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| - - - | Title: Fibber McGee and Molly Scripts, 1935-1950
Quantity: 16 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 474 Abstract: Sponsor's corrected copies of scripts, including commercials, for the radio comedy series Fibber McGee and Molly, preserved by Johnson Wax, a client of the advertising agency Needham, Harper and Steers; accompanied by 1941 scripts for the series Hap Hazard. |
| Van Antwerp, Fidelia, 1881-1956 | Title: Fidelia Van Antwerp Papers, 1945-1958
Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 1 card box) and 15 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: Wis Mss QW; PH 1629 Abstract: Papers documenting the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association (formerly the Wisconsin Rural Writers' Association) and the Badger Folklore Society, consisting of stories, poems, notes, photographs, and correspondence concerning Wisconsin folklore and legends, kept by Fidelia Van Antwerp, first president of the association. A large group of letters concerns plans for a book on Wisconsin folklore pertaining to trees by the Wisconsin Idea Theatre. A Wisconsin place-names collection, compiled by Mrs. Helen C. Smith, relates the origins of the names and brief histories of present towns and villages in the state. Photographs include images of various unidentified landscapes and activities perhaps assembled circa 1950 for use in the publication Songs of the Winter Wilderness. |
| Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee | Title: Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee Records, 1965-1971
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 205 Abstract: Records of the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, a broad-based coalition which represented the majority of the Vietnam War opposition in New York City. Included are steering committee minutes, correspondence, press releases, leaflets, and logistical material on various national and local demonstrations that the committee organized and supported. Many of the files are quite fragmentary, with the most complete documentation relating to committee activities in 1966 and 1967. Prominent correspondents include Kipp Dawson, Frank Emspak, Fred Halstead, Linda Morse, and Ron Wolin. There is also a copy of remarks by Norman Mailer at an August 6, 1966, demonstration. |
| - - - | Title: Fighting Bob Fest Videorecordings and Posters, 2003, 2005-2008
Quantity: 6 videorecordings and 0.1 c.f. Call Number: M2004-110; M2012-072 Abstract: Materials of the Fighting Bob Fest, 2003, 2005-2008, a “Progressive Chautauqua” conducted in the memory and spirit of Wisconsin's preeminent Progressive, Robert M. La Follette, including VHS videotapes of speakers at the 2003 Fighting Bob Fest, and posters and other materials from the annual fest for 2005-2008. |
| United Artists Corporation | Title: Files on the Motion Picture Export Association: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 5F, 1946-1958
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AN/5F Abstract: Minutes, correspondence, and subject files on the Motion Picture Export Association (MPEA), an organization formed to distribute the films of ten major American film companies in post-war Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, East Indies, Poland, Romania, the USSR, and Yugoslavia. The majority of the materials were created before 1950. |
| United Artists Corporation | Title: Film Contract Registers: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 8C, 1919-1941
Quantity: 99 reels of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Micro 1070; U.S. Mss 99AN/8C Abstract: Contract registers containing a record of the towns, theaters, dates, and prices (with occasional played and earned figures) for films exhibited between 1919 and 1941. The contracts generally are recorded by exchange and thus enable easy comparison of films in different sections of the country. Volumes from 1919-1931 are handwritten originals, and include references to theaters closing or changing hands, cancelled showings or reduced rates, and occasional recordings of censored films. Volumes from 1937-1941 are copies of the originals. |
| Fine Arts Quartet | Title: Fine Arts Quartet Records, 1910-2016
Quantity: 11 cubic ft. (13 boxes, 2 oversize scrapbooks, 6 films, and 3 oversize folders) 6 digital files (18.6 GB) plus additions of 9 cubic ft. (9 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 30 Abstract: Records of a fine arts quartet documenting its concerts and management, and also containing personal papers of its leader, Leonard Sorkin. The general records of the quartet include reviews of FAQ concerts and feature stories on the FAQ and its members; and programs of FAQ concerts and promotional materials which thoroughly document the locales of concerts and choices of music. The FAQ's management and financial records (1945-1989) document the financial and management history of the quartet, including activities with recording companies, as well as Leonard Sorkin's role as leader of the group. Also contains the personal papers of Leonard Sorkin, including two scrapbooks (1930-1944) and soloist programs (1930-1984) concerning his life before he formed the quartet and also recount some of the events that led to the founding of the group. They also document the contacts he made with other musicians before and during World War II. |
| Milwaukee (Wis.). Fire and Police Commission. | Title: Fire and Police Commission Records, 1879-2016
Quantity: 9.5 cubic ft. (24 boxes) Call Number: City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 20 Abstract: Records of the Fire and Police Commission, which is responsible for the recruitment, selection, appointment, promotion and demotion of all employees and members of the Fire and Police Departments. Contains grants, correspondence, minutes, testing and recruitment decision making, photographs, reports, and investigations of misconduct. Also included are materials on the Office of Criminal Justice Programs. |
| Eau Claire (Wis.). Fire Department | Title: Fire Department, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Records, 1886-1987 (bulk
1903-1987)
Quantity: 3.0 cubic feet (1 archives box and 10 flat cases) Call Number: Eau Claire Series 132 Abstract: Primarily scrapbooks of the Fire Auxiliary Local 21, 1936-1972; and news clipping scrapbooks regarding department activities, 1903-1987. Also included are articles on local history and the history of the department, 1886-1987, and annual reports, 1928-1967 and 1976. Original photographs are included in some of the Auxiliary scrapbooks. |
| First Baptist Church (La Crosse, Wis.). Halfway Creek Scandinavian Baptist Church (La Crosse County, Wis.). | Title: First Baptist Church (La Crosse, Wis.) Records General Physical Description note: 0.1 cubic feet Call Number: Mss 044, Micro 17 Abstract: The records include a financial log book of what appears to be a youth group (1898-1916) of the Norwegian language Baptist church of Halfway Creek, once located east of Holmen in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Also included are two volumes of official records which include lists of members and a chronological journal or log of significant church events, 1869-1903. It is believed that the Halfway Creek congregation dissolved and some members merged with the First Baptist Church in the city of La Crosse. Records of the First Baptist Church are sparse and include a 125th anniversary booklet (1852-1977), and two lists of members: 1852-1901, and members as of Jan. 1912. All Halfway Creek records were written in the Norwegian language, while those of First Baptist were written in the English language. There are no sacramental records of either congregation on this microfilm. |
| First Baptist Church of Madison (Wis.) | Title: First Baptist Church of Madison Records, 1833-1966
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes), 3 photographs, and transparencies Call Number: Mss 846; PH Mss 846 Abstract: Records of a Baptist congregation organized in Madison, Wisconsin in 1847. Included are minutes (1847-1911) and correspondence (1833-1864) of Lyman C. Draper and other church clerks; records of several congregational organizations and a subject file that highlights several events in the church's history. The congregation's centennial is documented by correspondence, a printed history, a scrapbook, and a historical slide lecture. The slides document the church's buildings and its ministers as well as its service under Charles Galpin to University of Wisconsin students. An additional scrapbook documenting the year 1943-1944 contains photographs representing the congregation's focus on racial understanding. Also included are brief records of the Sun Prairie Baptist Church, 1900-1907, whose members became part of the Madison congregation. |
| First Congregational Church (Genoa City, Wis.) | Title: First Congregational Church (Genoa City, Wis.) Records, 1846-1981
Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 467; Micro 936 Abstract: A constitution, meeting minutes, lists of pastors, officers, members, marriages, and baptisms, brief financial records, annual reports (1967-1981), and miscellaneous records of the First Congregational Church in Genoa City, Wisconsin. |
| First Congregational Church (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: First Congregational Church (La Crosse, Wis.) Records, 1852-1959
Quantity: 2.8 cubic feet (7 archives boxes) and 10 photographs Call Number: La Crosse Mss CB; PH La Crosse Mss CB Abstract: Records of a Congregational Church including minute books; registers containing records of pastors, deacons, members, baptisms, marriages, and deaths; church histories, directories, and other print materials; financial records; photocopies of news clipping scrapbooks; scattered records relating to Sunday School and a young people's organization; records of various church-affiliated women's organizations; and photographs of children's indoor and outdoor activities at the church, circa 1948. |
| First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: First Congregational Church (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 045, Micro 18 Abstract: Organized on January 22, 1852, the First Congregational Church is the second oldest church in La Crosse. The First Congregational Church of La Crosse, Wisconsin is affiliated nationally with the United Church of Christ. Records on microfilm include congregational minutes, 1859-1883; lists of members received and removed, 1852-1915; baptisms, 1882-1936; and marriages, 1888-1936. |
| First Congregational Church (Madison, Wis.) | Title: First Congregational Church (Madison, Wis.) Records, 1841-1918
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 841 Abstract: Records of the First Congregational Church, organized in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1841, including minutes of the annual meetings of the congregation and meetings of the trustees and the Congregational Society, which was responsible for the secular affairs of the church. Meetings on receiving and dismissing members, pastoral relations, and other church matters are also documented. Constitutions, financial information, and lists of members are scattered throughout. |
| First Congregational Church (Seymour, Wis.) | Title: First Congregational Church (Seymour, Wis.) Records, 1874-1980
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 131 Abstract: Records of a congregation of the United Church of Christ founded in Seymour, Wisconsin in 1874 and disbanded in 1973. The records consist of constitutions and miscellaneous historical items, minutes of meetings of the congregational and various governing boards, financial and mortgage records, membership records, and some records of the Sunday School and Ladies Auxiliary Society. Also included are papers relating to the sale of the church building in 1973 and the distribution of the proceeds. |
| First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ (Elkhorn, Wis.) | Title: First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ (Elkhorn, Wis.) Records, 1843-1979
Quantity: 3 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Whitewater Micro 13; Micro 954 Abstract: Records of a church founded in 1843, consisting of minutes of annual congregation meetings, the Board of Trustees, the Deacons, the Church Council, and the First Congregational Society; membership records, sacramental records, treasurer's reports, and other information. |
| First Congregational United Church of Christ (Janesville, Wis.) | Title: First Congregational United Church of Christ (Janesville, Wis.) Records, 1845-1976
Quantity: 24 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Whitewater Micro 20; Micro 2071 Abstract: Records consisting of minutes, constitutions and manuals, committee reports, membership records, weekly bulletins, church publications, photographs, records of women's, men's, youth, and other organizations within the congregation, financial and property records, files on the state conference and the Beloit Association, photographs, and other records. No sacramental record books are included. |
| First Congregational United Church of Christ (Lake Geneva, Wis.) | Title: First Congregational United Church of Christ (Lake Geneva, Wis.) Records, 1839-1982
Quantity: 9 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Whitewater Micro 12; Micro 952 Abstract: Records of a congregation founded in 1839 as the Presbyterian Church of Geneva. Included are minutes, lists of pastors and church officers, records of the administration of the sacraments of baptism, marriage, and burial, membership records, Sunday school records, printed materials, and miscellany. |
| First Congregational United Church of Christ (River Falls, Wis.) | Title: First Congregational United Church of Christ (River Falls, Wis.) Records, 1855-2003
Quantity: 9.3 c.f. (21 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 7 volumes) Call Number: River Falls Mss T Abstract: Records of the congregation and several of its organizations such as the Ladies Aid Society, Pilgrim Fellowship, Women's Fellowship, and others. Included are minutes of meetings, histories, annual reports, membership and financial records, sacramental records, Sunday bulletins, correspondence, newsclippings, and photographs. |
| First Evangelical Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: First Evangelical Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 040, Micro 13 Abstract: Records of First Evangelical Lutheran Church, also called First Lutheran Church, 1859-1947, of La Crosse, Wisconsin. This congregation is affiliated with the Wisconsin Synod. Previous names were German Evangelical Lutheran Church and German Lutheran Church. This is the oldest formally organized Lutheran congregation in the city organized in 1859. The church records include baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, 1859-1947; and communions, 1859-1870; 1915-1968. The older records were written in the German script and language. |
| First Federal Savings and Loan Association (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: First Federal Savings and Loan Association (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Charter and Bylaws Quantity: 0.02 cubic foot (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 246 Abstract: Charter and bylaws of the First Federal Saving and Loan Association in La Crosse, Wisconsin. This organization was established in 1934 and purchased by Associated Banks in 2005. |
| First Methodist Episcopal Church (Mineral Point, Wis.) | Title: First Methodist Episcopal Church (Mineral Point, Wis.) Records, 1842-1921
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 116; Platteville Micro 3 Abstract: Records of membership, church trials, baptisms, marriages, funerals, probationers, pastors, and classes. |
| First Methodist Episcopal Church (River Falls, Wis.) | Title: First Methodist Episcopal Church (River Falls, Wis.) Records, 1863-1978
Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (6 archives boxes and 3 flat boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss U Abstract: Records including minutes of the trustees and board of directors; sacramental recordbooks; histories; records of the Wesley League, Willing Workers, and other church groups; photographs; yearbooks, 1962-1966; and other records. |
| First Presbyterian Church (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: First Presbyterian Church (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Newsletters Quantity: 0.02 cubic foot (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 128 Abstract: Issues of the First Presbyterian Church (La Crosse, Wisconsin) weekly church bulletin "The Visitor," 1948-1949. |
| First Unitarian Society (Madison, Wis.) | Title: First Unitarian Society (Madison, Wis.) Records, 1867-1982
Quantity: 10.6 c.f. (21 archives boxes, 4 flat boxes, and 1 oversize folder) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 297; Micro 210 Abstract: Records of a Madison, Wisconsin Unitarian congregation known for its social action endeavors and for its sanctuary designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Included are articles of incorporation, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, financial records, texts of radio sermons, records of the Property Committee including plans for the Wright-designed meeting house, membership lists, and programs of Sunday services. Records of the Meeting House Nursery School, of the Social Action Committee, and several other related groups are present as are records on the Wisconsin Conference of Unitarian (and Independent) Societies (1867-1903), the Unitarian Ministers' Association (1960-1961), and other outside groups. |
| First Unitarian Society (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: First Unitarian Society Records, 1841-2017
Quantity: 22.4 cubic ft. (39 boxes) 12 volumes 1 oversize folder 120 audio reels 13 audio cassettes 54 safety film negatives Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 175 Abstract: This collection contains the records of the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, the first Unitarian-Universalist church in southeastern Wisconsin. The majority of the records date from the 1930s through the present. Earlier items include newspaper clippings from the 1840s, as well as Board of Trustees minutes from the second half of the nineteenth century. Some of the more interesting items in the collection are the original Bonds of Union for the Society, a long run of board minutes, a large number of transcribed sermons, and a more than forty-year run of the church newsletter. |
| First United Presbyterian Church (De Pere, Wis.) | Title: First United Presbyterian Church (De Pere, Wis.) Records, 1849-1979
Quantity: 3 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Green Bay Micro 24; Micro 787 Abstract: Records, including minutes, correspondence, anniversary booklets, annual reports, constitutions, and directories. |
| Fish Creek Park Company | Title: Fish Creek Park Company Records, 1892-1970
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box and 1 roll) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 88 Abstract: Fragmentary records of a small land development company in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, documenting the development of Fairy Chasm, an area known for its environmental beauty; its controversial partial annexation into the Village of Bayside; and the sale of some acreage to the organization Nature Conservancy. |
| - - - | Title: Fish Fry, circa 1979
Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder), 10 videorecordings, and 1 tape recording Call Number: M97-162; Audio 1445A Abstract: Collection consists of raw video footage (black and white with sound) for a production entitled Fish Fry, an accompanying sound recording of an interview with Ruth and Harvey Williams and other soundtrack material, and miscellaneous notes, shot lists and other production material. The videotapes contain interviews with African American fishermen in Madison (Wisconsin) while fishing and include images of Madison and surrounding areas. |
| Fisher-Fallgatter Milling Co. (Waupaca, Wis.) | Title: Fisher-Fallgatter Milling Co. Records, 1888-1979
Quantity: 6.8 c.f. (4 record center cartons, 6 card boxes, 1 flat box) and 4 tape recordings Call Number: Stevens Point Mss BR; Tape 1386A Abstract: Records, mainly 1941-1969, of the Fisher-Fallgatter Milling Co. of Waupaca, Wisconsin, a water-powered flour mill founded in 1884 as the Crescent Roller Mills. Shortly after the turn of the century the mill began concentrating on rye and selling its product on a national market. The business closed in 1969 due to changes in transportation, but was briefly reopened in 1979 as a private museum. The collection documents day-to-day operations of the firm's last 25 years including purchase of grain from local producers; flour sales to eastern bakers and brokers; maintenance and repair of the dam and milling equipment; purchase of supplies and pest management services; financial and production record keeping; and developing new markets such as flour sales to E. I. Dupont & Company for use in dynamite manufacturing. The records consist of correspondence, routine financial and operational records, a history by Polly Athan and a small amount of historical background, and oral history interviews with former owner Don Fallgatter and two employees. Although few of the financial and operational records are complete they provide representative documentation. |
| Fisk Family | Title: Fisk Family Papers, 1813-1931
Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and photographs Call Number: Green Bay Mss 22; PH Green Bay Mss 22 Abstract: Business and personal papers of four generations of the Fisk Family of Green Bay and Fort Howard, Wisconsin, primarily documenting the operations of the land and lumber company, W.D. Fisk and Co., during the 1870s and 1880s. Business records consist of letterbooks, cashbooks, journals, ledgers, and two volumes listing shipments to the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and other customers. The personal papers document only a few members of the family, primarily the line that descended from Joel S. Fisk to his son William Justin Fisk and then to his son Wilbur Driggs Fisk and his children Hiram Fisk and Mary Newton Fisk. Included is fragmentary correspondence; legal account books of Joel Fisk (1838-1842); letters to Eva Cornell Fisk from her maternal cousin, William Haight, a Justice Department inspector; snapshots and letters written by Hiram Fisk during a trip to China and Japan in 1915; a scrapbook, honeymoon letters, and DAR application of Mary Fisk Newton; and miscellaneous letters to and from Martha Driggs Ryan, aunt of Wilbur D. Fisk. Also included are biographical clippings and portraits of a few members of the Fisk and Driggs families. The original photographic prints are available at the Green Bay Area Research Center; copies are in Madison. |
| Mullan, Fitzhugh, 1942- | Title: Fitzhugh Mullan Papers, 1964-1980
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 595 Abstract: Papers of Fitzhugh Mullan, a pediatrician and health activist who worked with the Student Health Organization (SHO) in Chicago and the Lincoln Hospital Collective in New York, and served as director of the National Health Service Corps, Bureau of Community Health Services. In 1976 Mullan published a book on his experiences in New York called White Coat, Clenched Fist. The collection includes SHO communications, proposals for a SHO National Service Center, minutes of Collective and departmental meetings at Lincoln Hospital, and information about the 1971 billing action. There are also many articles written by Mullan and a corrected typescript of his book, as well as many SHO publications. |