Archives Month blog

Today Thursday, October 15, the World War II Scrapbook-Rusk County Historical Society is being featured in the Archives Month blog. The World War II scrapbook includes local newspaper articles concerning Rusk County soldiers who were serving in the war during 1943-1944. Also included are newspapers clippings of national news as the war was won.

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Prairie du Sac scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Tuesday, October 13, the Historic Businesses of Prairie du Sac Scrapbook-Sauk Prairie Area Historical Society is being featured in the Archives Month blog. The scrapbook is a collection of photos & post cards of businesses in the downtown shopping district of Prairie du Sac as they were built up to the present late 1990’s. Many of the buildings have history dating back to the later 1800’s.


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Walworth County scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Monday, October 12, the S.F. Bennett-Walworth County Historical Society Scrapbook is being featured in the Archives Month blog. S.F. Bennett born in New York moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in 1861. The scrapbook contains hundreds of clippings documenting Dr. Bennett’s writing and editorial career. Though the scrapbook is in a fragile state, it represents a prolific poet, lyricist, doctor, and citizen of Wisconsin and showcases a period of history via a journalistic medium.

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