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| Voces de la Frontera (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Voces de la Frontera Records, 1981-2020
, 1998-2016
Quantity: 4.2 cubic ft (6 boxes) 1 digital file (5.66 MB) 4 oversize folder plus additions of 0.8 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 356 Abstract: Initially a bilingual newspaper, Voces de la Frontera became a member-based community organization of low-wage workers, immigrants, and young people, focusing on immigrant, civil, and workers' rights. Records from the organization consist of administrative files, minutes, newspapers, fundraising materials, grant files, protest posters, and photographs. Records are primarily in English, with some in Spanish. |
| Voegeli, Jim | Title: Aldo Leopold Oral History Recording Project / interviews by Jim Voegeli, 1971-1976
Quantity: 28 tape recordings and 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: Audio 1016A; SC 2800 Abstract: Recordings and a report produced by Jim Voegeli, a student at the University of Wisconsin, from his research on environmentalist Aldo Leopold which culminated in a 1976 broadcast on National Public Radio, “Remembering Aldo Leopold.” Included are recorded interviews with Leopold family members, friends, students, and colleagues; the NPR broadcast; and a 1950 symphony by Gunnar Johansen inspired by Leopold's Sand County Almanac. The paper report includes a summary of the project, a script of the broadcast, a transcript of the recorded interview with Leopold's secretary Alice Harper Stokes, and a written reminiscence by Arthur Ringland, a friend of Leopold's and a forester with him in New Mexico in 1909. |
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Title: Vogel Family Papers, 1855-2022
Quantity: 19.7 cubic ft. (56 boxes) 1 oversize folder Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 392 Abstract: Contains various family papers such as correspondence, clippings, and photographs of different prominent local families, particularly the Vogels, as well as the records from some of the businesses associated with them. |
| Vogel, Virgil J., 1918-1994 | Title: Virgil J. Vogel Papers, 1919-1982
Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 891 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1949-1979, of an Illinois socialist and historian about his involvement in various organizations in the left wing of the Socialist movement in the United States. Included are convention records, policy papers, minutes, correspondence, and other papers on the Libertarian Socialist League and the Socialist Party USA (SP USA), which Vogel helped to found (1949 and 1973, respectively) and the Debs Caucus and Illinois chapter of the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation (SP-SDF), as well as miscellaneous papers on other organizations and committees such as the Citizens Party of Illinois, the Proletarian Party, the Independent Socialist League, and the Young Communist League. In addition, there is extensive correspondence with socialists around the country deriving from his work, 1973-1974, as editor of the SP USA discussion bulletin, Hammer and Tongs. Prominent correspondents in the collection include party officials and members Abraham Bassford, William O. Hart, David McReynolds, Bill Munger, Burton Rosen, Carl Shier, Harry Siitonen, Tad Tekla, Lee Webster, and Frank Zeidler. |
| Voice of Concerned Citizens | Title: Voice of Concerned Citizens Records, 1969-1974
Quantity: 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 330 Abstract: Materials from the Voice of Concerned Citizens. The collection dates from 1969 to 1974 and contains official reports, correspondence, a membership list, remarks, and a flier advertising a political rally. |
| Voigt, Bob, (Gene Robert) | Title: Bob Voigt Papers Quantity: 0.02 cubic foot (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 249 Abstract: The Bob Voight Papers include a copy of "The First Day of the Rest of My Life," written by Voight in 1993 (with an update added in 1997); and a copy of a newspaper article from 1946: "Doctors Work to Save Feet of Dakota Youth." |
| Volk, John A., 1915-2008 | Title: John A. Volk Papers, 1983-1990
Quantity: 7.2 cubic feet (19 archives boxes) Call Number: Stevens Point Mss AX Abstract: Legislative papers, mainly 1985-1990, of John A. Volk, a former Democratic representative (1983-1990) from Wabena, Wisconsin. Included are constituent correspondence, speeches, newsletters, clippings about Volk's legislative activities, and subject files about legislation concerning a variety of statewide and district topics such as the lumber industry and Menominee Indian treaty rights. Additional files relate to his co-chairmanship of the Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems (JSCRS) and the Retirement Research Committee (RRC), 1985-1988. About his JSCRS responsibilities there are handwritten notes; memoranda prepared by Blair Testin, director of the RRC; testimony and information on bills that dealt with early retirement of teachers and public employees and divestment of state holdings in South Africa; and correspondence with State Taxpayers Outraged about Pensions (STOP) and other opponents and proponents of legislation concerning retirement benefits. |
| Von Kaas family | Title: Von Kaas Family Papers, 1719-1979
Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 880 Abstract: Papers of members of the Von Kaas family, a well-to-do family which migrated to Chicago and Sheboygan County, Wisconsin in the mid-1800's. The collection primarily includes correspondence, journals and travel diaries, and other papers of Georg Carl August Baron von Kaas (1805-1868), of his second wife, Mathilda (nee Deckner), and their children and relatives. Carl von Kaas at one point served as administrator (Oberforstmeister) of the forests and estates of Prince Georg Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe, as well as Councillor of the Exchequer. Most of the original letters and documents are in German, with English translations; a few originals are in English. There is also a genealogy and a group of typed translations of very early family records, apparently compiled by von Kaas family members in the Sheboygan area (possibly for a family reunion in 1979). |
| von Neumann, Robert, 1888- | Title: Robert von Neumann Papers, 1957-1978
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) 1 oversize folder Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 17 Abstract: Collection contains miscellaneous papers of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee art professor. Includes letters from von Neumann and his wife Hilde to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cooney which discuss personal family matters and von Neuwmann's exhibitions; a scrapbook which contains newsclippings and photographs of the von Neumann's and examples of their works; and other miscellaneous items. |
| Von Spach, Leonard B., 1891-1970 | Title: Leonard B. Von Spach Papers, 1919-1968
Extent: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 1 disc recording Call Number: Mss 432; Disc 148A Abstract: Papers of Leonard B. Von Spach, a Wauwatosa, Wisconsin resident who pursued a varied career in the military, business, and government. Documents concern his activities in rescue and relief in Macedonia with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); in work for the Greek War Relief Association; in Wisconsin Democratic politics including an unsuccessful 1934 campaign for secretary of state; and in the American Legion. The bulk of the papers cover the period 1932-1960 and document both personal and professional aspects of his life. They consist of correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and a recorded interview by Dick Strout with Dimitri Bitsios, Greek representative to the United Nations. Prominent correspondents include entertainer Jack Benny, Charles A. Mills of the American Legion, Senator F. Ryan Duffy, Wisconsin Governor Orland S. Loomis, Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice J. D. Wickem, and Wendell L. Willkie. |
| Vopat, Carole Gottlieb | Title: Carole Gottlieb Vopat Holocaust Survivor Speaker Series,
2006-2011
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box) Call Number: UWP Manuscript Collection 18 Abstract: Video recordings of survivors of the Holocaust. The speaker series was a part of Holocaust Studies classes taught by Dr. Carole G. Vopat at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. Also included in the collection are biographical notes on the featured speakers. Where not noted otherwise, DVDs record public presentations of the speakers. |
| Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966 | Title: Mary Heaton Vorse Papers, 1928-1930
Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 469 Abstract: Microfilmed papers of Mary Heaton Vorse, a journalist and author known for her championship of trade unionism. Included are materials on three strikes in the textile industry covered by Vorse during the late 1920's. The majority of the papers are concerned with a strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. Included are correspondence, notes, news dispatches to Tass and the New York Evening Graphic, typescripts of articles, and the manuscript and final typescript for her novel Strike! (1930). Relating to strikes in Marion, North Carolina, and Elizabethton, Tennessee, are miscellaneous notes, clippings, and press releases. |