Collections Policy
The Historical Reseach Center's collection policy is really very simple. It relies on our mission statement - The Sheboygan County Historical Research Center serves the public by collecting, preserving and making available the written documentation and images of Sheboygan County - for its direction.
Everything the Research Center takes into the collection must have something to do with Sheboygan County, the people who live in it, or the area immediately surrounding it.
Materials should not be accepted or otherwise acquired for the collections unless the following conditions are met.
- The materials are relevant to and consistent with the purposes and activities of the Historical Research Center.
- The Historical Research Center can provide for the storage, protection and preservation of the materials under conditions that insure their availability for research purposes and are in keeping with professionally accepted standards.
- It is intended that the materials shall have permanency in the collections as long as they retain their identity and their authenticity and as long as they remain useful for the purposes of the Historical Research Center.
- Title to all materials acquired for the collections should be obtained free and clear without restrictions as to use or future disposition.
Items Accepted
1. Photos, slides, negatives, postcards
2. Paper records of all kinds- birth, death and marriage, tax records
3. Genealogies, family histories, pedigree charts
4. Unique publications- like the Phoenix bible
5. Maps, Atlases and Plat books
6. Posters, paintings and architectural drawings and records
7. Anything you can file
Items Not Accepted
1. Clothing, uniforms and wedding dresses
2. Guns and ammunition
3. Machinery and tools
4. Old, general cirriculum school books and old childrens books
5. Anything you can dust- these things go to the Sheboygan County Historical Museum (920-458-1103)
Our Acquisition and Disposition of Collection Materials policy is seen below. Also below is a copy of the donor form everyone must complete in order to donate material to the Research Center.