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| Taylor, Bradley R., 1895-1963 | Title: Bradley R. Taylor Papers, 1940-1958
Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss EJ Abstract: Mainly personal correspondence of Bradley R. Taylor, a resident of Rhinelander, Wis., an active Republican, an officer of the American Legion, and a member of the Polar Bear Association composed of veterans of the North Russian Expedition of 1918-1919. The letters relate mainly to three topics: the Civil Aeronautics Authority's War Training Service, a training program for non-combat pilots during World War II; Republican Party politics; and the American Legion Library. From 1942 to 1947, as representative of the American Legion and the Polar Bear Association, Taylor campaigned for better pay, more recognition, and postwar-adjustment aid for the men in the War Training Service. Among his correspondents were Hugh Fulton, chief counsel for the Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (known as the Truman Committee); numerous senators and congressmen, and radio newscasters Earl Godwin, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Drew Pearson. Letters on politics concern mainly the national scene, particularly legislation in which the American Legion was interested. A friend and supporter of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Taylor wrote frequently to McCarthy, 1949-1956, concerning the anti-communist campaign, veterans' bills, and other legislation. Between 1952 and 1957 Taylor worked on behalf of the memorial section of the American Legion Library in Indianapolis. Numerous letters refer to his solicitations of books for this project. |
| Brady East STD Clinic | Title: Brady East STD Clinic Records, 1972-2007
Quantity: 3.2 cubic ft. (8 boxes) 456 digital files (11.7 GB) 4 oversize folders plus additions of .2 cubic ft. (1 oversize folder) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 238 Abstract: Collection documents the development of the Brady East STD Clinic from its origin in 1974 as a program of the Gay Peoples Union, a prominent gay rights group in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to being a statewide leader in the battle against HIV/AIDS by the 1990s. The collection includes administrative records such as minutes, annual reports, correspondence, and newsletters, and well as general informational sources such as posters and brochures on human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV/AIDS prevention. |
| Albuquerque, Severino J. | Title: Brazil Initiative collection Quantity: 2 Linear Feet One record storage carton, one flat folder. Collection includes documents, CD-ROMs. Call Number: uac100 Abstract: The Brazil Initiative collection was compiled by Professor Emeritus Severino J. Albuquerque to document the 2009 conference "Nabuco in Wisconsin" in 2009 which was held on the 100th anniversary of the Brazilian diplomat and abolitionist's 1909 visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The collection also documents the activities of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Brazil initiative which began in 2009 as a result of the Nabuco conference and continued operations until 2016. |
| Breakfast Optimist Club of La Crosse (Wis.). | Title: Breakfast Optimist Club of La Crosse (Wisconsin) Records Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 217 Abstract: The Breakfast Optimist Club of La Crosse, Wisconsin records include brochures, membership rosters, meeting minutes, financial records, reports, and other assorted materials pertaining to the organization's activities. Materials range in date from 1998 through 2005. |
| Griem, Breta Luther, 1897- | Title: Breta Griem Recipe Collection, 1910-1981
Quantity: 5.0 cubic ft. (24 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 63 Abstract: This collection includes recipes collected by Breta Griem, commentator on WTMJ-TV's "What's New in the Kitchen" program which was broadcast locally in Milwaukee from 1949-1962. The majority of the collection is comprised of recipe pamphlets issued by food product companies. |
| Breustedt Family | Title: Breustedt Postcard Collection, 1906-1949
Quantity: 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 50 Abstract: The Breustedt Postcard Collection contains postcards that were sent and received by the Breustedt family. The majority of the postcards were sent in the early 1900s. |
| Rude, Brian D. | Title: Brian D. Rude Papers, 1981-2006
Quantity: 4.2 cubic feet (4 records center cartons and 1 archives box), 65 photographs and 44 transparencies (1 archives box), and 4 tape recordings Call Number: La Crosse Mss DN; PH La Crosse Mss DN; Audio 1714A Abstract: Records of Brian Rude, a Republican state legislator from Vernon County, Wisconsin, serving the 32nd District from 1982 to 2000, consisting of subject files, public relations, and campaign materials. The subject files include the Asian Trade Mission, Bicentennial Committee Commission, correspondence, case files, and speech files. The public relations material includes news releases and columns. Campaign materials include ads, brochures, questionnaires, memorabilia, postcards, financial reports, correspondence, contributions, political issues, speeches/interviews, and voting records/poll results. Also included are photographs of Rude and others and audio recordings of campaign appearances from 1984 and 1992 and his 1984 swearing-in ceremony. |
| Peterson, Brian L., 1942- | Title: Brian L. Peterson Papers, 1963-1970
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 498 Abstract: Papers of Brian Peterson, a political activist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, consisting of correspondence, notes, writings, and collected papers. Included are files on his participation in the Teaching Assistants Association, the History Students Association, and other campus organizations involved in anti-Vietnam War activities. Also present is a folder of recollections of work as a SNCC volunteer in Mississippi in 1964. |
| Willson, Brian (S. Brian) | Title: Brian Willson Papers, 1985-1992
Quantity: 18.8 cubic feet, 76 photographs, 7 videorecordings, and 1 tape recording Call Number: M91-198; M94-084; M95-151; M96-019; Audio 1738A Abstract: Papers of peace activist Brian Willson, documenting his involvement with various protest and civil disobedience organizations. Also documented is the 1987 incident in which Willson was run over by a train during a demonstration and the ensuing litigation. Included are photographs, legal documents and testimony, videorecordings, correspondence, and ephemera. |
| Pomeroy, Marcus M., (Brick) | Title: Brick Pomeroy Papers Regarding the Atlantic-Pacific Railway Tunnel Company Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 030 Abstract: Letters and other papers related to Brick Pomeroy's involvement with the Atlantic-Pacific Railway Tunnel Company. Materials range in date from 1884 to 1886. |
| Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America | Title: Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America Records, 1865-1896, 1954-1972
Quantity: 87.4 c.f. (87 record center cartons and 1 archives box); plus additions of 3.4 c.f. Call Number: Mss 465; M89-237 Abstract: Records of the Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America (BMPIUA), an international labor union representing workers in brick, block, and stone laying, plastering, masonry, and related trades. During the period covered by the bulk of these records, its history was characterized by efforts to work with employer and joint union-employer groups (such as the Associated General Contractors, the Mason Contractors Association, the Structural Clay Products Institute, and the National Joint Board for Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes) to promote the construction industry and solve labor-management problems, and by jurisdictional conflicts with the Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association and other building trades unions. Also included is historical information regarding the Bricklayers International Union, the BMPIUA's predecessor. |
| Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America. Local 14 (Waukesha, Wis.) | Title: Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America. Local 14: Records, 1902-1937
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss DS Abstract: Records of Local 14, Waukesha, Wisconsin, consisting of correspondence and circulars from the national office (1902-1927, 1937); minutes (1902-1920); a roll book; monthly reports (1912-1916, 1923-1925); indentures; receipts; and other materials. |
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Dobson, Bridget; Dobson, Jerome; Hursley, Frank M., 1902-1989; Hursley, Doris, 1898-1984 |
Title: Bridget and Jerome Dobson Papers, 1940-1996 (bulk 1970-1990)
Quantity: 66.0 cubic feet (66 record center cartons) and 1.0 cubic foot of photographs, transparencies, and negatives (1 record center carton) Call Number: Mss 1082 Abstract: The papers, mainly 1970 to 1990, consist primarily of scripts, correspondence, publications and administrative documents pertaining to several daytime television series written by Frank and Doris Hursley, and by their daughter Bridget Dobson and her husband Jerome Dobson. The series included are As the World Turns, Bright Promise, General Hospital, Guiding Light, Heritage, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, and Search for Tomorrow. Also included are miscellaneous television and radio stories and personal papers from both the Hursleys and the Dobsons. |
| Maniaci, Bridget | Title: Bridget Maniaci Papers Relating to Edgewater Hotel Redevelopment, 2009-2014
Quantity: 1.2 cubic feet (2 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: M2015-075 Abstract: Papers of Bridget Maniaci, an alderperson serving District 2 on the City of Madison Common Council, documenting the dispute over the Edgewater hotel redevelopment project. The dispute centered around the historic neighborhood (Mansion Hill Historic District) and views of Lake Mendota versus the potential boost to tourism and easier lakefront access. In 2012 the redevelopment plans were approved and the project was completed with the opening of the hotel in 2014. The papers consist of Maniaci's copies of project correspondence, meeting minutes, legal actions, hotel redevelopment plans, and architectural drawings. |
| Brigham Family | Title: Brigham Family Papers, 1831-1914
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: M2011-082 Abstract: Papers of a family from Union (Rock County, Wisconsin) consisting of correspondence regarding primarily news of family members school, health, and travels. Most of the correspondence was sent between J. Wells Brigham, who left Vermont to settle in Wisconsin, and his brother Bela, who remained in New England. Major news and political events, such as the Chicago and Peshtigo fires, are also mentioned. Yellow note cards are matched with each letter and summarize the letter's content. Early letters (in Folder 1) concern financial matters in Vermont; a brief family history is included in a later letter (in Folder 6). |
| British War Relief Society (U.S.). Madison Committee (Wis.) | Title: British War Relief Society. Madison Committee: Records, 1940-1945
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 1 card file box) Call Number: Wis Mss 1NG Abstract: Records of the Madison, Wisconsin committee of the British War Relief Society, consisting of correspondence, circular letters, reports, membership lists, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous records. |
| Broadcast Advertisers Reports, Inc. | Title: Broadcast Advertisers Reports, Inc. Network Reports, 1960-1963
Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 172AF Abstract: Reports detailing advertising carried by the CBS, NBC, and ABC radio and television networks. Designed to confirm broadcast exposure, the BAR reports identify commercial programs and list the air time devoted to each advertisement |
| Broadcast Music, inc. | Title: Broadcast Music, Inc. Records, 1951-1966
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: U.S. Mss 39AF Abstract: Educational radio scripts distributed to local stations by a music-licensing corporation. Included are sample scripts for Book Parade, The World of the Mind, and The American Story, which includes the complete run of the sub-series “A. Lincoln, 1809-1865,” written by Bruce Catton, Allen Nevins, Carl Sandburg, and other Lincoln scholars. Also included are some promotional materials for The World of the Mind. |
| La Follette, Bronson C., 1936- | Title: Bronson C. La Follette Papers, 1957-1968
Quantity: 2.4 cubic feet (6 archives boxes) and 24 photographs Call Number: Mss 589; PH Mss 589 Abstract: Papers of Bronson C. La Follette, a politician, lawyer, five-term Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin, and candidate for governor in 1968. The collection contains biographical information, personal correspondence, photographs, materials from various political campaigns, papers pertinent to his first two terms as Attorney General (1964-1968), and information regarding his work as a consumer advocate for the federal government. |
| Brookfield (Wis.). Board of Public Works | Title: Brookfield (Wis.). Board of Public Works: Records, 1955-1957
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Waukesha Series 19 Abstract: Records are primarily from 1955 and 1956 and concern matters brought before the Board including licensing, bids, and contracts. There are also records from city departments such as the City Engineer and the City's Attorney and from various committees including the Board of Review. The records include correspondence, minutes of board meetings, license applications, legal briefs, and other documents. |
| Brookfield (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brookfield (Wis.). Clerk: City Clerk's Records,
1955-1968
Quantity: 10.4 c.f. (26 archives boxes) Call Number: Waukesha Series 22 Abstract: General files of the city clerk include correspondence reports from city committees, commissions, and departments, petitions, liquor license applications, tax matters, annexation requests, sewage district concerns, zoning, and other matters. |
| Brookfield (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brookfield (Wis.). Clerk: City Records, 1954-1976
Quantity: 14 reels of microfilm (16mm) Call Number: Waukesha Micro Series 2 Abstract: Microfilm copy of a variety of city records including minutes of Common Council meetings, 1956-1975; resolutions of the Common Council, 1957-1968; city ordinances, 1954-1975; City Planning Commission minutes, 1955-1975; Board of Zoning Appeals minutes, 1955-1974; financial records concerning borrowing and bond issues, 1954-1976; minutes of public hearings before the Common Council, 1962-1975; copies of legal opinions of the City Attorney, 1954-1975; miscellaneous papers concerning the Royal Oak-Lynndale, Northwest, and Southwest Sewer Districts, 1959-1961; legal documents filed with the city clerk, 1958-1976; and a Comprehensive Plan Report of the City of Brookfield, 1959. |
| Brosius, Carleton L. | Title: Brosius, Carleton L. Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 3.8 linear ft. (1 archives box and 2 flat boxes) of papers and 0.1 linear ft. (1 flat box and 5 folders) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 17 Abstract: Papers and photographs of Carleton L. Brosius, a physical trainer for the Army during World War I and a participant in the 1920 Olympic games. The bulk of the collection deals with Brosius's dedication to physical fitness. General orders, letters of commendation from Army personnel, and a scrapbook document his work as an Army trainer, while correspondence and a scrapbook full of ephemera and photographs document his participation in the Olympics. Two other scrapbooks provide additional biographical information about Brosius; they include photographs, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and letters. There is no documentation of Brosius's service in the Spanish-American War nor the Mexican Border War, and only general orders convey a sense of Brosius's stateside movements during World War I. This collection also includes the music for “March of the Maccabees,” which Brosius wrote in 1904; military certificates of promotion; a certificate commemorating Brosius's twenty-fifth anniversary as a member of the American Legion; and a thank you card from General Charles King. |
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Lodge No. 168 (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Lodge No. 168 Records, 1927-1968
Quantity: 2.6 cubic feet (8 archives boxes) Call Number: La Crosse Mss AR Abstract: Records of Lodge No. 168, La Crosse, Wisconsin, consisting of general correspondence, subject files, financial records, and printed materials including information issued by the national Brotherhood and by the General Chairman for the Burlington System Railroad. |
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Lodge No. 259 (Ashland, Wis.) | Title: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Lodge No. 259: Records,1888-1942
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Northland Mss G Abstract: Records of Lodge 259, Ashland, Wisconsin, including registers of beneficiaries, traveling cards issued, and members present at meetings; a roll book listing officers and board members; a report on grievances and claims; and a checkbook. |
| Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Gateway City Lodge 176 (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Gateway City Lodge 176 Records, 1886-1943
Quantity: 0.9 cubic feet (9 volumes in 1 archives box and 1 flat box) Call Number: La Crosse Mss CO Abstract: Records of a local union concerning its official and routine activities, with later records noting grievances and related issued. Included are minutes, membership records, brief financial records, and a visitors' register. |
| Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Local 606 (Madison, Wis.) | Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Local 606: Records, 1901-1973
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 436 Abstract: Records of the Madison, Wisconsin lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT), primarily for 1901-1919. Included are minutes, attendance and financial records, and miscellaneous records including a brief history. |
| Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Lodge 191 (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Lodge 191: Records, 1886-1968
Quantity: 1.5 c.f. (1 archives box and 11 volumes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss EW Abstract: Minutes of meetings, attendance registers (1919-1968) and a financial record book of Lodge 191, Fort Howard, Wisconsin (1886-circa 1891), Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (1891-1909), and Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1909-). |
| Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employes, Lodge No. 139 (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees, Lodge No. 139 Records, 1907-1951
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes including 13 volumes) Call Number: La Crosse Mss AS Abstract: Records consisting of minutes, 1907-1914; membership records, 1907-1927; financial records, 1918-1951; and a 1912 ritual book. |
| Brown Brothers Lumber Company (Rhinelander, Wis.) | Title: Brown Brothers Lumber Company Records, 1854-1959
Quantity: 3.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 4 oversize volumes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Northland Mss Q; Northland Micro 10; Micro 12 Abstract: Records of the Brown Brothers Lumber Company and its affiliate, the Pelican Boom Company, concerning operations of a sawmill and planing mill in Rhinelander, Wis.; timber operations around Stevens Point, Wis.; timber investments in Wisconsin and the West, especially the Seattle area; and formation of the Rhinelander Paper Company. Included are invoices, account books, cruising and log mark records, a land inventory, letterbooks, and miscellaneous correspondence and agreements. On microfilm are reminiscences of Stevens Point and Rhinelander, an 1874 timber cruising diary, and additional correspondence. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Board of Commissioners | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Board of Commissioners: County Commissioners' Records, 1821-1857
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 flat box) Call Number: Brown Series 112 Abstract: Records of the commission, primarily during the 1820's, included are documents on the location and building of the county court house, petitions to the County Commission, resolutions and minutes, and various financial records that contain tax assessments, orders to pay county commission debts, and records of receipts and disbursements. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: Articles of Incorporation, 1850-1870
Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder and 2 volumes) Call Number: Brown Small Series 1 Abstract: Articles of incorporation for churches and businesses, listing name, purposes, location, and trustees. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: Board of Canvassers' Statements, 1852-1888
Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: Brown Small Series 13 Abstract: Statements of County Board of Canvassers on votes polled and oaths of inspectors and officers for general and special elections at the state and local levels, present only for scattered dates. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: Bond Issues,1856-1873
Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 volume and 4 folders) Call Number: Brown Small Series 7 Abstract: Bond proposals, notices of election, election canvass, and scattered correspondence from Milwaukee and Superior, Chicago and Northwestern, Green Bay and Lake Pepin, and Milwaukee and Northern Railway Companies. Volume contains schedule of bonds issued to Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, proceedings of the county Board of Supervisors concerning the bonds, and schedule of Court House and Poor House bonds issued. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: Census Schedules,1850, 1860, 1870, 1905
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (4 volumes) Call Number: Brown Series 30 Abstract: County Clerk's copies of federal and state censuses. Included is the state population census of 1905 and the federal census schedules listing inhabitants for 1850, 1860, and 1870; persons who died during the year for 1850, 1860, and 1870; products of agriculture and industry, 1860 and 1870; and social statistics, 1860. Volumes 1 and 2 contain the federal censuses; Volumes 3 and 4 contain the state census. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: Committee Correspondence, 1928-1953
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 54 Abstract: Correspondence files of special governmental committees documenting the functions of county government, specifically civil service; conservation; county public buildings; public welfare; and the building of a new tuberculosis sanatorium in 1928. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: General Correspondence, 1927-1960
Quantity: 4.8 c.f. (12 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 53 Abstract: Incoming and outgoing letters of the Clerk's office documenting various aspects and activities of Brown County government. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: Original County Board Proceedings, 1850-1979
Quantity: 50.0 c.f. (126 archives boxes and 1 volume) Call Number: Brown Series 2 Abstract: Proceedings are the manuscript copies of the clerk's minutes and documents considered by the Board at each meeting. Documents include communications and petitions concerning taxes, roads, formation of new towns and miscellaneous matters; resolutions; roll call votes; reports of standing and special committees; justice of the peace and county officers' reports; rules of order; and accounts allowed (1850-1875). Includes a subject index to proceedings for January 1955-December 1975. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: Reports and Papers,
1843-1918
Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 8 Abstract: Reports and papers kept by the County Clerk. Includes contracts; building specifications; affidavits of non-occupancy, tax certificate ownership, and residence; bounty claims; state lands; redemption of land; county property; school superintendent reports; statements on school money apportionment; and correspondence concerning taxes. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Clerk: Tax and Land Sales Records, 1839-1880
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (8 volumes in 2 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 11 Abstract: Records of tax sales for 1839-1841 and 1848-1867, including redemptions (1839-1840, 1970-1880); descriptions of private and public lands (ca. 1862-1870); illegal certificates cancelled (1871-1879); deeds issued for certificates (1871-1879); and county orders not receipted (1877-1879). |
| Brown County (Wis.). Council of Defense | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Council of Defense: Records, 1941-1946
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Brown Series 138 Abstract: Records concerning eight World War II war bond drives conducted by the War Finance Committee of the Brown County Council of Defense. Records consist of correspondence, statistics, and reports of war bond sales for each drive. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Harbor Commission | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Harbor Commission: Port Director's Papers, 1928-1965
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 22 Abstract: Papers and correspondence of the Port Director of the Green Bay harbor, an employee of the municipal harbor commission which later became a county agency. Records include correspondence with governmental agencies, legislators, interested parties, local industries, and the International Association of Great Lake Ports; materials relating to boating regulations and Coast Guard matters, pilotage, lake levels, traffic and rate matters, and flood control; a plan for the development of the Wisconsin-Fox Rivers and the formation of the International Association of Great Lakes Ports; and the three-volume “Survey and Comprehensive Plan for the Port of Green Bay,” an in-depth study of Green Bay industry, transportation, and commerce in 1931, which also includes information on education, housing, and government in Green Bay and has many photos, maps, and charts. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Park Commission | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Park Commission: Records of the Brown County Park Commission and Airport Committee, 1928-1960
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 39 Abstract: Correspondence, agreements, ordinances, petitions, resolutions, reports, and miscellaneous papers of the Brown County Park Commission and Special Airport Committee which shared a common membership. Dealing primarily with aviation matters, they also concern park and historical site management. The records document construction of Austin Straubel Field, disputes with the Civil Aeronautics Board, the certificate renewal of Wisconsin Central Airlines which several local communities supported with briefs discussing their industries and commerce and their need for an airport, and other topics. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds. Works Progress Administration (WPA) Land Ownership Survey Plat Book Drafts, 1934-1936
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 110 Abstract: Drafts for a plat map indicating land ownership for all towns and for the village of Denmark in Brown County, drawn in assessor's diagram plat books and indicating in detail land ownership and the size of each parcel. These drafts were published as Plat Book of Brown County, 1936, which provides the precise date of the land survey for each town and village. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Deeds, 1820-1901
Quantity: 45 reels of microfilm (35 mm); 30.0 cubic feet (113 volumes) Call Number: Brown Series 150 Abstract: Documents recording the conveyance of real estate. Type of documents present include deeds, quitclaim deeds, warranty deeds, land contracts, sheriff's deeds on foreclosures, guardian's deeds, and land patents. Entries typically show date, names of grantor and grantee, description of property, names of witnesses, amount paid, date recorded, and notarial acknowledgement. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: General Index to Deeds and Mortgages, 1820-1873
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (3 volumes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Brown Series 162; Brown Micro Series 1 Abstract: General index to deed and mortgage record books, showing grantor, grantee, volume, and page. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Mortgages, 1837-1902
Quantity: 21 reels of microfilm (35 mm) and 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box) Call Number: Brown Series 133 Abstract: Record of real property and chattel mortgages, showing date of indenture, mortgagor, mortgagee, property mortgaged, mortgage condition, notary's statement, and assignment of mortgages by Register of Deeds. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Plat Maps, circa 1823-1930
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (24 oversize folders) Call Number: Brown Series 63 Abstract: Original surveyor's maps for cities, towns, villages, and cemeteries, used in the Brown County (Wis.) Register of Deeds office. Also present are maps for areas outside Brown County including Calumet, Columbia, Fond du Lac, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marquette, Outagamie, Sheboygan, and Winnebago counties. The box, volume, and page numbers that follow the plat map title in parentheses are the Register of Deed's designation, and do not reflect the physical arrangement of the maps. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: State Census, 1855
, 1875
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 66; Brown Micro Series 1 Abstract: The census forms show the head of the family, the number of males, females, whites and nonwhites, deaf and dumb, blind, insane, and foreign-born; also sworn affidavits of the person who did the polling. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Vital Statistics Records, 1820-1936
Quantity: 40.3 cubic feet (21 flat boxes and 78 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 47-Brown Series 52 Abstract: Marriage, birth and death certificates for Brown County filed from 1820 to 1936. Series 50, Series 51, and Series 52 contain the originals filed prior to 1908, which are indexed in the volumes in Series 47, Series 48, and Series 49. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools: General Files, 1938-1965
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Brown Series 127 Abstract: The general file consists mostly of correspondence written or received by superintendent of schools, James Donovan, and reports collected from the school districts in Brown County. The correspondence and reports cover such topics as teacher applications, benefits and payroll deductions, school district evaluations for financial aids, curriculum development, transportation of pupils, legal interpretations, etc. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools: Teachers' Monthly Reports, 1937-1964
Quantity: 14.0 c.f. (73 volumes) Call Number: Brown Series 124 Abstract: Monthly reports by teachers in Brown County schools, indicating the names of teachers and pupils, attendance, subjects studied, certification of teachers, and other data relevant to school operations. |
| Brown County (Wis.). Treasurer | Title: Brown County (Wis.). Treasurer: Tax Rolls, 1841, 1850-1991
Quantity: 124.0 cubic feet (110 archives boxes and 388 volumes), 119 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 344 reels of microfilm (16 mm), and 650 sheets of microfiche Call Number: Brown Series 4; Brown Micro Series 6 Abstract: Annual tax rolls showing name of town, name of owner, legal description of property, number of acres, value of real and personal property, amount of taxes (state, county, local, school, and road tax), total taxes, name of individual who paid taxes, and date taxes paid. For 1850-1870, some assessment rolls are included in absence of tax rolls. Volumes for the years 1921-1965 are only personal property assessment rolls for the city of Green Bay. |
| Brown County Energy Conservation Center (Wis.) | Title: Brown County Energy Conservation Center Records, 1978-1981
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (1 record center carton and 2 archives boxes) Call Number: M90-283 Abstract: Records of the Brown County Energy Conservation Center, a quasi-public agency organized for the purposes of energy planning and energy conservation research and promotion in Brown County, Wisconsin. The files mainly relate to the founding and organization of the Center, various projects (such as home and commercial energy audits, a speakers bureau, production of an educational video, et cetera), and data gathering activities. |
| Brown County Mental Health Association (Green Bay, Wis.) | Title: Brown County Mental Health Association, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Records, 1955-2001
Quantity: 1.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes and 1 records center carton) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 203 Abstract: Records of an advocacy group for mental health awareness and an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The records consist of board minutes and membership lists, budgets, by-laws, correspondence, and fundraisers. Also included are news clippings, newsletters, and transcripts for radio spots. |
| Brown County War History Committee (Wis.) | Title: Brown County War History Committee: Roster of Men in Service, 1919
Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 77 Abstract: Questionnaires on Brown County, Wisconsin, men who participated in World War I, filed by consecutive number from 1 to 1721. Each questionnaire provides personal, family, and military information, and lists relatives who served in the war or in previous wars. Also included are photographs and original letters collected from interviewees. Apparently the proposed book or other record, for which the data was gathered, was never written. |
| Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967 | Title: Bruce Barton Papers, 1881-1967
Quantity: 63.4 cubic feet (151 archives boxes and 8 flat boxes), 5 disc recordings, and 0.2 cubic feet of photographs (2 folders); plus additions of 1.0 cubic feet Call Number: U.S. Mss 44AF; Disc 30A; Disc 70A; Audio 605A; PH 2930; PH 3181; M93-240 Abstract: Papers of Bruce Barton, an author, politician, and chairman of the board of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn. Voluminous correspondence, which divides into general, client, and literary categories, reflects Barton's wide-ranging interests in politics, religion, advertising, business, literature, and philanthropy. The political correspondence includes letters from every President and every Republican Presidential candidate of the mid-twentieth century. Of special interest are the files for Calvin Coolidge, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, and Wendell L. Willkie. There is, however, little material pertaining to Barton's own congressional career. Correspondence relating to advertising may be found chiefly in client files, including informative files on the American Tobacco Company, Du Pont, General Electric, General Mills, New York Telephone, United Fruit, and United States Steel. Literary correspondence includes exchanges with editors and publishers as well as with the readers of his many articles, editorials, and books. The papers contain a nearly-complete set of Barton's political and religious articles and addresses, either as drafts or in printed form. Also included are manuscripts for a play and several motion pictures, none of which were produced; speeches; and miscellaneous notes. Also part of the collection are the papers of Barton's father, William E. Barton, a Lincoln authority; writings by his daughter, Betsey Barton; recordings; several diaries; photographs; and miscellaneous promotional material. |
| Bollerud, Bruce | Title: Bruce Bollerud collection Quantity: 10.5 Linear Feet 18 document boxes, one poster board papers; folios; manuscripts; bound volumes; audiocassettes, audiotape reels; compact discs; plaques; framed documents; poster board Call Number: mml006 Abstract: Materials documenting Bruce Bollerud's life and work as a musician with the Goose Island Ramblers and the Good Time Band, as a solo performer, and his work as a special education teacher. |
| Fetter, Bruce | Title: Bruce Fetter Papers, 1955-2010
Quantity: .4 cubic ft. (1 box) plus additions of 3.6 cubic ft. (5 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 269 Abstract: Miscellaneous papers of Bruce Fetter, a UW-Milwaukee History Department faculty member, largely documenting his activities within Milwaukee's Jewish community and refugee relief efforts. |
| Geller, Bruce, 1930-1978 | Title: Bruce Geller Papers, 1966-1973
Quantity: 12.8 c.f. (32 archives boxes) and 1 film Call Number: U.S. Mss 174AN; AB 856 Abstract: Papers of Bruce Geller, a writer-producer-director for television and motion pictures, concerning the television series Mission: Impossible (CBS). Photocopies of production files for the award-winning television series include shooting and planning scripts, research materials, reports, financial information, and correspondence. |
| Bruce K. Paulson | Title: Bruce Paulson Collection, 1902-1975
Quantity: 1.4 cubic ft. (1 AB and 5 Albums) Call Number: UWGB Mss 10; Photo Lot 1203 Abstract: This collection contains approximately 2,500 photographs gathered by local historian, Bruce K. Paulson. Accompanying material pertaining to towns in Oconto County, mainly Suring. Subjects depict businesses, churches, school, community and social life, customs, Native Americans, and the logging industry. |
| Brumder family | Title: Brumder Family and Milwaukee German Ancestry Research Papers, 1844-2014
Quantity: 3.4 cubic feet (9 archives boxes), 3.6 cubic feet of photographs (4 archives boxes and 4 flat boxes), and 1.2 cubic feet of negatives (6 negative boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 229; PH Milwaukee Mss 229 Abstract: Papers and photographs documenting the Brumder family of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and George Brumder Sr.'s founding of the Germania Publishing Company (later North American Press). The papers consist of correspondence between family and friends, Brumder business records, the Pine Lake property (Waukesha County, Wisconsin), and articles and research surrounding Milwaukee German ancestry. Scrapbooks, photographs, and negatives capture family celebrations and outings including George F. and Thekla Brumder's Panama Canal trip. Also included are research and family histories of Milwaukee surnames with German ancestry conducted and compiled by E.J. Brumder Jr. |
| Bitker, Bruno V. (Bruno Voltaire), 1899-1984 | Title: Bruno Bitker Papers, 1944-1981
Quantity: .4 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 29 Abstract: Miscellaneous papers of a Milwaukee, Wisconsin lawyer who was actively involved in human rights issues. The collection contains miscellaneous correspondence, reports and writings concerning Bitker's involvement with the Governor's Committee on the United Nations (1962-1979) and his support for international human rights. Also includes two reports of the UN Charter Review Committee (1971, 1973), of which Bitker was Milwaukee Conference chair; some correspondence and reports concerning the American Bar Associations International Human Rights Committee, which Bitker chaired (1968-1977); and some materials on his opposition to Dean Acheson's receiving a peace award from the World Affairs Council of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Journal (1969). |
| Bitker, Bruno V. (Bruno Voltaire), 1898-1984 | Title: Bruno V. Bitker Papers, 1898-1985
Quantity: 11 cubic ft. (23 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 354 Abstract: Bruno V. Bitker was an attorney and a Milwaukee native active in local government and strong advocate for the United Nations, Human Rights and World Peace. He was very active in civic affairs, serving on many city, state and federal boards and commissions. He received his law degree from Cornell University in 1921, and he practiced law in Milwaukee up until his death on April 12, 1984. This collection consists of correspondence, speeches, photographs, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings about his life and work. |
| Brunswick (Eau Claire County, Wis.: Town). Clerk | Title: Brunswick (Eau Claire County, Wis.: Town). Clerk: Records, 1876-1967
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (5 volumes and 1 archives box) Call Number: Eau Claire Series 122 Abstract: Town of Brunswick clerk's record volumes (1876-1967) and descriptions of land (1938). Clerk's record volumes include proceedings of both town meetings and town board meetings, register of town and school officers, treasurer's financial reports, chattel mortgages, and school district maps. Descriptions of land include copies of original plat maps, real estate descriptions, names of owners, and location of land. |
| Castle, Bryan J., 1848-1939 | Title: Bryan J. Castle Papers, 1865-1937
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss ES Abstract: Papers of Bryan J. Castle of Black River Falls and Madison, Wisconsin, a teacher, newspaperman, lawyer, and Republican political figure. Consisting primarily of speeches and incoming correspondence, the papers concern some personal and business activities but primarily document his political activities which included service in several appointive positions in state government. Castle served in the Department of Public Lands (1882-1890 and 1899-1918), the Adjutant General's Office (1917-1919), and on the Civil Service Commission (1919-1931). Correspondents include numerous other state political figures. |
| Dunlap, Bryan R. | Title: Bryan R. Dunlap Papers, 1964-1972, 1994
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: M2000-007 Abstract: Papers documenting the activities of Bryan R. Dunlap, a civil rights worker who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964-1965) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he started a Freedom Library and an African-American community newspaper, the Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal. Dunlap’s parents supported him from their Leonia, New Jersey home, where they formed the Friends of Freedom Libraries (active from 1965-1968) and the Leonia-Vicksburg Committee, and participated in the Mississippi Project Parents' Committee. Also included are civil rights newsletters, material from other civil rights groups, and news clippings concerning the retrial in 1994 of Byron de la Beckwith in the 1963 shooting of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. |
| Rash, Bryson B. | Title: Bryson B. Rash Papers, 1956-1973
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 182AF Abstract: Papers of an award-winning news broadcaster with WRC/WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., chiefly consisting of scripts of human interest stories broadcast by Emphasis, Monitor, and other NBC network radio news programs, and editorials on local, national, and international news events broadcast by WRC-TV. Of special interest among the editorials are his commentaries on the 1960 Presidential election and the Cuban missile crisis. Fragmentary correspondence includes audience mail, inter-office memos, and congratulatory letters from Hale Boggs, Julian Goodman, James C. Hagerty, J. Edgar Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Kenneth Keating, Robert Kintner, Lee Metcalf, Richard M. Nixon, Lawrence R. O'Brien, and A. A. Schechter. |