Libraries and Schools in Marathon and Lincoln Counties

Click on an image to browse the Libraries and Schools in Marathon and Lincoln Counties by predefined subject grouping:
Schools	Libraries	Rural Schools in Marathon County	Rural Schools in Lincoln County
Browse by submitter:
Marathon County Historical Society		Merrill Historical Society
Marathon County Public Library		University of Wisconsin Marathon County

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About the Collection

Postcard of Wausau Public Library, 1910

Libraries and Schools in Marathon and Lincoln Counties contains historic images representing central Wisconsin schools and libraries in Marathon and Lincoln Counties.

In this collection, you will find:

• Lincoln County rural schools, contributed by the TB Scott Library, Merrill and the Merrill Historical Society.
• Marathon County rural schools, contributed by the Marathon County Historical Society.
• The Marathon County Public Library, the Wausau headquarters and Marathon county branch libraries contributed by the Marathon County Public Library
• Marathon County Normal School/University of Wisconsin Marathon County contributed by the University of Wisconsin Marathon County.

Funding

Libraries and Schools in Marathon and Lincoln Counties is collaborative project completed by the UWDCC and the Marathon County Public Library with support and contributions from the following Central Wisconsin Digitization Project members: Marathon County Historical Society, Merrill Historical Society, TB Scott Library and the University of Wisconsin Marathon County.

Libraries and Schools in Marathon and Lincoln Counties was funded, in part, through a 2005 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant. This grant provided financial support for public libraries to digitize and make available online, their local library resources. For more information about LSTA grants in Wisconsin, contact the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning or visit the LSTA grant Web site at http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/pld/lsta.html.

Additional Resources

• Marathon County Historical Society
• Marathon County Public Library
• The Merrill Historical Society
• University of Wisconsin – Marathon County
• T.B. Scott Free Library

Technical Note

Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):

• Hand-written texts;
• Texts that contain diacritics;
• Texts that contain non-Latin scripts;
• Texts that contain obsolete characters (including the "long S" [looks like an "f"]);
• Texts that are printed in a font in which the letters are difficult for the software to differentiate.