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Special Collections and University Archives (SPARC) has 14 digital collections, featuring over 5,500 photographs and over 50,000 pages of printed materials. These online resources represent just a fraction of the 50 million documents preserved in SPARC. You can use the search box above to search across our digital collections, or use the advanced search to search within select collections.
Accessing other Archival collections
Archivists prepare inventories, or finding aids, to describe archival records. Our finding aids are arranged by subject and within an A-Z Index. Finding aids often provide folder-level descriptions of primary sources, but rarely provide access to electronic facsimiles.
Catholic Native
America Collections
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Bureau of Catholic Indian
Missions contains over 1,800 images of Native Americans and related Catholic churches,
schools, clergy, and religious from across the United States. Most were submitted to The
Indian Sentinel as illustrations. A few images from the Sacred Heart Franciscan Records and
the Walter Bernard Hunt Collection are also included.
Holy
Rosary Mission—Red Cloud Indian School offers access to photographic images of
Oglala, Brulé, and other Indians, Jesuits, Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian
Charity and other Catholic personnel, primarily at Holy Rosary Mission and the Red Cloud Indian
School and the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations in South Dakota.
The Indian Sentinel,
1902-1962 was a fundraising magazine published by the Bureau of Catholic Indian
Missions. The magazine features articles by clergy, religious and Native Americans about
Native life in the United States and related Catholic churches and schools.
St. Francis Mission The
St. Francis Mission Digital Image Collection features images of Brulé and Oglala Indians,
Jesuits, and Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, mostly at St. Francis Mission
School on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Political
Collections
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McCarthy Audio Excerpts,
1950-1954 provides access to 35 streaming audio files containing public remarks made by
the controversial Wisconsin senator during his anti-Communist campaign.
The Tommy G. Thompson Collection
presents photographs depicting Thompson’s service as Wisconsin state legislator (1966-1986),
Wisconsin governor (1987-2001), and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (2001-2005).
Clement J. Zablocki
Collection coming Fall 2009.
University History
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The Hilltop Yearbooks
span from 1915 to 1996 and offer online access to Marquette University’s student annual.
Ralph Metcalfe: The Olympic Years
1932-1936 contains 100 images, newspaper clippings, and other print materials about
the sprinter once known as "The World’s Fastest Human."
Service at Marquette
includes 150 images from 1969 through 2006 demonstrating Marquette’s ongoing commitment to
community service activities.
The University Histories
Collection comprises two out-of-print volumes detailing the history of Marquette University,
one published in 1906 and the other in 1953.
Women in Blue & Gold
features nearly 2,000 images documenting women’s intercollegiate athletics at Marquette University
from 1975 through 2000.
Other
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Alfred Hamy’s Jesuit Portrait
Gallery contains over 400 portrait engravings of famous Jesuits, scanned from the pages of
Rev. Alfred Hamy, S.J.’s Galerie Illustrée de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris:
1893).
In the
Spotlight presents limited amounts of digitized materials that are relevant to current
events, historical anniversaries, or that are central to Marquette University’s heritage.
Postcards from Manhattan: The Portrait
Photography of Carl Van Vechten offers portrait postcards of prominent individuals,
photographed by Carl Van Vechten and mailed to his friend, Karl J. Priebe, between 1946 and 1956.