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| Woessner, Warren | Title: Warren Woessner papers Quantity: 3.0 Linear Feet 2 records cartons, 1 letter document box, 2 half letter document boxes Call Number: Collection ZZB Abstract: The Warren Woessner papers (1963-2019) contain materials from poet and co-founder of the 'Abraxas Magazine'. Woessner, an alum of UW-Madison, established the magazine in Madison in 1968 with fellow poet, James Bertolino, and worked as the senior editor for many years. He also wrote his own poems which were published independently and within other journals. The collection contains several decades of poems, drafts, and correspondence from Woessner. |
| Wojta, J. F. (Joseph Frank), compiler | Title: Transparencies of Native Americans in Wisconsin Compiled by J.F. Wojta, circa 1930
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet of transparencies (2 negative boxes) and 0.1 cubic feet of paper (1 folder) Call Number: PH 1236; PH 1237; SC 3190 Abstract: Lantern slides assembled by J.F. Wojta, for courses on improved farming practices for various tribes in Wisconsin. The courses were entitled “Early Indian Life in Wisconsin” and “Indians in Wisconsin in Food Production.” Wojta, who photographed some of the images, also borrowed others, including some from the WHS collections. Images feature individuals wearing handmade beaded regalia, hunting, dressing hides, drying corn, and picking cranberries. Individuals identified include Earnest Oshkosh, Mrs. Antonne Buffalo Sr., and Chas. Decorah. Also includes images of a pipestone quarry, implements, baskets, farmland and livestock, maple sugar harvest, wigwams, the Odanah Fair in Keshena, Wisconsin, and a lacrosse team. The “Early Indian Life in Wisconsin” course is accompanied by lecture notes and descriptions of the slides. Tribes represented include members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Menominee and Ho-Chunk. |
| Wojtczak, Pelagia | Title: Pelagia Wojtczak Papers, 1937-1976
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (2 folders) Call Number: Milwaukee SC 103 Abstract: Jubilee albums and newsclippings collected by Wojtczak, long-time state president of the Polish Women's Alliance. Included are PWA Group 116 (the Marya Konopnicka Society) jubilee albums from 1951, 1956, and 1961; albums from Council No. 1 for 1937, 1953, and 1963; and a 1948 album of national golden jubilee celebrations in Milwaukee. Most of the materials are in Polish. |
| Wolf, Fritz E. | Title: Fritz E. Wolf Papers, Photographs, and Moving Images, Quantity: 1.0 linear ft. (2 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 oversized flat folder) of papers and, 0.5 linear ft. (1 archives box and 1 flat box) of photographs and, 0.9 linear ft. (3 flat boxes) of scrapbooks and, 0.3 linear ft. (1 film reel, 3 VHS cassette tapes, and 6 DVDs) of moving images. Call Number: WVM Mss 1625 Abstract: Papers, photographs, and moving images pertaining to the service of Fritz E. Wolf, a Shawano, Wisconsin resident who served as a pilot with the United States Navy, and also served as a pilot with the American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) during World War II. Manuscripts in the collection cover his Navy service, participation as a member of the Flying Tigers, and his service in the Naval Reserve. Included with his Flying Tigers service are certificates, correspondence home, personal diary, flight logs, various service papers, and various documents pertaining to the group as a whole. Correspondence is comprised of telegrams and letters Wolf send and received while in Burma. Telegrams sent by Wolf to his family inform them that he is safe and all is well. Particularly interesting is a telegram to his family informing them that he had his first successful downing of an enemy aircraft. Letters from Wolf describe the scenery around his base and the local population, and also how he missed his family and wanted to see them soon. Of particular interest is a letter Wolf received thanking him for his service, but also includes detailed drawings of a Flying Tiger aircraft attacking Japan on the envelope. The personal diary includes entries describing his daily activities as a pilot with the Flying Tigers and being a squadron leader, with a particular interesting entry pertaining to his attack on a Japanese bomber (December 20, 1941). Military papers include his release from active duty in the Navy, various documents relating to the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company and his authorization to fly aircraft in Burma, and his discharge from the Flying Tigers. Certificates and commendations include a Sixth Grade Cloud Banner issued by the Chinese government, Wolf's honorable discharge certificate, and various honors he received when he returned to Wisconsin. Materials relating to his activities as a veteran of the Flying Tigers include materials pertaining to the organization of a Flying Tigers veteran organization, classification of the members as military veterans, and requests from Wolf for compensation for his service. Also included are two flight logs, various identification cards, loose envelopes, and various magazine articles pertaining to the Flying Tigers. Navy service manuscripts include certificates, military papers, and other related materials. Certificates and commendations include his commission, various promotions, and materials pertaining to being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. Military papers relate to Wolf's service and training prior to and reenlistment after serving with the Flying Tigers, assignments as a flight trainer and grouped with a squadron of replacement pilots, his service and flight records from the USS Yorktown and USS Hornet, and his return stateside. Also included are various identification cards; a flight log; and ephemeral materials, such as unit history for VBF-3, a poem about the USS Yorktown, and a document about the premier of the “Fighting Lady.” Manuscripts pertaining to his Naval Reserve and veteran activities includes promotions, certificates, training materials from officer school, and various military papers. Photographs pertain to both his Flying Tiger and Navy service, along with a few portrait images from his time in the Naval Reserve. Flying Tiger photographs include images of the unit's commanding officer, General Chennault and roster photographs of all the members of the AVG, along with various tourist photographs and postcards from his time in Burma. There are also several photographs documenting his return home to Shawano, and a photograph of a ceremony in Milwaukee honoring him for his service. Navy service photographs feature images prior to and after his service with the Flying Tigers. Images from his early Navy service include flight training, Wolf in uniform, and various group photographs. Later Navy service include images of Wolf and other pilots posing together and posing near F6-Hellcat aircraft, a group photograph of aviators posing next to a large list of air group victories, and two aerial images of an attack on an unidentified base. Additional oversized portrait photographs of Wolf, two that are colorized, are also included. Scrapbooks are generally newspaper clippings and include two kept by Wolf's step-mother while serving with the Flying Tigers, and one assembled by his son, Richard. The two scrapbooks kept by his step-mother include newspaper articles describing the activities of the Flying Tigers in Burma, articles directly relating to Wolf and his service, his return home to Shawano, and a few clippings about his reenlistment in the Navy after his return home. The third scrapbook is comprised of newspaper clippings covering Wolf's enrollment in college, his Flying Tigers service, homecoming, various raids on Japan he participated in while in the Navy, and the death of General Chennault. Moving images include footage from Wolf's return home to Shawano, a public presentation by Wolf at an airshow in 1991, and an interview with Wolf's son, Richard, which discusses his father's service. |
| Wolf, William F., 1875-1967 | Title: William F. Wolf Papers, circa 1820-1967
Quantity: 1.6 cubic feet (4 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 370 photographs and 1 drawing in 1 archives box, and 78 negatives (1 negative box) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 182; PH Green Bay Mss 182 Abstract: Papers, circa 1820-1967, of William F. Wolf, an Outagamie County historian, amateur archaeologist, and curator of the historic Charles A. Grignon House museum in Kaukauna. Included are letters concerning operations of the museum, an application for WPA restoration funds; “Dawn of a New Day,” an unpublished manuscript about early Wisconsin; transcriptions of miscellaneous Grignon Family papers, some of which are original documents; and photographs. Single letters of note among the original Grignon papers concern Cutting Marsh, Morgan L. Martin; and Josiah A. Noonan. Wolf's own papers include letters from Constance W. Deer concerning J.G. Frechette of the Menominee Indian Advisory Council. The photographs include interior and exterior views of the Grignon House before and after its restoration, archaeological excavations at the site, and activities of the Outagamie Pioneer and Historical Society. |
| Wolfe, Wolfe and Reid Law Firm. | Title: Wolfe, Wolfe and Reid Law Firm Records Physical Description: 6.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 130 Abstract: William F. “Billy” Wolfe (1868–1917), Albert C. “A. C.” Wolfe (1885–1955) and Lucien Reid (1891– unknown) were prominent La Crosse, Wisconsin, attorneys at the turn of the 20th century. After William F. Wolfe’s untimely death in 1917, Albert C. Wolfe and Lucien Reid operated the practice briefly as Wolfe & Reid, then dissolved the partnership and practiced law independently. The majority of this collection is comprised of the law firm’s routine correspondence; however, William Wolfe’s personal and political correspondence dating 1899-1918 is a valuable piece in looking at Wisconsin’s Progressive Era state political history. Wolfe, an avid Democrat, became politically prominent in the 1910s, holding different offices. He had just been appointed Federal District Attorney when he suddenly suffered a stroke and died shortly afterwards at the height of his career. This collection shows the daily operations of a law firm during the early 1900s, and also the Progressive Era in Wisconsin, through Wolfe’s 1910-1917 correspondence with some of the state’s most prominent Democratic politicians, including John Aylward and Joseph E. Davies. |
| Wolff, Perry, 1921- | Title: Perry Wolff Papers, 1945-1989
Quantity: 3.2 cubic feet (8 archives boxes), 27 photographs, 7 films, and 107 videorecordings Call Number: Mss 830; PH Mss 830; DC 702-DC 706; DC 709-DC 710; VBB 500-VBB 515; VBB 520-VBB 611 Abstract: Papers of Perry Wolff, a writer and producer of award-winning television documentaries best known for his work for CBS News. Included are scripts and videotapes for many television and film documentaries such as Air Power, CBS Reports, Conversations with Eric Sevareid, and Of Black America. For a few programs and films such as The Italians, Kamikaze, 1968, and A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, there is also correspondence, draft scripts, and other production material. Also part of the collection is general correspondence and memoranda exchanged with CBS executives, a printed copy of his history of the 334th Infantry during World War II, a book of his poetry, some WBBM radio scripts, other speeches and writings, and miscellaneous biographical informationm. |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Barron, Wis.) | Title: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Barron, Wis.) Records, 1921-1956
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Stout Mss Q Abstract: Secretary's books, two treasurer's books (1930-1944), and a few letters and news releases. |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Delavan, Wis.) | Title: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Delavan, Wis.) Records, 1902-1960
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Whitewater Mss AV Abstract: Records of the Delavan, Wisconsin, chapter of the WCTU, organized in 1874. Records document work for women's suffrage, Sunday gospel gatherings, music programs, youth activities, speakers, voters programs, fund-raising for overseas missionary work, and dinners and socials. Records consist of two minute books and two dues and cash books. |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Evansville, Wis.) | Title: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Evansville, Wis.) Records, 1889-1964
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Whitewater Mss AO; Whitewater Micro 8; Micro 699 Abstract: Records of the Evansville, Wisconsin, affiliate of the WCTU, an organization advocating total abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and narcotics. Records include minute books; a treasurer's book, 1930-1947; convention programs, 1953-1964; histories of temperance activities in Rock County; biographical materials about temperance leaders Frances Willard, Genesee Wesleyan, and Lillian Stevens; education and program materials, 1951-1964; materials from WCTU institutes; and a treasurer's book from the Rock County WCTU, 1889-1950. On microfilm are two scrapbooks, 1944-1946 and 1950-1951, and a few loose clippings pertaining to temperance and religious issues. |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Milton, Wis.) | Title: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Milton, Wis.) Records,1889-1960
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Whitewater Mss AU Abstract: Records of the Milton, Wisconsin, chapter of the WCTU, consisting of minute books of monthly meetings, 1949-1959; a treasurer's account and cash book, 1889-1922; and two cash books, 1922-1960, documenting the organization's anti-alcohol campaigns and work with the other local chapters in Rock County. |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Milwaukee, Wis.) Records, 1926-1950
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 2 Abstract: Records of several Milwaukee area Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizations, including the Milwaukee County Union and the First Milwaukee, Lillian Stevens, and Willard chapters. The work of the chapters included temperance and allied social reform activities, and was carried on through monthly meetings; programs, speakers, and county conventions dealing with alcohol and narcotics; and community and school education work. Records comprise scattered correspondence, minutes, secretaries' books, and other records. |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Wisconsin | Title: Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Wisconsin Records, 1881-1956
Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (2 cartons and 1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 512 Abstract: Treasurer's records, including ledgers of local chapters' financial relations with the state WCTU, cashbooks of receipts and disbursements, a record of receipts for special funds, subscription lists (1928-1946) for Union Signals, and other records. |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Rice Lake, Wis.) | Title: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Rice Lake, Wis.) Records, 1898, 1922-1976
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Stout Mss P Abstract: Secretary's books (1928-1969), a WCTU songbook (circa 1924), minutes and convention programs of the Tri-County Board, and other items. |
| Woman's Club of Madison (Wis.) | Title: Woman's Club of Madison Records, 1893-1978
Quantity: 13.0 c.f. (3 record center cartons, 3 archives boxes, and 24 flat boxes) and 19 photographs Call Number: M95-265 Abstract: Records of the Woman's Club of Madison, a club organized in 1893 “to promote agreeable and useful relations among women” and “to aid in the development of their intellect by the consideration and discussion of all subjects of interest, moral and social.” Included are a constitution and bylaws, year books, minutes, department and committee records, financial records, membership information, scrapbooks, papers presented at club meetings, a small amount of correspondence, and a folder of photographs primarily of dramatic productions. Also included are records of the Law Enforcement League, of which the club was a member, and the Woman’s Building Association, formed by the club to purchase a building. |
| Woman's Club of Wisconsin | Title: Woman's Club of Wisconsin Records, 1870-2012
Quantity: 27.3 cubic ft. (32 boxes) 2 oversize folders 27 digital files (7.74 GB) plus additions of 3.6 cubic ft. (7 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 221 Abstract: This collection contains records from the Woman's Club of Wisconsin and the affiliated organizations of the Athenaeum Stock Company, the Guardian Realty Stock Company, the League of Patriotic Women, and the Woman's Club of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc. The records mainly consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, committee files, legal papers, architectural drawings, programs, newspaper clippings, newsletters, yearbooks, and photographs of the club and its members. |
| Woman's Fortnightly Club (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Woman's Fortnightly Club (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Yearbook Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 053 Abstract: Yearbook kept by the Woman's Fortnightly Club in La Crosse, Wisconson, 1898. The Woman's Fortnightly Club was an organization for women to study and discuss literary topics, specifically focusing on American authors. |
| Woman's Industrial Exchange of La Crosse (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Woman's Industrial Exchange of La Crosse, Wisconsin Records Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 039 Abstract: Records of the Woman's Industrial Exchange of La Crosse, Wisconsin, an organization of women who worked to develop a retail outlet for their handcrafted goods. Materials include a constitution, bylaws, lists of officers, and meeting minutes and range in date from 1893 to 1895. |
| Woman's Literary Club (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Woman’s Literary Club Records, 1899-1999
Quantity: 1.3 cubic ft. (4 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 338 Abstract: The Woman’s Literary Club was founded in 1899 and this collection includes records of their activities. |
| Woman's Relief Corps. Department of Wisconsin | Title: Woman's Relief Corps. Department of Wisconsin Records and Photographs, Quantity: 8.0 linear ft. (15 archives boxes and 1 flat box) of papers, 1 folder of photographs, and 1 folder of paper prints. Call Number: WVM Mss 2 Abstract: Records and photographs of a patriotic women's organization devoted to the care and recognition of Union Civil War veterans. The bulk of the collection consists of administrative and financial records of the Department of Wisconsin, from its creation in 1884 through the 1920's. Also included are the registers of delegates and visitors to national and departmental conventions in the early twentieth century. Some records pertain to local corps within the Department of Wisconsin; these records include meeting minutes, financial records, and rolls of members. The collection contains particularly complete records for Corps No. 25 (Wyocena), Corps No. 31 (Waunakee), and Corps No. 79 (Palmyra). The patriotic concerns of the Women's Relief Corps are reflected in the materials relating to the national organization, such as a pamphlet concerning the authorship of the “Pledge of Allegiance.” |
| Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Department of Wisconsin | Title: Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Department of Wisconsin: Records, 1883-1984
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 folder), 21 reels of microfilm (35mm), 9 photographs, and 9 pieces of ephemera Call Number: Micro 1151; SC 174; PH 3805; PH 3806 Abstract: Records of local Wisconsin chapters of a national women's organization, the auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic, established in the state in 1884. Although also concerned with general charitable endeavors and patriotic education, the corps was primarily concerned with aiding veterans and their dependents, particularly those at the Grand Army Home at King, Wisconsin. Microfilmed records include minutes of groups at Columbus, Delavan, Evansville, Fond du Lac, La Crosse, Monticello, Neenah, Omro and other communities, as well as a few charters, financial records, scrapbooks, and correspondence. From the department headquarters there are histories, sample forms, and copies of general orders and circular letters pertaining to Wisconsin. The photographs include images of individuals and groups associated with the Woman's Relief Corps. Also included are holiday cards from the corps, an envelope imprinted with “Corps 1090,” and a ribbon from a candidate for national president of the Woman's Relief Corps. |
| Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Robert Chivas Post No. 2 (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Woman's Relief Corps, Robert Chivas Post No. 2 Records,
1885-1947
Quantity: 1 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 193 Abstract: This collection contains cash books (1885-1940), meeting minutes (1885-1944), member account books (1885-1914), and a roll of members (1921-1940) for the Milwaukee chapter of the Woman's Relief Corps Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. This chapter was founded in 1885 by wives and daughters of men having served in the Robert Chivas Post No. 2 (Milwaukee, Wis.), a branch of the Grand Army of the Republic. Its aim was to commemorate the deeds of American soldiers and army nurses and to give aid to war widows and orphans. These volumes document the charitable and patriotic activities of the society and explicate the roll Corps members aspired to as the female counterparts to the male body of the Grand Army of the Republic. In addition, the cash books and account information detail the corps' spending activities as well as individual member initiation dates, activities, and dues paid. Also included in the collection is a 1945 roster for the Wisconsin Department of the Woman's Relief Corps, and General Orders, No. 1 and No. 2 for the year 1947. These documents list state-wide membership information and the names and addresses of executives and officers. They also indicate the locations for all extant Wisconsin branches and detail organizational activities and goals. |
| Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Willian Evans Corps No. 7 (Menomonie, Wis.) | Title: Woman's Relief Corps. William Evans Corps No. 7: Records, 1901-1953
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Stout Mss G Abstract: Minutes, 1936-1951; dues books, 1904-1920 and 1928-1938; cashbooks, 1902-1920 and 1929-1953; roll calls of officers, 1901-1947; a volume containing recipes, party ideas, and a record of chapter social events, 1931-1936; and miscellaneous papers. |
| Woman’s Relief Corps, Department of Wisconsin | Title: Woman’s Relief Corps Journals (Wisconsin), 1914-1935
Quantity: 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 408 Abstract: The Woman’s Relief Corps (WRC) was created in July 1883. It is a women’s auxiliary group of the Grand Army of the Republic. This collection consists of three hand-written journals of meeting minutes from Wisconsin’s WRC Robert Chivas Corps No. 23. |
| Women Against Rape (Milwaukee, Wis.). | Title: Women Against Rape Records, 1975-1993
Quantity: 10.5 cubic ft. (14 boxes) 1,376 digital files (40.7 GB) 1 oversize folder 3 rolls Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 352 Abstract: Minutes, correspondence, proposals, newsletters, news clippings, case files, print materials, and artifacts from Women Against Rape (WAR). WAR's activities included advocating for adult and child survivors of rape and sexual abuse, establishing an anti-rape unit in the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD), and educating professionals, children, and the public on sexual violence prevention and intervention. The bulk of the records date from 1979 to 1984. |
| Women Against Violence Against Women | Title: Women Against Violence Against Women Records, 1976-1978
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 570 Abstract: A photocopied handwritten journal kept by WAVAW coordinator Julia London, with a few additional leaflets and press releases, of a coalition of women formed in March 1976. Strongest in California, the group also had chapters throughout the country, which formed in opposition to the movie Snuff, portraying the supposed dismemberment on screen of an actress. Following the successful curtailment of the movie's run, WAVAW turned its attention to record album covers with abusive images of women, in particular those of Warner Brothers, Elektra, and Atlantic records, and the 1978 Rolling Stones cover and billboard, “Black and Blue.” London's journal includes notes concerning organizational strategies used in the movie and record cover campaigns, media coverage and involvement, and cooperation with other women's groups. Drafts of press releases are also included, as are names and addresses of friends and supporters. A separate folder contains printed press releases, flyers, and leaflets of WAVAW. |
| Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative | Title: Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative
Collection, 1990-2005
Quantity: 5.8 cubic feet (5 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) Call Number: UWP Manuscript Collection 41 Abstract: This collection includes correspondence, sales reports, company publications, photographs of employees, newspaper articles, and meeting minutes of Snap-on, a tool manufacturing corporation based in Kenosha, Wisconsin. |
| Women for a Peaceful Christmas | Title: Women for a Peaceful Christmas Records, 1971-1974
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 861 Abstract: Correspondence, newsclippings, press releases, newsletters, pamphlets, flyers, planning materials, scattered financial materials, and memorabilia of a Madison (Wis.)-based organization which encouraged a three-way protest over the Vietnam War, pollution, and Christmas season commercialization by urging economic boycott and purchase or creation of simple, ecological, and non-commercial Christmas gifts. With the slogan, “No More Shopping Days 'til Peace,” the organization's efforts were featured in nationwide media including the Christian Science Monitor and Woman's Day magazine. The group produced bumper stickers, buttons, notecards, and a booklet suggesting alternatives to commercial gift giving. A yearly Peace Festival featuring crafts people and artisans was held in Madison from 1971-1974. Correspondence consists primarily of requests for materials and information. Those requests containing statements of opinion and philosophy regarding the Vietnam War, ecology, Christmas commercialization, and family Christmas celebration practices were retained and form the collection's bulk. There is also some materials of Women Uniting to End the War (Ann Arbor, Michigan) from which the Madison group sprang as well as newsletters and flyers primarily from Vietnam War protest organizations offering similar activities and focus. |
| Women for Meaningful Summits | Title: Women for Meaningful Summits Records, 1984-1997
Quantity: 2.8 cubic feet (7 archives boxes), 32 photographs (1 folder), 1 poster (1 oversize folder), 1 tape recording and 1 disc recording Call Number: Mss 1026; PH 6517; Audio 1438A Abstract: Records of Women for Meaningful Summits, a social action organization based in Washington D.C. and initially established in 1985 as Women for a Meaningful Summit (WMS) to promote political responsibility and ensure a meaningful outcome of the 1985 Geneva summit meetings between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the leader of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. WMS became fully incorporated as a non-profit in 1987 and the name changed to Women for Meaningful Summits/USA. Along with establishing themselves as a presence at international summits, WMS became a clearinghouse for the activities of other social action groups, peace organizations, and feminist organizations. The collection contains meeting minutes, bylaws, articles of incorporation, correspondence, financial records, summit and event materials, international relations information, media coverage, and records of partner organizations. |
| Women Strike for Peace | Title: Women Strike for Peace Records, 1958-1969
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 433 Abstract: Records of the Washington, D.C., chapter of a women's peace organization founded in 1961, and of its founder, Dagmar Wilson. Chapter records include correspondence, committee and activity files, clippings, and printed and near-print material relating to WSP opposition to the arms race, nuclear weapons proliferation, and later, to the Vietnam War. Twice during the early 1960's WSP was investigated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities; a major portion of the records relate to these confrontations. Wilson's papers include correspondence, speech notes and biographical data. A few records of other chapters of WSP are also present. |
| Women's Army Corps and Veterans' Association. Milwaukee Chapter | Title: Women's Army Corps and Veterans' Association. Milwaukee Chapter: Records, 1947-1964
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 123 Abstract: Records of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin chapter of an organization open to honorably discharged members of the Women's Army Corps and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, whose object was to promote the general welfare of all veterans, especially those of the WAC and WAAC. The records include brief historical outlines, 1947-1964; minutes, 1947-1956; financial records, 1949-1956; and a small amount of correspondence and national material. Activities documented by the records include social activities and visits to area hospitals. |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union. Central Union (Madison, Wis.) | Title: Women's Christian Temperance Union. Central Union (Madison, Wis.): Records, 1880s, 1914-1962
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 1 photograph Call Number: Mss 443; PH Mss 443 (5) Abstract: Records of a WCTU Madison, Wisconsin chapter founded in 1880, including a minute book (1934-1944), an historical sketch of the Central Union, and other materials. Also included are minutes, 1940-1955, of the Loyal Temperance Union, a youth group; a file on the Wisconsin Temperance Federation; and a banquet photograph of the 1952 Annual Meeting of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union which includes members of the Central Union. |
| Women's Coalition, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Women's Coalition, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wis.), 1972-1987
Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 177 Abstract: Minutes, newsletters, miscellaneous print and near print materials of an umbrella group of women's organizations in Milwaukee (Wis.) whose activities included advocating for battered women, “Take Back the Night” rallies, running a women's crisis line, and fighting for other feminist goals. Their subject files concern topics such as women's health issues, the Equal Rights Amendment, sex role stereotyping, legal issues, and pornography. |
| Women's Court and Civic Conference (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Women's Court and Civic Conference Records, 1930-1974
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 122; Milwaukee Micro 62; Micro 1172 Abstract: Records of a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, organization formed to unite community women's groups to work cooperatively for the improvement of the courts and public institutions and to increase awareness of civic issues. The records include bylaws; minutes, 1930-1974; financial reports, 1942-1960; scrapbooks, 1930-1974; and miscellaneous files on activities. Included are files documenting the Conference's project to amend the state constitution to allow direct state legislation. |
| Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Madison Branch (Wis.) | Title: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Madison Branch Records, 1924-1987
Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (5 archives boxes and 1 half-archives box); plus additions of 1.8 cubic feet (1 record center carton, and 2 archives boxes) and 1 tape recording Call Number: Wis Mss WS; Mss 129; Audio 1842A; M82-279; M88-123 Abstract: Records of the Madison, Wisconsin chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an organization formed during World War I. Records consist of correspondence, minutes, newsletters, articles and speeches, treasurer's reports, and leaflets. Subject files, 1967-1977, document the League's anti-Vietnam war, anti-draft, and amnesty work, and there are administrative and general papers of both the national and Midwest offices of the WILPF, which were collected by Judy Sikora, chairperson of the Madison branch and member of the League's national board. |
| Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Milwaukee Branch (Wis.) | Title: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Milwaukee Branch: Records, 1954-1998
Quantity: 2.1 c.f. (6 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 166 photographs and 24 transparencies (in 1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 23; PH Milwaukee Mss 23 Abstract: Organizational records, project files, and subject files of the Milwaukee branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), a women's group committed to the prevention of armed conflict and advocating resistance to the draft and nuclear disarmament. The records include files related to major events and projects conducted by the league as well as subject files detailing issues in which members took an active interest. Other records include news clippings, flyers, newsletters, and correspondence between members as well as letters addressed to local and national political and corporate figures. |
| Women's Jail Project (Madison, Wis.) | Title: Women's Jail Project, Madison, Wisconsin, Records, 1976-1992 (bulk 1986-1992)
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) and 2 tape recordings Call Number: M97-024 Abstract: Records of the Women's Jail Project (WJP), a community volunteer project founded in 1986 to offer support to women inmates in ways such as providing volunteer advocates; assertiveness and self-esteem training; facilitation of communication between inmates and their families, jail administration, the legal system, and social service agencies; and challenges of criminal justice policies and practices that discriminate against poor women and women of color. Includes correspondence from prisoners, staff, and volunteers; articles and clippings on the Project and Dane County jail; newsletters and brochures; volunteer training material; memoranda; handouts given to inmates at Taycheedah Correctional Institution; research reports; drafts of publications; bibliographies of resources on women prisoners; and tape recordings of a radio program about the Project broadcast on Madison station WTSO. |
| Women's League of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee | Title: Women's League of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee
Records, 1934-1956
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Archival Collection 196 Abstract: Consists mainly of minutes, social notices, and correspondence documenting the educational, social and charitable activities of the Women's League of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The league was a social organization dedicated to encouraging social and professional intercourse among members. |
| Women's League of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Title: Women's League of UW-Milwaukee Records, 1955-1991
Quantity: .6 cubic ft. (2 boxes) 1 oversize folder Call Number: UWM Archival Collection 161 Abstract: Consists mainly of minutes, newsletters, and correspondence documenting the educational, social, and charitable activities of the Women's League. The collection also contains information on the Senior-itas which was one of the league's interest groups. The league's mission was to provide service to the university, create friendship within the university, and promote the interests of the university. |
| Women's National Abortion Action Coalition | Title: Women's National Abortion Action Coalition Records, 1969-1973
Quantity: 4.5 cubic feet (12 archives boxes), 2 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 0.1 cubic feet of posters (1 oversize folder), and 18 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 423; Micro 766; Audio 786A; PH 6861 Abstract: Records of the Women's National Abortion Action Coalition, a national pro-abortion organization launched in 1971 to promote women's rights to control their reproduction. Major activities included demonstrations, publicity, dissemination of information and court actions. The collection contains administrative records, regional files, subject files, and legal records. Much of the material deals with events occurring in New York State where one of the first liberal abortion laws was passed, and in New York City, where WONAAC national headquarters were located. Records of three national conferences and plans for the International Abortion Tribunal are also present. Another major effort of WONAAC was the support given to Shirley Ann Wheeler, a Florida woman convicted on manslaughter charges after an illegal abortion. Numerous clippings regarding WONAAC activities and the abortion question have been microfilmed. Tapes accompanying the collection document meetings, conferences, and rallies. |
| Women's Networking Organization (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Women's Networking Organization (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 033 Abstract: The Women's Networking Organization Records contain information gathered by the organization about services available to women in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area. Materials range in date from 1985-1986. |
| Women's Oral History Project | Title: Women's Oral History Project of Madison WEAC Insurance Trust Interviews, 1977-1982
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box), 63 tape recordings, and 18 photographs Call Number: Mss 420; PH 3907; Audio 877A; Audio 896A; Audio 900A; Audio 917A; Audio 938A; Audio 945A; Audio 979A; Audio 988A; Audio 997A; Audio 998A; Audio 1002A; Audio 1003A; Audio 1005A; Audio 1006A; Audio 1007A; Audio 1008A Abstract: Oral history interviews conducted by supporters Cindy Costello, Cathy Loeb, and others, on a 1979 strike by the women clerical workers in the United Staff Union at the Wisconsin Education Association Council Insurance Trust, Madison, Wisconsin. Also present are related miscellaneous papers including questionnaires and newsletters. The fifteen interviewees discuss the problems at the Trust, the treatment of workers that lead to the strike, the strike itself, retaliation by management after the strike, and how the strike eventually changed conditions. |
| Women's Overseas Service League. Madison Unit | Title: Women's Overseas Service League. Madison Unit: Records, 1926-1943
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 215 Abstract: Fragmentary records of the Madison, Wisconsin Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League, a group organized to promote the welfare of women who had served overseas during World War I. Included is correspondence, minutes, and reports of the Madison Unit, and materials from the national organization and the regional Sixth Corps Area. These records were collected by Maude Webster Middleton primarily during her terms as president (1926-1928) and secretary (1942) of the Madison Unit and as service chairman (1928) of the Sixth Corps Area. |
| Women's Rights Movement | Title: Women's Rights Movement Videorecordings, 1970s-1980s
Quantity: 26 videorecordings (2 records center cartons) Call Number: M2004-158 Abstract: Videotapes of various speakers and events related to the Women’s Movement throughout the 1970s and 1980s, in particular the attempt to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified. Two of the most recognizable speakers are Holly Near and Sonia Johnson. Performer/activist Holly Near spoke out on gay/lesbian rights, women’s right to choose, domestic violence, and other women’s issues regarding oppression and violence. Sonia Johnson discusses her active support of the ERA which resulted in her being excommunicated from the Mormon Church in December of 1979. She continued working for equal rights for women after her excommunication, running for president on the Citizens Party ticket in 1984. She is also the author of six books, the most well-known being From Housewife to Heretic which documents her activism for the ERA. |
| Women's Service League (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Women's Service League Records, 1939-1955
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Archival Collection 27 Abstract: Miscellaneous records, including a constitution, routine correspondence, minutes of meetings, and programs, documenting the efforts of a college organization which helped orient freshmen women to campus life. The League ceased to exist in 1955 after it became a committee of the University Women's Association of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |
| Women's Trade Union League of Milwaukee | Title: Women's Trade Union League of Milwaukee Records, 1948-1956
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 26 Abstract: Records of a group founded in 1949 to promote industrial democracy in the trade union movement and to secure the equality of women within labor unions. Specific activities included obtaining a medical health plan, securing equal rights in industry and government, and supporting local unions on strike, which are illustrated by files of correspondence, minutes, financial and membership records, conference reports and notes, and printed material. The League disbanded in 1956. |
| Womyn's Cultural Community Center | Title: Womyn's Cultural Community Center Records, 1992-1994
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 247 Abstract: This collection documents the history, creation, and fundraising activities of the Milwaukee-area Womyn's Cultural Community Center. It includes meeting minutes, board membership lists, flyers, financial reports of fundraising activities, as well as by-laws and articles of incorporation. |
| Wood County Teachers College (Wis.) | Title: Wood County Teachers College (Wis.): Records, 1903-1965
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Wood Series 20 Abstract: Minutes and proceedings of the boards of the county Teachers College and College of Agriculture and Domestic Science; and the correspondence and subject file of the secretary of the school boards. |
| Wood County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: Wood County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors: Proceedings, 1954-1984
Quantity: 31 reels of microfilm (16mm) Call Number: Wood Series 27 Abstract: Agendas, minutes of meetings, reports of public officials and committees, financial reports, roll call votes, communications and petitions, resolutions, and other papers relating to operations, services, finances, planning, and policy or county government. |
| Wood County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Wood County, Wisconsin, Audit Reports, 1934, 1950-1973
Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (43 volumes in 6 archives boxes) Call Number: Wood Series 41 Abstract: Detailed audits of all transactions and accounts in the offices of the County Clerk, Treasurer, Highway Department, Register of Deeds, Clerk of Courts, Sheriff, Welfare Department, Rural Normal School, and Superintendent of Schools; prepared by the Wisconsin Tax Commission. Separate audit reports are also present for the Wood County Hospital (Norwood Hospital) from 1950-1973 and the Wood County Infirmary (Edgewater Haven) from 1965-1968. |
| Wood County (Wis.). Handicapped Children's Educational Board | Title: Wood County (Wis.). Handicapped Children's Educational Board: County School Histories, 1956
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Wood Series 4 Abstract: Drafts and finished copies of brief histories of seventy-eight Wood County school districts based on information gathered by pupils. Many of the drafts include drawings, graphs, clippings, plats, and photographs. |
| Wood County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools | Title: Wood County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools: General Files, 1896-1964
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 1 separate volume) Call Number: Wood Series 18 Abstract: Annual reports to the County Board (1914-1917, 1942-1964); minutes of the County Educational Committee (1937-1960); curriculum guides prepared by the Superintendent (1941-1961); the Wood County Educational Bulletin (1912-1930); annual directories of county school personnel (1911-1965); and early record books documenting teacher examinations, school curriculum, and other matters (1896-1918). |
| Wood County (Wis.). Treasurer | Title: Wood County (Wis.). Treasurer: Tax Rolls, 1856-1900
Quantity: 13.6 cubic feet (34 archives boxes) Call Number: Wood Series 13 Abstract: Rolls giving date, town, owner, land description, acreage, valuation of real and personal property, amount of taxes, total taxes, and payment. |
| Wood, Charles C. | Title: Charles C. Wood Index to Letters in La Crosse, Wisconsin Newspapers From Soldiers of the Company B 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1861-1864 Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 166 Abstract: Index of letters which appeared in La Crosse newspapers between 1861 and 1864, sent by members of the Company B, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment to La Crosse area residents. The index was compiled by Charles Wood, a Civil War reenactor. |
| Wood, George H., 1815-1890s | Title: George H. Wood Papers, 1808-1950
Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: Mss 1005 Abstract: Papers of George H. Wood, a land speculator and attorney in the Green Bay area during Wisconsin's early statehood. The majority of the papers in this collection document Wood's business activities and correspondence to and from his family. Significant portions of the collection relate to Wood's land speculation business with his partner and brother-in-law James Prentice, Wood's journey to Colorado to try his luck in the Pikes Peak gold rush with the rock boring and crushing machine he had invented, correspondence revealing his family's experience in Cairo (Ill.) during the Civil War, and his wife's correspondence to friends and relatives illuminating the family's experiences. The collection contains numerous letters from his daughters Georgia Pangborn, Candace P. Wood, Jessie Wilson, and Katherine Wood during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Also included are deeds, land contracts, property maps, diaries, some news clippings, a photograph of George Wood, legal documents, a book of diagrams and plans for the rock drill, and correspondence and announcements relating to Wood's drill. |
| Wood, Sydney, collector | Title: Hillside Home School and Lloyd Jones Family Collected Materials, circa 1892-circa 1920
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (1 archives box, 2 flat boxes, and 1 folder) Call Number: PH 6675 Abstract: Photographs, photograph albums, collotype prints, and a diploma collected by Sydney Wood relating to the Hillside Home School (Iowa County, Wisconsin) and the Lloyd Jones family. Included in the collection are three photograph albums documenting the Hillside Home School, circa 1892-circa 1920, a combination home, school, and farm founded by Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones in 1887 near Spring Green, Wisconsin; a composite of the school's graduating class of 1886; and a 1905 diploma from the school for Alice Lloyd Jones. The collection also includes an incomplete set of collotype prints and an original portfolio envelope used to promote the school and believed to have been designed, photographed, and lettered by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the nephew of Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones. Additional images include a drawing and a photograph of the Hillside Home School, the building designed by Wright in 1902. Images in the photograph albums include interior and exterior views of Hillside Home School buildings, students, teachers, and the surrounding landscape as well images of members of the Lloyd Jones family. In addition to images of the school, the untitled album also includes additional collotype prints and photographs related to the Tower Hill Assembly and the Lloyd Jones family including the family patriarch Jenkin Lloyd Jones. |
| Woodbury, Helen L. Sumner, 1876-1933 | Title: Helen L. Sumner Woodbury Papers, 1896-1933
Quantity: 4.0 cubic feet (10 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 158 Abstract: Papers, 1896-1933, of Helen L. Sumner Woodbury, a labor economist who was associated with the U.S. Department of Labor (1913-1918; in the Children's Bureau, 1915-1918); Institute of Economics (1924-1926); and the American Bureau of Industrial Research (1904). The papers contain correspondence, a reference file, book notes and drafts, and clippings of Woodbury. Some of the correspondence is personal but much concerns her professional activities and her interest in liberal and socialist causes. Correspondents include her teacher, John R. Commons, Julia Lathrop of the Children's Bureau, book collaborators John B. Andrews and Ethel E. Hanks, and James MacKaye of the Institute of Political Engineering, which she helped found. |
| Woodland Pattern Book Center Gartung, Karl, 1947- Kingsbury, Anne, 1943- Young, Karl, 1947- | Title: Woodland Pattern Book Center records Quantity: 68.0 Linear Feet 42 records storage cartons, 24 VHS boxes, 18 small flat, 13 reels, 1 large flat box, 1 letter document box Collection includes papers, CDs, audio cassettes, Digital Audio Tapes, reels, VHS tapes, U-Matic Tapes, photographic negatives, photograph prints, and posters and banners Call Number: Collection ZW Abstract: The Woodland Pattern Book Center records (1976-2013) are the comprehensive materials from the first 30 years of running Woodland Pattern. The literary center, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opened in 1980 and has since hosted thousands of events for the community. The collection includes correspondence with hundreds of poets, artists, and musicians; consignment reports to authors and poets; applications to grants; over 20 boxes of card files used to track inventory; and purchase and sales receipts from presses and publishers. Newsletters and press releases, meeting minutes, and designs for letterhead paper and envelopes depict further business records. The collection also holds numerous media, including over 700 recordings on audio cassettes and digital audio tapes of readings and events held at Woodland Pattern. |
| Woodman, Cyrus, 1814-1889 | Title: Cyrus Woodman Papers, 1833-1889
Quantity: 28.0 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 206 volumes) Call Number: Wis Mss M Abstract: Papers of Cyrus Woodman, a resident of Mineral Point, Wisconsin and Cambridge, Massachusetts, consisting of bound volumes of personal and general business letters, letterpress copies of letters sent, and correspondence for several business enterprises with which Woodman was connected. Six volumes of correspondence and accounts, 1840-1844, deal with Woodman's services in northern Illinois for the Boston and Western Land Company. In 1844 he settled at Mineral Point and joined with Cadwallader C. Washburn in operating a real estate office. The firm entered public lands for settlers, located military warrants, acted as agent between eastern landholders and western purchasers, and also invested in and managed its own extensive agricultural, timber, and mineral lands. A great portion of the correspondence deals with these transactions, which centered at first in western Wisconsin, and spread to Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and other states. As an individual or as a member of this firm, Woodman expanded his activities into allied operations: lumbering on the Saginaw, the upper Wisconsin, the Black, and other rivers; mining in southwestern Wisconsin; establishing the Mineral Point Bank; and investing in railroad stock. From 1862 to 1864 he managed for the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company its grant of pine lands in lower Michigan, and around the year 1870 he superintended the building of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad to Lincoln, Nebraska. In addition to business affairs, Woodman's correspondence contains his and his friends' expressions of opinion on banking, railroads, politics, contemporary events, and his own personal and family affairs. |
| Woodmansee, Winifred | Title: Winifred Woodmansee Papers, 1949-1998
Quantity: 14.8 c.f., 1 tape recording, 108 photographs, and 1 videorecording Call Number: M87-352; M2000-115; Audio 1550A Abstract: Papers, 1949-1998, of civil rights, civil liberties, and peace activist and financial donor Winifred Woodmansee, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Materials relate to general women's issues, population control, the environment (including preservation of, recycling, wildlife, et cetera), the nuclear threat (including Strategic Defense Initiative, arms control, et cetera), peace, U.S. intervention in other countries, poverty and homelessness, civil rights, energy, health, Native Americans, politics, labor, and the performing arts. Also included are materials compiled by Woodmansee's daughter, Jean Woodmansee-Poklasny, documenting welfare reform in Wisconsin, marital property reform, and the Safe Haven Project. |
| Woodruff, Lloyd W., n.d | Title: Lloyd W. Woodruff Papers Quantity: 3.25 Linear Feet 8 letter document boxes Collection includes: handwritten notes; mimeographed paper; typed reports Call Number: Series 18/5/35/5 Abstract: These materials were collected by Lloyd W. Woodruff, a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Extension Division Bureau of Government, and they focus on his research on behalf of the Joint Legislative Council's Menominee Indian Study Committee (MISC) from 1955-1959. The MISC formed on June 17, 1955 to study the problems created by the withdrawal of federal recognition of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and to aid the Joint Legislative Council in developing legislation necessary for the Menominee to transition from federal supervision to local self-government. The committee researched how the transition would impact taxation, public welfare, local politics, education, healthcare, highways, forestry, and the criminal justice system. The bulk of the materials in the collection document the County and Local Government Study Group and Law and Order Study Committee due to Woodruff's participation in this research. The collection documents the Menominee Indian Study Committee's (MISC) internal activities and the perspectives of stakeholders in Shawano, Langdale, and Oconto counties, the Wisconsin state government, the federal government, and the Menominee Indian Tribe on termination and the transition to Menominee self-government. The collection includes: meeting minutes of the MISC, its sub–committees, the Menominee Coordinating and Negotiating Committee, and the Menominee Advisory Council; bibliographies; field notes; annotated drafts and final reports of MISC research; correspondence with tribal, state, county, and federal officials; Woodruff's meeting and interview notes with state and county officials; and Menominee tribal members, and drafts of state and federal legislation. The University of Wisconsin- Madison University Archives values the diversity of Indigenous Peoples' cultures and languages and aspires to address Indigenous people using the terminology the members the community use to describe themselves. |
| Woodville (Calumet County, Wis.: Town) | Title: Woodville (Calumet County, Wis.: Town) Records, 1853-1999
Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (1 archives box and 14 volumes) Call Number: Calumet Series 18 Abstract: Town of Woodville records including board minutes, 1867-1999; town clerk's record books, 1853-1965; election records, 1967-1911; treasurer's record book, 1870-1883; highway records, 1868-1885; and Woodville Chilton Drainage Board meeting minutes, 1917-1918. |
| Woolsey, Clinton N. | Title: Clinton Woolsey papers Quantity: 13 Linear Feet 13 record storage cartons 13 linear feet of papers documents, research data, photographs, film, wood blocks, lantern slides, glass plates. Call Number: uac169 Abstract: The Clinton Woolsey papers document the academic and professional work of Professor Clinton Woolsey at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Woolsey held the Charles Sumner Slichter Professorship in Neurophysiology from 1948 until his retirement in 1975. Wollsey's papers include research data and lab notebooks as well as numerous visual representations of primate brains on many different types of media, including photographs, lantern slides, glass plates, among others. The collection also includes two linear feet of Woolsey's general files and five linear feet of correspondence. |
| Work Projects Administration | Title: Federal Music Project (Wis.) Quantity: 3 linear feet 7 archival boxes (boxes 1-7) Call Number: Abstract: |
| Work, John M. (John McClelland), 1869-1961 | Title: John M. Work Papers, 1958, undated
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Milwaukee Micro 25; Micro 869 Abstract: Two typewritten autobiographical manuscripts by John M. Work, an editor of the socialist Milwaukee Leader, describing his career from about 1869 to 1942, together with two manuscripts of other published and unpublished writings. |
| Work, John M. (John McClelland), 1869-1961 | Title: John McClelland Work Papers, 1892-1960
Quantity: 2.3 cubic ft. (7 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 334 Abstract: John McClelland Work was an attorney, professor, author and chief editorial writer for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin based Socialist newspaper, the Milwaukee Leader. He was an active Socialist who traveled across the country speaking on behalf of the Socialist Party, also serving as the secretary of the Socialist Party. He wrote and produced pamphlets, articles and books on various legal subjects and in support of socialism. |
| Worker Rights Institute (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Worker Rights Institute Records, 1966, 1972-1987
Quantity: 26.2 c.f., 154 tape recordings, and 26 videorecordings Call Number: M89-287; M90-391 Abstract: Records of the Worker Rights Institute, an organization founded to investigate, document, and ultimately litigate abuses of the Work Assistance Program (workfare) in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, including case files, research notes, reports, surveys, financial records, newspaper clippings, videotapes, and sound recordings. |
| Works, Norris Mihill | Title: Norris Mihill Works Papers, 1906-1970
Quantity: 0.4 cubic ft. (1 box) 1 oversize folder Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 335 Abstract: Papers of Norris Works (1873-1962), who worked for the U.S. Lighthouse Service from 1902-1938. Contains correspondence, photographs, and field notes. |
| World Affairs Council of Milwaukee | Title: World Affairs Council of Milwaukee, 1953-1978
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) and 5 photographs Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 153; PH Milwaukee Mss 153 Abstract: Administrative and program records of the World Affairs Council of Milwaukee, a non-profit, non-partisan organization established by Milwaukee civic leaders to stimulate interest in current international issues and to provide a forum for both obtaining information about foreign affairs and exchanging opinions with policy makers. Included is correspondence, program flyers and brochures, program planning materials, board and committee meeting minutes, newsclippings, press releases, Council Courier newsletters, membership lists, by-laws and statements of purpose, biographical information on speakers, notes, photographs, and miscellaneous materials. |
| World Peace Brigade. North American Regional Council | Title: World Peace Brigade. North American Regional Council: Records, 1961-1963
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 81 Abstract: Records, mainly correspondence, financial records, minutes, and subject files, of the North American affiliate of the World Peace Brigade, an international organization devoted to peace through nonviolent protest and liberation of colonial territories. Among the groups founding the Brigade in December 1961 were the Society of Friends, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters' League, and the Gandhi Peace Federation. Much of the correspondence in the collection is of the Council's chairman, A. J. Muste, with Bayard Rustin, William Sutherland, and others. The Council was involved in such projects as the Delhi-Peking Friendship March (1963), the African Project for the liberation of Northern Rhodesia (1962-1963), and a 1962 protest of Soviet nuclear testing. |
| Worth, C. A. | Title: "The Walrus" Typescript Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 138 Abstract: Photocopied typescript of "The Walrus," which was originally published in the La Crosse Tribune & Leader Press May 30, 1926. The article discusses Spanish-American War memories. |