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| Robb, Edward G. | Title: Edward G. Robb Recollections of Gays Mills and Prairie du Chien Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 073 Abstract: Recollections of Edward G. Robb, recorded in 1939, pertaining to the Gays Mills and Prairie du Chien areas in Wisconsin. |
| Robbins, Jack Alan | Title: Jack Alan Robbins Papers, 1965-1977
Quantity: 7 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 872 Abstract: Papers of historian and socialist Jack Alan Robbins, consisting of texts and drafts of his two doctoral dissertations on American Trotskyism and French Marxism; drafts, notes, and reference material for other articles and writings; annotated copies of many of the writings of Leon Trotsky; book reviews; copies of the Democratic Left Book Review and Ripples in the Stream; and fragmentary correspondence. Also present are scattered papers concerning a variety of socialist and other organizations. |
| Roberge family | Title: Roberge Family Historical Notes Quantity: 0.02 cubic foot (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 265 Abstract: The Roberge Family Historical Notes include newspaper clippings and handwritten recordings of events pertaining to members of the Roberge family, namely marriages, births, and deaths. These events were recorded on the blank pages of a book (clippings were attached to the pages). While these entries contain date information concerning when each event occurred, it is unclear whether events were recorded at the time they happened over time, or whether the information on events was written collectively at one later time. The majority of events recorded took place in La Crosse, Wisconsin. |
| Robert Burns Club of Milwaukee | Title: Robert Burns Club of Milwaukee Records, 1986-2020
Quantity: 1.6 cubic ft. (5 boxes) plus additions of .4 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 196 Abstract: Records of a non-profit social and literary club dedicated to preserving the living memory of the 18th-century Scottish poet and songwriter Robert Burns. Records include meeting minutes, monthly newsletters, correspondence, photographs, song books, and newspaper clippings. |
| Robert F. Roeming | Title: Robert F. Roeming Papers, 1959-2003
Quantity: 9.5 cubic ft. (10 boxes, including 250 audio reels) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 286 Abstract: Papers of Robert F. Roeming, a professor of French and Italian at Wisconsin State College (1941-1956) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1956-1980). This collection includes materials pertaining to Professor Roeming's time at UWM, including teaching materials, both lecture notes and course syllabi; correspondence and records relating to events held at and sponsored by UWM, including information on multiple UWM summer programs and records and photographs from the Paul Aschenbach Memorial Sculpture at the Milwaukee lakefront; documents from academic and professional conferences Roeming attended; correspondence with other university employees and officials, and documents of policy changes in the UW System and at UWM; records of research projects and grant proposals; and audio reels containing recordings of various conferences, colloquium, interviews, and conversations. The collection also includes correspondence and personal records from Roeming's time serving as the editor of the Modern Language Journal and as a member of the Wisconsin State Nursing Board. Also included are records from his work on Camus: A Bibliography and assorted correspondence with elected and retired government officials and scholars. |
| Robert Sheerin, collector | Title: Robert Sheerin Collection of Films, 1914-1984
Quantity: 383 reels of film (16 mm) Call Number: AE 706; CB 972; CB 977; CC 869; DF 601-DF 602; DF 613-DF 615; DF 618-DF 619; DF 623-DF 643; DF 681-DF 683; DF 707-DF 713; DG 132-DG 167; DG 756-DG 764; FG 125-FG 134; FG 679-FG 680; FG 733-FG 756; FG 760-FG 761; FG 763-FG 780; FG 801-FG 802; FG 835-FG 836; FG 898-FG 900; FG 920-FG 921; FG 924-FG 929; FG 933-FG 941; FG 944-FG 954; FG 957-FG 961; FG 965; FG 967-FG 997; FH 001-FH 058, FH 061-FH 086, FH 091-FH 101, FH 105-FH 118, FH 163-FH 164, FH 172-FH 175, FH 197-FH 199, FH 201-FH 208, FH 211-FH 226, FH 257-FH 261, FH 318-FH 329, FH 338-FH 341, FH 344-FH 346, FH 348, FH 352 Abstract: Shorts and feature films collected by Robert Sheerin. |
| Roberts, Joan | Title: Joan Roberts Speech, 1974
Quantity: 1 tape recording Call Number: Tape 830A Abstract: Speech by Joan Roberts, a former member of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Educational Policy Studies Department and a founder of the women's studies program, entitled “On Building a Feminist Future in Our Time,” plus comments regarding her unsuccessful fight for tenure in the all-male department. |
| Roberts, Vincent, 1818-1888 | Title: Vincent Roberts Papers, 1841-1903
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 397 Abstract: Business and family papers of Vincent Roberts, a nineteenth-century farmer in Dodge County, Wisconsin, justice of the peace, and real estate and loan agent. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, a notebook of poetry and justice of the peace records, and biographical and miscellaneous materials. Most of the correspondence relates to Roberts' business as a loan agent, and provides insights into the common methods of purchase and transferral of property and wealth in nineteenth-century Wisconsin agricultural areas. Also touched upon are the governmental duties conferred upon those willing to accept them at the time of the organization of the state of Wisconsin. |
| Roberts, Virgil D. | Title: Virgil D. Roberts Papers, 1973-1984
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (2 record center boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: M84-459; Micro 1004 Abstract: Papers of Virgil D. Roberts, a democratic Wisconsin Assemblyman from La Crosse. Roberts was first elected to the assembly in 1970, and served until 1984. While a representative, Roberts served on committees for Tax Reform, State Railroad Advisory, and Natural Resources as well as Primary and Secondary Education and others. The papers document Robert’s communication with his constituency and consist predominantly of legislative correspondence, press releases, and speeches, as well as a few photographs and news clippings featuring Roberts. |
| Roberts, William A., 1900- | Title: William A. Roberts Papers, 1942-1956
Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss AJ Abstract: Files kept by the Washington law firm of Roberts and McInnis in the civil suit filed in 1951 by Drew Pearson against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Westbrook Pegler, Morris A. Bealle, Edward K. Nellor, Donald Surine, George Waters, and the Washington Times-Herald on charges of libel, slander, and conspiracy to damage the plaintiff's business. William A. Roberts served as senior attorney for Pearson. |
| Robins, Raymond, 1873-1954 | Title: Raymond Robins Papers, 1878-1956
Quantity: 19.8 c.f. (50 archives boxes) and 8 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: U.S. Mss AD; Micro 567; Micro 579 Abstract: Papers of Raymond Robins, a social worker, social economist, lecturer, and politician, including correspondence, diaries, speeches, and miscellaneous papers. The collection documents his life in Alaska, 1897-1900; his work in Chicago's seventeenth ward, 1900-1914; his political activities in the Illinois Progressive Party; his 1913 lecture tour for the Men and Religion Forward Movement; his 1917-1918 tour of Russia as a member of the American Red Cross mission, subsequent support for diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States and efforts to promote economic ties between the two counties, and a return trip to the Soviet Union in 1933; and other activities. Also in the collection is correspondence of his wife Margaret Dreier Robins and of her sister Mary Dreier. |
| Robinson, Alfred S., 1836- | Title: Alfred S. Robinson Papers, 1852-1866, 1893-1914
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box including 9 volumes) Call Number: Stevens Point Mss N Abstract: Papers of Robinson, a resident of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., and of members of his family. Letters include descriptions of student life at the University of Wisconsin, 1852-53; of Colorado during the gold rush, 1859-1862; and of the experiences of two of Alfred's brothers as Civil War soldiers, one of whom was captured, paroled, and stationed at a camp in Bayfield. The volumes include brief farm records; speeches; and diaries, 1862-63, kept by Armina Hubbard Robinson. |
| Robinson, Hubbell, 1904-1974 | Title: Hubbell Robinson Papers, 1936-1969
, 1974
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 185AF Abstract: Papers of a former vice-president for television programming at CBS, primarily consisting of scripts related to his tenure as executive producer for the anthology series ABC Stage '67. Included are teleplays and drafts by Truman Capote, Jerome Chodorov, Sam Peckinpah, Eleanor Perry, and Murray Schisgal; an interview of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Alistair Cooke; and a comedy special with David Frost. Also included are 11 film reviews for Critic-at-Large (NBC) and a number of speeches and non-fiction articles, including several highly critical of the television industry. |
| Robinson, Jo Ann, 1942- | Title: Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson Papers, 1960-1966
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 1 tape recording Call Number: Mss 191; Tape 508A Abstract: Papers of civil rights worker Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson. Included are correspondence, diaries, COFO minutes and reports, Freedom School materials, printed matter, and a tape recording concerning her experiences as a volunteer in Canton, Mississippi, and as a SNCC neighborhood organizer in San Francisco in 1965. Fragmentary Knox College files mainly concern her involvement in the Student Peace Union. The tape is an interview by another Canton COFO worker concerning the Mississippi Summer project. |
| Robinson, John, 1753-1826 | Title: John Robinson Papers, 1810-1837
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: McCormick Mss BD Abstract: Papers of John Robinson, a wealthy unmarried planter and whiskey distiller in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Included is brief correspondence, receipts, agreements, orders for sales of liquor, notes of purchases at a general store, his will, an inventory of his estate sold at his “Hart's Bottom Plantation” in 1826, and accounts for the hire and sale of Negro slaves inherited from Robinson by Washington College at Lexington. |
| Robinsonville United Presbyterian Church (Brown County, Wis.) | Title: Robinsonville United Presbyterian Church (Brown County, Wis.) Records, 1861-1972
Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 667; Green Bay Micro 14 Abstract: Records of a church founded by Belgian immigrants in 1861 in the Town of Green Bay as the French Presbyterian Church. Includes minutes, 1861-1965; registers, 1861-1972, listing pastors, elders, deacons, trustees, communicants, baptisms, marriages, and deaths; and a 100th anniverary pamphlet. Reel 1 is a positive copy of film produced by the Presbyterian Historical Society in 1978. |
| Roby, Jacob W. | Title: Jacob W. Roby Papers, Quantity: 4.0 linear ft. (2 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 3 oversized folders). Call Number: WVM Mss 11 Abstract: Papers of Jacob W. Roby (1824-1906), who was the captain of Company B of the 10th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The bulk of the collection consists of administrative records of Company B, including muster rolls, a casualty list, a company register, discharge papers, quartermaster and sutler records, and officer's manuals. The collection also includes correspondence, primarily about personnel and administrative issues; the Adjutant General file for a desertion case, which includes two letters requesting clemency from President Lincoln; some Confederate documents, including a broadside concerning the murder of a soldier and an 1862 Arkansas newspaper; printed documents discussing pay and other issues sent to Roby by the State of Wisconsin; and a small amount of biographical material. |
| Rock County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: Rock County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors: Board Proceedings, 1839-1971
Quantity: 5.0 c.f. (18 volumes) and 8 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Rock Series 37 Abstract: Proceedings of the County Commissioners and Board of Supervisors including minutes of board meetings, committee reports, reports of county officers and commissions, financial reports, communications to the board, and other papers. There is substantial material pertaining to the county poor farm and asylum, the county's justice courts, the establishment of town governments, school districts, road building, and tax assessment. Also present are minutes of the Building Committee, 1869-1871. |
| Rock County (Wis.). Division of Environmental Health | Title: Rock County (Wis.). Division of Environmental Health: Records Pertaining to Water Quality of Badfish Creek and Rock River Basin, 1967-1991
Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons) Call Number: C2009/004 Abstract: Records documenting the work of the Environmental Health Division, primarily related to the water quality of the Rock County portions of Badfish Creek and the Rock River Basin. Records seem to be those of David Holman, Director of the Division of Environmental Health, 1968 through circa 1991. The water quality in Rock County was affected by the way in which the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) treated its discharge; these records document efforts to improve treatment of the resulting wastewater flowing into Rock County waterways. |
| Rock County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Rock County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Deeds, 1839-1901
Quantity: 63 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Rock Series 36 Abstract: Microfilmed warranty, quit claim, and other deeds for land located in Rock County. Records provide names of persons involved in land transfers, a description of the land, and the amount of money involved. |
| Rock County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Rock County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Grantor/Grantee Index, 1849-1901
Quantity: 9 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Rock Series 35 Abstract: Alphabetical name indexes to Rock County deeds (Rock Series 36), including name of grantee and grantor, name of person to whom document was delivered, and volume and page of deed. (Deeds, 1839-1848, are not covered by this index.) |
| Rock County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools. | Title: Rock County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools: Records, 1913-1988
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes, 1 card box, 1 oversize folder, and 1 tube), 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 1 film, and 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) of photographs, negatives, and transparencies Call Number: Rock Series 39; PH Rock Series 39; CC 647 Abstract: Minutes, photographs, reports, correspondence, administrative documents, films, and photographs from the files of Rock County Superintendent of Schools Donald Upson, together with records collected about the activities of his predecessors and the history of Rock County schools. Also included is a set of school histories and architectural drawings and other material about the construction of new schools. Black and white photographs, negatives, and color slides--some identified--include many scenes of classroom activities and student life dating from the 1940s-1960s, and documentary photographs of schools. The photographs are of high quality and coverage of education and student activities is of value beyond its Rock County context. The film depicts school bands and safety patrol marching in parades. |
| Rock County (Wis.). Surveyor | Title: Rock County (Wis.). Surveyor: Plats and Survey Maps, 1850-1976
Quantity: 4 reels of microfilm (16mm) and 7 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Rock Micro Series 5 Abstract: Records include plats of various townships and subdivisions, an index to subdivision plats, plats of the county survey, and certified survey maps. |
| Rockbridge County Merchants | Title: Rockbridge County, Virginia, Merchant Account Books, 1791-1889
Quantity: 10.0 c.f. (41 volumes) Call Number: McCormick Mss AT Abstract: An assortment of daybooks, ledgers, journals, and inventories kept by twenty-one different merchants in Rockbridge County, Virginia, most of them relating to the operation of general merchandise stores at Lexington, showing prices of commodities and purchases by county residents. Chief among the merchants and firms represented are John F. Caruthers, Caruthers and Patton, Caruthers and Shields, James Compton, H.M. Estill, William Finley, William McDaniel Jr., John Patton, Willson and Patton, James R. Willson, Samuel Willson, and William Willson. |
| Rockett, Will H. | Title: Will H. Rockett Papers, 1946-1993
Quantity: 2 cubic ft. (2 boxes) 3 audio cassettes Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 66 Abstract: Papers of a former UW-Milwaukee dean of the School of Fine Arts, largely consisting of unpublished manuscripts, drafts of published works, radio documentary scripts, research materials, as well as lectures, and course outlines and class notes. |
| Rockwell, LeGrand | Title: LeGrand Rockwell Papers, 1831-1868
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Whitewater Mss S Abstract: Papers of an Elkhorn, Wisconsin, man including diaries, 1836, 1837, 1848, 1849, and correspondence dealing with the settlement of Walworth County; plans for a railroad, 1855-1857, called the Wisconsin Central Railroad; and family matters. Correspondents include Charles M. Baker, Simeon Mills, and John H. Tweedy. |
| Roddis family | Title: Roddis Family Papers, 1844-2007
Quantity: 10.6 cubic feet (10 records center cartons, 1 archives box, and 1 card file box) Call Number: Stevens Point Mss CA Abstract: Papers, 1844-2007, of the Roddis family of Marshfield, Wisconsin, beginning with William Henry Roddis, founder of the Roddis Plywood Corporation. The Roddis family collection includes correspondence, diaries, contracts, papers, speeches, tax documents, university activities and commencement materials, postcards, travel itineraries, menus, events schedules, household ledgers, and trusts and will documents. |
| Roddis Plywood Corporation | Title: Roddis Plywood Corporation Records, 1897-1967
Quantity: 12.2 cubic feet (11 records center cartons, 2 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 cardfile box) Call Number: Stevens Point Mss BY Abstract: Records of the Roddis Plywood Corporation, 1897-1967. First known as the Hattenberg Veneer Company, and later called Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company, before becoming the Roddis Plywood Corporation. The company was headquartered in Marshfield, Wisconsin with an additional sawmill in Park Falls, Wisconsin and warehouses and regional offices throughout the United States and Canada. The collection includes business records such as correspondence, minutes, annual reports, inter-office communications, ledgers, records of family members and employees involved in the corporation, product information, stockholder information, and union matters. |
| Rodman, Howard, d. 1985 | Title: Howard Rodman Papers, 1942-1977
Quantity: 36.8 c.f. (92 archives boxes) and 28 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: U.S. Mss 82AN; Micro 557 Abstract: Papers of Howard Rodman, a writer for radio, television, motion pictures, and the theater. The collection documents the entire span of Rodman's career from his early days as a writer of short stories to a script writer for the broadcast media and a creator of television series. Best coverage of his broadcasting work is provided by files on United Nations Radio; television anthologies and series such as Actor's Studio (CBS), Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre (NBC), Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC), Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS), Naked City (ABC), Route 66 (CBS), Studio One (CBS), and You Are There (CBS); and Clear and Present Danger, a made-for-TV movie (NBC). There are also files on ten produced and unproduced motion pictures including An American Dream (Warner Bros., 1966) and Winning (UA, 1966). Smaller files relate to his short stories and plays. |
| Roe, Gwyneth King, 1868-1968 | Title: Gwyneth King Roe Papers, 1880-1968
Quantity: 3.5 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 1 volume) Call Number: Mss 151 Abstract: Papers of Gwyneth Roe, wife of Gilbert Roe, a New York attorney and former law partner of Robert M. La Follette; teacher of the Delsarte system of physical education with Emily Mulkin Bishop; advocate of women's dress reform, suffrage, and the Woman's Peace Party; and friend of several members of the La Follette family and of numerous political progressives, radicals, anarchists, and muckrakers. Included is incoming correspondence, teaching material, notes and drafts of her writings and lectures, household and office expense books, family diaries, notes and memorabilia pertaining to her husband, and drafts of her autobiography, including descriptions of life in Chamberlain, S.D., around 1880 and of the Yankton Indian School. |
| Roemheld, Heinz, 1901- | Title: Heinz Roemheld Papers, 1915-1973
Quantity: 3 cubic ft. (11 boxes) 29 digital files (7.26 GB) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 15 Abstract: The Heinz Roemheld Music Collection consists of sheet music and musical scores handwritten in pencil or pen on standard and oversize score sheets and onion paper, a very thin white paper. Except for some frayed edges, the collection is in good physical condition. Some of the pencil scores are very light and difficult to read, and they are sketchy in detail. Filed among these handwritten originals are numerous reproductions of individual instrumental and vocal parts and arrangements. The bulk of this collection is undated, with the dated items ranging from 1915 to 1973. |
| Roesler, Martin | Title: Autobiographical Sketch of Martin Roesler Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 133 Abstract: Photocopy of an autobigraphical sketch of Martin Roesler, written June 20, 1983. Roesler and his family farmed in the St. Joseph Ridge area of La Crosse County, Wisconsin. |
| Róger Calero Defense Committee | Title: Róger Calero Defense Committee Records, 1987-2003
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 2 photographs, and 3 DVDs Call Number: M2003-153 Abstract: Records of the Róger Calero Defense Committee (RCDC) documenting their efforts to prevent Calero, a permanent U.S. resident and journalist, from being deported. |
| Rogers, Charles B., 1871-1960 | Title: Charles B. Rogers Papers, 1824-1960
Quantity: 11.4 cubic feet (19 archives boxes and 30 oversize volumes) Call Number: Whitewater Mss D Abstract: Papers of Charles B. Rogers, a Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, attorney, consisting of correspondence, diaries, and material relating to civic projects; diaries of his mother, Angenette H. Rogers; and diaries, correspondence, and sermons of a great uncle, Reverend Joshua Britton, a Universalist preacher in New England prior to 1869 and at Fort Atkinson during the later years of his life. Rogers' correspondence concerns largely his interest in the University of Wisconsin and in alumni affairs. A few letters between 1893 and 1906 show his advocacy of the Single Tax. From the World War I period, the collection contains records of his chairmanship of the Liberty Loan Speaker's Bureau, 1918-1919, and Mrs. Rogers' records of her chairmanship of the county organization for The Fatherless Children of France, 1918-1920. Rogers' professional papers include records of the legal firm of his father, W. H. Rogers, and himself. Other papers include records of the City Hall Company of Fort Atkinson, 1881-1910; a volume listing cases tried in a justice court in Jefferson County, 1860-1868; and a record of receipts and expenditures of the First Universalist Church at Fort Atkinson, 1891-1899 and 1904. |
| Rogers, Robert, 1931-1989 | Title: Robert Rogers Papers, 1961-1988
Quantity: 6.6 cubic feet (6 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes), 63 film reels, and 310 transparencies (1 binder) Call Number: M95-241; M97-029; AE 678; AE 693-697; CD 099-108; CD 112-113; CD 115-118; CD 136-152; DG 254-258; DG 260; DG 262; FH 369-370; FH 373-387 Abstract: Papers of NBC producer and writer Robert "Bob" Rogers documenting his career and the television documentary projects on which he worked. The collection provides information on the process of making television documentaries, and the interaction between producer and network in decision making. The topics covered by Rogers include CIA activities in developing countries, the political situation in Israel and South Africa, presidential candidates, marijuana use, and Latin America, particularly El Salvador. Later additions to the collection include copies of some of Rogers’ films and color transparencies related to film projects in the Middle East, Pakistan, and Laos. |
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Rogers, Walter; Rogers, Elizabeth Cousins |
Title: Walter and Elizabeth Rogers Papers, 1939-1974
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 377 Abstract: Papers of Walter and Elizabeth Rogers, two longtime New Orleans social activists. The papers consist of correspondence, autobiographical and other writings, and collected leaflets and pertain to their activities in labor organizing, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Communist Party in Texas, civil rights work, and Vietnam protests, and to their work on behalf of victims of Hurricane Betsy. |
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Rogin, Lawrence M.; Fiester, Kenneth, 1911- |
Title: Textile Workers of America Oral Histroy Project: Lawrence Rogin and Kenneth Fiester Interview, 1978
Quantity: 4 tape recordings Call Number: Audio 696A Abstract: One of a series of tape-recorded oral interviews conducted with union leaders by James A. Cavanaugh of the Historical Society staff, documenting the origins, growth, and decline of the TWUA, internal disputes, relations with other unions, and organizing drives. The interviews document textile unionism prior to the formation of the TWUA, as well as discussing major strikes and gains made through collective bargaining. Specific references are made to organizing activities in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The Rogin-Feister interview is part of the Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project. |
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Rogin, Lawrence M.; Fiester, Kenneth, 1911- |
Title: Textile Workers of America Oral Histroy Project: Lawrence Rogin and Kenneth Fiester Interview, 1978
Quantity: 4 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 696A Abstract: One of a series of tape-recorded oral interviews conducted with union leaders by James A. Cavanaugh of the Historical Society staff, documenting the origins, growth, and decline of the TWUA, internal disputes, relations with other unions, and organizing drives. The interviews document textile unionism prior to the formation of the TWUA, as well as discussing major strikes and gains made through collective bargaining. Specific references are made to organizing activities in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The Rogin-Feister interview is part of the Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project. |
| Rogin, Lawrence M., 1909- | Title: Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project: Lawrence M. Rogin Interview, 1978
Quantity: 7 tape recordings Call Number: Audio 693A Abstract: One of a series of tape-recorded oral interviews conducted with Textile Workers Union of America leaders by James A. Cavanaugh of the Historical Society staff, documenting the origins, growth, and decline of the TWUA, internal disputes, relations with other unions, and organizing drives. The interviews document textile unionism prior to the formation of the TWUA, as well as discussing major strikes and gains made through collective bargaining. Specific references are made to organizing activities in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The Lawrence Rogin interview is part of the Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project. |
| Rogin, Lawrence M., 1909- | Title: Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project: Lawrence M. Rogin Interview, 1978
Quantity: 7 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 693A Abstract: One of a series of tape-recorded oral interviews conducted with Textile Workers Union of America leaders by James A. Cavanaugh of the Historical Society staff, documenting the origins, growth, and decline of the TWUA, internal disputes, relations with other unions, and organizing drives. The interviews document textile unionism prior to the formation of the TWUA, as well as discussing major strikes and gains made through collective bargaining. Specific references are made to organizing activities in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The Lawrence Rogin interview is part of the Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project. |
| Rogosin, Lionel, 1924- | Title: Lionel Rogosin Films, 1956-1974
Quantity: 281 reels of film Call Number: AC 715; AC 718-725; CB 150-164; DD 931-938; FF 540-573; GA 349-362; HB 428-435; SCA 218-365; SCA 435-479 Abstract: Completed films, workprints, outtakes, and trims from Come Back Africa, Arab Israeli Dialogue, Black Fantasy, Black Roots, Good Times, Wonderful Times, On the Bowery, Oysters Are in Season, and other works of documentary film producer and director Lionel Rogosin. |
| Rogozinski, Antoni, 1912- | Title: Antoni Rogozinski Papers, 1971-1981
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 67 Abstract: Papers of Rogozinski, a former Polish Army officer and immigrant to Milwaukee engaged in teaching English to new arrivals and organizing an association of Polish veterans, the Association of Veterans of the Second World War in the Polish Armed Forces. Included are several albums compiled by Rogozinski containing papers, copies of documents, photographs, and text, often in Polish, concerning himself, other Polish immigrants, and veterans' activities. Also included is a small newsclippings file about Rogozinski and the Association. |
| Rollin, Betty | Title: Betty Rollin Papers, 1958-2007
Quantity: 4.4 cubic feet (12 archives boxes), 27 tape recordings, 35 photographs, 1 negative, and 8 transparencies, and 49 video recordings; plus additions of 1.6 cubic feet and 119 video recordings Call Number: Mss 827; Audio 1266A; PH Mss 827; M2011-043; M2017-077 Abstract: Papers of Betty Rollin, an author and news broadcaster best known for her autobiographical books First, You Cry, which concerned her experience with breast cancer, and Last Wish, which concerned her mother's terminal cancer and suicide. Included are clippings, recorded interviews, photographs and other biographical materials; scripts, memoranda, proposals, and film clips for news stories broadcast by NBC Nightly News, Today, Women Like Us, and ABC Nightline; multiple drafts of her books; and correspondence with editors, agents, readers and viewers, and friends. Extensive files of reader mail contain many personal accounts of experiences with cancer and family suicide. |
| Romig, Paul, 1897- | Title: Paul Romig Papers, 1964-1977
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 66 Abstract: Papers of Paul Romig, a Green Bay, Wisconsin, conservationist; consisting of subject files on land and wildlife conservation in Brown County, protection of endangered birds of prey, construction of bluebird houses and trails, pollution control, and other topics. |
| Rooney, James F., 1935- | Title: James F. Rooney Papers, 1981-1984
Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) Call Number: M85-301 Abstract: Papers of James F. Rooney, a Democratic assemblyman (1972-1984) from Racine, primarily documenting his final term in the legislature, 1983-1984, through copies of bills, correspondence, news clippings, and subject files. In addition to Rooney’s general work in the assembly and communication to constituents, the papers cover especially well his work on the state Building Commission and also his work on bail reform for the Wisconsin Legislative Council Special Committee on Constitutional Bail Revision during this time period. |
| Ropson, Louis, 1903-1979 | Title: Louis (Robson) Ropson Papers, 1939-1979
Quantity: 5.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes, 3 record center boxes, and 3 flat archives boxes) Call Number: UWGB Mss 5 Abstract: Papers of Louis Ropson, a resident of Dyckesville, Wisconsin, in Kewaunee County, who was a farmer, musician, and self-taught master violin, viola, and cello maker. The papers contain a considerable amount of information on the genealogy of the Ropson (Robson) and Collins families. There are numerous descriptive registers of archival collections in several cities and villages in Belgium, as well as other miscellaneous materials dealing with Belgian genealogy. Additional materials include his correspondence course materials; papers concerning the making of violins, violas, and cellos; runs of several music and Walloon literary journals; catalogs of musical instruments; scripts of some plays in Walloon; tape recordings of music and conversations in Walloon; a few phonograph records; and family photographs. The collection also includes a violin made by Ropson which is numbered “1”. |
| Rosa, Charles D., 1870-1959 | Title: Charles D. Rosa Papers, 1911-1952
Quantity: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss VV Abstract: Papers of a Progressive Republican who served as judge of the Beloit, Wisconsin municipal court, 1906-1912, state assemblyman, 1912, 1917-1918, and member of the state tax commission, 1921-1937. Correspondence falls largely into two categories. The first is comprised of political letters, most of which deal with Rosa's first term in the 1916-1917 legislature and with his unsuccessful campaign in 1926 against John J. Blaine for the Republican nomination for United States Senator. During Rosa's terms in the legislature, a number of letters relate to bills he sponsored on hotel and restaurant licensing, mothers' pensions, soldiers' bonuses, and the city manager form of government. The second group of letters consists of Rosa's correspondence as tax commissioner. Among his correspondents were John J. Blaine, Stephen Bolles, Henry Allen Cooper, Herman Ekern, William Evjue, Glenn Frank, James A. Frear, Walter S. Goodland, Merlin Hull, Paul Husting, Ada James, Richard Lloyd Jones, Robert M. La Follette, Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Philip F. La Follette, Solomon Levitan, Charles R. Van Hise, and Fred R. Zimmerman. |
| Rose, Reginald, 1920- | Title: Reginald Rose Papers, 1952-1979
Quantity: 27.2 cubic feet (68 archives boxes), 3 tape recordings, and 260 films Call Number: U.S. Mss 94AN; Audio 484A; DC 013-DC 210; DC 213-DC 270; FA 001-FA 004 Abstract: Papers of Reginald Rose, a noted writer for television, motion pictures, and the stage. Television files containing variant drafts of scripts, correspondence, clippings, and production information comprise the bulk of the collection. Of these, there are extensive files on Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre (NBC), Danger (CBS), Playhouse 90 (CBS), and Studio One (CBS). For The Defenders (CBS), which Rose created and wrote, there are scripts and a film for every episode of the program's five-year history. The remainder of the collection consists of motion picture scripts, including Twelve Angry Men (UA, 1957), which Rose adapted from a Studio One teleplay and then co-produced; unproduced ideas; plays; and sound recordings of eight of his early television plays. |
| Rosenberry, Marvin B., 1868-1958 | Title: Marvin B. Rosenberry Papers, 1845-1956
Quantity: 13.6 c.f. (34 archives boxes and 1 volume) Call Number: Wis Mss TN Abstract: Personal papers of Marvin B. Rosenberry, a Wausau and Madison, Wisconsin, attorney who was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1916 and served as its chief justice, 1929-1950. Contains Rosenberry's correspondence, mainly on family matters and his personal interests; letters relating to the circulation of nominating papers for his election campaigns in 1918, 1919, 1929, and 1939; and letters concerning his civic interests, including the Boy Scouts, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Community Union movement in Madison in the 1920s and 1930s, and the Wisconsin Conference of Social Work, of which he was president in 1926. Among the very few letters discussing political or legal matters is one written in 1946 concerning Joseph R. McCarthy's qualifications for seeking the United States senatorship from Wisconsin. The collection also contains a manuscript autobiography, several boxes of speeches and articles written by Rosenberry, briefs and legal notes, and biographical, historical, and genealogical materials relating to the Kimball, Landfair, and Rosenberry families. One volume contains proceedings during 1936 of the Wisconsin Citizens Committee on Public Welfare, of which Rosenberry was chairman. |
| Rosendale Agricultural Club (Rosendale, Wis.) | Title: Rosendale Agricultural Club (Rosendale, Wis.) Records, 1869-1895
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box including 4 volumes) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss U Abstract: Constitution and by-laws, minutes of meetings, roll of charter members, and papers on agricultural topics presented before the club. |
| Rosengren, Roswell P., 1902-1988 | Title: Roswell P. Rosengren Papers, 1921-1966
Quantity: 3.6 cubic feet (9 archives boxes), and 21 photographs and 8 transparencies (2 folders) Call Number: U.S. Mss 83AF; PH 3203; PH 3204 Abstract: Papers of a U.S. Army public relations officer during World War II and the Korean conflict, consisting of correspondence, articles and addresses, printed matter and a few photographs. The correspondence, which is intermittent, 1931-1966, is largely personal in character, but many outgoing letters contain information on his public relations work and observations on the events and people with whom he was involved. Prominent correspondents include Bruce Barton, Edgar Bergen, Turner Catledge, Walt Disney, William O. Douglas, James C. Hagerty, Oveta Culp Hobby, J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph W. Martin Jr., Edward R. Murrow, Richard M. Nixon, Arthur Radford, Harold E. Stassen, David Sarnoff, Leland Stowe, Arthur H. Sulzberger Jr., and Wendell L. Willkie. |
| Rosenthal, Jean, 1912-1969 | Title: Jean Rosenthal Papers, 1938-1972
Quantity: 16.8 cubic feet (42 archives boxes and 2 oversize folders) and 3 discs; plus additions of 30.8 cubic feet Call Number: U.S. Mss 40AN; Audio 1897A; MCHC67-060; MCHC70-093; M98-185 Abstract: Papers of Jean Rosenthal, a lighting and scenic director, including lighting plots, charts and notes, and set designs for numerous Broadway productions, performances of the New York City Opera, and various community and school productions for which she served as consultant. Among her documented Broadway productions are Caligula (1961), Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), Destry Rides Again (1959), The Disenchanted (1958), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Jamaica (1957), Take Me Along (1959), and West Side Story (1957). |
| Rosholt, Kim, 1864-1920 | Title: Kim Rosholt Papers, 1885-1909
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Eau Claire Mss AT Abstract: Papers of Rosholt concerning his involvement in land and timber sales and the colonization by immigrants of northern Wisconsin's cut-over regions. Rosholt acquired options from Knapp, Stout, and Company and other lumber and railroad interests for large tracts of northern Wisconsin land and sold the land primarily for farm purposes. The collection contains correspondence with individual land purchasers and with land dealers and lumbering firms including George B. Burrows of Madison, Gale and Company and O. H. Osmundsen of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Knapp, Stout, and Company of Menomonie, the North Western Lumber Company and the Stirling Lumber Company of Eau Claire, and Prokop Plecity of Haugen in Barron County. Also included in the collection are land contracts and miscellaneous legal papers documenting Rosholt's Wisconsin land business and correspondence concerning land acquisitions in Houston County, Tennessee. |
| Rosholt, Malcolm Leviatt, 1907- | Title: Malcolm Leviatt Rosholt Collected Photographs, 1880-1925, 1965
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box); plus additions of 183 photographs (2 archives boxes and 3 folders) Call Number: Stevens Point Mss R; PH 3544; PH 3567 Abstract: Reproductions of photographs collected and captioned by Malcolm Rosholt, Rosholt, Wisconsin; including photographs of logging operations taken circa 1890-circa 1912 in Marathon, Portage, and other nearby Wisconsin counties; aerial views of towns and other scenes taken in 1965 in Waupaca and Portage counties; portrait photographs of mayors of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, including Leon Pasternachi, Byron B. Parks, and Thomas Henry Hanna; and images of Wausau, 1909-1912. |
| Rosholt, Malcolm Leviatt, 1907- | Title: Malcolm Leviatt Rosholt Papers, 1943-1972, 1992-1994
Quantity: 120 audio recordings and 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box) Call Number: Audio 842A; Audio 1107A; Stevens Point Tape 1; Stevens Point Mss CB Abstract: Papers of Malcolm Leviatt Rosholt, a journalist and author, the bulk of which relate to his United States military service in China during World War II, and taped interviews with early Wisconsin residents. The papers include photocopied correspondence, clippings and articles relating to the John Birch Society, a typed copy of Rosholt's Diary from China, two programs for the annual convention of the Flying Tigers Association (1992-1994) and copies of Operation Reports of the 14th Air Force. The tape-recorded interviews conducted by Rosholt, most with early residents in Portage, Marathon, Waupaca, and Shawano counties, Wisconsin, concern the history of their area and notable historical incidents. |
| Rosman, Rolf P.M. | Title: Rolf P.M. Rosman Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 0.4 linear ft. (1 archives box and 1 oversized folder) of papers, 0.4 linear ft. (1 archives box, 2 flat boxes, and 2 folders) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 965 Abstract: Papers and photographs relating to the service of Rolf P.M. Rosman, an officer in the Wisconsin National Guard during the time between the Spanish-American War and the beginning of World War I. The majority of the collection pertains to the continuing military education of Rosman, who began the twentieth century as the captain of Company L, 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment stationed in Beloit and received a promotion to major in 1909. Materials include correspondence course questions, distributed by the Wisconsin Adjutant General's Office, which posed questions of strategy and military administration to officers. Two of Rosman's answers can be found in the collection. These materials give an idea of the types of military strategy being discussed and taught between the Spanish-American War and World War I. Also included are materials pertaining to the administration of the Wisconsin National Guard during the early twentieth century. Military correspondence, orders, circular letters, memoranda, and other papers document promotions, resignations, soldiers being granted leave to attend to private business matters, inspections, and training exercises. Picture postcards show Camp McCoy and Guardsmen in various activities. The oversized folder contains two maps, one likely used for the correspondence course and the other showing Camp McCoy. Photographs include several shots of Rosman in uniform and many unidentified pictures of Wisconsin National Guardsmen marching, posing for group shots, and engaging in every day activities such as cutting hair and washing dishes. These include a cyanotype photograph of recruits at Cincinnati. There are some unidentified photographs that appear to be from the Spanish-American War era, but most were taken in the early twentieth century. A picture of a dog, labeled “Joe the war dog,” shows a canine wearing a vest that bears the symbol of the 32nd Division, a red arrow. The dog likely served as the mascot of some unit in that division, likely during World War I. |
| Ross, Edward Alsworth, 1866-1951 | Title: Edward A. Ross Papers, 1859-1969
Quantity: 15.0 cubic feet (38 archives boxes), 40 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 129 photographs, 1 drawing, and 1 book Call Number: Wis Mss RV; Micro 927; PH Wis Mss RV; PH Wis Mss RV (3); PH 1684; PH 1978; PH 3035 Abstract: Papers of Edward A. Ross, a supporter of liberal causes and an influential sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. Correspondence with fellow sociologists, representatives of sociological organizations, University of Wisconsin colleagues, and publishers document the major events and interests of his long career. From 1893 to 1900 the letters particularly indicate his views on bimetallism and capitalism, and many discuss the rift with Mrs. Leland Stanford which led to his departure from the faculty of Stanford University and subsequent academic freedom issues. Throughout the correspondence many letters reflect his interest in problems of population pressure, eugenics, and immigration restriction. During the 1930s his correspondence shows his interest in the New Deal, and his advocacy of federal health insurance and of the income tax in opposition to the sales tax. After Ross retired from active teaching in 1937, he lectured frequently on behalf of temperance education, worked for the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, and aided the American Civil Liberties Union during the early years of World War II in support of conscientious objectors and of other efforts to offset wartime hysteria. Also present are field notes and class lectures, copies of articles and speeches, and drafts and revisions of Ross's best-known book, Principles of Sociology, travel diaries, photographs, scrapbooks of clipped newspaper and periodical materials, 1892-1909, and a box of unmounted newspaper articles, primarily of later dates, reveal the extent to which Ross became a national and sometimes a controversial figure in the development of sociological thought. |
| Ross, Hamilton Nelson | Title: Ross Family Home Movies, 1927-1936
Quantity: 14 reels of film (16 mm) and 4 videorecordings (U-Matic viewing copies) Call Number: AC 771; AE 386-AE 394; CB 278-279; CC 670; DE 129; VBB 425-428 Abstract: Amateur home movies of the Hamilton Nelson Ross family, circa 1927-1932. H.N. Ross was the author of La Pointe—Village Outpost, a book on the history of La Pointe. Most films contain footage of the Ross children playing outdoors at their Geneva, Illinois home and on Madeline Island, Wisconsin. Several films contain segments with adults, neighbors, friends and family visiting the Ross family. The collection includes shots of picnics, ball games, skiing, and other outdoor activities. CB 279 contains footage of President Calvin Coolidge visiting Wisconsin in 1928. |
| Ross, Hamilton Nelson, 1889-1958 | Title: Hamilton Nelson Ross Papers, 1874-1969
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Northland Mss B Abstract: Papers, primarily 1950-1958, concerning the research conducted by Ross on the history of La Pointe, Wisconsin. Included is correspondence, research materials such as census data and maps, speeches and articles, drafts of his book La Pointe - Village Outpost, and miscellany. |
| Ross, Jerome, 1911- | Title: Jerome Ross Papers, 1949-1969
Quantity: 7.6 c.f. (19 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 92AN Abstract: Papers of Jerome Ross, a television and motion picture writer, consisting mainly of scripts, drafts, notes and research, and other production materials for over 40 television series with which Ross was involved. Most thoroughly documented is his writing for Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre (NBC), Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS and NBC), Bing Crosby Show (ABC), The Defenders (CBS), Dr. Kildare (NBC), I Remember Mama (CBS), NBC Matinee Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC), and Studio One (CBS). Two boxes contain similar, but less extensive materials pertaining to radio and motion pictures. |
| Ross, Jerry, 1926-1955 | Title: Jerry Ross Papers, 1934-1955
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 91AN Abstract: Papers of composer and lyricist Jerry Ross, consisting of contracts and handwritten and printed copies of songs by Ross alone or in collaboration with Richard Adler. Most notable are the files on Damn Yankees (1950) and Pajama Game (1954). |
| Ross, Madeline Dane, 1902-1972 | Title: Madeline Dane Ross Papers, 1914-1971
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes), 154 photographs and 62 transparencies in 1 archives box, and 1 disc recording Call Number: U.S. Mss 127AF; PH 4821; Audio 1579A Abstract: Papers of Madeline Dane Ross, a journalist, editor, and public relations representative. The collection covers her public relations, editorial, and free-lance work, as well as her personal life and involvement with the Overseas Press Club. Records of her public relations work consist of correspondence, fund-raising appeals, and publicity for the Hudson Guild Settlement House, the Jewish Family Welfare Society, the Guidance Center of the Brooklyn Juvenile Protection Association, and the Human Betterment Association. Files on her editorial work include issues of UNRRA Team News, a periodical for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and related correspondence. Pertaining to her free-lance writing are copies of a few magazine articles and correspondence. The photographs mainly document her time with the Overseas Press Club, as well as research and illustration for her writings. |
| Ross, Will, 1888-1951 | Title: Will Ross Papers, 1914-1980
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm, and 44 photographs Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 111; Milwaukee Micro 55; Micro 1119; PH 3693; PH 3694 Abstract: Fragmentary papers of Will Ross, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin businessman, civic leader, and tuberculosis health care activist. Included are biographical information and microfilmed clippings; correspondence; articles and several versions of his autobiography, I Wanted to Live, which concerned his determined recovery from tuberculosis; and subject files primarily concerning his involvement in state and national tuberculosis associations and the interest of his widow in the Will Ross Medal and other memorials to her husband. The correspondence includes examples of the monthly mimeographed letters which he sent to friends and business associates between 1926 and 1951, concerning his hospital supply firm, Will Ross, Inc., which was established while Ross was still a patient in a tuberculosis sanitarium. |
| Rossi, Joseph | Title: Joseph Rossi collection Quantity: 1 Linear Feet 1 record storage carton 0.5 linear feet of paper documents Call Number: uac220 Abstract: The Jospeh Rossi collection contains documents related to the scholarly work and personal life of Professor Joseph Rossi. The collection includes Rossi's dissertation on Francesco De Sanctis and other academic work completed by Rossi, newspaper clippings, photographs, travel documents, and a diary. The collection also includes his obituary, eulogy given by his son, and a copy of the memorial resolution presented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate after Rossi's death. |
| Rotary Club of La Crosse (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Rotary Club of La Crosse Records Physical Description: 6.0 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 063 Abstract: The La Crosse chapter of Rotary International was chartered in 1919. The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; high ethical standards in business and professions; the application of the ideal of service; the advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through fellowship. Records of the local La Crosse chapter include historical materials, board and committee materials, membership files, programs & events. Written historical sketches and some historical ephemeral items as well as many unlabelled photographs comprise the historical background. The board materials consist of a framed charter (1919), chapter constitution and bylaws, correspondence (bulk 1924-1927; 1938-1939), minimal financial materials (1961-1983; 1990-1998), and meeting minutes (1924-1975; 1977). |
| Rotary Club of Milwaukee | Title: Rotary Club of Milwaukee Records, 1912-2019
Quantity: 12.6 cubic ft. (14 boxes) 1 audio reel 7 film reels 10 videocassettes plus additions of .4 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 215 Abstract: Records of the Milwaukee branch of Rotary International, an organization formed with the purpose to improve the community, promote high ethical standards in business and professional life, and advance the cause of world peace by building bridges of knowledge and understanding among peoples of different nations. The collection contains weekly bulletins distributed to members, minutes from club meetings, club directories, audio and visual recordings from club events, photographs, artifacts, and miscellaneous materials involving the club. |
| Roth, Wolfgang | Title: Wolfgang Roth Papers, 1936-1973
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 44AN Abstract: Papers of a stage designer, consisting of photographs, original and photostatic copies of set, prop, and costume designs and some annotated scripts, sketches, and lighting plots for various dramatic and operatic productions in the United States and Germany. Of special interest is Roth's reminiscent article about his relationship with Bertolt Brecht and his set designs for Brecht on Brecht (1961). |
| Rotto, Beth Hoven, 1956- | Title: Beth Hoven Rotto collection Quantity: 1 Linear Feet 2 document boxes, 1 CD box Collection includes: papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, journals, newspapers, concert flyers and programs, tunebooks, audiocassettes and CDs. Call Number: mml041 Abstract: The Beth Hoven Rotto collection contains journal and newspaper articles, concert flyers and programs, correspondence, research papers and sound recordings related to Beth Rotto's career as a fiddler, music teacher and researcher of Norwegian-American folk and old-time music from the Upper Midwest. |
| Rouleau, Greg, 1914-1973 | Title: Greg Rouleau Papers, 1912-1938, 1969
Quantity: 2.5 c.f. (6 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize file) Call Number: U.S. Mss 193AN Abstract: Papers of Greg Rouleau, an early twentieth century, upper midwestern vaudeville stock performer, magician, public relations executive, and radio manager. The collection focuses exclusively on Rouleau's involvement with stock companies during the early stages of his career and is composed almost entirely of scripts--both complete scripts and individual character's prompt scripts. Many are heavily annotated. A few of the scripts have Frank Winninger's name on them and probably were used by his stock company, the Winninger Players. Of interest are scripts for several cross fires, the short routines or one-liners used as a break between acts in vaudeville, and stories and synopses for short acts featuring either black performers or white performers in blackface. Also included are miscellaneous general flyers and announcements and a poster for the Slout Players, the Norma Ginnivan Dramatic and Vaudeville Company, and productions of “Crazy Politics” and “Front Page Stuff.” |
| Rountree, John Hawkins, 1805-1890 | Title: John Hawkins Rountree Papers, 1826-1907
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Platteville Mss G; Platteville Micro 7; Micro 560 Abstract: Papers of Rountree, founder of Platteville, Wis., including military papers, 1826-1852; papers, 1828-1852, on lead mining, land sales, and transactions of a general store; and miscellaneous papers, 1826-1907, including reminiscences and a journal kept by Mrs. Rountree. |
| Rouse, Oliver, 1820-1869 | Title: Oliver Rouse Papers, 1846-1891, undated
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 752 Abstract: Papers of Oliver Rouse, an Anglican missionary at Bay de Verde in the Northern District of Newfoundland; including a diary, 1846-1850, certificates concerning the education and ordination of his son John, and undated twentieth century genealogical notes. |
| Rovere, Richard Halworth, 1915-1979 | Title: Richard Halworth Rovere Papers, 1926-1981
Quantity: 6.8 cubic feet (17 archives boxes); plus additions of 4.0 cubic feet, 4 photographs, and 2 tape recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 75AF; Audio 1431A; M2001-118 Abstract: Papers of Richard Halworth Rovere, a writer and editor known for his work on politics and current affairs for The New Yorker (1944-1978) and his book Senator Joe McCarthy. Best for the period from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s, the papers offer excellent material on Rovere's involvement with the Communist Party and on his writings, particularly those on McCarthyism and the Vietnam War. Especially well documented are seven books Rovere wrote and contributions to such periodicals as The New Masses, The New Yorker, Harper's, Encounter, and The (London) Spectator. Elsewhere in the collection are files on the Peace Corps in Kenya, the Ku Klux Klan, the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, and Thomas Dewey's 1944 Presidential campaign. Among many prominent correspondents are Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Granville Hicks, Irving Kristol, and Frederick Lewis Allen. |
| Rowan, James, 1800-1876 | Title: James Rowan Papers, 1774-1870
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 oversize volume) Call Number: McCormick Mss AW Abstract: Records of James Rowan, an Augusta County, Virginia farmer, consisting of receipts and ledgers for his plantation and accounts for a general store. The papers also contain receipts and ledgers for a tanning business operated by his father, James Rowan (who originally spelled the name Roan), showing purchases of hides and skins during and following the American Revolution; an unidentified blacksmith's daybook, 1793-1794; and three manuscript ciphering books, 1803-1806. |
| Rowe, George Frederick, 1910- | Title: George F. Rowe Papers, 1932-1963
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 140 Abstract: Papers of George F. Rowe, consisting of segments of research files and correspondence relating to Rowe's various positions: Secretary to Wisconsin's Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. and Congressman Merlin Hull; special assistant to the Director of Information of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in part responsible for food campaigns; secretary of the Dairy Industries Supply Association, and the Dairy Society International where he promoted dairy technology internationally; and staff member of the Foreign Agricultural Service. Included are copies of letters by Robert and Philip La Follette in response to mail received at the formation of the National Progressive Party in 1938. |
| Rowe, Jane | Title: Jane Rowe collection Quantity: 0.43 cubic feet 1 small archival box Includes t-shirts and a hat Call Number: uac40 Abstract: The collection contains clothing collected from gay pride events and establishments in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Rowen, James, 1945- | Title: James Rowen Papers, 1969-1979
Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: Mss 652 Abstract: Papers of a journalist and liberal politician, mainly documenting his work as assistant to Madison, Wisconsin, Mayor Paul Soglin (1973-1978) and his own unsuccessful campaign for mayor in 1979. Included are an administrative subject file, correspondence, campaign materials, and newspaper clippings. Of special note are trial documents, correspondence, and newsclippings relating to the trial of David Fine for participation in the anti-Vietnam War bombing of the Army Math Research Center on the University of Wisconsin campus. |
| Rowley Family | Title: Rowley Family Papers, 1837-1967
Quantity: 4.5 cubic feet (11 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Wis Mss 53PB Abstract: An unusually complete set of business records kept by three generations of the Rowley family, physicians who practiced medicine in Wisconsin for nearly a century, at Verona, 1851-1864, and at Middleton, 1864-1948. From 1868 to 1880 the two elder doctors also operated a drugstore at Middleton. The papers include visiting lists recording cases treated; prescription books; and account books and daybooks for the drug business and for the medical practices of Newman C. Rowley, Antinous A. Rowley, and A. Gilbert Rowley. Essays on the drugstore and the three doctors by Jessica Rowley are also included. Family correspondence, diaries, family trees, and other genealogical information relate to the history of the Rowley, Wheelwright, and Campbell families. Also included are business papers relating to Antinous and Newman Rowley, and Antinous Rowley's Civil War letters to his parents. |