Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

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Part 1 (Wis Mss TX): Original Collection, 1896-1937

+ Part 2 (Mss 426): Additions, 1893-1976

Part 3 (M75-382): Additions, undated

Part 4 (M78-495): Additions, 1930s-1970s

Part 5 (M93-252): Additions, 1896-1900

Part 6 (PH 1173): Additions, 1912

Appendix: Index to Letters to and from Selected Correspondents in Part 1 (Wis Mss TX)

Container	Title
	Series: Research Files
	Subseries: Broadcast Research—WHA/WERN Broadcasts
Box 4 Folder 1	Index to WHA Broadcasts, 1975-1990
Box 4 Folder 2	1976 August-December
Box 5	1977
Box 6	1978
Box 7	1979-1980
Box 8	1981-1982
Box 9	1983-1984
Box 10	1985-1986
Box 11	1987-1988
Box 12	1989-1990
	Subseries: Broadcast Research—Ideas for Future Broadcasts Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetically by subject.	⇧
Box 13 Folder 1	Agriculture
Box 13 Folder 2	Architecture
Box 13 Folder 3	Art
Box 13 Folder 4	Artifacts
Box 13 Folder 5	Autographs and Manuscripts
Box 13 Folder 6	Aviation
Box 13 Folder 7	Banking
Box 13 Folder 8	Bibles
Box 13 Folder 9	Biography
Box 13 Folder 10	Blacks in the United States
Box 13 Folder 11	Bucky Badger
Box 13 Folder 12	Businesses, Wisconsin
Box 13 Folder 13	Cemeteries
Box 13 Folder 14	Civil War
Box 13 Folder 15	Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Box 13 Folder 16	Communities
Box 13 Folder 17	Community Histories
Box 13 Folder 18	Cornerstones
Box 13 Folder 19	Crime
Box 13 Folder 20	Demography
Box 13 Folder 21	Early Autos, Carhart and Nevilles
Box 13 Folder 22	Early Descriptions of Wisconsin
Box 13 Folder 23	Education
Box 13 Folder 24	“Education for the Hand or the Head”
Box 13 Folder 25	Elections
Box 13 Folder 26	Entertainment
Box 13 Folder 27	Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups
Box 13 Folder 28	Eugenics
Box 13 Folder 29	Explosions, Powder Mill Disasters
Box 13 Folder 30	Expositions
Box 13 Folder 31	Families, Wisconsin
Box 13 Folder 32	Films and Commercials
Box 13 Folder 33	Fire
Box 13 Folder 34	Folklore and Folklife
Box 13 Folder 35	Forestry
Box 13 Folder 36	Frank Lloyd Wright
Box 13 Folder 37	Freaky Happenings
Box 13 Folder 38	Fur Business
Box 13 Folder 39	Gambling
Box 13 Folder 40	Geology, Rocks
Box 13 Folder 41	Governors
Box 13 Folder 42	Gypsies
Box 14 Folder 1	History and Turner (Frederick Jackson)
Box 14 Folder 2	Holocaust
Box 14 Folder 3	Horace Greeley in Wisconsin
Box 14 Folder 4	Humor
Box 14 Folder 5	Immigration
Box 14 Folder 6-7	Indians
Box 14 Folder 8	Inventions
Box 14 Folder 9	Labor
Box 14 Folder 10	La Follettes
Box 14 Folder 11	Land Use, Rural
Box 14 Folder 12	Language, Bennett Law
Box 14 Folder 13	Limnology, Water
Box 14 Folder 14	Local Historical Societies
Box 14 Folder 15	Lumber Industry and Logging
Box 14 Folder 16	Madison, Wisconsin
Box 14 Folder 17	Mail List
Box 14 Folder 18	Manufacturing (Cigars, Meatpacking, Heavy Equipment)
Box 14 Folder 19	Maple Sugar
Box 14 Folder 20	Medicine
Box 14 Folder 21	Military
Box 14 Folder 22	Milwaukee
Box 14 Folder 23	Milwaukee Press Club
Box 14 Folder 24	Mining
Box 14 Folder 25	Miscellaneous
Box 14 Folder 26	Montana
Box 15 Folder 1	Museums
Box 15 Folder 2	Music
Box 15 Folder 3	Natural History
Box 15 Folder 4	New Deal
Box 15 Folder 5	North Dakota
Box 15 Folder 6	Norwegians
Box 15 Folder 7-8	People
Box 15 Folder 9	Phenomena
Box 15 Folder 10	Photography
Box 15 Folder 11	Political Parties
Box 15 Folder 12	Prehistory
Box 15 Folder 13	Printers, Publishing, Books
Box 15 Folder 14	Public Libraries
Box 15 Folder 15	Religion
Box 15 Folder 16	Religious, Missionary Work
Box 15 Folder 17	Reminiscences, Memoirs
Box 15 Folder 18	Restaurants and Taverns
Box 15 Folder 19	Retailing, Mercantilism and Service Industries
Box 15 Folder 20	Rivers and Lakes
Box 16 Folder 1	St. Paul Winter Carnival
Box 16 Folder 2	Saloons, Bars, and Temperance
Box 16 Folder 3	Schoolcraft, Henry R.
Box 16 Folder 4	Ships and Shipwrecks
Box 16 Folder 5	State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Box 16 Folder 6	Soldiers of Fortune
Box 16 Folder 7	Sorghum
Box 16 Folder 8-9	Sports
Box 16 Folder 10	Surveying
Box 16 Folder 11	Textiles, Quilts
Box 16 Folder 12	Tourism and Hotels
Box 16 Folder 13	Travel and Transportation
Box 16 Folder 14	Turpentine Camps
Box 16 Folder 15	UFOs
Box 16 Folder 16	United States Governmental Agencies
Box 16 Folder 17	Utopian Communities
Box 16 Folder 18	Visitors to Wisconsin
Box 16 Folder 19	War
Box 16 Folder 20	Welfare
Box 16 Folder 21	WHA Radio
Box 16 Folder 22	Wisconsin Activities
Box 16 Folder 23	Wisconsin Governmental Policies
Box 16 Folder 24	Women
Box 16 Folder 25	World Wars I and II
Box 16 Folder 26	WPA
Box 16 Folder 27	Writers
	Subseries: General Research Files	⇧
Box 17 Folder 1	American Business
Box 17 Folder 2	American Dairyland
Box 17 Folder 3	Anneke, Mathilde
Box 17 Folder 4	Anneke, Mathilde (Andreas Etges)
Box 17 Folder 5	Antiques and Crafts
Box 17 Folder 6	Appel, Livia
Box 17 Folder 7	Archives
Box 17 Folder 8	Artists
Box 17 Folder 9	Asian Americans in the Midwest
Box 17 Folder 10	Baby Doe of Oshkosh
Box 17 Folder 11	Baraboo, Settlement of
Box 17 Folder 12	Baraboo Dam
Box 17 Folder 13	Belgians
Box 17 Folder 14	Benton Stone Water Tower
Box 17 Folder 15	Bonnie Oaks
Box 17 Folder 16	Brothertons
Box 17 Folder 17	Burleigh, Louise Alston
Box 17 Folder 18	Calendar Project, 1986
Box 17 Folder 19	Central Wisconsin Railroad Company
Box 17 Folder 20	Ceramics
Box 17 Folder 21	Chestnut, American
Box 17 Folder 22	Chief Buffalo
Box 17 Folder 23	Cornucopia, Wisconsin
Box 17 Folder 24	Daniel Webster Project
Box 17 Folder 25	Door County
Box 17 Folder 26	Dousman
Box 17 Folder 27	Dube marriages, French Canadians in Wisconsin
Box 17 Folder 28	Dunn (Charles) Family
Box 18 Folder 1	Dutch Immigrants
Box 18 Folder 2	Eagle Carving, Eau Claire
Box 18 Folder 3	Early Travel
Box 18 Folder 4	Earnest Hupedon, Barn Painter
Box 18 Folder 5	Eaton House
Box 18 Folder 6	Edgerton Bible Case
Box 18 Folder 7	Elections, Gubernatorial
Box 18 Folder 8	Finch Family
Box 18 Folder 9	Freethinkers
Box 18 Folder 10	Frenchtown (near Belleville)
Box 18 Folder 11	Genealogy
Box 18 Folder 12	Germans
Box 18 Folder 13	Glas[s], Peter
Box 18 Folder 14	Governors' Inaugurals
Box 18 Folder 15	Gravestone Obelisks of Wisconsin
Box 18 Folder 16	Green Bay and Fort Howard
Box 18 Folder 17	Greenwood Family
Box 18 Folder 18	Haugen, Nilo (descendants)
Box 18 Folder 19	Hesselberg
Box 18 Folder 20	Hodgson, Thomas C.
Box 18 Folder 21	Hough, Emerson on Outdoor Life
Box 18 Folder 22	Hillyear (Edwin) Diary
Box 18 Folder 23	Indians
Box 19 Folder 1	Interurban Line Railroad from Milwaukee to Madison
Box 19 Folder 2	Italians in Madison
Box 19 Folder 3	Kolesch Pro Arte Project
Box 19 Folder 4	Kring, Walter
Box 19 Folder 5	Krueger
Box 19 Folder 6	Kutzbock
Box 19 Folder 7	K-miscellaneous
Box 19 Folder 8	Lange, Olaf Gottfred
Box 19 Folder 9	Lawe, John
Box 19 Folder 10	Lead and Zinc Mining and Smelting
Box 19 Folder 11	Literature of Objects
Box 19 Folder 12	Local History—Community Historians in Residence
Box 19 Folder 13	Local History—Exhibit Workshops
Box 19 Folder 14	Lockwood, John E.
Box 19 Folder 15	Mazomanie Project
Box 19 Folder 16	Mears, Helen
Box 19 Folder 17	Merrill, Harriet
Box 19 Folder 18	Minnesota vs. Wisconsin
Box 19 Folder 19	“The Modern World and Taste”
Box 19 Folder 20	Mosquito Bombers, Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company
Box 19 Folder 21	Muir, John
Box 19 Folder 22	Museum Artifacts
Box 19 Folder 23	Norwegian Settlement in Wisconsin
Box 19 Folder 24	Old World Wisconsin
Box 19 Folder 25	“On Wisconsin,” Fight Song by Arthur MacArthur
Box 20 Folder 1	Partridge Kidnapping
Box 20 Folder 2	Peot, Joseph John
Box 20 Folder 3	Peshtigo Fire, Michigan Story
Box 20 Folder 4	Peshtigo Reprint
Box 20 Folder 5	The Phoenix; Its Burning
Box 20 Folder 6	Photo Searches
Box 20 Folder 7	Poles in Milwaukee
Box 20 Folder 8	Political Realignment, Wisconsin
Box 20 Folder 9	Prairie du Chien
Box 20 Folder 10	Price, Abby
Box 20 Folder 11	Prelude to La Follette: Anti-Railroad Legislation
Box 20 Folder 12	Presentation to Madison Literary Club, 1998
Box 20 Folder 13	Puerto Ricans in Milwaukee
Box 20 Folder 14	Reaction of Dunn County Citizens to the New Ulm Massacre
Box 20 Folder 15	Seifert/Pierstdorf Farm
Box 20 Folder 16	Sermons
Box 20 Folder 17	Severson, Magnus
Box 20 Folder 18	Shanagolden
Box 20 Folder 19	Signed Chair Project
Box 20 Folder 20	Silk Industry in Wisconsin
Box 20 Folder 21	“Students, the Press, and Society”
Box 20 Folder 22	Time-Life Biographies
Box 20 Folder 23	Unemployment Compensation in Wisconsin
Box 21 Folder 1	Van Slyke Family and Lucius Collins
Box 21 Folder 2	Village Life
Box 21 Folder 3	“Vision Shaped in Stone”—State Capitol Building
Box 21 Folder 4	Wallace, George
Box 21 Folder 5	Wallace, William
Box 21 Folder 6	Waupun, “End of the Trail” Stamp
Box 21 Folder 7	Wisconsin Newspapers, Editors, Press, 1833-1866
Box 21 Folder 8	Yachting, Ice-Boating, Canning
Box 21 Folder 9	Yarns of Yesterday
	Subseries: Project Research Files	⇧
	Boyd Family Records
Box 22 Folder 1	Correspondence, Ruth Shaw Worthing
Box 22 Folder 2	Biography
Box 22 Folder 3	Research notes
Box 22 Folder 4	Ruth Shaw Worthing's Manuscript
	Wisconsin State Flag and Seal
Box 22 Folder 5	Correspondence
Box 22 Folder 6	Correspondence and follow up
Box 22 Folder 7	Northwest Territory, Wisconsin Territory
Box 22 Folder 8	Columbian Exposition, 1893—State Seal
Box 22 Folder 9	Flags and Other Artifacts in State Historical Society of Wisconsin Holdings
Box 22 Folder 10	1891 Laws—Burchard and Putney
Box 22 Folder 11	Interviews—Madaus, Whitney Smith
Box 22 Folder 12	Bibliography, Research notes
Box 22 Folder 13	Land Banner, State Seal
Box 22 Folder 14	Wisconsin State Flag
	Carver Grant Hoax/Summerwind
Box 23 Folder 1	Correspondence
Box 23 Folder 2	Newspaper clippings and articles
	Faye Kaynor on Lisle Lester
Box 23 Folder 3	Correspondence, Faye Kaynor
	Gerald L.K. Smith
Box 23 Folder 4	Autobiography and clippings
Box 23 Folder 5	Biography, Disciples of Christ
Box 23 Folder 6	Cemetery Locations, Obituaries—Neal and Smith Families
Box 23 Folder 7	Census information
	Correspondence
Box 23 Folder 8	Disciples of Christ Historical Society
Box 23 Folder 9	C.J. Dull
Box 23 Folder 10	Jeansonne
Box 23 Folder 11	MacLernon
Box 23 Folder 12	Henthorn, Chitwood
Box 23 Folder 13	High School
Box 23 Folder 14	L.Z. Smith (father)
Box 23 Folder 15	Pardeeville Note: See also Rawleigh.
Box 23 Folder 16	Rawleigh and Watkins Company
Box 23 Folder 17	Resources and early notes
Box 23 Folder 18	John Sime article
Box 23 Folder 19	Smith, Zachariah
Box 23 Folder 20	Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin
Box 23 Folder 21	Wisconsin Historical Records Survey
	Treptow Pledge
Box 23 Folder 22	Martin A. Treptow, Bibliographical notes
Box 23 Folder 23	Family Members
Box 23 Folder 24	Holzhueter Manuscripts
Box 23 Folder 25	Newspaper clipping and articles
Box 23 Folder 26	Pledge Origins
Box 23 Folder 27	Pledge—Posters
Box 23 Folder 28	Pledge—Presidential and Veep Associations
Box 23 Folder 29	Vande Steeg, Pearl
	Fur Trade
Box 24 Folder 1	American Indians
Box 24 Folder 2	Bibliographical notes
Box 24 Folder 3	Fur Business
Box 24 Folder 4	Fur Trade/Trapping
Box 24 Folder 5	“The Menominee Indians” (Patricia K. Ourada)
Box 24 Folder 6	Ships, Canoes
Box 24 Folder 7	Trading Locations and Practices
Box 24 Folder 8	Wildlife Diseases
	Murder, Executions, and Lynchings
	Executions
Box 25 Folder 1	Correspondence regarding
Box 25 Folder 2	Clippings and articles
Box 25 Folder 3	Research notes
	Lynching
Box 25 Folder 4	Correspondence regarding
Box 25 Folder 5	Clippings and articles
Box 25 Folder 6	Research notes
Box 25 Folder 7	De Bar Lynching, clippings
	Hans Olson Lynching
Box 25 Folder 8	Anderson Manuscripts
Box 25 Folder 9	Johnstead Correspondence, 1981-1982
Box 25 Folder 10	Johnstead Manuscripts
	Jeremiah Porter papers
Box 26 Folder 1	American Home Missionary Society
Box 26 Folder 2	Articles (secondary sources)
Box 26 Folder 3	Correspondence
Box 26 Folder 4	Letters and Diary notes
Box 26 Folder 5	Letters, Stephen Peet
Box 26 Folder 6	Porter and Peet transcriptions
Box 26 Folder 7	Research and Source notes