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About the Collection
Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin, commonly known as Wisconsin Public Documents (WPD), consists of
the annual and biennial reports of all important Wisconsin state agencies from 1852 through 1914. It was
issued annually for 1852 to 1881/82 and biennially for 1882/84 through 1912/14. WPD is by far the most
important collection of documents issued by the state of Wisconsin during this time period. In addition to
the annual and biennial reports of various state officers, departments and institutions, WPD is a source for
Wisconsin statistical tables, financial charts, vintage photographs, supplementary documents, maps, other
graphics and research monographs on specific topics. Virtually all aspects of the social sciences in
Wisconsin during the 1852-1914 timeframe are represented in this collection of 118 volumes which occupies
nearly thirty linear feet in the paper format.
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.
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