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| Zachau, August H., 1825-1914 | Title: August H. Zachau Papers, 1857-1914
Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: Superior Mss O Abstract: Papers of Zachau, a German immigrant and pioneer settler and entrepreneur in Superior, Wisconsin; consisting primarily of financial records from his activities as a merchant, general contractor and provisioner, and fur trader, plus some information on his personal activities and family events. |
| Riemenschneider, August. | Title: August Riemenschneider Negatives Collection, circa
1911
Quantity: 1.1 cubic ft. (15 boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 26 Abstract: Glass plate negatives taken by August Riemenschneider, depicting images of the Milwaukee Fire Department in the early 1900s, including the District Chiefs and their employees. |
| Strehlow, August | Title: August Strehlow Papers, 1915-1965
Quantity: 0.8 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 368 Abstract: August Strehlow held various elected positions in Wisconsin politics. Included are personal papers mainly related to a 1929 trip to Europe with Milwaukee Mayor Daniel Hoan. |
| Derleth, August, 1909-1971 | Title: August W. Derleth Papers, 1938-1954
Quantity: 1.2 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 12 Abstract: August Derleth was a Wisconsin editor, poet and author. Contains clippings, photographs, and manuscripts. |
| Derleth, August William, 1909-1971, collector | Title: August William Derleth Comic Collection, circa 1846-1971 (bulk 1900-1971)
Quantity: 116.6 cubic feet (8 cartons, 84 flat boxes, and 286 volumes); plus additions of 31.6 cubic feet Call Number: Mss 1081; PH 4647 Abstract: Comic collection, mainly 1900 to 1971, of August Derleth. The comic art collection consists of cartoons clipped from newspapers and magazines, newspaper comic supplements, comic books, and published books of humor and cartoon art. The collection is mostly comprised of American comics and cartoons including but not limited to the Katzenjammer Kids, Marge's Little Lulu, Pogo, Li'l Abner, Alley Oop, Toonerville Folks, Mutt and Jeff, and many others, as well as comics based on animated characters from Walt Disney, Hanna-Barbera, and Looney Toons/Warner Brothers. There are also examples of comics created to sell products such as “Pepsi,” the Pepsi-Cola Cop. The collection also includes essays about comics and their creators compiled by Derleth. |
| Derleth, August William, 1909-1971 | Title: August William Derleth Papers, 1858, 1907-1978, 1992
Quantity: 69.6 cubic feet (124 boxes and 20 records center cartons), 6 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 2 audio recordings, and 0.3 cubic feet of visual materials (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder); plus additions of 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box) and 12 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: Wis Mss WO; Micro 923; Audio 1718A; PH 4975; M2004-152 Abstract: Papers, 1858, 1907-1978, consisting primarily of correspondence and manuscripts of published and unpublished works, of August Derleth, one of Wisconsin's most prominent and prolific writers. Derleth spent almost his entire life in the small Wisconsin town of Sauk City and wrote about its history and its personalities in his Sac Prairie Saga, a nearly fifty-volume sequence of novels, journals, lyric poems, short stories, and miscellaneous prose which comprises one of the major works of American regional literature. Derleth was also a devotee of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the master of twentieth century weird fantasy, and a major contributor to the “Cthulhu Mythos,” a body of supernatural and science fiction works originated by Lovecraft. |
| Pardee, Aurel Baker, 1886-1962 | Title: Aurel Baker Pardee Papers, 1910-1949
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Mss 155 Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, and miscellaneous papers of Aurel Baker Pardee, a Red Cross, Army, and later public health nurse from Eagle, Wisconsin. Most of the correspondence deals with her nursing career with the Red Cross in Kiev, Russia, in 1915, and with American military hospitals in Vittel and Compeigne, France, 1917-1919. The bulk of the material dates from 1914-1924. Two diaries cover her return trip from Russia via Siberia in the fall of 1915 and her service in France beginning with her voyage to Le Havre from New York in October, 1917, and ending in September, 1918. There is a collection of her examination papers from the Illinois Training School for Nurses, 1911-1912; a Nurse's Case Record, 1913-1914; two humor booklets from World War I; and passports and travel documents. |
| Mosher, Austin, 1893- | Title: Austin Mosher Papers, 1955-1965
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 105 Abstract: Genealogical research materials collected by Austin Mosher primarily concerning the surnames Mosher, Austin, Hicks, and Holden; also includes materials on the related families Batchelder, Case, Gaskill, Gove, Moulton, Mussey, Otis, Partridge, Philbrick, Sanborn, Southwick, Varney, and Woodin. |
| 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. |
| - - - | Title: Autograph Book Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 035 Abstract: Autograph book kept by an unidentified person in an unknown location, circa 1873. |
| Milwaukee Public Library | Title: Autograph Letter Signed Collection, 1847-1972
Quantity: 0.4 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 53 Abstract: Collection of signatures of various authors, journalists, and others, collected by Milwaukee Public Library. |
| Automation Fund Committee | Title: Automation Fund Committee Records, 1959-1970
Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes), 2 tape recordings, and 1 film Call Number: Mss 83; Tape 946A; AC 345 Abstract: Records of a committee composed of company, union, and neutral representatives which sought remedies to the displacement of workers when Armour and Company modernized its meatpacking operations and closed plants in the 1950's and 1960's. Financed by Armour, the committee commissioned studies and surveys; made recommendations to minimize displacement, some of which were incorporated into labor contracts between Armour and the Meat Cutters and Packinghouse Workers union; and provided direct assistance to workers in several cities where Armour plants closed. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, clippings, reports, questionnaires, and statistics. Administrative records, reports from committee studies and projects, and a subject file on labor issues comprise about half the collection. The remaining papers are files on plant closings where the committee actively assisted workers being laid off. Of these, committee projects at Kansas City and Omaha are particularly well documented. |