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| Strahl, Osborn, 1818-1902 | Title: Osborn Strahl Family Papers, 1824-1909
Quantity: 0.5 cubic feet (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: River Falls Mss A Abstract: Papers of Osborn Strahl, a Clifton, Pierce County, Wisconsin, lumberman, consisting mainly of family correspondence (1860-1909), containing information on Strahl and MacDonald family genealogy. Included are letters which describe agricultural life in the Los Angeles area in 1892, early twentieth-century life in the state of Washington, the Seattle harbor, and the Oregon and Washington Indian wars. There is also material relating to school experiences of the Strahl family, including essays, speeches, and class notes, (circa 1845-1858); three land certificates (1854-1855); and reminiscences by Strahl of Pierce County settlers. |
| Osborne family | Title: Osborne Family Business Records, 1879-1999
Quantity: 3.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes) Call Number: UWP Manuscript Collection 25 Abstract: Materials related to Lakeside Sales Ltd. and its predecessor entities, Wisconsin Malleable Iron Company and Lakeside Malleable Castings Company. Includes business records, correspondence, and financial records of the Osborne family. |
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Zerk, Oscar, 1878-1968; Zerk, Dorothy Margaret Rynders, 1911-1995 |
Title: Oscar and Dorothy Rynders Zerk Papers and Photographs, circa 1900-1995
Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (6 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 500 photographs, 185 negatives, and 41 transparencies (in 3 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: Parkside Mss 92; PH Parkside Mss 92 Abstract: Papers and photographs of inventor Oscar Zerk and of his fourth wife, Dorothy Rynders. Also included are files about Zerk's Kenosha estate, Dunmovin. Photographs mainly document Oscar Zerk's participation in World War I, his family, Dunmovin, Dorothy's heyday as a beauty queen, Oscar's first company and home in Cleveland, Ohio, social events at Dunmovin, his natural history collections, and Oscar and Dorothy's 1954 wedding. |
| Oshkosh (Winnebago County, Wis.: Town). Clerk | Title: Oshkosh (Winnebago County, Wis.: Town). Clerk: Clerk's Records, 1841-1966
Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (9 archives boxes) Call Number: Winnebago Series 65 Abstract: Reports and papers of the town clerk including minutes of town meetings, financial records, election records, school statistics, highway commission papers, and other records filed with the clerk. |
| Oshkosh (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Oshkosh (Wis.). Clerk: City Clerk's Record, 1919-1957
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Quantity: 5.4 c.f. (14 archives boxes) Call Number: Winnebago Series 68 Abstract: Dated primarily between 1930-1955, the records include papers of the board of public works, 1927-1951, the board of review, 1934-1957, the cemetery committee, 1926-1951, the election commission, 1945-1952, the emergency relief administration, 1934, city ordinances 1919-1953, the park board 1937-1951, and resolutions of the common council, 1933-1954. There is also general correspondence of the city clerk, 1933-1955, which pertains to a variety of functions performed by the clerk as officer of record, secretary to the common council, and administrative officer for the city. It should be noted that the files of the boards of public works and review and the election and cemetery commissions contain a wider variety of papers which board and commission members received in their capacities as city department heads and city council members. |
| Oshkosh Brewing Company | Title: Oshkosh Brewing Company, 1894-1971 (bulk 1950-1971)
Quantity: 40.0 cubic feet (39 archives boxes, 30 flat boxes, and 7 records center cartons) and 2 photographs and 7 pieces of ephemera (1 folder) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss CA; PH 3845 Abstract: Records, mainly 1950-1971, of Oshkosh Brewing Company, a brewery incorporated in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1894 which operated until 1971. Included are minutes and other records dealing with the company's establishment and its predecessor companies, the oldest of which dated to 1864; executive correspondence of members of the Schwalm, Kuenzl, and Glatz families who controlled the company for three generations and of David V. Uihlein who purchased a majority share in 1961; advertising and promotional material; and financial records, floor plans of the brewery, product labels, and union contracts. Also present are records from the Oshkosh Colytic Egg and Storage Company operated by the brewery. Information is included on the soft drink and malt syrup production of the Prohibition era; responses to competition experienced during its final years; and relations with the Brewers Association of America, the U.S. Brewers Association, the Wisconsin State Brewers Association, and Associated Industries of Oshkosh. Also includes a few product labels. |
| - - - | Title: Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Photographs, circa 1900-1922
Quantity: 22 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: PH 487 Abstract: Views of primarily residential streets and homes in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, circa 1900-1922. Images include Longfellow School, St. Peter's High School, the F.R.A. Lodge room, Monument Square, and a beach in Menominee Park. The duotone reproductions were probably part of a souvenir or promotional booklet about Oshkosh. |
| Hagen, Oskar, 1888-1957 | Title: Oskar Hagen collection Quantity: 4.5 Linear Feet 1 oversize archival flat box; 2 record cartons music manuscripts; 1 photographic print; 1 audiocassette tape Call Number: mml004 Abstract: The Oskar Hagen collection contains primarily original manuscript scores, including his arrangements of others' works. |