Featured Collections
The U.S. Forest Products Lab Centennial Collection
This collection includes digital audio recorded interviews with 52 current and former employees of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory located in Madison, Wisconsin. The interviews were conducted as part of an oral history project undertaken by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Oral History Program in cooperation with the Forest Products Laboratory, to document the Forest Products Laboratory’s history in their work to promote healthy forest and forest-based economies through the efficient, sustainable use of our wood resources in Wisconsin and through the U.S. in preparation for the Laboratory’s centennial anniversary in 2010.
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The Arboretum Collection
The Arboretum Collection consists of cassette recordings of interviews, lectures, conferences, and miscellaneous programs relating to the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. Of special note are the interviews conducted with former workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps who worked at the Arboretum in the 1930s. The Arboretum originally collected these tapes and continues to possess the master copies and the table below adopts the Arboretum's classification and numbering systems. Please note that the Oral History Program also possesses an interview series based on the history of the Arboretum.
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The Supplementary Tape Collection
The Supplementary Tape Collection is a collection of cassettes, compact discs and videotapes of events from the university's history. It includes speeches by eminent academics and public figures, radio programs about the university, memorial services, seminar conferences, and interviews with university persons conducted by scholars for their own research. Many items in the Supplementary Tape Collection were donated to the archives by members of the university community. If you have any audio recordings relating to people and events dealing with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, please contact us. We would be happy to make a copy of them for our collection and return the original to you.