Sheboygan History Scan Day

Help capture an important part of our community’s heritage and preserve it for future generations

Do you have photos of City of Sheboygan people, places, events, buildings, in family photo albums?
Letters, memoirs, posters or artwork? Or do you have souvenirs or other artifacts related to the history of the City of Sheboygan?

Bring up to 20 photos or artifacts to Scan Day. Your items will be handled with care and returned to you and you’ll receive a copy of the scans on a portable digital storage device. With your permission, the scans will be made accessible online through Recollection Wisconsin.

Cultural heritage isn’t found only in libraries and museums. It’s found in homes where family mementos are preserved and photos are cherished. Do you have photos of a game at the Sheboygan Armory, or your children visiting Santa at Prange’s or marching in a July 4th parade? Help capture this vitally important part of our community’s heritage and preserve it for future generations.

Scan Day offers an opportunity to preserve for posterity personal items that have a connection to the City of Sheboygan.

All items to be scanned must be personally owned and have some connection to the City of Sheboygan. For example, photos must have been taken in the City of Sheboygan. Artifacts can range from business calendars, products made in Sheboygan, school banners, to commemorative plates.

For photos, it is helpful to have as much information as is known including when and where the photo was taken and names of those in the photos.

Items that are copyrighted, such as professional photographs, will not be scanned unless written permission is obtained from the copyright holder. Participants will receive a copy of the digital scans on a portable digital storage device.

With the owner‘s permission by signing a Deed of Gift, the images will be made accessible through Recollection Wisconsin, a statewide digital repository that contributes content to the Digital Public Library of America. The Eastern Shores Library System sponsors the Ozaukee and Sheboygan Memories project through Recollection Wisconsin. (Signing the Deed of Gift to share the images is not required to have qualifying items scanned.)

There are additional opportunities to have City of Sheboygan items scanned by appointment beginning in April and into 2017.

Appointments will be available at Mead Public Library from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the following dates: April 5 and 21; May 3 and 19; June 7 and 16; July 5 and 21; August 2 and 18; Sept. 6 and 15; Oct. 4 and 20; Nov. 1 and 17; Dec. 6 and 16. Other times available by appointment.

Scanning also will be available by appointment at the Sheboygan County Historical Museum from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 21, June 18, and Oct. 15; and noon to 4 p.m. on Sept. 10.

To make appointments or for more information, call the library at 459-3400, ext. 3422. Additional scanning opportunities will be announced later this year.