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| Nicaragua Exchange | Title: Nicaragua Exchange Records, 1983-1987
Quantity: 7.0 c.f. (17 archives boxes and 1 card box), 6 tape recordings, and 2 videotapes Call Number: Mss 829; Tape 1270A; VTA 25; VTA 178 Abstract: Records, mainly 1984-1987, of Nicaragua Exchange, an organization that coordinated brigades of American volunteer harvest workers in Nicaragua and that worked to promote friendship between Nicaragua and the United States. Included are correspondence with potential and former brigade volunteers, Nicaragua Network, and other organizations concerned with the Nicaraguan policy issue; extensive volunteer applications and evaluations; clippings; administrative records; and promotional materials (including film and sound recordings) produced by Nicaragua Exchange and other organizations. The videotapes include a speech by Daniel Ortega to volunteer workers. |
| Nicaragua Network | Title: Nicaragua Network Records, 1979-1990
Quantity: 18.7 c.f. (18 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 1 oversize folder), and 24 photographs and 14 negatives (1 folder) Call Number: M96-045 Abstract: Founded as the National Network in Solidarity with the Nicaraguan People in 1979, Nicaragua Network (NN) is an umbrella organization made up of local and national committees, task forces, and groups throughout the United States. Its purpose is to increase understanding between the peoples of the United States and Nicaragua by providing financial and material aid for Nicaragua; educational speaking tours throughout the U.S.; and special work brigades. In addition to documenting these programs, the collection provides information about activist groups in the U.S. at both the grassroots and national level, and about the political and economic conditions of the average Nicaraguan during the 1980s. Included is correspondence; clippings, both for reference and about Nicaragua Network; meeting minutes, mainly of the Coordinating Committee (CC) and the National Executive Committee (NEC); brigade applications and evaluations; administrative office files; publicity material, both for Nicaragua Network and member/related organizations; procedural manuals and memoranda, especially on publicity and fundraising; reports; typed and handwritten reports/notes on regular telephone calls between the U.S. and Managua offices; and press releases. |
| Fischer, Nicholas Allan | Title: Nicholas Allan Fischer Papers, 1964-1965
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 544 Abstract: Photocopied papers of Nicholas Fischer, a former University of Wisconsin student who worked as an organizer for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in Sharkey County, Mississippi, in 1965. Included is personal correspondence, party papers, flyers, and leaflets. Earlier correspondence concerns fund-raising efforts that Fischer conducted among University of Wisconsin students to support Mississippi civil rights workers. |
| Nichols Family | Title: Nichols Family Papers, 1871-1973
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 54 photographs, and 64 negatives Call Number: M2003-085 Abstract: Papers of Floy and Lulu Nichols, sisters who were born and raised in Berlin, Wisconsin, and later moved to Chicago where Floy worked at the University of Chicago transcribing theses and other publications. The papers consist of correspondence between the sisters and with other family and friends, scrapbooks, financial records, recipes, and school notebooks. Also included are photographs depicting family members, family events, and scenes of Wisconsin. |
| Kotz, Nick | Title: Nick Kotz Papers, 1935-2008 (bulk
1950-1977)
Quantity: 91.2 cubic feet, 807 tape recordings, 70 compact discs, 1 videorecording, and 22 photographs Call Number: M82-471; Audio 1304A; M86-271; M86-276; M89-104; M2001-136; M2008-043; M2014-042 Abstract: Papers of Nick Kotz, a journalist who has worked for the Des Moines Register and the Washington Post, and who with his wife Mary Lynn has written extensively on the labor and civil rights movements. Included are research materials for his books, A Passion for Equality: George Wiley and the Movement, Let Them Eat Promises: The Politics of Hunger in America, The Unions, Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber, and Judgment Days: Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America, among others. |
| Vanoff, Nick, 1929- | Title: Nick Vanoff Papers, 1958-1970
Quantity: 20.0 c.f. (50 archives boxes) and 5 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: U.S. Mss 144AN; Micro 520 Abstract: Papers of Nick Vanoff, a television producer-director best known for his work with variety shows. Annotated scripts, production records, set designs, photographs, and clippings for Hollywood Palace (ABC), The King Family (ABC), Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC), and other series and specials form the bulk of the collection. |
| Keene, Nietzchka, 1952-2004 | Title: Nietzchka Keene Papers,
1979-2004 (bulk 1984-2004)
Quantity: 20.0 cubic feet (10 archives boxes, 2 records center cartons, and 8 flat boxes), 91 film reels (16 mm, 35 mm, Super 8), 59 videorecordings (8 mm videotape, Betacam, DVCam, Hi8, U-Matic, VHS), and 6 audio recordings (DVD-R) Call Number: M2005-051; AE 395; AE 566-AE 567; CC 676-CC 691; CC 914-CC 919; CD 026; EA 195; GA 710; GA 809-GA 820; GA 840-GA 842; GB 049; HC 457-HC 461; HC 765-HC 806; HC 904; HD 267-HD 282; V8A 066-V8A 069; VBC 647-VBC 649; VDA 423-VDA 428; VFA 132-VFA 133; VHB 935-VHB 943; VPA 116-VPA 156 Abstract: Papers documenting the film production work of Nietzchka Keene, an independent filmmaker and teacher of film and video production at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Films documented include Hinterland (1983), The Juniper Tree (1990), Aves (1994), Heroine of Hell (1996), and the uncompleted Barefoot to Jerusalem. Papers include administrative records, production materials, personal artifacts, photographs, and original artwork. The films and videorecordings from Keene's six films, include projection prints, production footage, and soundtracks. |
| Haugen, Nils Pederson, 1849-1931 | Title: Nils Pederson Haugen Papers, 1875-1931
Quantity: 16.0 c.f. (70 archives boxes and 4 volumes); plus additions of 0.4 c.f. Call Number: Wis Mss HK; M89-095 Abstract: Papers, 1875-1931, of Nils Pederson Haugen, a Republican congressman from Wisconsin's Tenth District, 1887-1895, and state tax commissioner, 1901-1921. Papers from the years of Haugen's congressional service consist of correspondence with constituents, principally in regard to patronage and pension claims, but also touch upon other matters, including Scandinavian politics and newspapers, local affairs in Pierce County and Superior, and state campaigns, including his own for the gubernatorial nomination in 1894 and that of Robert M. La Follette in 1896. Papers from the years of Haugen's work as tax commissioner touch upon the income tax law of 1911, and include correspondence from 1919-1920 with officials of the National Tax Association, of which Haugen was then president. Papers also include material on Montana state politics from 1921 to 1923, when Haugen served as advisor to the board of equalization of Montana on revision of the state tax laws. |