Highlights from the UWRF University Archives and Area Research Center collections.

Current exhibits and featured collections:

• Ingeborg Holdahl Alvstad Reminiscences: An Online Digital Collection
  Typed translation of Ingeborg's recollections of her family's emigration from Norway and settlement in Pierce County, Wisconsin, in the 1880s-90s; available on the UW Digital Collections site. (River Falls SC 245)
  
• Athletics @ UW-River Falls: An Online Exhibit
  Baseball, basketball, football, tennis, swimming—UWRF has done it all.
  
• John M. Bartosh Papers, 1885-1959: A Featured Collection
  Bartosh owned Park View Dairy, the first motorized dairy delivery operation in River Falls. He was also the mayor of River Falls during World War II. (River Falls SC 409)
• Daniel Brandenstein: An Online Exhibit
  UWRF Distinguished Alumnus and U.S. Astronaut.
• Deloris Buckley, Front Line Nurse: A Featured Collection
  Buckley, of Spring Valley, was a nurse stationed in Italy during World War II. (River Falls SC 149)
• Ellsworth Pioneer School Girls Club: A Featured Collection
  Gertrude M. Cairns was the club secretary and treasurer and her Papers (1845-1958) contain records of the Pioneer Girls. (River Falls Mss I) 
• Gerrish Family Papers, 1876-1909: A Featured Collection
  Diaries and personal papers detailing rural farm life in Wisconsin, particularly the Ono area of Union Township in Pierce County, during the late 1800s through the early 1900s. (River Falls Mss CO)
• History of the Area Research Center (ARC): An Online Exhibit
  View photographs from 1962 to the present, and explore some of the many publications and projects that have used the ARC's resources.
  
• Main Street USA—Downtown River Falls: An Online Exhibit
  View the growth of River Falls in photographs from the 1870s to the 1960s.
• Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company: An Online Exhibit
  History of River Falls' first firefighters. 
• Political Activism and Memorabilia: An Online Exhibit
  Campaign buttons, photographs, political organizations, campus protests and demonstrations.
• River Falls in the World Wars: An Online Exhibit
  UW-River Falls in World War I and World War II.
  
• Small Potatoes: Boyhood Memories of the Depression Decade in River Falls: A Featured Collection
  Memoirs of George D. Foss about growing up in River Falls during the Great Depression. (River Falls SC 417)
  

   
    Downtown River Falls, ca. 1921

 
    River Falls Fire Department,
    Successor of the Pioneer Hook
    & Ladder Company

  
     William McKinley
      & Garret Hobart
      Presidential Buttons, 1896

 
     Envelope from a Letter Written
     Home by a Soldier in WWII