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| Heine, Lea, 1911- | Title: Lea Heine Papers, 1966-2006
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box), 14 tape recordings, and 1 film; plus additions of 0.6 cubic feet and 4 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 484; Audio 620A; EA 001; M2007-104 Abstract: Papers of Lea Heine, a resident of Madison, Wisconsin, who served as a VISTA volunteer teacher in Lancaster, South Carolina. The core of the collection is a tape-recorded autobiography which contains information on her youth in post-World War I Germany and later life in Madison during the Depression, as well as her experiences as a VISTA volunteer. References to her volunteer activities are bolstered by diaries; students' work; printed copies of Me, a booklet she prepared utilizing a pupil's drawings which was used by VISTA as a recruiting tool; drafts of unpublished writings; a tape recording of an interview on the Today program about Me; and an additional tape recording and a home movie she made in Lancaster. |
| Leadership Conference on Civil Rights | Title: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Records, 1956-1976
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 535 Abstract: Records of a federation of religious, labor, and ethnic organizations interested in promoting passage of civil rights legislation and advancing the cause of equality. Founded in 1953, the LCCR was formerly known as Civil Rights Mobilization, and was headed for many years by Roy Wilkins. The collection contains printed memoranda regarding LCCR activities, legislation and lobbying efforts; as well as a folder of general printed correspondence, memos, and LCCR statements, and LCCR Enforcement Reports from 1976. |
| League Agains Nuclear Dangers (Stevens Point, Wis.) | Title: League Against Nuclear Dangers Records, 1973-1994
Quantity: 2.9 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 24 photographs Call Number: Stevens Point Mss BK; PH Stevens Point Mss BK Abstract: Administrative and working files of a grassroots, activist organization founded in 1973 to fight a proposed nuclear power plant in Rudolph, Wis. Active membership was primarily composed of women homemakers, several of whom, especially Gertrude Dixon and Naomi Jacobson, became extremely knowledgeable about nuclear issues in Wisconsin. Included are organization newsletters, press releases, correspondence, reference materials, newspaper clippings, testimony, speeches, flyers, and an article and paper written about the group by Virginia Kemp Fish, a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point sociology professor. Research and action files pertain to a variety of nuclear issues confronting Wisconsin including actions taken to fight proposed nuclear power plants in the Wisconsin communities of Genoa, Koshkonong, Point Beach, Rudolph, and Tyrone. Two such actions involved a milk radiation contamination study at Point Beach and involvement of the cranberry growers at Rudolph. Materials collected by LAND from other organizations contain a lot of information about other groups working in Wisconsin at the time. Included are materials from Safe Haven, Ltd. (Sheboygan, Wis.), Lake Superior Region Radioactive Waste Project, Stop Project ELF, Wisconsin Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (Madison, Wis.), and Women of All Red Nations (Sioux Falls, S.D.). Photographs depict various protest efforts including Burma Shave-type road signs near Rudolph, and protest rallies at Madison and possibly at Stevens Point. |
| League of Wisconsin Municipalities | Title: League of Wisconsin Municipalities Records, 1909-1957, 1972-1981
Quantity: 61.6 c.f. (35 record center cartons and 79 archives boxes) and 1 photograph (1 oversize folder) Call Number: M59-060 Abstract: Records, mainly 1927-1953, of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, an organization established in 1898 to benefit Wisconsin cities and villages. Documentation is best for the period after 1928 when Frederick MacMillen joined the organization as executive secretary and editor. Included are materials documenting the League's role in advising local communities and in drafting state legislation. Also included is a panoramic photograph of participants in the 16th annual convention of the League, 1914. |
| League of Women Voters of Dane County (Wisconsin) | Title: League of Women Voters of Dane County, Wisconsin Records, 1920-2009
Quantity: 8.0 cubic feet (20 archives boxes), 1 audio recording, and 0.5 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder and 1 flat box); plus additions of 16.8 cubic feet (16 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 475; PH 5031; PH 5032; Audio 2031A; M96-069; M97-218; M2001-134; M2011-033 Abstract: Records of the local League of Women Voters (LWV) that was organized as the Dane County League of Women Voters in 1920. In 1927 it became the League of Women Voters of Madison. In 1971 the Madison LWV merged with the League of Women Voters of Middleton (founded in 1958) to become the present organization. Records of all three groups are included, although the Madison League is the most extensively documented. Included are by-laws, annual reports, minutes of the Board of Directors and general membership meetings, financial reports, correspondence of officers, committee and local unit reports, membership materials, publications, and photographs. |
| League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay Records, 1929-1995
Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 2 record center cartons) and 3 disc recordings Call Number: Green Bay Mss 101; Disc 179A Abstract: Records of a Green Bay area civic group primarily for women, involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision-making, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general records such as minutes of board of directors meetings, monthly bulletins, by-laws and revisions, convention programs and minutes, correspondence, treasurer's reports, budgets, finance drive materials, the LWV fiftieth anniversary booklet and chapter history, membership handbooks and directories, reports to the state and national LWV, publications, and scrapbooks of newsclippings. Local study issues illustrate societal and political concerns of the Green Bay League, and include correspondence, notes, state and national position papers, clippings, reports, and other research material on the following topics: air pollution, Brown County library service, city-county budgets, county assessor, education, environmental quality issues, the Equal Rights Amendment, fair housing, foreign trade, hunger, I-43 and I-57 highways, juveniles, land use, local government, mass transit, public health, Brown County Sheriff's Department, reapportionment, school board election process, school budgets, solid waste, water quality, and welfare. The disc recordings are a 1950 radio program on the League, broadcast on WBAY, Green Bay, and a national LWV program “Congressional Strings on the Public Purse.” |
| League of Women Voters of Greater Milwaukee (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of Greater Milwaukee, 1920-1981
Quantity: 12.0 c.f. (22 archives boxes, 1 record center carton, and 19 volumes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 80 Abstract: Records of a Milwaukee area civic group primarily for women, involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision making, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general records such as minutes and reports of annual, executive board, and board of directors meetings, bulletins, by-laws, scattered committee records, some general correspondence, fiftieth anniversary records, a few financial records, membership records, some national and state LWV records, and scrapbooks. Local study issues illustrate societal and political concerns of the Milwaukee League, but files are incomplete. With the exception of a file on open housing dating from 1933, most local study materials date from the 1960s and 1970s, and cover such topics as the administration of justice, air pollution, city government, education, energy, environment, Equal Rights Amendment, foreign trade, housing, human rights, Lake Michigan water quality, land use, reapportionment, sewerage, solid waste, transportation, voter registration and rights, and water resources. The collection includes partial records of the Inter-League Council, formed in 1959 to coordinate local League activities, consisting of agreements and amendments, minutes and reports of annual meetings, bulletins, by-laws, convention reports, financial records, and minutes of meetings. There are also small files of annual reports, bulletins, minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership records, scrapbooks, and a few local study files from the League of Women Voters of Greendale and the League of Women Voters of West Allis. |
| League of Women Voters of La Crosse County (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of La Crosse County Records, 1924-2018
Quantity: 13.4 cubic feet (29 archives boxes and 2 records center cartons), 1 tape recording, and 2 compact discs Call Number: La Crosse Mss AP; Audio 1134A Abstract: Records of the League of Women Voters (LWV) of La Crosse County, a La Crosse, Wisconsin civic group involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision making, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general administrative records documenting the group's activities, publications, and state conventions. There are fragmentary records of some committees and records of anniversary celebrations. Also included are audio recordings related to political issues and material the chapter collected. Records are most numerous from the 1950s through the 1990s. |
| League of Women Voters of Oshkosh (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of Oshkosh, Wisconsin Records, 1925-1984, 2003-
Quantity: 5.0 cubic feet (10 archives boxes and 1 carton) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss Y Abstract: Records of the League of Women Voters of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, an Oshkosh area civic group involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decisionmaking, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general records such as minutes, bulletins, by-laws, correspondence, a history, membership lists, a few financial records, reports to the national league, scrapbooks of newsclippings, files on local study issues, and a manuscript and reference materials for Know Your Community, Oshkosh, Wisconsin: A Guide to Local Government and Services, published by the Oshkosh League in 1976. Local study issues illustrate societal and political concerns of the Oshkosh League, and include fragmentary correspondence, notes, near-print materials, clippings, and other papers on a few topics. Of greatest importance are the files from the League's study of the City Council-City Manager form of government under consideration by the City of Oshkosh during the 1960s. |
| League of Women Voters of Pierce-St. Croix Counties (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of Pierce-St. Croix Counties Records, 1967-1995
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss DV Abstract: Records of the League of Women Voters of Pierce-St. Croix Counties, a River Falls area civic group involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision making, and encouraging voter participation. Included is correspondence (1970-1973); press releases (1967-1973); news clippings (1967-1974); candidate questionnaires; a membership list, a copy of a 1967 league study of city government; copies of the chapter's newsletter, The River Falls Voter (1967-1978); bulletins (1978-1995); and other records. |
| League of Women Voters of Wisconsin | Title: League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Records, 1920-1968
Quantity: 27.6 c.f. (69 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 44 Abstract: Records of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, an organization founded in 1920 to provide non-partisan political education to newly-enfranchised women voters and to promote support for needed legislation. Consisting of correspondence, minutes and reports, newsclippings, and print and near-print materials issued by the League, the collection concerns local chapters' activities and state League work in areas such as child welfare, education, taxation, and women's rights. Primary correspondents include the League's first president, Jessie Jack Hooper, and subsequent officers M. V. O'Shea, Cornelia Groth, Caryl A. Regan, Carroll Gundersen, and F. A. Marshall. |
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League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter; League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County (Wis.) |
Title: League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter, Records,
1910-1982
Quantity: 0.3 cubic ft. (1 box) 1 oversize folder Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 100 Abstract: This collection contains meeting minutes, reports, administrative documents and correspondence of the League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter. |
| Frisby, Leander | Title: Leander Frisby Photographs and papers, Quantity: 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder) of papers, 0.2 linear ft. (40 folders) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 1744 Abstract: Forty Civil War era carte-de-visites collected by Leander Frisby, a West Bend, Wisconsin resident, who was politically active in Wisconsin. The carte-de-visites are all of famous generals, officers, and political figures, including generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist John Brown. Also included in the collection are carte-de-visites of officers from the 28th and 12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiments. The carte-de-visites were originally placed in an album, which was later dismantled. The carte-de-visites are now in alphabetical order. Copies of the original covers of the album, containing more information about Leander Frisby and the donation of the materials, and a list of the original order of the images in the album are included in the manuscripts. A container list of the images is also included with the manuscript materials. |
| Lebanon Baptist Church (Dodge County, Wis.) | Title: Lebanon Baptist Church Records, 1849-1949
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Oshkosh Micro 13; Micro 129 Abstract: Records of a congregation founded in 1849 as the German Baptist Church; including minute books, membership and financial records for the congregation, its Sunday School, Ladies Aid Society, and Youth Society; a church history, and miscellaneous other records, including genealogical information regarding the descendants of H. J. Mueller, pastor from 1883 to 1897. |
| Lechita Society (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Lechita Society Records, 1936-1965
, 1980
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 35 Abstract: Minutes and other records, mostly in Polish, of a Polish-American mutual benefits organization (Towarzystwa Narodowych Lechitow) founded in 1912 in Milwaukee which became a purely social group in 1980. |
| - - - | Title: Ledger of La Crosse, Wisconsin Resident Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 023 Abstract: Personal expenses ledger of an unidentified La Crosse, Wisconsin resident, 1920-1923. |
| Ledogar family | Title: Ledogar/Ledegar Family Genealogical Charts Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 183 Abstract: Copies of family history charts for six generations of the Ledogar/Ledegar family. This is a family of French origins, some of whom settled in La Crosse, Wisconsin. |
| Winner, Lee B., 1921- | Title: Lee B. Winner Papers, 1939-1984
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 158 Abstract: Papers of Lee B. Winner, who was employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a forester with the Menominee Indian Mills from 1948 until approximately 1961, when the federal government terminated its control of the Menominee reservation. Winner was credited with the first application of automatic data processing in forestry, although actual statistical data on the Menominee forest is present only in fragmentary form. This collection documents Winner's work with the adaptation of IBM procedures to forestry. Also documented is the federal government's termination of control over the Menominee reservation, leading to the subsequent formation of Menominee County. In addition, there are notes and correspondence, mostly 1971, relating to a lawsuit by the Menominee Tribe against the federal government for alleged losses suffered by the tribe due to mismanagement of the forest. The collection also includes a significant amount of correspondence between Winner and Calvin B. Scott, a forester who was employed in Milwaukee by the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
| Bankhead, Lee, 1936- | Title: Lee Bankhead Papers, 1962-1971
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 303 Abstract: Papers of Lee Bankhead, a civil rights worker in Bolivar County, Mississippi, who served as local head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and as a staff member of the Tufts-Delta Health Center. In the collection are biographical materials, general correspondence, newsletters, and a variety of materials on the above two organizations and on other groups such as the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative with which she had some interest or involvement. |
| Webb, Lee D., ca. 1940- | Title: Lee D. Webb Papers, 1955-1968
Quantity: 7.2 c.f. (7 record center cartons and 1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 571 Abstract: Papers, primarily composed of correspondence, writings and notes, and reference materials and clippings, created and collected by a radical activist and former national officer of the Students for a Democratic Society. A variety of papers illustrate Webb's activities with SDS and its major projects from 1962 until 1967, and his involvement with the National Conference for New Politics (which he helped organize in 1964-65), and the Chicago Jobs or Income Now (JOIN) project, and as executive director of the 1967 Vietnam Summer effort. A major portion of the collection consists of subject files on labor unions, which were probably collected by Webb as background for a newsletter published in 1966 in Chicago. Also represented in the collection are several of Webb's writings, including drafts of SDS position papers and college term papers, with notes and associated reference materials. |
| Pickett, Lee F., d. 1918 | Title: Lee F. Pickett Papers, 1917-1927
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Wis Mss MA Abstract: Mainly World War I letters written by Lee F. Pickett, second lieutenant of Company I, 102nd Infantry, giving his impressions of France and describing the Second Battle of the Marne, at which he was wounded. Letters from his army associates to his mother offer condolences upon Pickett's death at the Battle of the Argonne Forest in 1918 and describe his military career. Several citations to Pickett for bravery are also included. |
| Loevinger, Lee, 1913- | Title: Lee Loevinger Papers, 1963-1976
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 9 tape recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 159AF; Tape 614A Abstract: Papers of a member of the Federal Communications Commission, 1963-1968, consisting of speeches and statements, 1963-1976; FCC opinions and orders; and articles by and about Loevinger. The tape recordings consist of radio and television interviews and a speech delivered to the Georgia Association of Broadcasters. |
| Dreyfus, Lee Sherman, 1926-2008 | Title: Lee Sherman Dreyfus Papers, 1937-2008
Quantity: 9.0 cubic feet, 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), 71 photographs, 60 transparencies, 2 tape recordings, 6 films, 8 videorecordings, and 5 DVDs Call Number: MCHC65-090; M85-510; M87-495; M95-165; M2008-114; M2009-029; Audio 1692A; AC 560; EA 015-EA 017; EA 019-EA 020; VBA 363-VBA 364 Abstract: Papers of Lee Sherman Dreyfus, communications professor, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and Governor of Wisconsin, documenting his various careers and activities specifically as they relate to teaching and the development of educational television in Wisconsin, political campaigning, and his gubernatorial service. |
| Simonson, Lee, 1888-1967 | Title: Lee Simonson Papers, 1922-1933
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 flat box) Call Number: U.S. Mss 182AN Abstract: Miscellaneous designs of Lee Simonson, a noted Broadway stage designer and co-founder of the Theatre Guild. Included are three posters for Guild productions at the Garrick Theatre and original watercolor renderings and pencil sketches of stage designs, costumes, and hairstyles. The costume designs for a production of Jane Eyre, which did not open on Broadway, bear extensive notes and some fabric swatches. |
| Metzner, Lee W., 1885-1985 | Title: Lee W. Metzner Papers, 1882-1985
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 62 photographs Call Number: Green Bay Mss 172; PH Green Bay Mss 172 Abstract: Papers of Lee W. Metzner, an amateur historian who wrote articles and papers concerning early Wisconsin history concentrating on the areas in and around Kewaunee and Casco. The papers consist of personal and business correspondence, personal journals, newspaper articles written by Metzner, and a detailed Metzner family genealogy. |
| Weiss, Lee, 1928- | Title: Lee Weiss Papers, 1958-2009
Quantity: 6 reels of microfilm (35 mm) and 0.1 c.f. (1 folder); plus additions of 0.4 c.f. and 119 photographs Call Number: Micro 922; Micro 941; SC 1216; M80-593; M2011-057 Abstract: Professional papers, 1958-2009, of Lee Weiss, a nationally known and acclaimed water colorist whose impressionistic paintings usually focus on small aspects of nature. Included is biographical information, general correspondence, exhibit catalogs, scrapbooks, and other items documenting her artistic career. The general correspondence pertains to exhibit arrangements, information or photographs of her work for catalogs or articles about her, painting sales and friendly continuing contacts with purchasers, and distribution of two publications: Lee Weiss, Watercolors and Lee Weiss, Watercolors II, The Seventies. A small amount of personal correspondence is included, as well as photographs relating to a trip to Asia. |
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Stotts, Stuart; Matson, Elizabeth |
Title: Legends of the Supernatural in Southwestern Wisconsin Project Collection, 1991-1992
Contents: UW-Madison Folklore Program: 2 folders, 6 audiocassettes; James P. Leary: 1 folder Unique Identifier: CSUMC0002-CG Summary: Two storytellers recorded supernatural stories from 6 individual tellers and a middle school group of 10-15 in Wisconsin's Iowa County during 1991-1992. They obtained over 50 stories and story segments including legends, urban legends, memorates, personal experience narratives, and superstitions featuring the Ridgeway ghost, ghostly animals, gamblers, vanishing hitchhikers, poltergeists, haunted houses, troubled deaths, and more. The interviewers transcribed the recorded stories and used them as the basis for versions they published in The Bookcase Ghost and tell to public audiences. |
| Rockwell, LeGrand | Title: LeGrand Rockwell Papers, 1831-1868
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Whitewater Mss S Abstract: Papers of an Elkhorn, Wisconsin, man including diaries, 1836, 1837, 1848, 1849, and correspondence dealing with the settlement of Walworth County; plans for a railroad, 1855-1857, called the Wisconsin Central Railroad; and family matters. Correspondents include Charles M. Baker, Simeon Mills, and John H. Tweedy. |
| - - - | Title: Lehmann Family Letters, 1796-1881
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 953 Abstract: Typed English translations prepared by Mary Flick of letters exchanged among Lehmann family members in Germany and after Friedrich Wilhelm Lehmann's 1826 immigration to America. Reflecting the activities and views of educated Germans, the letters concern the courtship of Wilhelm Lehmann and Dora Overhoff; the life of a minister's family in the early nineteenth century; their son Friedrich Wilhelm's travels and education, life while imprisoned for radical student activities, his courtship of Harriet Van Vechten in New York, teaching at the University of Georgia for fifteen years, migration to Dodge County, Wisconsin, in 1847, life as a settler there, and the effects of the Civil War as felt in Wisconsin. Letters exchanged between Friedrich Wilhelm's family and his sister Julia and her husband Matthias Holterhoff in Germany reflect the rise of nationalist sentiment there, the strong economic ties between Germans on both continents, and liberal German attitudes toward religion, politics, and family life. |
| Stowe, Leland, 1899- | Title: Leland Stowe Papers, 1925-1969
Quantity: 15.0 c.f. (26 archives boxes, 4 card boxes, 11 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder), 462 photographs, and 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AF; PH U.S. Mss 99AF; Micro 2035 Abstract: Papers of Stowe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II correspondent, radio broadcaster, lecturer, and educator, including personal papers as well as documents related to his articles, books, lectures, news stories, and broadcasts. Personal papers include biographical and genealogical information, interviews, correspondence with friends and family, photographs, and a copy of his FBI file and lengthy refutation of its allegations. There are also many love letters to and from his second wife. Other correspondence include letters from Max Ascoli, Carroll Binder, Alois Dersoe, Ralph Edwards, A.R. Holcombe, Wesley Maurer, Helen Rogers Reid, Dinah and Vincent Sheean, and DeWitt Wallace, as well as many other individuals of interest for their autograph value. The photographs include formal and informal portraits, as well as documentation of his career activities, particularly his coverage of the Greek-Albanian front during World War II. Pertaining to Stowe's career as a newspaperman are scrapbooks of clippings from the New York Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Daily News and loose clippings, copies of his post-war column for the New York Post Syndicate, and some draft stories. Records of freelance magazine work include draft and printed articles submitted to Argosy, The Reporter, and Reader's Digest. Radio scripts include wartime commentaries for ABC and post-war analyses sponsored by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union that were broadcast on MBS. The collection includes limited drafts of published books, but there are reviews and reader correspondence for all titles. Supplementing the writings are unpublished memoirs and an autobiographical novel and many notebooks and journals about his coverage of the Spanish Civil War; the Russo-Finnish War; the Greek-Albanian front, 1939-1940; post-war Europe; and his travels as a writer for Reader's Digest. This section includes interviews with Aristide Briand, Gamal Abdel Nasser, John Pershing, Raymond Poincaré, the Shah of Iran, and Walter Ulbrich. Other documented aspects of his career include course outlines and teaching materials from his tenure at the Journalism School of the University of Michigan, transcripts and outlines for public lectures, and reports (1950 to 1954) prepared as a director of Radio Free Europe. Of special note is a group of four photographs of Charles Lindbergh, with Stowe and other individuals, taken in Paris in 1928. One of these images showing Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis has been autographed. |
| Bascom, Lelia, 1875-1968 | Title: Lelia Bascom Papers, 1815-1968
Quantity: 1.0 cubic foot (2 archives boxes and 1 half-archives box), 0.2 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Mss 957; PH Mss 957 Abstract: Papers of Lelia Bascom, a University of Wisconsin professor, Quaker social activist, and Madison civic leader, largely relating to her interest in the Bascom family. Included are fragmentary correspondence of her father William Russel Bascom and other members of the family, photographs, a narrative genealogy of the Russel Bascom family, and genealogical notes. In addition there is personal correspondence received during her final years and volumes recording expenditures for clothing, charitable donations, and other personal items over a 50-year period. |
| Fleek, Lenora Balis, 1867-1941 | Title: Lenora Balis Fleek Papers, 1846-1946
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 flat box) and 65 photographs Call Number: Mss 247; PH 4009; PH 4042 Abstract: Genealogical notes and charts prepared by Lenora Balis Fleek and her daughter, Belle Fleek Harlow, Brodhead, Wisconsin, plus original documents and photographs from the Balis, Batchelder, and Fleek families. The original documents consist of deeds, tax receipts, Civil War orders, occasional correspondence, poetry, a recipe book, and miscellaneous materials. Also included in the Balis Family documents is an account of Chile's 1891 civil war as witnessed by Ben W. Wells, a U.S. sailor; and an 1867 diary and account book kept by farmer Henry M. Balis which contains a general muster roll and clippings on the Civil War service of the Orfordville Volunteers, Co. G., 13th Volunteer Infantry Regiment. |
| - - - | Title: Lenten Organ Concert (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Newspaper Clippings and Programs Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 184 Abstract: Newspaper clippings and programs of the Lenten Organ Concerts held between 1987 and 2002 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. These concerts were put on by the Friends of the Symphony and the La Crosse Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. |
| Koch, Leo, 1916- | Title: Leo Koch Papers, 1943-1972
Quantity: 5.4 c.f. (14 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 782 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1956-1970, of Leo Koch, a biologist and activist who participated in the anti-war, civil liberties, civil rights, and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Concerning his controversial dismissal from the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1960 for publicly condoning premarital sex are correspondence, reports, clippings, and hearing transcripts. Also included are correspondence, minutes, clippings, and press releases documenting many organizations with which he was involved such as the American Humanists Association, the Liberal Party (New York), New York League for Sexual Freedom, Rockland County (NY) Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the School of Living (Brookville, Ohio), and Veterans for Peace. Also included is personal correspondence, newsclippings, a diary and World War II service records, information concerning experiments with LSD, and draft and printed copies of writings on scientific and general topics. |
| Krzycki, Leo | Title: Leo Krzycki Papers, 1907-1966
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box including 2 audio cassettes) 1 oversize folder 2 digital files (1.35 GB) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 276 Abstract: Papers of Leo Krzycki, a prominent union advocate in Milwaukee's Polish community who worked for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union. Collection consists of group photographs, speeches, a U.S. Senate report on labor rights, and ribbons and buttons from Krzycki's political and labor career. |
| Lania, Léo, 1896-1961 | Title: Léo Lania Papers, 1916-1959
Quantity: 7.2 cubic feet (18 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 0.2 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder and 1 oversize folder); plus additions of 0.4 cubic feet Call Number: U.S. Mss 27AF; PH 4932; M92-228 Abstract: Papers of the journalist, propagandist, and writer Lazar Herrmann who worked under the pen name Léo Lania. The bulk of the collection relates to Lania's career as a journalist in the United States and Germany and, to a lesser extent, to his work in theater and film in Europe after 1945; there is little material on his opposition to Nazism or his pre-World War II stage and screen writing. Much of the collection is in German. Alphabetically arranged correspondence, circa 1935-1961, chiefly relates to Lania's professional life. Prominent correspondents include Brigid Brophy, Pearl S. Buck, Max Eastman, Lion Feuchtwanger, Granville Hicks, Hans V. Kaltenborn, Fritz Lang, Walter Lippmann, Louis P. Lochner, W. Somerset Maugham, Edgar Ansell Mowrer, Erwin Piscator, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Dorothy Thompson, and Sigrid Undset. Correspondence, drafts, reviews, notes, and outlines document 22 books, 28 plays, 26 motion pictures, and many radio broadcasts, speeches, and articles. Of particular interest are a fictionalized account of the last days of Jan Masaryk; a biography of Joseph Schildkraut; two autobiographical works: The Shanghai Drama and The Last Act, two films on which he worked with G.W. Pabst; propaganda scripts for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America; and articles for The Nation, Reader's Digest, Vogue, and a number of foreign journals about his observations of European politics and the Cold War. |
| Jackson, Leo M. | Title: Leo M. Jackson Papers, Quantity: 0.3 linear ft. (1 archives box and 3 oversized folders) of papers, 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder and 1 oversized folder) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 8 Abstract: Papers and photographs of Col. Leo M. Jackson, a Regular Army and Wisconsin National Guard officer, who served with the 32nd Infantry, 119th Machine Gun Battalion in World War I. The collection includes personnel records, background information on the 119th Machine Gun Battalion, orders and memoranda from the American Expeditionary Force, including extensive field orders from October 1918 military operations, intelligence reports, and battalion rosters. After the war Jackson also served as an officer in the 128th Infantry of the Wisconsin National Guard, which is documented by training materials and inspection reports. |
| - - - | Title: Leo Schroeder Films of La Crosse, Wisconsin Area Quantity: 0.04 cubic foot (2 folders) Call Number: MISC MSS 161 Abstract: The Leo Schroeder Films of the La Crosse, Wisconsin Area were originally created on 16mm film; this collection includes copies that have been transferred to VHS cassettes. The films feature scenes of the La Crosse area, including fishing and the Westby Ski Jump. Date of original recordings is unknown, but were likely captured during the 1950s; date copies were created is also unknown. |
| Crowley, Leo T. | Title: Leo T. Crowley Papers, 1930-1970
Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (3 record center cartons), 6 tape recordings, and 6 negatives Call Number: M2000-144; Audio 850A Abstract: Research papers, including some of Crowley's own papers, of Stuart L. Weiss for his biography of Leo T. Crowley, The President's Man: Leo Crowley and Franklin Roosevelt in Peace and War (Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1966). Papers concern Crowley's career as a businessman, chief aide to Madison Mayor Schmedeman, and federal administrator, and consist of correspondence, speeches, news clippings, and reports. Included are originals and copies from Crowley's personal papers, as well as copies from other sources. Also included is an interview of Crowley conducted in 1969 by Lawrence C. Eklund and photographs by George P. Koshollek. |
| Tiefenthaler, Leo | Title: Leo Tiefenthaler Papers, 1862-1976
Quantity: 0.6 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 90 Abstract: Papers of Leo Tiefenthaler (1880-1974), who served as the civic secretary of the City Club of Milwaukee for many years. Contains correspondence, writings, and photographs. |
| Isaksen, Leon E., 1903-1979 | Title: Leon E. Isaksen Papers, 1929-1972
Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 650 Abstract: Papers of Leon E. Isaksen, a prominent Madison, Wisconsin civic leader and attorney, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, final and draft reports, notes, minutes, testimony, and other legal papers. The correspondence concerns family matters, involvement in the establishment of the Christ Presbyterian Church, the routine operation of his law practice, and the service of friends and associates in World War II. Files pertaining to his membership on the Madison Equal Opportunity Commission during the 1960's include minutes (1964-1970), agenda, legislation, and correspondence, transcripts of testimony, and other information concerning the 1968 Breese Stevens racial disturbance in Madison. Involvement with the Goals for Madison committee on which he served during the 1970's and which developed the concept of a downtown pedestrian mall is documented by minutes, notes, correspondence, and report drafts. |
| Cole, Leon J. | Title: Leon J. Cole Papers, 1897-1913
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss LQ Abstract: Miscellaneous papers of Leon J. Cole, a member of the faculty of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin. Included are correspondence and notes relating to the study of German carp for the United States Fish Commission, 1901-1903, notes concerning the direction of locomotion and coordination and righting of starfish, and experiments on feeding and other reactions of lobster fry, and Cole's original manuscript on the birds of Yucatan. In addition there are letters to Cole, 1897-1899, from Chief Simon Pokagon, “Last of the Pottowatomies,” from Hartford, Michigan. |
| Kramer, Leon | Title: Leon Kramer Papers, 1874-1964
Quantity: 2.8 cubic ft. (3 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 183 Abstract: Records of a Russian-born, New York bookseller with interests in radical political organizations. The collection consists of business correspondence, booklists and catalogues issued by Kramer, photographs of the Kramer family, and miscellaneous printed material produced by mainstream and radical American political parties. The political ephemera in the collection includes meeting announcements, party and union memberships, as well as photographs and postcards from political organizations such as the United States Socialist Party, the International Socialist Party, the Communist Party, Workers Parties, and union organizations. The remainder of the collection consists of educational materials produced by workers' education organizations in the 1920s and 1930s. |
| Clausen, Leon R., 1877-1965 | Title: Leon R. Clausen Papers, 1905-1965
Quantity: 3.4 c.f. (3 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder) and 7 photographs Call Number: Mss 1021; PH 6518 Abstract: Papers of Leon R. Clausen, president (1924-1948) and chairman of the board (1948-1958) of the J.I. Case Company, a manufacturer of tractors and farm equipment located in Racine, Wisconsin. The papers consist of memoirs, speeches and writings, personal and business correspondence, and subject files. They primarily document Clausen's conservative, anti-Communist political views and his pre-Case business career. A majority of the correspondence is personal, documenting Clausen's property, philanthropies, and political exchanges with a multitude of nationally active conservatives. Family correspondence primarily concerns foreign relatives, but there are exchanges with his brother Fred L. Clausen, an executive at the Van Brunt Manufacturing Co. of Horicon, Wisconsin. Business records in the collection primarily document Clausen's pre-Case employment as signal engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (1901-1912) and as executive of the Dain Manufacturing Co. (1912-1924), a subsidiary of John Deere. The Case company records include Clausen's draft history of the company's early labor struggles and confidential internal labor documents (1933-1935) used to support preparation of the manuscript and copies of company memoranda, clippings, and advertising concerning the 1946 strike by the United Automobile Workers Local 180. Classified subject files document Clausen's interest in economics, labor, and politics. The photographs in the collection document highlights in his career. |
| Herald, Leon Srabian | Title: Leon Srabian Herald papers Quantity: 15.0 Linear Feet 10 Letter Document Boxes, 2 Legal Document Boxes, 1 Records Storage Carton, 1 VHS Box, 1 Small Flat Box, 1 Large Flat Box, 1 Volume Call Number: Collection E Abstract: The papers of Leon Srabian Herald (1896-1976), an Armenian-American poet who wrote the first English-language text about the Armenian Genocide by an Armenian author. The book, titled "This Waking Hour" was Herald's first book, after publishing poems and short stories in a number of journals and magazines. His papers include numerous drafts of poems; manuscripts on a variety of topics including cosmology and sciences; correspondence between Herald and publishers, friends, other poets, and family; and dozens of memo-books with Herald's drafts. Some personal effects from Herald, including correspondence about his veteran status, reviews and newspaper clippings, and photographs of Herald, are also included. Individually cataloged titles with marginalia from Herald can be found in the UW Madison library catalog under the call number "Coll. E". |
| Varjian, Leon | Title: Leon Varjian papers Quantity: 9.23 cubic feet 2 record cartons, 2 letter document boxes, 6 oversize boxes Call Number: uac13 Abstract: Leon Varjian was a University of Wisconsin – Madison graduate student who served as Vice President of the Wisconsin Student Association and was a member of the Pail and Shovel Party during the late 1970s and early 1980s. This collection consists of artifacts, fliers, photographs, postcards, typed and written articles, hand-crafted posters, newspapers, correspondence, and paper documentation. The bulk of the collection includes fliers related to Wisconsin Student Association events, Pail and Shovel election materials, newspapers, articles, the Verne and Evelyn show, Wisconsin Student Association notes and minutes, papers relating to the Community Television Council, Pail and Shovel created newspapers as well as events including the Boom Box Parade, Kazoo Koncert, and the statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota prank. Other material within the collection include personal correspondence with Varjian, material in his education, and his involvement in the Madison community. |
| Zietara, Leon, 1917- | Title: Leon Zietara Papers, 1936-1937
, 1946-1980
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 29 Abstract: Papers, mostly in Polish, of Zietara, a Polish native who served in the Polish underground army (Armia Krajowa) prior to immigrating to Milwaukee in 1948. Included are letters to Leon and Irene Zietara from family and friends in Poland, England, France, and Canada; his notebooks from classes taken at a Scotland refugee camp following World War II; identification, military, and travel papers, some issued by the Polish Government in Exile; and other items. |
| Allen, Leonard | Title: Leonard Allen Papers, 1940-1981
Quantity: 4.2 cubic feet (10 archives boxes and 1 card file box) Call Number: MCHC82-050 Abstract: Papers of Leonard Allen, a television news executive for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), who later served as a consultant to the Commission on the Operation of the Senate working on issues related to televising Senate proceedings and became managing director of the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The papers document Allen's work at NBC, including information from government sources concerning allowable coverage and NBC's cooperation with other news organizations. |
| Von Spach, Leonard B., 1891-1970 | Title: Leonard B. Von Spach Papers, 1919-1968
Extent: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 1 disc recording Call Number: Mss 432; Disc 148A Abstract: Papers of Leonard B. Von Spach, a Wauwatosa, Wisconsin resident who pursued a varied career in the military, business, and government. Documents concern his activities in rescue and relief in Macedonia with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); in work for the Greek War Relief Association; in Wisconsin Democratic politics including an unsuccessful 1934 campaign for secretary of state; and in the American Legion. The bulk of the papers cover the period 1932-1960 and document both personal and professional aspects of his life. They consist of correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and a recorded interview by Dick Strout with Dimitri Bitsios, Greek representative to the United Nations. Prominent correspondents include entertainer Jack Benny, Charles A. Mills of the American Legion, Senator F. Ryan Duffy, Wisconsin Governor Orland S. Loomis, Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice J. D. Wickem, and Wendell L. Willkie. |
| Davy, Leonard C. | Title: Leonard C. Davy Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 0.3 linear ft. (1 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) of papers and 0.8 linear ft. (2 archives boxes) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 20 Abstract: Papers and photographs of Leonard C. Davy, an officer with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT) during World War II. The bulk of the collection consists of the more than 250 photographs that Davy took during the World War II era. Over 110 of those photos document his overseas service with the predominantly Japanese-American 442nd RCT, including many identified photos of individuals within the unit, candid shots of the group in action, and many scenery shots of French and Italian locales. Other photos depict Davy's work with the Civilian Conservation Corps and his service with the Coastal Artillery in Panama. The papers include many certificates, including a signed certificate of appreciation from President George H. W. Bush, that document Davy's military service, from the Coastal Artillery through the 442nd RCT to his extensive service in the Army Reserves. Among the ephemera that Davy collected is a membership card for the 442nd Veterans Club and a New Year's card from a fellow member of the unit. Postwar newspaper clippings about the 442nd RCT show Davy's continued interest in his old unit. |
| Cizewski, Leonard, 1952- | Title: Leonard Cizewski Papers, 1984-1990
Quantity: 2.6 cubic feet (7 archives boxes), 16 tape recordings, 42 photographs, and 13 negatives Call Number: M90-370; Audio 1871A Abstract: Papers of Leonard Cizewski, a Madison, Wisconsin peace activist, primarily documenting his activities for Trade for Peace Inc. and the Dane County Pledge of Resistance, two groups that protested U.S. policy in Nicaragua after the imposition of the U.S. trade embargo in 1985 upon the importation of stamps, coffee, and handicrafts. In 1987 government officials raided Cizewski's home and confiscated files and goods; thereafter the protest concentrated on First Amendment Rights issues. Trade for Peace ceased operation with the end of the embargo in 1990. |
| Crandall, Leonard, 1923-1990 | Title: Leonard Crandall Papers, 1939-1946
Quantity: .6 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 91 Abstract: Collection of photographs, documents and memorabilia pertaining to serviceman Leonard Crandall's active duty in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. The photographs focus on the Fifth Air Force in New Guinea, Okinawa and the Philippine Islands of Leyte and Luzon, where Crandall was stationed during 1944 and 1945. They include images of camp areas, servicemen, aircraft and other equipment, and the surrounding villages, people and culture. Crandall was a Wisconsin native. Documents included are pay records, bond allotment forms, discharge papers, and correspondence, and memorabilia includes uniform patches and foreign currency. The collection also includes photographs of family and friends, Crandall's 1939 and 1941 high school annuals, and class of 1941 diploma from Cudahy High School. |
| Finseth, Leonard, 1911- | Title: Leonard Finseth collection Quantity: 2.3 Linear Feet 1 half document box, 1 record carton, 2 flat archival boxes papers; audiotape reels; audiocassettes; photographs Call Number: csumc020-cg Abstract: Collection is primarily recordings of concerts, private performances by Finseth (solo or other musicians), and recordings of other old-time fiddlers. There are also photographs, newspaper articles, a reminiscence by Finseth of his World War II experiences, and other items. |
| Finseth, Leonard, 1911-1991 | Title: Leonard Finseth Collection, 1942-1979
Contents: Mills Music Library Wisconsin Music Archives: 6 folders, 50 reel-to-reel tapes, 34 audiocassettes, 81 photographs Unique Identifier: CSUMC0020-CG Summary: Leonard Finseth (1911-1991) was a Norwegian-American folk fiddler, farmer, and factory worker from Mondovi, Wisconsin. In addition to maintaining the family farm, Finseth played and participated in fiddle festivals throughout the Midwest and published two albums of Norwegian folk music, The Hills of Old Wisconsin and Scandinavian Old Time Folk Fiddler from Wisconsin. The Finseth collection's recordings are a mix of concerts, personal recordings, and recordings of old time fiddlers who influenced Finseth. There are a large number of old time fiddle songs, with special emphasis on Norwegian tunes. Also present are photographs, newspaper articles, a reminiscence by Finseth of his World War II experiences, and other items. |
| Kleczka, Leonard J., 1892-1980 | Title: Leonard J. Kleczka Papers, 1911-1980
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 83 Abstract: Papers concerning Leonard Kleczka's activities and career as a Milwaukee attorney and public servant, consisting primarily of family photographs and certificates, including an undated photo of prominent Milwaukeeans with Polish patriot and pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski. |
| Hamilton, Leonard M., d. 1972 | Title: Leonard M. Hamilton Papers, 1968-1972
Quantity: 8.8 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 13 flat boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 121AN Abstract: Papers of “Bud” Hamilton, a western branch manager of the United Artists Corporation, consisting of collected scripts, dialogues, and combined continuities of United Artists releases and pressbooks. |
| Chojnacki, Leonard R., 1915-1984 | Title: Leonard R. Chojnacki Papers Quantity: 0.04 cubic feet (2 folders) Call Number: MISC MSS 234 Abstract: The Leonard R. Chojnacki Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, title abstracts, and an assortment of other items, including: cemetery certificate for Peter Denney (1905); U. S. Army discharge papers for Paul H. Schaffer (1945); birth certificate for Marion Grace Garrihee (1908); marriage certificate for James Kenyon and Julia Wanke (1938); and an Oak Grove cemetery deed for Adolph Petrick (1917). Chojnacki was a municipal court judge in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and lived 1915-1984. |
| Schwan, LeRoy B. (LeRoy Bernard) | Title: LeRoy B. Schwan Linoleum Block Prints, 1969-1978
Quantity: 29 prints Call Number: PH 6211 Abstract: Linoleum block prints made by LeRoy B. Schwan between 1969 and 1978, depicting scenes and people from Schwan's family and youth in northeastern Wisconsin. The prints show family members, other individuals, churches, school buildings, railroad depots, and other scenes, primarily in Polk County with a few in Pierce County and St. Croix County. |
| Gates, LeRoy John, 1832-1985 | Title: LeRoy John Gates Photographs, circa 1857-1868, 1884
Quantity: 45 photographs Call Number: PH 6320 Abstract: Photographs created and collected by LeRoy John Gates, an entrepreneur, riverboat pilot, hops farmer, and photographer in Kilbourn, Wisconsin, during the middle of the nineteenth century. Gates recognized the prospective tourism opportunities of the dells of the Wisconsin River, and guided row boats and lumber rafts through the area. The images in this collection consist primarily of studio portraits in carte de visite and tintype formats depicting Gates, members of his family, and friends, and including descriptive inscriptions on the rectos and versos of the photographs. Gates created many of the images, while other photographs were created by photographers in Baraboo, Oshkosh, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in addition to studios in Vermont and California. |
| Larson, LeRoy | Title: LeRoy Larson collection Quantity: 1.75 Linear Feet 1 half document box, 1 audiocassette box, 1 record carton 6 folders; 41 audiotape reels; 18 audiocassettes; 2 digital audio discs Call Number: MML.010 Abstract: Field recordings and notes of musical performances and interviews with old-time fiddlers and accordionists in Minnesota and Wisconsin recorded principally between 1969 and 1974. |
| LeRoy Wendt & Associates, Inc. | Title: LeRoy Wendt Homes Album, 1935-1940
Quantity: 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 37 Abstract: This collection contains black and white photographs of homes that were built by the LeRoy Wendt & Associates home construction company between 1935 and 1940. The collection consists of 64 photographs, 19 of which are identified. The homes in the photos are typical of the types of dwellings that were being constructed in Milwaukee and the surrounding area at this time. |
| Aspin, Les | Title: Les Aspin Papers, 1960-1998
Quantity: 104.8 cubic feet, 18 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 141 videorecordings, 60 tape recordings, and 4.8 cubic feet of photographs and negatives Call Number: M93-052; M96-139; M2002-087; M2004-183; Micro 2106; Audio 1499A; M2014-025 Abstract: Papers, 1960-1998, of Les Aspin, a Democratic Party politician. The papers reflect his special interest and expertise in military and defense issues, issues of concern to his constituents, and life as a politician, including his many campaigns for re-election. The papers consist of mailings, articles and speeches, schedules, weekly reports, voting records and legislative profiles, campaign-related materials (including photographs), press releases, videotapes, sound recordings, and project files which include constituent correspondence, subject files on local and national issues, and briefing books. These files contain documentation on the Kenosha Chrysler plant closing and other economic issues in Kenosha, Beloit, Janesville, and Racine. Also includes public statements made by Aspin while Secretary of Defense. |
| - - - | Title: Les Foyers du Soldat Union Franco-Americaine Posters, 1914-1918
Quantity: 0.3 cubic feet (3 oversize folders) Call Number: PH 6078 (5) Abstract: Les Foyers du Soldat posters include illustrated proverbs, apparent war slogans, and simple room identifications. Some of the illustrations are signed. Some artists have been identified as Fred Christol and Rouffé. |
| Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee | Title: Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee Records, 1989-2013
Quantity: 1.6 cubic ft. (5 boxes) 21 safety film negatives Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 289 Abstract: The collection contains records of the Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee (LAMM), founded in 1989 to serve the social, political, artistic, and spiritual needs of Milwaukee-area lesbians. |
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Title: Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. Papers, 1939-1999
Quantity: 4.8 c.f. (12 archives boxes), 15 photographs (2 folders), and 1 drawing (1 folder) Call Number: Mss 943; PH Mss 943 Abstract: Papers of Leslie H. Fishel, Jr., an historian, director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1959-1969), president of Heidelberg College (1969-1980), and director of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center (1980-1988). Included are personal correspondence including extensive letters regarding his service in the Navy during World War II, professional correspondence, speeches and writings, and papers pertaining to activities for Oberlin College, the First Congregational Church of Madison, the Friends of the Urban League in Madison, and the University YMCA. Many of the speeches were delivered as a representative of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin or as president of Heidelberg College. The writings reflect his interest and knowledge of African-American history. Photographs in this collection include images of Fishel during his Naval service, portraits, and group pictures. There is also a caricature of Fishel when he became director of the Society. |
| Wright, Lester James, 1886-1922 | Title: Lester James Wright collection Quantity: .25 Linear Feet 1 half-document letter box Call Number: Collection ZT Abstract: The Lester James Wright collection (1908-1923) consists correspondence from Wright, photographs and postcards, certificates, and travel documents. Wright was a former agriculture professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before he became a missionary of the Presbyterian Church. After becoming ordained, Wright began his missionary work in Armenia and Turkey in 1921, focusing on agriculture in Harpoot as well as orphaned children who lived in the area. He made several trips moving hundreds of children to Aleppo to take refuge. He was killed during one of these trips by bandits in 1922. |
| Markel, Lester, 1894-1977 | Title: Lester Markel Papers, 1936-1978
Quantity: 25.7 c.f. (25 record center cartons, 1 archives box, and 1 flat box) Call Number: MCHC77-005 Abstract: Papers, 1936-1978, of Lester Markel, Sunday editor of the New York Times from 1923 to 1964. In 1951, he founded the International Press Institute to foster the free flow of information and freedom of the press in general and in 1964, he became associate editor of the New York Times and head of its department of public affairs. The collection documents Markel's work and involvement in each of these capacities through subject and reference files, correspondence, financial records, speeches, book drafts, clippings, reports, transcripts, and his personal writings. Two separate alphabetical runs of subject files are present and materials are interfiled throughout files. |
| Johnson, Lester R., 1901-1975 | Title: Lester R. Johnson Papers, 1953-1964
Quantity: 18.0 cubic feet (46 archives boxes), 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 3 tape recordings, 24 photographs (2 folders), 1 poster (1 folder), and 21 films (16 mm negatives) Call Number: La Crosse Mss BO; La Crosse Micro 17; Micro 1146; Audio 1201A; PH 3334; PH 3-7367; M64-392 Abstract: Papers of Lester R. Johnson, a former Democratic congressman (1953-1965), including correspondence from constituents, interest groups, and other legislators; subject files; newsletters, press releases, radio scripts (three in recorded form), speeches and statements; microfilmed clipping scrapbooks, photographs (many autographed), and a campaign poster. The files extensively document his interest in dairy marketing and price supports, soil and water conservation, wetlands and wildlife refuges, and the proposed Ice Age National Park. |
| Lindow, Lester W., 1913- | Title: Lester W. Lindow Papers, 1958-1978
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 183AF Abstract: Papers of a broadcaster and executive director of the Association of Maximum Service Telecasters (MST), an association of owners of television stations operating at maximum-permitted power. Included are statements, annual reports, and copies of testimony presented before the Federal Communications Commission and other governmental and private groups. These concern such issues as UHF and VHF frequency allocation, interference prevention, spectrum conservation, and cable television. |
| Williams, Letha McPherson, 1903-1989 | Title: Letha McPherson Williams Collected Papers, 1917-1990
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 165 Abstract: Collected papers of Letha Williams documenting her interest in the history of Marinette County, Wisconsin and the town of Marinette's “twin city,” Menominee, Michigan. The papers consist of newspaper clippings, oral histories, and genealogical information about area families collected by Williams for a proposed book on the history of the area. The bulk of her research was concentrated in the following areas: local genealogies, community histories of local towns and Marinette county generally, indigenous Native American groups, and the primary and secondary school systems in the area. |
| - - - | Title: Letterhead Collection, circa 1850s-1975
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: PH 4908 Abstract: A collection of letterhead, billhead, memohead, and notehead stationery from banks, government agencies, schools, and businesses, including those related to agriculture, brewing, manufacturing, lumber, printing, and retailing. With rare exception, the letterheads in this collection were used for business purposes and include correspondence. |
| Bancroft, Levi H., 1860-1948 | Title: Levi H. Bancroft Papers, 1863-1956
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (1 archives box, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize folder), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and 50 photographs (1 archives box) Call Number: Platteville Mss Y; Platteville Micro 14; Micro 661; File 1884 June 18 Oversize; PH 2471; PH 2472 Abstract: Miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and certificates of appointment kept by Bancroft, a Richland Center, Wisconsin, Republican politician and lawyer, who served as attorney general of Wisconsin from 1911 to 1913. Included are letters from Bancroft to his family describing his life at the University of Wisconsin Law School, 1882-1884; a few family letters written during the early years of his practice in Richland Center; Civil War letters from Robert M. Delap; correspondence to his wife, Myrtle De Lap Bancroft, concerning her paintings of Senator Robert La Follette and other Wisconsin political figures; and genealogical notes on the Bancroft and De Lap families. Photographs primarily include portraits of Bancroft, his family, and associates, including fellow U.W. students, circa 1861-1948. |
| Leonard, Levi, 1815-1908 | Title: Levi Leonard Papers, 1857-1906
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Whitewater Mss R Abstract: Mainly diaries, accompanied by several memoranda books and a folder of correspondence, kept by Leonard, a resident of Evansville, Wis., and stepfather of Burr W. Jones, Madison, Wis., lawyer, congressman, and state Supreme Court justice. Leonard's brief diary entries record expenditures, occasional weather observations, and his comments on personal and local events. |
| - - - | Title: Leviathan Editorial Files, 1964-1971
Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 644 Abstract: Editorial files of Leviathan (1969-1971), a San Francisco-based monthly political journal of the Movement for a Democratic Society. The journal explored American political and social issues such as student movements, anti-Vietnam War protest, class conflict, racial struggles, and international politics, through a format of articles and poetry. The editorial files contain drafts of articles and poetry submitted for publication and reference material collected from individuals, other radical groups, and other radical publications. The reference material spans the dates 1964 to 1971. |
| Sebring, Lewis B., 1901-1978 | Title: Lewis B. Sebring Papers, 1830-1976
Quantity: 13 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 0.2 cubic feet, 0.6 cubic feet of photographs and negatives, 2 film reels, 2 disc recordings, and 68 drawings Call Number: Micro 602; MCHC76-097; M2001-036; Audio 1939A; PH 4560 Abstract: Papers of Lewis B. Sebring, a journalist and war correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune, who reported on combat in the Southwest Pacific Area theater during World War II. Wartime papers, which comprise the most extensive and valuable portion of the collection, include letters to friends, relatives, and the staff of the Tribune. This section also includes photographs, 40 notebooks of on-the-spot observations, and copies of news articles. Other than the war years, the collection contains only scattered references to Sebring's professional career, though there are copies of some earlier writings for the Herald-Tribune and of his later columns in the Schenectady (N.Y.) Union-Star. Among Sebring's prominent correspondents are Martin Agronsky, Raymond Clapper, George Cornish, Joseph Driscoll, Frank Kelley, Joe Alex Morris, Drew Pearson, and Helen Rogers Reid. Also in the collection are three drafts of Sebring's unpublished book on Douglas MacArthur. |
| French, Lewis C., 1893-1960 | Title: Lewis C. French Papers, 1919-1960
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 15 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss Z; PH 2325 Abstract: Papers of a farm editor of the Milwaukee Journal (1926-1960), including correspondence, speeches, articles, and annotated news releases, chiefly concerning agriculture, marketing, and conservation. The mostly unidentified photographs include portraits, news photos taken at public events, and one from a Newspaper Farm Editors' Association meeting with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. |
| Kessler, Lewis Hanford, Sr. | Title: Lewis Hanford Kessler, Sr. collection, 1922-1946
Quantity: 4 Linear Feet 1 record storage carton, 1 flat box, 1 oversize flat box. 6 scrapbooks, boy scout memorabilia, various awards and photographs CallNumber: uac229 Abstract: The Lewis Hanford Kessler, Sr. collection contains six scrapbooks as well as other photographs and ephemera documenting the life of Kessler who obtained a degree in engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1927. He join the faculty in hydraulic engineering and worked as assistant and the associate professor until 1941. |
| Jacobs, Lewis, 1906- | Title: Lewis Jacobs Papers, 1930-1986
Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (1 record center carton, 3 archives boxes, and 1 flat box), 2 reels of microfilm (35mm), and photographs Call Number: Mss 706; Micro 1104; PH 44 Abstract: Papers of Lewis Jacobs, a versatile film historian, teacher, and critic who was also a writer, designer, producer, and director of educational, experimental, and dramatic motion pictures and plays. Included are biographical materials and clippings; incoming and outgoing correspondence; scripts, storyboards, photographs, and other production materials for motion pictures and plays that Jacobs designed or wrote including Sweet Love, Bitter (1965) and Shootin' Star (1946); short articles and reviews on film history and criticism; and miscellany. |
| Mittness, Lewis T., Jr., 1929- | Title: Lewis T. Mittness, Jr., Papers, 1964-1975
Quantity: 6.4 c.f.(16 archives boxes) and 1 tape recording Call Number: Whitewater Mss AN; Tape 599A Abstract: Papers of a former Democratic legislator best known for his advocacy of environmental issues who represented the Janesville area in the Wisconsin Assembly, 1965-1975. Included are chronological correspondence, press releases, subject files, newsletters, and biographical clippings. |
| - - - | Title: Lewis, Stephens, and McKay Family Papers, 1844-2010
Quantity: 1.1 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 1 oversize folder) and 0.2 cubic feet of photographs (1 archives box) Call Number: River Falls Mss FE; PH River Falls Mss FE Abstract: The Lewis, Stephens, and McKay family collection consists of family papers of three generations of Welsh and Irish immigrants who settled in western Wisconsin. Daniel Lewis (1821-1887) emigrated from Wales, first settling in Green Bay and working in the logging business. In 1854, he moved to Hudson, Wisconsin, continuing in the logging business before becoming a full time farmer. In 1859, he married Catherine Walsh (1836-1926), with whom he had six children: Hannah Eliza, Margaret Ann, Evan Walter, David James, Mary Frances, and Elizabeth Jane. Mary Frances (1873-1961) married John Stephens and had two children, Elizabeth and Mary Esther. Only Mary Esther (1906-1990) survived to adulthood and in 1936, she married Gerald Eugene McKay, and they had six children. The collection consists of correspondence (both within the United States and family members in Wales), land transfers, tax receipts, obituaries, cemetery records, oral history transcripts, restoration records, class notebooks, certificates, diplomas, and photographs. |