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Local
History Database Contents (as of
July 2008)
Art Work of Rock County
(1893). JR 917.75 ROCK, locked cabinet.
(Photos of Janesville and Rock County indexed)
The Benton Avenue Historic District
(1995), by Janesville Historic
Commission. 977.587 ZELLI (Photos, captions and addresses indexed)
The Black Bridge Road
(2003), by Don Allison. 977.587 ALLIS. (Indexed this book of memoirs
that discusses life just outside of Janesville from approximately 1935-1955)
The Center Line, Part Five, Postwar II 1946-1952, "The World's Most Wanted Pen"
(1992), by Allen H. Center. 929.2 CENTE. (Fully indexed, this is a detailed autobiography of 6 years in
the life of a Parker Pen public relations man in Janesville, and includes some photographs)
Century of Stories: A 100 Year
Reflection of Janesville and Surrounding Communities (2000), by
Mike Dupre. 977.587 DUPRE. (Photos,captions, most stories indexed)
Chronological History, Janesville
Public School Buildings, 1836-1985,
by Fred Holt. JR 371.62 HOLT. (Includes erection of school
buildings, renovations, annexations, closures; includes list of
superintendents of education)
City Manager Government in Nine Cities (1940),
by Harold A. Stone, Don K. Price, and Kathryn H. Stone. 352 STONE, pp. 3-52.
(Janesville chapter indexed)
The Circus: Wisconsin's Unique Heritage (1967),
by Richard E. Conover. JR 791.3 C763, pp. 32-34. (Rock County circuses
indexed)
City on the Rock River (1998),
by Carol Cartwright and the Janesville
Historic Commission. 977.587 CARTW. (Concise analysis of
Janesville’s development, its historic buildings and prominent people)
Combination Atlas Map, Rock County, Wisconsin
(Chicago, 1873), by Everts, Baskin and Stewart. 912.77587 EVERT.(Indexed all drawings
of houses, farms and businesses by their names or their owner's names)
Conversations With an Old House
(1984), by Wendall Kemp. Self-published. 977.587 KEMP.
Courthouse Hill Historic District
(1986), by Janesville Historic Commission. 977.587 ZELLI (Photos, captions, and addresses indexed)
Dr. Henry Palmer, "The Fighting Surgeon," 1827-1895
(1977), by Malcolm Palmer Mouat. Detroit: Harlo. JR 977.58092 PALMER. (Businesses,
prominent people, hospitals, early Janesville settlement indexed)
General Motors, Janesville, Wisconsin,
1996 - present. JR 338.762 GENER. (Clippings from Janesville Gazette and other newspapers about
General Motors, includes a few from earlier dates, including the sit-down strike in 1937)
General Motors, Rock River Review, 75th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
1983. JR 338.762 GENER. (Photocopy of newsletter published for GM employees and retirees of the Janesville, Wisconsin
plant. GM chronology and historical photos)
Growing Up In Monterey: Back When (1974), by Marge Van Galder. 977.589 VANGA.
Gruver Photos (1982), compiled
and photographed by Bud Gruver. JR 977.587 GRUVE, locked cabinet.
(12 volumes of historical photos of Janesville and Janesville people with compiler’s narrative). (Photos, captions,
and narrative indexed)
A Guide to Monuments and Historical Markers in Janesville
(1987), by Dale R. Dopkins. 977.587 DOPKI.
Headlight Journal (1896).
JR REF 977.587 H344. (Historic
photos of Janesville indexed)
Historic Janesville (1982).
720.9775 HISTO. (Historic photos, primarily of buildings, and text have been indexed)
This is a good short history of Janesville from its beginnings to 1935.
History of Janesville, 1835-1935 (1935),
by Mary Ann Bostwick Hulick. 977.587 HULIC. This is a chronological history
of Janesville published in the 1935 "Phoenix" yearbook from Janesville High School.
Mary was a member of the Class of 1935.
History of Rock County, Wisconsin; its early
settlement, growth, development, resources, etc., war record, biographical
sketches, portraits of prominent men, also, history of Wisconsin. (1879),
JR REF 977.5 HISTO. Circulating copies available. (Names and places included in index)
Hopscotch, Hobos and Foxholes: a Kaleidoscope of Memories (2004),
edited by Ruby Walton. 973.916 HOPSC. (Indexed this collection of memories written by senior citizens.
It covers their memories of their childhoods in the early 20th century through their experiences of World War II)
I Remember Janesville (1997), by Gerald Van Pool. 977.587 P.
(Indexed entire book. Description of his teenage years working at Jones Grocery is particularly vivid)
Janesville (1974?), by Office of
Development Coordinator. 977.587 V894. (Aerial photos are indexed)
Janesville Calendar (1992 -), by Janesville
Commercial Bank. JR REF 977.587 JANES 1992 - (indexed monthly photographs)
Janesville Fire Department Souvenir
Album (1902). 977.5 JANES. (Historic photos, their captions, and the
chronology of Janesville history and public officials indexed)
Janesville Gazette, local
articles primarily from 1996 - present. A work in progress.
Janesville Gazette obituaries and
death notices, 1982-1984, 1998 - three months ago.
A work in progress going forward and backward in time.
Janesville, Wisconsin's Oldest Continuing
Businesses: Locally Owned and Operated for 100 Years or More in 2002,
(2002), by Albert and Lois Hough. JR REF 977.587 HOUG.
Janesville’s Early History, 977.587
JANES. (The major subjects of each of these essays written by
Janesville teachers and residents in the 1950s are indexed)
Ku Klux Klan, Janesville, Wisconsin (1992-),
JR 322.420973 KU. (Newsclippings primarily from The Janesville Gazette)
La Prairie Country Schools: brief History of the
One-room schools of LaPrairie Tounship, Rock County, Wisconsin. (1982),
by the Rock County Historical Society. 977.587 La Pr. (indexed student and teacher
photos and lists of teacher names and schools)
Look West Historic District (1987),
by the Janesville Historic
Commission. 977.587 ZELLI. (Photos, captions, and addresses indexed)
Main and Milwaukee: A Guide to
Janesville’s Downtown Historic Districts
(1989), by the Janesville Historic Commission. 977.587
ZELLI. (Photos, captions, and addresses indexed)
Medical History of Janesville, Wisconsin, 1833-1933
(1933), by John Vosburgh Stevens. 610.977587 STEVE.
Memories of Forty Nine Years
with the Parker Pen Company (2001), by Philip Hull. 681.6 HULL.
National Register of the Society
Sons of the American Revolution (1902). REF 369 SONS.
(Indexed the four Janesville members who were on this register in 1902)
The Old Fourth Ward Historic District
(1989), by the Janesville Historic District. 977.587 ZELLI. (Photos, captions,
and addresses indexed)
Our Street: N. Terrace Street, 200-300 Block
(self-published 1991), by Frank W. Douglas. 977.587 DOUGL.
Parker Pen Company, Janesville, Wisconsin
(compiled 2006 - ), by Reference Dept., Hedberg Public Library. JR 681.6 PARKE.
Vol 1 - annual reports; vol 2 - news clippings and journal articles; vol 3 - company
press releases and miscellaneous. (Indexed annual reports, clippings and brochures)
Pictorial History of Janesville, Wisconsin
(1995), by the Janesville Gazette. JR 977.587 PICTO.
Picturesque Janesville
(1888), by George W. Wise. JR 977.5 WISE. (Indexed all the photos)
Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County,
Wisconsin, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and
representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies
of all the governors of the state. (1889), JR 977.5 PORTR.
Poverty and Relief in Nineteenth-Century Janesville
(Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 4, Summer 1978, pp. 279-299).
(Indexed both content and photos)
The Prospect Hill and Conrad Cottages
Historic Districts (1992), by the Janesville Historic District.
977.587 ZELLI. (Photos, captions,and addresses indexed)
Rock County Historic Sites and
Buildings (1976), by Nancy Belle S. Douglas. 977.587 DOUGL.
(Only Janesville buildings, addresses, and photos indexed)
Rock County Schools (1965?).
379.77587 ROCK. (In this collection of photos and memories of schools,
only the school names have been indexed)
Russell D. Feingold, United States Senator, Native of
Janesville, Wisconsin (1991-). JR 328.33 FEING. (Newsclippings and miscellaneous materials)
A School and Community: Janesville High School (1985).
370.9775 SCHOO. (Indexed photos and history of Janesville High School.
Includes construction of Samson Tractor company)
Southeastern Wisconsin: A History of Old Milwaukee County (1932), by
John G. Gregory (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Vol. 2, pp. 609-699) JR 977.5 GREGO.
(Indexed Rock County chapter)
Still Friends (1998), edited by Marcella Murphy Walker and Mary Pregont Farley.
977.589 STILL. (Indexed Janesville memoirs)
The 32nd Infantry Division in World War II (19-?),
by H.W. Blakeley. JR 940.541 T349. This book lists names of rosters of men from
Rock County in this Red Arrow Division (Indexed titles of Rock County units)
We Were Here: Contributions of Rock
County Women (1975), by Janesville Branch of AAUW. 977.587 WE
WE. (Indexed names of the six Rock County women featured in this booklet)
Wisconsin Heritage, by
Bertha Kitchell Whyte (1954). 977.5 WHYTE. (Indexed all the
information and photos about Rock County locales)
Wisconsin's Champion Trees (2005), by
R. Bruce Allison. 582.16 WISCO. (Indexed all the information and photos
about Rock County champion trees)
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