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| Crabb, Theodore (Ted) | Title: Ted Crabb records Quantity: 8 Linear Feet 8 record storage cartons. Call Number: uac202 Abstract: The Ted Crabb records contain materials relating to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and the Wisconsin Union during Crabb's time as the Wisconsin Union Director, from 1968 to 2001. This collection contains campus building records, meeting minutes, student government files, committee records, financial records, annual reports, and Wisconsin Union awards and recipient records. |
| Craig, Gerald S., 1893- | Title: Gerald S. Craig Papers, 1931-1967
Quantity: 9.2 c.f. (23 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 43 Abstract: Papers of Gerald S. Craig, a teacher and author of elementary school science textbooks; including correspondence, memoranda, book manuscripts, notes, articles, speeches, trip itineraries, and biographical notes. The bulk of the correspondence is with teachers, school systems (organized by city and state), co-authors, and editors and others at his publisher, Ginn and Co. There is a small amount of family correspondence describing Craig's trips to Bulgaria and the Soviet Union in 1931. The memoranda focus on exchanges between Craig and his collaborators on five science series for which he served as senior editor. The papers include extensive notes for speeches, class lectures at the Horace Mann School at Columbia and State Teachers College at Troy, Alabama, and for the preparation and promotion of his two most prominent science series, Science Today and Tomorrow and Science for You. |
| Crandall Family | Title: Crandall Family Correspondence, 1854-1911
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 203; Micro 417 Abstract: Correspondence of members of the Crandall Family collected by Katherine M. Crandall Train of Baraboo, Wisconsin. The correspondence mainly consists of letters on health and financial matters and on military service by family members in the 6th Wisconsin, the 17th Wisconsin, the 23rd Wisconsin, and other regiments during the Civil War. Portions of the Civil War correspondence are also available on microfilm. |
| Crandall, Leonard, 1923-1990 | Title: Leonard Crandall Papers, 1939-1946
Quantity: .6 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 91 Abstract: Collection of photographs, documents and memorabilia pertaining to serviceman Leonard Crandall's active duty in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. The photographs focus on the Fifth Air Force in New Guinea, Okinawa and the Philippine Islands of Leyte and Luzon, where Crandall was stationed during 1944 and 1945. They include images of camp areas, servicemen, aircraft and other equipment, and the surrounding villages, people and culture. Crandall was a Wisconsin native. Documents included are pay records, bond allotment forms, discharge papers, and correspondence, and memorabilia includes uniform patches and foreign currency. The collection also includes photographs of family and friends, Crandall's 1939 and 1941 high school annuals, and class of 1941 diploma from Cudahy High School. |
| Cranefield Family | Title: Cranefield Family Papers, 1783-2001 (bulk 1870-2001)
Quantity: 2.1 cubic feet (5 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder); plus 1.2 cubic feet of photographs Call Number: Mss 1003; M2005-009 Abstract: Papers documenting four generations of the James and Maria (Tipple) Cranefield family, immigrants from Norfolk, England who settled in the Madison, Wisconsin area in 1848. The bulk of the collection documents the descendants of Frederic Cranefield and his wife Laura (Hinrichs) Cranefield, a prominent couple in Madison. Frederic Cranefield worked for the University of Wisconsin's Horticulture Department and had four children, Marion, Paul, Harold, and Laura. Marion served in World War I and was one of the first Wisconsin soldiers to die in that conflict; there is a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post named in his honor in Madison. Paul's son, Paul Jr., received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1951 and his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1964. He was a prominent doctor of cardiology as well as a published author of many medical physiology texts. He was also a devout enthusiast of the theater and the papers reflect this interest. The papers consist of genealogical research files, correspondence, diaries, and news clippings. |
| Crawford County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: Crawford County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors: Proceedings, Claims, and Reports, 1820-1907
Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Crawford Series 17 Abstract: Records, mainly 1876-1882, of the Crawford County Board of Supervisors, primarily consisting of handwritten proceedings, resolutions, vote tallies, and claims and expenses approved by the board. Also included are bids for the position of county attending physician (1881), county property inventories, reports on county road projects, and bids and specifications for the 1866 courthouse and the poor house (1890). The county poor house is also represented by hand drawn floor plans. |
| Crawford County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: Board of Supervisors, Crawford County, Wisconsin, Records, 1817-1991
Quantity: 2.9 cubic feet (8 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Crawford Series 4 Abstract: Records produced by or for the Crawford County Board of Supervisors, primarily consisting of proceedings, but also including affidavits, construction bids, correspondence, election returns, expense reports, jury verdicts, petitions, promissory notes, resolutions, summons, vote tallies, and writs of execution. |
| Crawford County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Crawford County (Wis.). Clerk: Poll Lists and Election Records, 1876-1959
Quantity: 3 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Crawford Series 22 Abstract: Election inspectors' statements and tally sheets from judicial, local, and general elections, 1876-1913. Also included are poll lists of voter names, including election district, date, and type of election, 1922-1924, 1949, and 1959. |
| Crawford County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Crawford County (Wis.). Clerk: Miscellaneous Records, 1831-1926
Quantity: 3.2 cubic feet (3 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes) Call Number: Crawford Series 19 Abstract: Miscellaneous records, mainly 1878-1906, deposited with the county clerk; including fragmentary population and agricultural census reports (1865, 1895, and 1905); Civil War militia lists (1862 and 1864), and miscellaneous records relating to county and town officers. Also included are incomplete files of accident reports, bounty claims, jury lists, 1831 marriage certificates issued by Justice of the Peace Joseph Brisbois, and annual reports of "outdoor" poor relief (1878-1884). The agricultural reports are of various types, but all contain detailed statistics that were probably used for assessment purposes. The series also includes two incomplete letters: the first (circa 1838) written by a soldier at Fort Crawford to a relative about his plans to settle at Lake Superior when his enlistment ends and the second (circa 1849) written by Alfred Brunson giving his ideas about how towns should be organized in the county. |
| Crawford County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Crawford County (Wis.). Clerk: Election Records and Poll Lists, 1829-1928
Quantity: 9.4 cubic feet (9 records center cartons and 1 archives box) Call Number: Crawford Series 15 Abstract: Records of the county clerk relating to local, state, judicial and special elections, primarily from 1879-1928. For the majority of the elections from 1855 to 1928 the records consist of inspectors' statements of results and tally sheets, usually at the precinct level. Poll lists giving the names of voters date from 1829 to 1906 and are continuous for 1856-1897. Election records of particular interest are the 1859 and 1861 referenda which sought to move the county seat from Prairie du Chien to a newly-created community and an 1857 referendum on African-American suffrage. |
| Crawford County (Wis.) Extension Office | Title: Crawford County Extension Homemakers records, 1973-2010
Quantity: 2 Linear Feet 2 record storage cartons CallNumber: uac235 Abstract: The records consist of newsletters, meeting minutes, publications, manuals, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting the work of Crawford County Extension homemakers groups. |
| Crawford County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Register of Deeds, Crawford County, Wisconsin, Miscellaneous Records, 1837-1906
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Crawford Series 20 Abstract: Miscellaneous records of the Crawford County Register of Deeds. The majority of this series refers to a project, circa 1905, to trace county land titles to their origins, apparently in an attempt to check the accuracy of the title indexes and to bring them into conformity with standard practice. This section of the series is organized by town or township and traces the land back to the original French lots or entry. The notes and work plans associated with this project are also part of this series. Also included are territorial deeds and mortgages, some naming Joseph Brisbois, James Lockwood, and H. L. Dousman; a hand drawn plat map; records relating to property taxes and assessments, tax exempt property, swamp land improvement, and preemption; the 1881 Articles of Association for Sacred Heart College in Prairie du Chien; and miscellaneous other legal documents. |
| Crawford County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Crawford County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Record Books, 1811-1969
Quantity: 43 reels of microfilm (35mm) and 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Crawford Series 14 Abstract: Volumes containing primarily land deeds. Some volumes contain land patents, tax deeds, contracts, mortgages, and miscellaneous records (probate information). |
| Crawford County (Wis). Superintendent of Schools | Title: Crawford County (Wis). Superintendent of Schools: Annual Reports, 1852-1953
Quantity: 3.0 cubic feet (8 archives boxes) Call Number: Crawford Series 18 Abstract: Annual reports, 1870-1885 and 1936-1952, including school censuses, submitted by school district clerks and teachers to the County Superintendent of Schools. The census section provides names and information about persons less than 20 years of age residing in the school district, some family information, and student attendance and enrollment. The annual report section provides aggregate statistical information regarding number of students, teacher salaries, enrollment figures, and financial statements. Also included are lists of books ordered for each school (1948-1953); intermittent reports to the county board (1876-1903); and a small number of reports of town superintendents to the county board (1852-1858). |
| Crawford County (Wis.). Treasurer | Title: Crawford County (Wis.). Treasurer: Tax, Delinquent, and Special Tax Rolls, 1855-1970
Quantity: 219.0 c.f. (2,564 volumes) Call Number: Crawford Series 23 Abstract: Tax rolls noting date, town, owner, land description, acreage, valuation of real and personal property, amount of taxes, total taxes, and payment. Delinquent tax returns show owner, land description, acreage, valuation, and taxes. Special tax rolls include War Tax and War Bounty Rolls, 1863 and 1864, which were tax assessments levied for the purpose of paying the bounties to volunteers in the Union army. The rolls contain a description of property, assessed valuation, land ownership, and the amount of tax assessed. Some volumes include listings of returns and whether the taxes were paid. Other “Special” tax rolls include Assessment rolls and “Equalized” tax rolls. County-wide special volumes include Assignment Rolls, Redemption Records, and Affidavits and Proof of Publication of Tax Sales. |
| Crawford, Berenice Maloney, 1896- | Title: Berenice Maloney Crawford Papers, 1896-1974
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 56 photographs Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 12; PH Milwaukee Mss 12 Abstract: Papers documenting the long career of Crawford, a Wisconsin educator who taught classes from elementary through university level. Particular emphasis is given to her early teaching activities (1930-1939), and to her husband Frederick's life and inventions. Included is material pertaining to the elementary report card and kindergarten activity programs she developed; and files, scrapbooks, and diaries documenting her travels and activities as a founder of the Wisconsin chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. |
| Crawford, Kenneth Gale, 1902-1983 | Title: Kenneth Gale Crawford Papers, 1911-1983
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), 65 photographs, and 11 scrapbook pages Call Number: Mss 756; Micro 1149; PH 3810; PH 3810 (3); PH 3811; PH 3812 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1937-1972, of Kenneth Gale Crawford, a journalist, magazine editor, and World War II correspondent. Included are printed copies of articles, speeches, fragmentary correspondence, microfilmed scrapbooks concerning his year as president of the American Newspaper Guild (1940) and other aspects of his early professional career, book reviews, a complete run of his “Washington” column from Newsweek magazine (available only on microfilm), biographical information, photographs, and subject files concerning his coverage of World War II, a trip to Vietnam in 1962, and interviews of Lyndon B. Johnson and Henry Kissinger. |
| Creager, Marvin H., 1882-1954 | Title: Marvin H. Creager Papers, 1919-1961
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 227 Abstract: Papers of Marvin H. Creager, managing editor of the Milwaukee Journal (1920-1938), president and editor (1938-1943), and vice-president and editorial adviser (1943-1954), consisting of addresses, speeches, writings on newspapers policies and problems, and correspondence, including letters of condolence from colleagues upon news of his death. |
| Cream City Business Association | Title: Cream City Business Association Records, 1979-1989
Quantity: 1 cubic ft. (3 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 204 Abstract: Collection consists of the records of the Cream City Business Association, an affiliation of metropolitan Milwaukee gay and lesbian business owners and service providers that was in existence from 1981 to 1989. Collection includes meeting agendas and minutes of the executive committee and board of directors, newsletters, administrative correspondence, business directories, and committee files. |
| Cream City Foundation | Title: Cream City Foundation Records, 1982-2001
Quantity: 2.4 cubic ft. (6 boxes) 1 oversize folder 5 videocassettes 1 DVD 3 digital files (54.5 GB) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 205 Abstract: Founded in 1982, Cream City Foundation (CCF) is the only non-profit, grant making, community-based foundation serving the entire State of Wisconsin whose sole purpose is to support the changing needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The collection contains correspondence, board meeting minutes, newsletters, financial information, publicity materials, articles of incorporation, and annual reports. It also contains grant applications from over eighty LGBT organizations, many of which are now inactive. These applications are likely the only surviving documentation of many of these groups. Examples of educational materials produced with CCF support are included in the collection. |
| Cream City Neighborhood Health Center | Title: Cream City Neighborhood Health Center Records,
1960-1972
, 1968-1972
Quantity: 1.2 cubic ft. (3 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 338 Abstract: General files of the Cream City Neighborhood Health Center, mostly dating from 1968 through 1972. Also included are funding applications to the Office of Economic Opportunity dating from 1970 and 1972. |
| Cream City Review | Title: Cream City Review Records, 1978-2016
Quantity: .6 cubic ft. (2 boxes) 2 videocassettes 2 digital files (141 GB) 1 oversize folder Call Number: UWM Archival Collection 225 Abstract: Records of the Cream City Review dating from 1978 to 2014. Included are meeting minutes, general correspondence, grant materials, and promotional materials. |
| Crean, Robert J. | Title: Robert J. Crean Papers, 1947-1971
Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 95AN Abstract: Papers of a writer for television and theater whose work is known for its frequent exploration of religious themes. Scripts, notes, and correspondence relating to teleplays for Catholic Hour (NBC), CBS Playhouse, and N.Y.P.D. (ABC), comprise the bulk of the collection. There are, however, some produced and unproduced motion picture and theater scripts and a file of general correspondence containing exchanges with his friend Sir Tyrone Guthrie about dramatic theory and the general state of the theater. Many documents bear helpful annotations supplied by the donor. |
| Creighton, Helen, 1914- | Title: Helen Creighton Papers, 1958-1979
Quantity: .4 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 25 Abstract: Collection contains the unpublished speeches and workshop addresses by Dr. Helen Creighton, Distinguished Professor of Nursing, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The addresses and speeches which Creighton gave at nursing conventions and workshops focused on malpractice issues; the role of the nurse in communicating and observing medical procedures; and ethical concerns of prolonging life and terminating life support systems. The collection also includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, and undated photographs of Creighton. An inclusive bibliography lists over 300 articles written by Creighton for publication mainly in Nursing Management and Supervisor Nurse, for which she served as a monthly contributing editor (1970-1987). |
| Cristal, Philip N. | Title: Philip N. Cristal Diaries, 1916-1919
Quantity: 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 42 Abstract: Philip N. Cristal (1894-1982) was a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during and after World War I. He lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1934-1958 and he worked for Northwestern Mutual. These are journals from his time in the military. |
| Critchfield, Richard, 1931- | Title: Richard Critchfield Papers, 1938-1987
Quantity: 16.0 c.f. (40 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), 2 tape recordings, and photographs Call Number: U.S. Mss 117AF; Micro 541; Audio 1183A; PH 3729 Abstract: Papers of Richard Critchfield, an author and foreign correspondent known for his coverage of Far Eastern events and reports on third world cultures and the impact on them of agricultural and technological change. Although the bulk of the papers consists of writings, the correspondence file contains important exchanges with his newspaper and book editors and personal correspondence with his family. There are also memoranda about events in Vietnam, exchanges with staff at the Alicia Patterson Fund which sponsored some of his research, and correspondence about political situations in the various countries which Critchfield studied. The collection contains substantial documentation on five books, The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War (1968), The Golden Bowl Be Broken: Peasant Life in Four Cultures (1973), Shahhat, An Egyptian (1978), Villages (1981), and Those Days: An American Album. Also in the collection are notes on interviews with Chester B. Bowles, John Kenneth Galbraith, Indira Gandhi, Ferdinand Marcos, Robert S. McNamara, Anwar Sadat, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. |
| Crocker, Hans, 1815-1889 | Title: Hans Crocker Papers, 1836-1887
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 85 Abstract: Scattered papers of a Milwaukeean active in Wisconsin economic development; consisting largely of quitclaims, property tax receipts, and financial records from Crocker's activities as a railroad receiver and an investor in land and other ventures. The papers include fragmentary correspondence, lists, and receipts on railroad business, debts and mortgages, and investments in City of Milwaukee bonds as well as on household and personal expenses. The bulk of the collection involves real estate transactions. |
| Crockett, Albert Stevens, 1873-1969 | Title: Albert Stevens Crockett Papers, 1903-1965
Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (5 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), 1 disc recording, 1 tape recording, and photographs Call Number: U.S. Mss 35AF; Micro 1123; PH 3742; Disc 185A; Audio 1186A Abstract: Papers of Albert Stevens Crockett, a prominent early journalist, writer, and publicist. Crockett's published and unpublished books include Revelations of Louise (1920), Ditties from a Ditty Bag (1922), and When James Gordon Bennett Was Caliph of Bagdad (1926). Of special note is an unpublished autobiography concerning his early experiences as a journalist and foreign correspondent and his observations of New York City culture and nightlife during Prohibition; clippings and photographs pertaining to his coverage of a 1904 automobile tour in Europe, and a typescript of a 1913 journal concerning conditions in the Philippines. |
| Croghan, William, 1752-1822 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: William Croghan Papers, 1769-1818
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (3 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss N Abstract: Military and personal papers of William Croghan, a Revolutionary War officer in the 8th Virginia Militia Regiment, who was also the brother-in-law of Jonathan, George Rogers, and William Clark. |
| Cromwell, John, 1888-1979 | Title: John Cromwell Papers, 1902-1972
Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes) and 933 photographs Call Number: U.S. Mss 139AN; Lot A116; Lot A117; Lot A118; Lot B23 Abstract: Papers of John Cromwell, an award-winning actor, director, and producer for motion pictures and theater, including correspondence, scripts, and scrapbooks. Of Cromwell's many motion picture credits, the papers include scrapbooks and scripts on eleven films, most notably Abe Lincoln in Illinois (RKO, 1940), Anna and the King of Siam (20th Century-Fox, 1945), The Prisoner of Zenda (United Artists, 1937), and Since You Went Away, (United Artists, 1944). Three scrapbooks pertain to his career as a Broadway actor and director, with one of these relating to his Tony-winning role in Point of No Return (1951). Participation in regional theater, primarily the Cleveland Playhouse and the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, is represented by clippings, playbills, and miscellaneous production materials. The professional correspondence includes letters from Paddy Chayefsky, Joseph Conrad, Bette Davis, Ruth Gordon, Katharine Hepburn, John Hess, David O. Selznick, and Robert E. Sherwood. The photographs are primarily personal and include snapshots of Cromwell's homes, travels, horses, and a wedding in the 1940s. |
| Croner, Vera F., 1920-2010 | Title: Vera Croner Papers, circa 1860-2010
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box) and 407 photographs (1 archives box); plus additions of 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box) Call Number: M2010-144; M2016-088 Abstract: Papers and photographs of Vera Fannie Croner detailing her life as a Jew living in Germany until her move in 1945 to Norway and then eventually to the United States. The papers include correspondence; materials pertaining to her grandfather, Bondy Croner; biographical documents and publications about Vera, as well as numerous pieces of memorabilia. Also included are numerous materials on Vera's parents, Max and Hedwig Croner. Included also are many photographs depicting Max and Hedwig, and many photographs of Vera through the years. |
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Crooke Family; Mabbett family |
Title: Crooke-Mabbett Family Papers, 1847-1944
Quantity: 0.5 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 9 Abstract: The records in this collection document the correspondence of the Crooke and Mabbett families who were connected through the marriage of Maria E. Crooke and Hiram J. Mabbett in 1883. Members of each family served in the American Civil War and World War I. Several of the family members lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, though others lived in McGregor, Iowa; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Yorkshire, England. |
| Crosby, G. Reginald | Title: G. Reginald Crosby Papers, 1934-1953
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: M82-325 Abstract: Files, 1934-1953, concerning the origins of the Social Security system and the Social Security Board, kept by G. Reginald Crosby who served on the Committee on Economic Security. Contents include reports, news clippings, meeting minutes, and miscellaneous publications related to Social Security. |
| Crosby, Henry | Title: Henry Crosby Papers, 1969-1976
Quantity: 2 cubic ft. (3 boxes and 1 beer case) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 188 Abstract: This collection contains Henry Crosby's papers pertaining to the 1970 acquisition and the 1972 closure of the Peoples Brewing Company. Crosby was on the board of directors of this company. This brewery was owned by a group of Milwaukee-based African American Investors. As a result of this purchase and the subsequent African American directed stock sale, the Peoples Brewing Company became the first major African American owned brewery in Wisconsin. The Henry Crosby Papers consist of documents relating to the Peoples Brewing Company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin; the president of the Peoples Brewing Company, Theodore Mack; minority business initiatives; the Wisconsin brewing industry; and the Small Business Administration (SBA), which is the federal government agency whose function is to council and assist the interests of small businesses. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, legal documents, publications, public stock records, Peoples Brewing Company business records, a publication from the Afro-Urban Institute, cardboard beer case labels, and Peoples Brewing Company and Oshkosh Brewing Company regalia. This collection has profound significance not only as the first African American owned brewing company, but in the federal investigations that were prompted from SBA mishandling of the company's closure. In addition, it incited investigations of other corporations and federal bureaus that were related to Mack's initial suit against the SBA and the Defense Department in 1972. |
| Crow, James F. (James Franklin), 1916-2012 | Title: James F. Crow papers Quantity: 56 Linear Feet 53 record storage cartons, 4 letter document boxes, 2 half-sized letter document boxes. 56 linear feet of paper documents, bound items, photographs, and slides. Call Number: uac96 Abstract: The James F. Crow papers document the academic, professional, and personal life of Professor James F. Crow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. James F. Crow joined the Department of Zoology in 1948 and remained at UW-Madison until and beyond his formal retirement in 1986. Crow was acting Dean of the Medical School between 1963 and 1965 and was at separate times chairman of the departments of Genetics and Medical Genetics. Crow remained active in teaching and research as an emeritus professor until 2012. He held appointments on several national committees and research groups through the National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1961, the National Research Council, and the National Institutes of Health. Crow served as co-editor-in-chief of the journal "Genetics" and published Genetics Notes, know colloquially as Crow's Notes, which became a standard teaching resource for basic genetics concepts. In addition, Crow was an accomplished amateur musician and played viola in the Madison Symphony Orchestra from 1949 to 1994. The collection includes materials documenting his activities on campus and at national and international organizations, as well as materials related to the editorship of "Genetics" and materials related to Crow's effort's to retain the Pro Arte String Quartet in Madison. |
| Crowley, Leo T. | Title: Leo T. Crowley Papers, 1930-1970
Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (3 record center cartons), 6 tape recordings, and 6 negatives Call Number: M2000-144; Audio 850A Abstract: Research papers, including some of Crowley's own papers, of Stuart L. Weiss for his biography of Leo T. Crowley, The President's Man: Leo Crowley and Franklin Roosevelt in Peace and War (Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1966). Papers concern Crowley's career as a businessman, chief aide to Madison Mayor Schmedeman, and federal administrator, and consist of correspondence, speeches, news clippings, and reports. Included are originals and copies from Crowley's personal papers, as well as copies from other sources. Also included is an interview of Crowley conducted in 1969 by Lawrence C. Eklund and photographs by George P. Koshollek. |
| Crownhart Family | Title: Charles Henry Crownhart Family Papers, 1853-1943
Quantity: 11.6 c.f. (29 archives boxes); plus additions of 10.0 c.f. and 130 photographs Call Number: Mss 403; M76-288; M82-201; M86-127; M86-179; M86-388; M90-308 Abstract: The papers of the Charles Henry Crownhart family document the personal and professional lives of four Wisconsinites prominent in legal, political, medical, and educational circles. The papers consist of the records of Charles H. and Jessie Evans Crownhart and their sons, Jesse George, and Charles H. Crownhart Jr. Primarily correspondence, the collection thoroughly documents the family's personal history as well as each member's professional interests. |
| Cruger, Jefferson, 1804(?)-1884 | Title: Jefferson Cruger Diary, 1831-1871
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 765 Abstract: Diary of Jefferson Cruger, including poems and sermon extracts, concerning his deep involvement in religion and the temperance movement, and his daily activities as a teacher in New York, farmer in Iowa, Civil War soldier in the 46th Iowa Infantry, farmer in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and teacher near Mondovi, Wisconsin. |
| Cruikshank, Nelson H., 1902-1986 | Title: Nelson Cruikshank Papers, 1927-1989
Quantity: 19.0 cubic feet (17 records center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 4 card boxes); plus additions of 0.1 cubic feet, 11 disc recordings, 5 tape recordings, 420 photographs, and 38 transparencies Call Number: Mss 1002; M84-329; M96-082; M2000-175; M2008-087; Audio 1269A Abstract: Papers of Nelson Cruikshank, director (1944-1965) of the AFL and the AFL-CIO Social Security Department in which capacity he was involved in much of the Social Security legislation of the 1950s and in the creation of Medicare. He was also an adviser to AFL-CIO presidents William Green and George F. Meany. Cruikshank also exercised general oversight of health and welfare programs of all AFL-CIO internationals and state federations. Particularly well documented in this regard are the California Federation of Labor and the Laundry Workers International Union, as well as his participation in the investigation of alleged mishandling of union welfare funds. Additional files concern the important 1960 White House Conference on Aging, the National Advisory Council on Social Security Financing, and the AFL-CIO's Social Security Advisory Committee. The papers primarily document his involvement with the AFL-CIO prior to 1961 so that his role in Medicare during the 1960s is not well represented. After retiring from the AFL-CIO in 1965 Cruikshank was a national leader on issues pertaining to health care and the aging, serving as a member of the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council, as president of the National Council of Senior Citizens, and as advisor to President Jimmy Carter on aging issues. The collection includes some documentation about the above topics. The papers consist of correspondence and memoranda, speeches and writings (some in recorded form), and minutes and meeting files for the Federal Advisory Council on Employment Security and the previously mentioned advisory committees. Correspondence and draft materials relate to the publication of his memoirs, The Cruikshank Chronicles, by Alice Cruikshank Hoffman as part of the Save Our Security (SOS) Education Project. Prominent correspondents include Wilbur Cohen, Aime Forand, Dan Goldy, Wilbur Mills, and Mathew Woll. |
| Crusinberry, Jane, 1892- | Title: Jane Crusinberry Papers, 1933-1960, 1983
Quantity: 16.2 c.f. (40 archives boxes and 1 oversize box) Call Number: U.S. Mss 199AN Abstract: Papers of the author of the popular radio serial The Story of Mary Marlin. Includes a complete run of scripts of the original show, 1934-1945, and of an Australian version broadcast in 1959-1960, character sketches, show music, outlines, publicity, commercials, reference material, scenarios, story summaries, and synopses. Personal and business papers include a biographical sketch written by Crusinberry's daughter, personal correspondence, fan mail, music and poems by Crusinberry, newsclippings, and correspondence with substitute authors, advertising agencies, networks, lawyers, and the show's sponsor, Procter and Gamble. |