Brittany Strobel

Gatekeeper of Collections: This Is Brittany Strobel

Deep in the recesses of the State Archive Preservation Facility (SAPF) on the east side of Madison, Brittany Strobel, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Processing Archivist, has the privilege of preserving the significant events and innermost thoughts of some of our veterans. The processing archivist has the official responsibility of the

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The Archivist Chronicles: A Union Addition by Andrew Baraniak

The use of wallpaper as a substitute for newsprint was a common occurrence for some printers in Louisiana and Mississippi during the Civil War. Most paper mills were in the North, and printers in those regions looked to wallpaper as an alternative to dwindling paper supplies as the war dragged

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