Special Collections

Special collections include Newspapers and our Rare Books and Local History collection, which is comprised of printed fiction/non-fiction, internally compiled research indexes, non-government genealogical materials, and miscellaneous local history materials.

Newspapers

• Publications from the four-county area, which include Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties
• Mainly on microfilm but also some in print
• Digitized newspapers available online, search our Databases, A-Z (must be signed in) for "Wisconsin newspapers"

Rare Books and Local History collections include such things as:

• local and county histories
• printed family histories and genealogies
• church and cemetery records
• maps and atlases
• oral histories
• federal and state census records
• local serials
• telephone books
• older agricultural, Civil War, and Wisconsin and Saint Croix Valley history books
• area cookbooks
• books authored by local area residents
• books authored by UWRF faculty, staff, or students