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Picture Oshkosh

A Look at Life in Oshkosh Through
the Eyes of Those Who Live Here

The Oshkosh Public Library wants to preserve images of Oshkosh community life through photos and videos taken by residents and visitors.  The Library has created Picture Oshkosh, a digital photo and video album.  Click here or the image above to enter the photo album.

Here's How it Works:

  • Individuals and organizations submit photos or videos to the library that showcase Oshkosh people, buildings, history and special events.
  • Library staff will scan and digitize the images to add to the online digital collection.
  • Images will be uploaded into PhotoBucket, a photo/video sharing web site.
  • Original photos and video will be returned to their owners, along with a free CD or DVD (Oshkosh residents only - while supplies last).

Types of Images We're Looking For:
Unique images that chronicle life in Oshkosh, both past and present, will be considered for Picture Oshkosh.  This may include:

  • Buildings
  • Events - Special or Annual
  • People
  • Neighborhood or Street Scenes
  • Businesses
  • Scenic Views and Attractions

Picture Oshkosh will include not just historic photos, but a mix of past and present scenes, events and activities.

Submitting Images:
Items should be in good condition in the following formats:

  • Photos - Prints or Digital
  • Video - VHS or Digital
  • Slides

Oversized items, photo negatives, and framed or mounted photos cannot be submitted.   

Stop by the 2nd floor Reference Desk to pick up forms to fill out.  Use some of the forms to submit information about the images (identification, date, event, location).  Bring your completed forms and photos/videos to the Reference Desk.  We'll let you know when we're done digitizing them and give you a CD or DVD (while supplies last) of your photos or videos.

Digital photos and videos may be submitted via email.  Please see our special instructions for submitting via email.

For more information, please contact the Reference Desk, 920.236.5205 or email oshkoshalbum [at] oshkoshpubliclibrary [dot] org

Oshkosh Stories and Snapshots

The Movies
1940s
Contributed by: Ron

Bibliography

Call Number Author, Title, Publisher
791.43
B126
Back in the saddle: essays on Western film and television actors
McFarland & Co., c1998
791.4309
S559
Shooting stars: heroes and heroines of Western film
Indiana University Press, 1987
791.43
R845s
Rothel, David
The singing cowboys
A.S. Barnes, c1978
791.43
H824t
Horwitz, James
They went thataway
Dutton, c1976
791.43
M647h
Miller, Don
Hollywood corral
Popular Library, 1976
791.43
C588w
Clapham, Walter
Western movies:the story of the West on screen
Octopus Books, 1974
B
B9723t
Taliaferro, John
Tarzan forever: the life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan
Scribner, c1999
791.43
E787t
Essoe, Gabe
Tarzan of the movies; pictorial history of more than fifty years of Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary hero.
Citadel Press [1968]

Filmography

Casablanca
DVD
Warner Home Video, c1999

The Grapes of Wrath
VHS
CBS/Fox Video, 1983

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
VHS
Playhouse Video, c1987

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Oshkosh Stories and Snapshots

World War II
1940s
Contributed by: Ron

Bibliography

Call Number Author, Title, Publisher
355.1075
J17w

Jacobs, Martin
World War II homefront collectibles: price & identification guide
Krause Publications, 2000

759.13
R684me
Meyer, Susan E.
Norman Rockwell's World War II: impressions from the homefront
USAA Foundation, c1991
973.917
H765
The Homefront: America during World War II
Putnam, c1984
973.917
A512
Americans remember the home front: an oral narrative
Hawthorn Books, c1977
940.5481
L334v
Larson, Bradley G.
Voices of history, 1941-1945
Oshkosh Public Museum, c2003

Additional Links

Ration Stamps http://www.larchmontgazette.com/guide/history/1942/1942rationinga.html
http://www.newfield.netfirms.com/worldwar2.htm
War bonds http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3f00000/3f05000/3f05600/3f05625r.jpg

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Oshkosh Stories and Snapshots

Jeschke's Grocery and Tavern
Contributed by: Jean

One of my earliest memories as a youngster was when on Sunday afternoons, my dad would take me, and sometimes my brother, on the short walk from our house to Jeschke's Tavern on Rugby Street near Tenth for a soda. This got us all out of mom's hair for a while. And of course Dad enjoyed it too, as there were lots of neighbors who stopped there, especially on warm days. The kids would sit in a booth and drink orange soda, and dad's friends would buy us candy bars and other snacks. Most of these men were members of the Nestor Club with my dad. So many of these men have died that the club disbanded recently due to lack of membership. The Jeschke's building is now Jeff's on Rugby. A photo of the old grocery and tavern hangs on the restaurant wall.

 

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