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| St. Bridget's Catholic Church (River Falls, Wis.) | Title: St. Bridget's Catholic Church (River Falls, Wis.) Records, 1890-1950
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: River Falls Mss DC Abstract: Records of the first Catholic church in the River Falls area consisting primarily of financial records and of cemetery burial permits. |
| St. Croix County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: St. Croix County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors: Official County Proceedings, 1863-1943
Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (8 volumes) Call Number: St. Croix Series 11 Abstract: Official manuscript and typescript volumes of the proceedings of the County Board of Supervisors, including clerk's minutes of meetings, and complete or partial copies of documents considered at meetings. Volume 1 has no index but the other volumes contain separate indexes for each year. |
| - - - | Title: St. Croix County Account Books, 1857-1957
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (8 volumes in 1 archives box) Call Number: River Falls Mss BC Abstract: Eight account books from various unidentified St. Croix County, Wisconsin, businesses and individuals, some from the Hudson area. Included are volumes possibly created by Essie W. Williams, A. D. Richardson, and Richardson & Burhyte. |
| St. Croix County Extension Homemakers (Wis.) | Title: St. Croix County Extension Homemakers Transcribed Interviews, 1973-1974
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: River Falls Mss EK Abstract: Photocopies of transcripts from forty-seven oral history interviews pertaining to Saint Croix County, Wisconsin history conducted as a project of the St. Croix County Extension Homemakers. Although farm and daily work, recreation, education, and family life were discussed, the interviews focus on description and history of various cities, villages, and townships in the county. These include the cities or villages of Baldwin, Burkhardt, Deer Park, Erin, Glenwood City, Hammond, New Richmond, Pleasant Valley, Wildwood, and Woodville; and the townships of Cylon, Erin, Hudson, Kinnickinnic, Pleasant Valley, Springfield, and Troy. One interview relates to the Mann Valley Cemetery and nearby German settlement. |
| Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Saint Croix County) | Title: St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court Judgment Book of Foreclosure and Sale, 1860-1920
Quantity: 2.8 cubic feet (7 volumes) Call Number: St. Croix Series 123 Abstract: Record of judges decisions on mortgage foreclosures, showing names of defendants and plaintiffs, amount owed, date, legal description of property, and judgment. Name index in the front of each volume. |
| Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Saint Croix County) | Title: St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court Order Books, 1860-1957
Quantity: 7.4 cubic feet (19 volumes) Call Number: St. Croix Series 126 Abstract: Record of orders issued by the Court in civil cases. Entries show names of plaintiffs, defendants, and orders including findings of fact and conclusions of law, which are summaries of cases and decisions, show cause orders, stipulations, sheriffs reports of sale, dates of action, and name of judge. Types of cases include divorce, foreclosure, alimony, and property disputes. |
| Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Saint Croix County) | Title: St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court Record, 1868-1949
Quantity: 6.4 cubic feet (11 volumes) Call Number: St. Croix Series 124 Abstract: A daily record of proceedings in civil cases before the Circuit Court including a list of legal documents filed in each case; sometimes the nature of the case; names of defendant, plaintiff, and attorneys; date of case disposition, and cross references to other related court volumes. |
| St. Croix-Pierce Bi-County Federation of Women's Clubs (Wis.) | Title: St. Croix-Pierce Bi-County Federation of Women's Clubs Records,1922-1973
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss AT Abstract: Records of an affiliate of the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs, including the constitution, reports, and minutes of the St. Croix County Federation of Women's Clubs, 1922-1952, and records of the Bi-County Federation from its formation in 1954 to its dissolution in 1973. Included is correspondence, annual reports and yearbooks of local clubs, and other records. |
| St. Francis Hospital Auxilary (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: St. Francis Hospital Auxilary (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Constitution and Bylaws Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 116 Abstract: Constitution and bylaws of the St. Francis Hospital Auxilary in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1976. |
| St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Flambeau, Rusk County, Wis.) | Title: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Flambeau, Rusk County, Wis.) Records, 1866-1981
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Eau Claire Micro 22; Micro 1014 Abstract: Records of a parish which first served French-Canadian settlers and Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians; including a record book, 1866-1908, noting baptisms, first communions, confirmations, and marriages; financial records; and miscellaneous papers. |
| St. Francis School of Nursing (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: St. Francis School of Nursing Records Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 115 Abstract: The St. Francis School of Nursing operated in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from 1902 to 1970, and was associated with St. Francis Hospital (now Franciscan Skemp Health Care), Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and Viterbo College (now Viterbo University). Materials of the School of Nursing include historical photographs, newspaper clippings about the school and students, bulletins and promotional materials, handbooks for students, biographical information on nursing faculty, clippings and other miscellaneous information about St. Francis Hospital. Also included are records of the St. Francis Alumnae Association, the nursing school’s alumni group, which include constitution/bylaws, historical materials, and homecoming booklets (1943, 1947, 1963, 1970, and 1983). |
| St. Gregory's Church (St. Nazianz, Wis.) | Title: St. Gregory's Church (St. Nazianz, Wis.) Records, 1854-1911, 1954
Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) and 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: Green Bay Micro 5; Green Bay Micro 22; Green Bay SC 109; Micro 488; Micro 731 Abstract: Records of a church and its founders, an association of Roman Catholic emigrants from Freiburg, Germany, led by Father Ambrose Oschwald, who sought a religious environment and practiced a communal economic system. Available in paper form is a copy of the articles of agreement governing the colony and a newsclipping on finding the articles in Manitowoc County, Wis., Circuit Court files. On microfilm is a published history, a chronicle book, financial records, a pastor's diary (1884-1890), and records of land transactions and other activities. Much of the collection is in German. The collection documents the establishment of the village of St. Nazianz in 1854, building of the church in 1866, dissension within the church over communal property ownership and transfer of property to a corporate entity known as the Roman Catholic Religious Society of St. Nazianz, and an 1896 agreement with the Society of the Divine Savior in Rome to provide spiritual and temporal care for members in exchange for property rights. |
| St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church (Elkhorn, Wis.) | Title: St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church (Elkhorn, Wis.) Records, 1848-1984
Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 1013; Whitewater Micro 17 Abstract: Minute books of congregation and vestry meetings, 1853-1949, 1966-1974; parish registers, 1853-1984, including baptism, marriage, funeral, and membership records; minutes of the Ladies Society (1892-1983), St. Mary's Guild (1915-1983), and Rector's Guild (1959-1967); centennial history of the congregation, 1941; and miscellaneous scattered financial records, correspondence, historical notes, clippings, and photographs. |
| Terrell, St. John, 1916- | Title: St. John Terrell Papers, 1949-1964
Quantity: 7.2 c.f. (18 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 669 Abstract: Primarily business papers of an actor-businessman who founded and operated several music circuses, combining aspects of a traditional circus and the legitimate theater. Included for the Lambertville (New Jersey) Music Circus are general correspondence, and such business records as casting correspondence and audition lists; personnel files; contracts; financial statements; production and operating reports; budgets; box office statements; tax returns; insurance records; advertising and publicity materials; and correspondence and records regarding equipment and physical plant improvements. There are only fragmentary production files concerning plays and musicals produced from 1949, when the Lambertville Music Circus was established, through 1961. Several of Terrell's other music circuses in New Jersey, Florida, California, and Texas are represented by small quantities of records, as are the Motor Music Circus and Musical Arena Theatres' Association. |
| St. John's Lutheran Church (Madison, Wis.) | Title: St. John's Lutheran Church Records (Madison, Wis.) Records, 1856-1956
Quantity: 4 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 333 Abstract: Records of St. John's Lutheran Church in Madison, Wisconsin. Included are financial records, 1917-1949; registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, and communicants, 1856-1956; and records of monthly council meetings, 1941-1956. |
| St. John's United Church of Christ (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: St. John's United Church of Christ (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Collection Quantity: 0.02 cubic foot (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 260 Abstract: The St. John's United Church of Christ Collection contains service programs, newsletters, event calendars, and other items pertaining to activities at the church. Materials range in date from July 1989 through February 1990. |
| St. Joseph's Nurses Alumni Association (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: St. Joseph's Nurses Alumni Association Records, 1893-1924
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 25 Abstract: Fragmentary records regarding graduates of St. Joseph's Hospital Training School for Nurses, with a small addition pertaining to Trinity Hospital School for Nurses, both of which later combined to form the Marquette University College of Nursing. Included is a certificate of incorporation of St. Joseph's School (1899); volume of minutes, articles of incorporation, and by-laws of the St. Joseph's Nurses Alumni Association (1914-1924); and lists of graduates of St. Joseph's and Trinity Schools. Each list also gives the married names and addresses of many of the nurses. |
| St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Watertown, Wis.) | Title: St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Watertown, Wis.) Records, 1849-1982
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Whitewater Micro 11; Micro 919 Abstract: Records of a congregation founded as St. Luke's Free Church in 1848 by German residents of Watertown. The congregation became St. Luke's Lutheran Church in 1909 and St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1966. It is affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The records include sacramental records, nineteenth century family membership records, and copies of 1898 articles of reorganization and of other legal documents, 1922. Most of the entries are in German. |
| St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing (Racine, Wis.) | Title: St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing Records, 1908-1986
Quantity: 9.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes and 4 record center cartons) and 4 reels of microfilm (16mm) Call Number: Parkside Mss 70; Parkside Micro 17; Micro 1155 Abstract: Records, mainly 1935-1986, of a three-year diploma school of nursing in Racine, Wisconsin, that operated from 1906 to 1986. Included are publications and catalogs, reports to the Board of Directors, faculty minutes and handbooks, and other incomplete administrative records; correspondence and reports to the National League of Nursing and the Wisconsin Board of Nursing concerning accreditation and revision of the curriculum; records of individual students; and extensive files of course materials, 1969-1986. |
| St. Luke's United Methodist Church (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: St. Luke's United Methodist Church (La Crosse, Wis.) Records Physical Description: 4.8 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 073 Abstract: St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 1858-2001, is located on the North Side of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The congregation, begun in 1856 under the name La Crosse Second Church and later known as the Caledonia Street Methodist Church, is still active and is affiliated with the United Methodists. Records include historical materials, including photographs, clippings and historical booklets, as well as materials related to buildings and grounds, Christian Education, events, financial materials, membership, a few sacramental records (1897-1918), church clubs, the West Wisconsin Methodist Conference, and the Bice Family (a family with a long association with the church). |
| St. Mary's Hill Hospital (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: St. Mary's Hill Hospital Records, 1956-1972
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 172 Abstract: Records of St. Mary's Hill, a private psychiatric hospital which offered both patient care and instructional programs in psychiatric nursing. The collection pertains to the instructional program and includes minutes of various administrative, faculty, and working committee meetings; accreditation materials; a faculty manual; monthly reports to the Wisconsin State Department of Nurses; yearly reports; and two brochures providing a history of the program. There are also some materials relating to nursing education elsewhere in Wisconsin. |
| St. Mary's School of Nursing (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) | Title: St. Mary's School of Nursing Records, 1894-1972
Quantity: 16.9 c.f. (40 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 folder) and 50 lantern slides Call Number: Milwaukee Mss CV; Milwaukee SC 69; PH Milwaukee Mss CV Abstract: Records concerning administration, faculty, accreditation, the curriculum, students and alumnae, and historical and miscellaneous files; plus photographs, newsclippings, and lantern slides. The collection documents the school from its inception in 1894 to its final year in 1969. It provides information on the Daughters of Charity, St. Mary's Hospital, and a variety of medical and nursing topics. Milwaukee SC 69 contains miscellaneous materials on the 1972 dedication of a historical marker at the school. |
| St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Hudson, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Hudson, Wis.) Records, 1896-1978
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss DB Abstract: Records including annual reports, treasurers' reports, records of congregation women's groups and of vestry meetings, and printed histories of the congregation and of the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire. |
| St. Paul's Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul's Lutheran Church (La Crosse, WI) Records Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 019, Micro 6 Abstract: Microfilmed records of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1870-1898, a church affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, located on the North Side of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The records were filmed from several bound volumes kept by the minister and the microfilm reflects the inherent order of those books. The earliest records are congregational minutes which span from 1870-1881. Sacramental records date from 1873-1898 and include baptisms (1873-1898), marriages (1881-1898), burials (1888-1898), confirmands (1882-1898), communion records (1877-1898), members of the congregation, members who have left the congregation, and holy events. All records are written in the Norwegian language. |
| St. Paul's Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul's Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 042, Micro 15 Abstract: Records of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, mainly 1878-1920, located on the North Side of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The congregation is still active and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The church records include baptisms, 1878-1924; confirmations, 1882-1920; marriages, 1881-1920; burials, 1888-1920; lists of members of the congregation; lists of members who have left the congregation; holy events, communion records, 1877-1920; and congregational minutes, ca. 1877-1880. All records were written in the Norwegian language. |
| St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Town of Fountain, Juneau County, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Town of Fountain, Juneau County, Wis.) Records, 1889-1980
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Micro 1098; La Crosse Micro 13; Stevens Point Micro 24 Abstract: Record book containing registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, and communicants, and a few brief financial notes; and articles of incorporation, bylaws, and minutes. |
| St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Records, 1913-1961
Quantity: 0.7 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 360 Abstract: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church was founded in 1838, and this collection includes some of the materials kept by and about the church and its activities. |
| St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Lebanon, Wis.) | Title: St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Lebanon, Wis.) Records, 1881-1981
Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Oshkosh Micro 17; Micro 889 Abstract: Congregational meeting minutes, 1887-1971; Board meeting minutes, 1931-1943; sacramental record books, 1881-1981, noting baptisms, confirmations, marriages, communicants, and burials; and miscellaneous papers, including a church cemetery grave list, a history of the Lebanon, Wisconsin, band, publications from the Church cornerstone, and other items. Also present is a sacramental record book, 1934-1948, of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hustisford, Wisconsin, a congregation which shared St. Peter's pastor. Most of the records are in German. |
| St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Town of Clifton, Monroe County, Wisconsin) | Title: St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Town of Clifton, Monroe County, Wisconsin) Records, 1868-1967
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: La Crosse Micro 14; Micro 1099 Abstract: A minute book of St. Peter's Lutheran Church and records of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, and communicants, and a few brief financial notes. A list of pastors, 1862-1969, is at the back of Volume 3. |
| Jalowitz, Stacy | Title: Stacy Jalowitz: My Experience in the Gulf War, 1990-1992
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box), 2 tape recordings, and 20 photographs Call Number: Eau Claire Mss CI; PH Eau Claire Mss CI; Tape 1428A Abstract: Stacy Jalowitz, a UWEC freshman, recounts her experiences as a woman who participated in the Persian Gulf War, where she served in the 13th Evacuation Hospital with the Army National Guard during the Desert Storm operation in 1991. Included is her sixteen-page memoir in which she describes her experiences while stationed in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and in the desert, twenty miles south of the Iraq border. An oral interview on two audiocassette tapes, twenty photographs, and correspondence are also included. |
| Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser, and Hansen (Law firm) | Title: Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser, and Hansen (Law firm): State of Wisconsin vs. Milwaukee Braves et al. records, 1953-1966
Quantity: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 93 Abstract: Legal papers, trial transcripts, memoranda, exhibits, correspondence, and reference material created and collected by Willard S. Stafford and other members of the law firm of Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser, and Hansen, in preparation for the 1966 trial of the case State of Wisconsin vs. Milwaukee Braves, Inc., et al. The case involved Wisconsin's attempt to prevent the Braves National League baseball team from moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Stafford served as special counsel to the state attorney general (plaintiff) during the trial of alleged violations of the state's anti-trust laws. |
| Pelecky, Stan T., 1934- | Title: Stan T. Pelecky Papers, 1959-1966 (bulk 1963-1964)
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss EE Abstract: Papers, mainly 1963-1964, of Stan T. Pelecky, a one-term Democratic assemblyman from Milwaukee, consisting of letters from constituents and interest groups and a subject file concerning his interest in consumer issues and other legislative topics. |
| Aronowitz, Stanley, 1933- | Title: Stanley Aronowitz Papers, 1962-1965
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 372 Abstract: Papers of Aronowitz, a leftist sociologist and political activist and author of False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness. Included are correspondence with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Northern Student Movement, and other civil rights organizations concerning their projects; research notes and clippings on the economic situation in the United States; and an address file. |
| Hanks, Stanley C. (Stanley Charles), 1872-1945 | Title: Stanley C. Hanks Madison, Wisconsin, History Photograph Collection, circa 1850s-1985
Quantity: Approximately 1000 images (7 boxes of prints and lantern slides; 5 boxes of negatives) Call Number: PH 6095; PH 6095 (3) Abstract: Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides documenting Madison's history that were taken or collected by Stanley C. Hanks, a realtor and member of a prominent Madison family, used for illustrated talks he gave. Also included are photographs probably taken or collected by his father, Lucien S. Hanks, or his son, Lucien S. Hanks II. The collection includes a variety of photographic formats: original glass negatives, glass copy negatives, lantern slides, vintage prints, and copy prints. |
| Kutler, Stanley I. | Title: Stanley I. Kutler Papers, 1984-1988
Quantity: 11.8 c.f. (7 record center cartons and 8 file boxes) and 69 tape recordings Call Number: M2002-172; Audio 1626A Abstract: Research papers created and compiled by University of Wisconsin Professor Stanley I. Kutler, while doing research for his book, The Wars of Watergate: the Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (1990). The papers include research files (1984-1988) consisting of correspondence; documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act; research subject files; card file boxes containing note cards, bibliographic citations and photocopies; taped interview files containing correspondence, notes and transcripts; and tape recordings of interviews with Elias Demetracopoulos, Leonard Garment, Charles Lichenstein, Melvin Laird, John Mitchell, Edward Morgan, and Elliot Richardson among others. |
| Nastal, Stanley I. (Stanislaus I.), 1899-1947 | Title: Stanley I. Nastal Papers, 1922, 1934-1954
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 11 tape recordings Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 69; Tape 1011A Abstract: Papers of Nastal, a pioneer Milwaukee Polish-language radio broadcaster, and of his son, Stanley H., who succeeded him in 1947. The collection documents ethnic programming from the 1930s through the 1950s, and includes biographical information, a copy of Nastal's reminiscences of service with Polish Volunteer Forces of the Canadian Army during World War I, advertising contracts, program logs, and scripts. The logs, in English, are from Our Polish Hour, dating 1947-1954; the scripts, in Polish, are from Theater of the Air and daily serialized sketches. The collection also contains eleven tape recordings of broadcasts, primarily Our Polish Hour, circa 1942-1947. |
| Sims, Stanley L., d. 2003 | Title: Stanley L. Sims Papers Physical Description: 1.6 cubic feet Call Number: MSS Q Abstract: Sims was employed as Administrator of La Crosse Lutheran Hospital from 1938 to 1971. Lutheran Hospital is now called Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center. The papers contain an expanded version of Sims’ book, the History of La Crosse Lutheran Hospital and copy positives of the photographs used in the book. |
| Nowinski, Stanley M. | Title: Stanley M. Nowinski Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 1.4 linear ft. (3 archives boxes and 7 oversize folders) of papers, 0.2 linear ft. (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 28 Abstract: Papers and photographs of Stanley M. Nowinski, an officer in the Army during World War II and Korea, who worked immediately following the former to help Jewish Holocaust survivors get into Israel. The majority of the collection consists of Nowinski's military papers, including orders, forms, and reports that he collected during his twenty years of service. They provide some insights into the military through clothing and equipment lists, stateside housing forms, and pay records. In his reminiscences, he recalls the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau by the 42nd Division and his work as the Displaced Persons Officer. Also include is his post-war correspondence with leaders of the Jewish group, Bricha, that he worked with after World War II to get the survivors into Israel. The letters show the high regard in which Nowinski and his deeds were held several decades after the fact. Correspondents include Aba Gefen, an important Israeli diplomat. Other papers document his trip to Israel in 1973, where he received the Righteous Gentile Award. Materials from several Holocaust remembrance events attended by Nowinski include programs signed by Holocaust survivors and flyers posted by survivors trying to locate lost relatives. The photographs include shots from Nowinski's trip to Israel and several individual photos of him in military uniform. |
| Katz, Stanley Nider | Title: Stanley N. Katz Research Files, circa 1959-1963
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (6 card file boxes) Call Number: Mss 187 Abstract: Research files of Stanley Katz, a historian of the American Colonial period, consisting of notes and a bibliography for Newcastle's New York (1968), on Anglo-American politics in New York, 1732-1753, especially concerning governors Cosby and Clinton; and notes for A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of J.P. Zenger (1963). |
| McCormick, Stanley R., 1874-1947 | Title: Stanley R. McCormick Papers, 1881-1945
Quantity: 6.0 cubic feet (15 archives boxes); plus additions of 0.8 cubic feet Call Number: McCormick Mss 1G; McCormick Mss 2G; McCormick Mss 3G; McCormick Mss 4G; McCormick Mss 5G; M2002-052 Abstract: Papers of Stanley R. McCormick, youngest son of industrialist Cyrus Hall and Nettie Fowler McCormick, who became mentally incompetent at the age of thirty-two; consisting of correspondence, notes, minutes, financial accounts, medical reports and charts, legal documents, and transcripts of court hearings. These concern his early business interests, arrangements for his care, controversies between the McCormick's and his wife Katharine, whom he married in 1904, and reports of medical consultants. |
| Slagg, Stanley W. | Title: Stanley W. Slagg Papers, 1928-1933
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Whitewater Mss CF Abstract: Papers of a Wisconsin Assemblyman from Edgerton in Rock County relating to his two terms in office from 1929-1931. Prior to his election to the Assembly, Slagg served as Assistant District Attorney. The papers consist of legislative subject files reflecting the issues with which Slagg was involved and constituent, legal, and personal correspondence. |
| York, Stanley, 1931- | Title: Stanley York Papers, 1953-1996
Quantity: 5.6 c.f. (13 archives boxes and 2 card file boxes); plus additions of 1.0 c.f., 4 tape recordings, and 1 photograph Call Number: Mss 1007; M2011-069 Abstract: Papers, 1953-1996, of Stanley York, a Wisconsin State Assemblyman (R-Buffalo, Pepin, and Pierce Counties), pastor, and executive in various public sector and non-profit positions. The majority of the records relate to his tenure in the Wisconsin State Assembly (1967-1970), consisting of constituent correspondence, bill files, reference materials, reports, meeting minutes, news clippings, and committee files pertaining to such issues as public welfare, sex education, the upper Mississippi river basin, and disruptions at the University of Wisconsin. A small amount of materials relate to his post-legislative career as Commissioner of the Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations; Commissioner of the Public Service Commission; Executive Director of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities; Executive Assistant of the Department of Health and Social Services; and Director of the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, as well as his role as a pastor for the United Church of Christ. |
| State Association of Wisconsin Architects | Title: State Association of Wisconsin Architects Records, 1932-1949
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 36 Abstract: Records of the State Association of Wisconsin Architects including a constitution and by-laws, 1932; minutes and reports, 1934-1949; records of dues paid, 1934-1949; financial reports, 1948-1949; and proceedings of annual conventions for 1936, 1938, 1947, and 1948. |
| Wisconsin. Banks Division | Title: State Bank Files, 1896-1996
Quantity: 57.6 cubic feet (55 records center cartons and 9 archives boxes) and 0.1 cubic feet of plans (1 oversize folder) Call Number: 1987/191; 1987/192; 1990/199; 1990/201; 1995/134; 1998/016; 2002/079; 2003/027; 2004/014; 2005/008; 2006/013; 2007/015; 2008/007; 2009/022; 2010/021; 2011/016; 2012/029; 2012/216; 2013/023; 2014/024; 2015/010; 2016/013; 2017/003; 2018/004 Abstract: Records for state banks: Certificates of Authority to Commence Business, Bank Charters, Charter Certificates, Cancellations of Charter, Articles of Incorporation, By-laws and amendments to by-laws, and applications with supporting documents for new state banks, new state bank branches, state bank mergers, and trust powers. Also includes the initial application, resolution, merger agreements, shareholder notices, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or Federal Reserve approval, Bank Review Board approval, and investigation. |
| State Bank of Hilbert (Wis.) | Title: State Bank of Hilbert Records, 1903-1970
Quantity: 8 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Green Bay Micro 6; Micro 494 Abstract: Records of the Bank, which was chartered on May 3, 1903. These include minutes; general journals, 1908-1937; examining committee reports, 1907-1919; and volumes recording distribution of expenses, 1921-1961, and trial balances, 1904-1926. |
| State Bank of Prentice (Prentice, Wis.) | Title: State Bank of Prentice Records, 1920-1937
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 7 volumes) Call Number: Northland Mss 10 Abstract: Records of a small country bank that closed its doors in 1927 and completed liquidating its assets in 1937; consisting of cashier's correspondence relative to loan accounts, 1921-1925; tax returns, 1931-1936; commissioner's reports concerning liquidation; and bank ledgers relating to accounts and expenses, 1920-1937. |
| State Bar of Wisconsin | Title: State Bar of Wisconsin Records, 1878-2000
Quantity: 13.2 c.f. (33 archives boxes); plus additions of 10.3 c.f. and 3 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 260; M64-101; M69-149; M89-008; M92-328; M2010-026 Abstract: Records of an organization founded as the Wisconsin Bar Association which in 1957 became the integrated bar for Wisconsin to which all lawyers were required to belong. The records include convention proceedings (1933-1947), the Board of Governors minutes (1939-1948), correspondence of the president's office (1933-1945), and records of the secretary-treasurer (1913-1948). The records document the lobbying efforts by the association to establish an integrated bar, activities of the American Bar Association and Wisconsin county associations, membership campaigns, and financial activities of the organization. |
| Sloan, Richard, 1935- | Title: State Bird Prints, circa 1970
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (1 flat box) Call Number: PH 4827 (5) Abstract: Color lithographs from paintings made by Richard Sloan of state birds, issued by Griggsville Wild Bird Society, and signed by the governors of the respective states. The state bird series is a subset of Sloan's North American Birds series. Some states have the same state bird, thus only 28 prints. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin National Organization Correspondence, 1940-1996
Quantity: 4.2 c.f. (11 archives boxes); plus additions of 15.6 c.f. Call Number: Series 2046; 1979/174; 1981/157; 1982/048; 1984/241; 1991/209; 1993/034; 1993/178; 1996/102; 1997/075; 1997/181; 1998/185 Abstract: Correspondence of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin director and other administrative staff with national historical organizations, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Society of American Archivists, American Historical Association, American Heritage Magazine, American Association for State and Local History, and others. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin Photographs, 1880-2010
Quantity: 14.0 cubic feet (21 archives boxes, 11 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 folder), 0.6 cubic feet of prints and other materials (1 flat box), 0.1 cubic feet of drawings (1 oversize folder), and 0.1 cubic feet of transparencies (1 folder); plus additions of 0.7 cubic feet of photographs, 40 negatives, 1 drawing, and 3.14 gigabytes Call Number: PH 196; PH 196 (3); PH 2225; PH 2801 (5); PH 3914; PH 4770; PH 5072; 2004/082; 2005/089; 2005/103; 2010/015; 2015/074; 2016/172 Abstract: Photographs, drawings, and other materials illustrating the general history of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Included are interior and exterior views of facilities and building construction, programs and activities, historic sites, and museum exhibits. There are also formal and candid photographs of staff members and administrative program groups. The exhibit files include views of permanent and temporary installations, as well as receptions for exhibit openings. The activities files primarily document annual meetings, Founders Day, local history meetings, activities of the Junior Historian program, other special events, and group portraits of the staff. The majority of the photographs were assembled into albums by Paul Vanderbilt, the former head of Iconography, although they were later disassembled for researcher convenience. Coverage becomes very incomplete after Vanderbilt's 1972 retirement, although material continues to be added. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library-Archives Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Library and Archives Division, Digital
Project Files, 2001
Quantity: 5286 compact discs (186 compact disc boxes) Call Number: 2003/179; 2003/180; 2005/094; 2006/083; 2007/138; 2008/103; 2009/083; 2009/121; 2010/163; 2011/171 Abstract: CD-ROM back-ups to digital files created by the Library-Archives Division of books and manuscripts culled from the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society including Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles (WLHBA) and Wisconsin Necrology and images from the visual materials collections. |
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Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Office of Public Information, Promotional
Photographs and Related Material, 1949-1992,
2005
Quantity: 20.1 cubic feet of photographs, negatives, and transparencies (13 record center cartons, 14 archives boxes, 2 card boxes, 2 oversized folders, 1 flat box, 2 folders, and 5 negative boxes), 25 audio recordings, 3 video recordings, 16 films, and 594 Megabytes (6 files, 1 folder) Call Number: 1975/290; 1984/250; 1986/099; 1992/183; 1993/206; 1994/010; 1994/035; PH 3651; 2019/080; Audio 1712A; AC 282; AC 920 AE 199; AE 201-AE 209; AE 378; DD 497/DD 498; EA 052R; VHB 519-VHB 521 Abstract: Promotional photographs and related materials, created by the State Historical Society's Office of Public Information as part of its function to document and distribute information about the Society's activities, including the historic sites owned and operated by the Society. Records include photographs, negatives, and contact sheets; transparencies, slides, and negative film strips; news clippings, films and videos; audio recordings, brochures, and advertisements; all of which document events, activities, and staff at the Society's main headquarters building as well as its historic sites and Historymobile. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Administrative and Fiscal Services Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Administrative and Fiscal Services Division: Awards, 1949-1970
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 flat box) Call Number: Series 2010 Abstract: Awards and citations for distinguished service and activities, presented to the Society by historical agencies and local organizations. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Administrative and Fiscal Services Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Administrative and Fiscal Services Division: Financial Records, 1879-1951
Quantity: 2.5 c.f. (3 volumes and 3 archives boxes including 14 volumes) Call Number: Series 936 Abstract: Journals and ledgers recording receipts and disbursements, chiefly of private funds, showing the amount and date of each transaction, item involved, and generally the person or agency paying or receiving. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Archives and Research Services Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Archives and Research Services Division: Accession Records, 1952-1992
Quantity: 13.8 c.f. (13 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 38 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Series 2355 Abstract: Accession master lists, accession number assignment logs, and completed accession forms recording library, museum, sites, and manuscripts (private papers) acquisitions from donors. (Government records accessions are part of a separate system.) Created originally by the Office of Field Services (later a division), the collecting arm of the Historical Society, the records diminish in completeness as the various collecting programs within the Society assumed responsibility for this function and the associated record keeping. In 1982, the Archives Division absorbed Field Services and subsequently that staff's collecting and accessioning focused entirely on manuscripts. By 1992, procedures and record keeping practices changed significantly and this series was discontinued. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Collection Photographs, circa 1950s-1960s
Quantity: 1.6 cubic feet (4 archives boxes) Call Number: PH 5067 Abstract: Photographs, primarily of a documentary character, of the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The majority of the series documents museum collections. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts: Administrative Subject File of the State Archivist, 1942-2001
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box); plus 15.0 c.f. of additions Call Number: Series 979; 1990/180; 1991/001; 1995/003; 2003/176 Abstract: Memoranda and communications, primarily with the director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, on such problems as the establishment of the Archives Division, work procedures, space, establishment of regional depositories, relationship of the Division to the Committee on Public Records, examination of county and local governmental records, the Social Science Data Reference Center, and the preparation of an inventory of the Society’s records. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts: Paul Vanderbilt's Subject Files, 1951-1971
Quantity: 3.8 cubic feet (10 archives boxes and 2 card boxes) Call Number: Series 2489 Abstract: Classified subject files, mainly 1954-1965, and other administrative materials of Paul Vanderbilt (1905-1992), the first curator of the Historical Society's Iconographic Collection, including correspondence, memoranda, reports and writings, reference material, product samples, photographic tests, notes, and reference materials pertaining to the organization of the section, its operation, and the cataloging, exhibit, and promotion of its collections. Prominent correspondents include Ansel Adams, Roy Stryker, George Talbot, and Franklin Wallick, as well as Historical Society administrators Leslie J. Fishel Jr., J.W. Jenkins, Clifford Lord, and Don McNeil. Numerous films and photographs created by Vanderbilt as head of Iconography are separately catalogued in the Visual Materials Section. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Preservation-Public History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Preservation-Public History: Administrative Files, 1990-2011
Quantity: 19.4 cubic feet and 3 audio recordings Call Number: 2011/178; 2013/095; 2015/203; Audio 1681A Abstract: Administrative files from the Division of Historic Preservation and the Division of Public History, which merged in 2005 to become the Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. Prior to the merger, Michael Stevens served as State Historian and Administrator of the Division of Public History, and Alicia Goehring served as Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer (then State Historic Preservation Officer) and Administrator of the Division of Historic Preservation. After the merger, Stevens served as State Historic Preservation Officer and Administrator of the new Division of Historic Preservation-Public History, until his retirement in 2013. Included are subject files, meeting materials, correspondence, monthly and annual reports, speeches, records on administrative issues, and records on various activities in which Stevens was involved. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Preservation-Public History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Preservation-Public History: Archaeology Program Administrative Files, 1979-2006
Quantity: 7.4 cubic feet (6 record center cartons and 4 archives boxes) Call Number: 2003/004; 2014/160; 2015/115 Abstract: Correspondence and subject files maintained by the Archaeology staff to document requests for information on archaeological topics that do not involve a specific archaeological site. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Preservation-Public History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Preservation-Public History: Compliance Files, 1976-2016
Quantity: 1888 photographs (2 records center cartons), 1044 negatives (3 boxes), 31 transparencies, and 71 drawings (7 oversize folders); plus additions of 2.3 cubic feet, 158 photographs, and 982 megabytes Call Number: PH Series 2273; 2011/194; 2012/226; 2018/085 Abstract: Photographs and drawings pertaining to the division's evaluation of the effects on properties of historical, architectural, engineering, cultural, or archaeological significance by projects using federal or state funds or requiring federal licenses or permits. Records held by the Archives are of two types: 1) duplicate copies of reports about Wisconsin buildings and structures submitted to the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and 2) similar files submitted to the Historic Preservation Division in compliance with legal agreements to which the division was a party. Most often these files concern historic structures scheduled for destruction. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Sites | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Sites: Division Administrator Subject Files, 1954-2011
Quantity: 25.0 c.f., 0.8 c.f. of photographs, 278 transparencies, 6 videorecordings, and 5 rolls Call Number: 1989/264; 1999/114; 2007/105; 2008/065; 2012/149; 2013/006; 2013/165; 2014/090; 2014/106 Abstract: The working administrative files of the Division including letters, memoranda, spreadsheets, and reports concerning budget, capital projects, promotion, planning, interpretation, and other aspects of the Division's work. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Sites | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Sites: Sites Correspondence, 1947-1997
Quantity: 3.4 c.f. (9 archives boxes); plus 10.4 c.f. of additions Call Number: Series 992; 1980/256; 1983/258; 1999/113 Abstract: General correspondence concerning the administration of the historic sites operated by the Society and other matters of concern to the Division. The files include correspondence with Society administrators, site curators, the general public, the Conservation Department, and historical agencies in other states, plus other documents such as reports, memoranda, news clippings, and committee papers. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History: History of Wisconsin Project Files, 1964-1998
Quantity: 4.8 c.f. Call Number: 1999/097; 2011/080 Abstract: Administrative files relating to the planning, publicity, awards, budget, and agreements with contributors and authors for the multi-volume History of Wisconsin. Includes detailed files on the creation and publication of each volume including author notes, drafts, publicity, and correspondence. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History: John O. Holzhueter Research Files, 1935-2000
Quantity: 11.6 cubic feet (28 archives boxes and 1 custom box) and 30 tape recordings; plus additions of 8.5 cubic feet, 0.3 cubic feet of photographs, and 3 negatives Call Number: Series 2742; Audio 1377A; 2007/004; 2010/093; 2012/020; 2013/017 Abstract: Research files of John O. Holzhueter, a Wisconsin historian and researcher/editor for the State Historical Society. Materials include professional correspondence, research notes, clippings, photocopied published material, research papers, and other material relating to a wide range of Wisconsin history topics. Included are files on the Wisconsin state flag and seal, the fur trade, lynchings, Gerald L.K. Smith, and the Martin Treptow Pledge, among many others. Also included are a number of tape recordings of Wisconsin Public Radio interviews with Holzhueter. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Editorial Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Editorial Division: Manuscripts of Publications in Series, 1868-1947
Quantity: 4.8 c.f. (12 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 983 Abstract: Manuscripts published in their entirety or in part in the publications of the Society, including such series as the Wisconsin Historical Publications, the Wisconsin Historical Collections, the Biography Series, the Domesday Book, and the Proceedings. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Editorial Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Editorial Division: Publications Production Files, 1956-1995
Quantity: 6.4 c.f. Call Number: 1990/176; 1999/182 Abstract: Production files for all State Historical Society of Wisconsin (SHSW) publications. Major publication categories include historic site guides, travelers' guides, book and gift catalogs, and calendars. Production files may involve correspondence, notes, drafts, administrative files, and some finished products. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Historic Preservation Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Historic Preservation Division: Survey and Planning Grants, 1997
Quantity: 8 videorecordings Call Number: 2009/119 Abstract: Files concerning federal sub-grants to conduct surveys of historic architectural and archeological properties to identify properties meeting the criteria for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and to plan for their preservation. The files may include correspondence between the sub-grantee and the Division of Historic Preservation, generally concerning fiscal and government procedural matters, sub-grant agreements between sub-grantees and the division, consultants' proposals, contracts with consultants, notifications to the National Parks Service of proposed award of sub-grants, project schedules, project budgets, reimbursement requests, phone memos, newspaper clippings, close-out reports, and end-of-the-year reports. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Historic Preservation Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Historic Preservation Division: Unpublished Archaeology Reports, 1970-2008
Quantity: 135.0 cubic feet (135 record center cartons) Call Number: Series 2834 Abstract: Unpublished archaeological survey reports generated as a result of Section 106 compliance archaeological projects, survey and planning archaeological subgrant projects, and all projects conducted under the auspices of the Wisconsin Regional Archaeology program. The survey reports, which are required by both state and federal law, are conducted over large areas to determine if an archaeological site exists. These files are part of the Wisconsin Bibliography of Archaeological Reports database (BAR). |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library-Archives Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library-Archives Division: Bureau Directors' Subject and Correspondence Files, 1987-2015
Quantity: 12.5 cubic feet, 5 rolls, 1 videorecording, 1 oversize folder, 0.2 cubic feet of photographs, and 0.05 gigabytes Call Number: 2008/093; 2012/005; 2013/163; 2015/079 Abstract: Primarily subject files with some related correspondence documenting the routine work and special projects undertaken by the Bureau or supervised by the Bureau director. Bureaus include Public Services, Preservation, Library Acquisition and Technical Services, and Archives Acquisition and Technical Services. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library-Archives Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library-Archives Division: Wisconsin Conservation Service Center Administrative Subject and Reference Files, 1986-2006
Quantity: 5.0 c.f. Call Number: 2000/005; 2012/157 Abstract: Subject based files of the Wisconsin Conservation Service Center (WCSC), including budget records, special project and grant files, and reference materials. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library: CETA Project Files, 1977-1981
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (1 record center carton and 1 archives box) Call Number: 1986/190 Abstract: Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) project files, 1977-1981, for CETA projects supervised by James P. Danky of the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS). Records primarily relate Project History and Project Discovery. The projects inventoried WHS collections, prepared newspapers for microfilming, cataloged newspapers, indexed the 1905 Wisconsin census, land records index, indexed Wisconsin photographers, and indexed the Wisconsin Magazine of History. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Local History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Local History: Minutes of the Council for Local History and Its Subcommittees, 1957-2002
Quantity: 4.2 c.f. (4 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 12 tape recordings Call Number: 2005/163; Audio 1594A Abstract: Administrative records, 1957-2002, of the Council maintained in the Office of Local History, including minutes and working files for state and regional conventions, local history institutes, meetings of the advisory and administrative committees (some in recorded form), rosters of affiliated societies and officers, and planning files for the sesquicentennial of Wisconsin statehood. Several sesquicentennial meetings are available only in recorded form. The administrative committee is well documented, but there are minutes for only a few annual state conventions, despite the fact that minutes are the only document type specified by RDA 245/0113. There are no financial records or officer files. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Local History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Local History: Photographs, circa 1900-2000
Quantity: 3.0 cubic feet (1 records center carton, 2 archives boxes, 3 flat boxes, and 2 card boxes) Call Number: PH 6522 Abstract: Photographs documenting activities of the Office of Local History, local historical societies in Wisconsin, and copy negatives and prints of local history images collected for exhibition. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Local History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Local History: Wisconsin History Themed Videotapes, 1983, 1985, undated
Quantity: 13 videorecordings and 1 tape recording Call Number: 2001/162; Audio 1660A Abstract: Videotapes produced by the Office of Local History on various Wisconsin history and local history related topics. Most of the tapes are in 3/4-inch format; a few are in 1/2-inch format. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Public Information | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Public Information: Clippings, 1941-1984, 1989-1992
Quantity: 11.2 c.f. (1 archives box and 11 record center cartons); plus additions of 6.2 c.f. Call Number: Series 1751; 1985/028; 1991/198; 1992/149 Abstract: Clippings from Wisconsin newspapers concerning activities of the State Historical Society. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Public Information | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Public Information: Subject File, 1942-1975
Quantity: 10.0 cubic feet (10 records center cartons) Call Number: Series 1820 Abstract: Files containing news releases, publications, correspondence, memoranda, reports, scripts, clippings, and other materials generated by the Public Information (formerly Public Contacts) Office. No records exist for 1943-1945. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of School Services | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of School Services: Reference Files, 1969-1999
Quantity: 3.6 cubic feet Call Number: 2001/109; 2005/097; 2014/003 Abstract: Subject files created and used by the State Historical Society's Office of School Services (OSS) as a reference source for OSS research and publication projects. The subjects include a number of Wisconsin-related and more general historical topics such as Indians, family history, land use, archaeology, and architecture. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of School Services | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of School Services: Subject File, 1947-2001
Quantity: 4.4 c.f. (10 archives boxes, 1 flat box) and 7 transparencies (1 folder); plus additions of 1.2 c.f. Call Number: Series 989; PH 2430; 1997/106; 2008/059 Abstract: Correspondence, reports, promotional material, news clippings, and other papers concerning the Junior Historian program, publications, conventions, copyrights, the Historymobile, historic sites, division matters, and special projects and programs. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Research Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Research Division: Project Files, 1923-1958
Quantity: 4.5 c.f. (10 archives boxes, 1 half record center carton, and 2 card file drawers) Call Number: Series 991 Abstract: Project files including correspondence, questionnaires, statistical summaries, bulletins, reports, and pamphlets relating to each project. The projects were: Ethnic Population Analysis by Schools, 1923; Business Records Survey, 1948-1953; Labor History Project, 1950-1952; Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, 1950-1958; and Wisconsin Inventors Project, 1954-1956. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum: Administrative Subject File, 1946-1963
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 973 Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, reports, and minutes concerning museum projects, professional museum organizations, policies, activities, and related topics. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum: Correspondence and Subject Files, 1951-1979
Quantity: 6.0 c.f. Call Number: 1978/212; 1980/017; 1981/162; 2012/169 Abstract: General correspondence and museum education records of the State Historical Museum. There are also annual reports and information about award programs run by the Museum. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum. | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum: Museum Exhibits File, 1949-1957
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 975 Abstract: Correspondence, diagrams, drawings, posters, lists of artifacts, background material, research notes, capsule biographies, pamphlets, bibliographies, and clippings used in the preparation of specific museum exhibits. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum: Pauline Pottery Photographs, 1883-1909
Quantity: 36 negatives on 9 strips (9 envelopes) Call Number: PH Series 2800 Abstract: Photographs of Pauline pottery pieces from the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Included are images of a tobacco jar, pitchers, vases, bowls, and a bust of George Washington. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Assistant Director's Subject Files, 1960-2009
Quantity: 35.5 cubic feet Call Number: 1976/082; 1983/189; 1986/097; 2015/025; 2015/155; 2016/059; 2016/087; 2018/111; 2018/118 Abstract: Subject files of William Applegate, the Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Historical Society from 1969-1983 and Robert Thomasgard, Assistant Director from 1983-2009. Files focus on the development of Old World Wisconsin, Circus World Museum, and fundraising. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Biographical Sketches of Members, 1900-1981
Quantity: 3.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 1 record center carton) Call Number: Series 956 Abstract: Compilations of biographical data on State Historical Society of Wisconsin members. Each sketch, prepared by the subject, shows date and place of birth, names of parents, education, professional or business career, public career, marriage, children, and residence. The files occasionally include additional information, usually of a genealogical nature, which members sent in with the questionnaires. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Board of Curators Committee Records, 1940-2010
Quantity: 7.0 cubic feet (18 archives boxes); plus additions of 32.6 cubic feet and 2 tape recordings Call Number: Series 1910; Audio 1643A; 1978/229; 1979/020; 1981/281; 1983/311; 1984/291; 1985/041; 1986/168; 1988/222; 1992/182; 1993/012; 1994/024; 1997/080; 1997/180; 1998/190; 1999/096; 2015/191; 2016/058 Abstract: Files of standing and special committees of the Board of Curators, the governing body of the Historical Society; including committee lists, minutes, correspondence, reports, and recommendations to the Board. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Board of Curators Meeting Records,
1849-2001, 2010-2018
Quantity: 4.6 cubic feet (26 volumes), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), 3 reels of microfilm (16 mm), and 3 audio recordings; plus additions of 6.4 cubic feet (6 record center cartons and 1 archives box) Call Number: Series 932; Audio 161A; 2004/108; 2019/001; 2021/071 Abstract: Minutes of all meetings of the Board of Curators of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, including reports made to the Board, materials distributed to Board members, and meeting agendas. Records created prior to 1990 may also include minutes of meetings of the Society membership and Board of Curators committees. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Building Additions and Sites Blueprints and Drawings, 1911-1985
Quantity: 2.5 c.f. (35 oversize folders) and 47 aperture cards (in 1 folder) Call Number: Series 949 Abstract: Drawings, blueprints, and sketches of additions to the Society's headquarters building in Madison, the new museum building (including exhibit design drawings), and of construction and remodeling to buildings at Old Wade House, Circus World Museum, and other Society sites. Shown are elevations and floor plans, with detail drawings of finish work, decorations, equipment, and furniture. |
| State Historical Society Of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Building Commission Blueprints and Drawings, 1894-1900
Quantity: 37 oversize folders Call Number: Series 942 Abstract: Blueprints and drawings for the construction of the original SHSW building. Included are elevations, floor plans, and sections for construction, finish work, and decoration, as well as detailed drawings for furniture prepared by architects Ferry and Clas. Also included are blueprints submitted by suppliers and subcontractors, especially the Art Metal Co., Otis Elevator Co., and L.J. Mueller Furnace Co. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Building Commission Records, 1895-1915, 1923
Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes) and 147 photographs Call Number: Series 941; PH 136; PH 347 Abstract: Records, mainly 1895-1915, of several commissions appointed to oversee the construction of the Historical Society building and various early additions. The photographs, primarily cyanotype prints, document the construction, circa 1897-circa 1900. Included are images of the interior and exterior of the building, construction details, construction drawings, and workmen. Also included are views of the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus and of the Milwaukee Public Library. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Building Project Files, 1912-2001
Quantity: 2.4 cubic feet (6 archives boxes); plus additions of 37.9 cubic feet, 59 photographs, 18 transparencies, and 1 videorecording Call Number: Series 988; 1978/225; 1983/123; 1983/312; 1989/010; 1989/258; 1991/199; 1993/010; 2001/011; 2008/095; 2010/148; 2014/121; 2016/089 Abstract: Files concerning construction requests and projects at the Society building and at other Society sites, including specifications, bids, contracts, change orders, correspondence, minutes of meetings, drawings, schedules, reports, and other documentation. There are files for many small building projects both at the headquarters building and historic sites. Well documented are the 1954 and 1968 projects at the headquarters building. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Collections Storage Conditions Photographs, 1948
Quantity: 47 photographs (1 archives box) Call Number: PH 200 Abstract: Photographs made for an exhibit documenting storage conditions at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in 1948. Included are images of library and archival storage conditions at the Society's headquarters building as well as Society collections stored in the University Law Library, the attic of Agriculture Hall, and the State Capitol building. Also included are images of museum collections stored outdoors in Madison and Janesville, Wisconsin. The exhibit was successfully used to initiate action on appropriations to construct an addition to the Society's headquarters building. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Divisional Files, 1854-1979
Quantity: 18.6 cubic feet (46 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 678 Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and other documents concerning Society divisions and their projects in which the Society Administration was involved. Included are divisional annual reports, staff field reports, and files on the establishment of several Society historic sites and on matters of general staff concern such as procedures, membership, and personnel. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Membership Meetings and Special Events, 1938-2009
Quantity: 1.0 cubic foot (3 archives boxes); plus additions of 8.9 cubic feet, 0.1 cubic feet of photographs, 35 tape recordings, and 1 videorecording Call Number: Series 1752; 1990/218; Audio 1147A; 1995/086; 2009/117; 2013/092; 2014/085; 2014/149; 2015/158 Abstract: Materials generated by meetings of the Society's general membership and other special events such as Founders' Day, annual meetings, Institutes on Local History, and Board of Curators meetings. Records include correspondence, programs, press releases, occasional speeches, minutes, agenda, and reports. There is also information on several special events held by the Society including the La Follette centennial, groundbreaking for an addition to the building, and a John R. Commons birthday dinner. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Project Files, 1919-1965
Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons) Call Number: Series 1762 Abstract: Files containing correspondence, publications, memoranda, reports and other materials concerning projects involving the Society. The largest aggregates of material relate to the Civil War Centennial Commission (1958-1965), the Ethnic Project (1954-1962), the Labor History Project (1951-1965), and the Wisconsin State Centennial (1945-1948). |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: School Histories, 1938-1948
Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 990 Abstract: Histories of Jackson and Green Lake County schools, written by grade school students and dealing with the founding of one-room schools, teachers, community histories, family trees, and other subjects. Some photographs are included. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: State Agency Correspondence, 1940-2002
Quantity: 5.8 cubic feet (15 archives boxes); plus additions of 37.9 cubic feet and 2 tape recordings Call Number: Series 1048; 1977/171; 1978/155; 1978/193; 1980/067; 1981/127; 1984/202; 1988/019; 1988/244; 1990/172; 1991/115; 1992/002; 1992/188; 1993/011; 1993/194; 1994/030; 1995/082; 1995/156; 1997/077; 1998/066; Audio 1904A; 1998/130; 2001/101; 2012/209; 2013/035 Abstract: Correspondence of the director and other State Historical Society of Wisconsin staff members with officials of other State of Wisconsin agencies and with others on topics related to state government action. Topics include legislation, budget issues, historic sites, personnel, unemployment compensation, and many others. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Correspondence, 1900-1966
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 1723 Abstract: Correspondence of the director and other Society staff members with faculty and staff members of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Milwaukee concerning building, historical agencies courses taught by Society personnel, and other areas of common concern. |
| Paschal, Scott, collector | Title: State Sanatorium Postcards and Newsletters, 1905-1957
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: M2011-068 Abstract: Photographs and postcards, 1905-1957, both labeled and unlabeled, relating to the State Sanatorium for tuberculosis located in Wales, Wisconsin. Included are copies of the Sanatorium's monthly newsletter, The Beacon, from April 1945 to June 1957, and the newsletter of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association, The Crusader, from October 1946 to March 1952. Postcards of the Wisconsin State Industrial School for Boys in Waukesha are also included. |
| - - - | Title: Statistical Studies of the Wisconsin State Census, 1937-1940
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (11 volumes in 4 archives) Call Number: Mss 18 Abstract: Studies of the cultural-ethnic backgrounds of population in Wisconsin based upon the Wisconsin State Census of 1905 and divided into eleven separately indexed volumes comprising various tables compiled from the census. The studies were directed by George Hill of the University of Wisconsin Department of Rural Sociology and conducted by the U.W. Agricultural Economics-Agricultural Experiment Station in cooperation with the federal Work Projects Administration (WPA Projects 7512, 8419, and 10067). |
| Lynd, Staughton | Title: Staughton Lynd Papers, 1940-1977
Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (20 archives boxes), 1 tape recording, and 8 photographs Call Number: Mss 395; Audio 616A; PH Mss 395 Abstract: Papers of Staughton Lynd, a leftist historian and labor lawyer who was prominent in both the civil rights and the anti-war movements. The majority of the papers cover the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, with the emphasis on the varied social movements and radical activities with which he was affiliated rather than on Lynd himself. Articles and writings, correspondence, and clippings and other printed matter refer to campus protests of the 1960s; civil rights; the Vietnam War; tax reform; the Kennedy assassination; Jobs or Income Now (JOIN), a group which sought to organize the poor in Chicago; union organizing, especially among public employees in the Chicago and Gary, Indiana, area; the Mass Party Organizing Committee, a group which attempted to formulate a mass, Leninist, working-class party; and the New American Movement, a group which sought to build a mass-based democratic socialist movement in the United States. There are also files on Lynd's attempt to bring a leftist perspective to the historical profession and to the American Historical Association. |
| Steele Lumber Company (Lodi, Wis.) | Title: Steele Lumber Company Records, 1896-1964
Quantity: 14.0 c.f. (10 record center cartons and 8 flat boxes) Call Number: M88-204 Abstract: Records of the W.W. Steele Lumber Company, incorporated circa 1896 by William Washington Steele, documenting the financial and business aspect of the company through general accounting ledgers, inventory lists, mortgages, bonds, information on the Steele estate, and sparse correspondence belonging to W.W. Steele. Also included are records of the Wisconsin-Oregon Timber Company, incorporated 1907 by partners W.W. Steele, W.G. Bissell, and J.C. Neill, documenting timber and land purchases mainly in Oregon state through land title abstracts, contracts, a small amount of correspondence, and other miscellaneous financial materials. |
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Julian H. Stein Studio (Milwaukee, Wis.); Simon L. Stein Studio (Milwaukee, Wis.); Stein, Julian H., 1883-1937; Stein, S. L. (Simon L.), 1854-1922 |
Title: Stein Photograph Collection, 1883-1884, circa 1900-circa 1938
Quantity: 429 photographs (5 flat boxes) Call Number: PH 2 (3) Abstract: Studio portrait photographs of leading citizens of Wisconsin created by the studio of Julian H. Stein, and its predecessor, the Simon L. Stein Studio, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the subject, and most have biographical information about the subject affixed to the verso. |
| Mathews, Stella S., 1868?-1949 | Title: Stella S. Mathews Papers, 1919-1949
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (5 folders) Call Number: Milwaukee SC 84 Abstract: Papers of Mathews, a Milwaukee nurse who served with the Army and American Red Coss in France, Poland, and Greece, and then was a hospital nursing superintendent in Hawaii; including letters, citations, and award certificates; a biography; a list of Milwaukee people who served at base hospital 22 near Bordeaux, France; and minutes of the Wisconsin State Nurses Association, Districts 4 and 5, District Headquarters Committee, 1930-1933. |
| Bolles, Stephen, 1866-1941 | Title: Stephen Bolles Papers, 1920-1941
Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (5 archives boxes) and 2 reels of microfilm [35mm] Call Number: Wis Mss VQ; Micro 1038 Abstract: Papers of a former Republican congressman (1939-1941) and editor of the Janesville (Wis.) Gazette. The bulk of the collection relates to Bolles' term in the House of Representatives, and includes correspondence, articles and addresses, congressional voting records, and microfilmed clippings and scrapbooks. For the most part, the correspondence is either of a congratulatory nature or deals with his opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill in 1940. |
| Gilmour, Stephen C. | Title: Stephen C. Gilmour Family Genealogies, 1868-1934, 1977-1988
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archive boxes), 47 photographs, and 3 negatives Call Number: M2003-049 Abstract: Research papers, 1868-1988 (bulk 1977-1985), of Stephen Gilmour, consisting of his genealogical research of the Campbell family, Scottish immigrants who moved to Dane County in the early nineteenth century. Among the family names documented are Campbell, Thomas, Thompson, Patton, Jones, Collins, Walton, Anderson, Phillips, and Magill. His book, A Pioneer Family of Dane County, Wisconsin, was published in 1986 after Gilmour’s death and is included in the collection. The collection also includes photographs and negatives of family members and dwellings, mostly undated. |
| Babcock, S. M. (Stephen Moulton), 1843-1931 | Title: Stephen M. Babcock Papers, 1814-1931
Quantity: 5.3 cubic feet (13 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder), 1 tape recording, and 9 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: Wis Mss HG; File 1894 December 27 Oversize; Audio 1181A; PH 629 Abstract: Papers of Stephen Moulton Babcock, a University of Wisconsin professor and inventor of the Babcock milk fat content test, consisting of personal correspondence, account books, 1866-1926, Cornell University classbooks, brief and irregular diary entries for the years 1852-1882, memorandum books, 1906 lectures on dairy chemistry to the four-year agricultural students, a diploma of honorable mention from the Board of Lady Managers, the Columbian Exposition, December 27, 1894, a recipe book of May C. Babcock, and the recorded sound track from U.S. Department of Agriculture Motion Picture Service film 161-T-B interviewing Babcock about his milk testing apparatus. The letters consist of early family correspondence of Stephen Babcock's father, Peleg B. Babcock, Bridgewater, New York, concerning his agricultural and dairy pursuits and political interests; letters from Babcock's classmates at Tufts College, Cornell, and Göttingen, Germany; some correspondence concerning chemical analyses and experimental dairy work; correspondence with his fiancee and wife, May Crandall, of Winfield, New York; letters of friends and relatives of both the Babcock and Crandall families; requests for autographs; letters from organizations and individuals soliciting funds; and letters from faculty colleagues and fellow scientists. |
| Martindale, Stephen | Title: Stephen Martindale Letter to Daniel Roberts Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 106 Abstract: Letter from Stephen Martindale to Daniel Roberts, 29 March, 1853. Martindale studied law with Roberts in Vermont before coming to La Crosse, Wisconsin. |
| McCormick, Stephen, 1784-1875 | Title: Stephen McCormick Papers, 1827-1838
Quantity: 0.5 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 flat box) Call Number: McCormick Mss J Abstract: Papers of Stephen McCormick, Auburn, Virginia, inventor of a cast-iron plow, consisting of one account book, 1827-1838, recording plows sold and repaired, farm produce, and labor costs; two daybooks, 1832-1833 and 1838, for a general store, one probably operated by his son-in-law's father, J. W. Catlett, in which many entries appear for Stephen McCormick and his family; a patent, October 22, 1828, signed by John Quincy Adams; and specifications for improvements in McCormick's plow. (Any relationship with Cyrus Hall McCormick's own family line would have been very distant.) |
| United Artists Corporation | Title: Stephen McGrath Contract Correspondence: United Artists Corporation Records, Series
2J, 1931, 1947 (bulk 1947)
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box) Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AN/2J Abstract: Sample of Stephen McGrath's playdate and contract correspondence, mostly from 1947. Contracts were drawn up as terms and finances were finalized. The majority of contracts included in the records are instances of changes made to the contracts. |
| Andrews, Stephen Pearl, 1812-1886 | Title: Stephen Pearl Andrews Papers, 1844-1925 (bulk 1860s-1880s)
Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (6 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: U.S. Mss 19A; Micro 871 Abstract: Papers, mainly from the 1860s through the 1880s, of Stephen Pearl Andrews, an abolitionist, philosopher, and linguist. The collection includes an outline for an eight-volume treatise on Universology, a deductive science of the universe; articles and addresses regarding Alwato, an international language devised by Andrews; a constitution and reports for the Pantarchal University, founded by Andrews and others in 1872 to promote his theories regarding the ideal society; an incomplete autobiography; and a small amount of correspondence. Reference is made in the autobiography to Andrews' work as an abolitionist in Texas, his work with Sir Isaac Pitman in developing the Pitman Shorthand system, his editing of two radical magazines, The Anglo-Saxon and The Propagandist, and his sponsorship of two societies for free discussion in New York: the Colloquium and the Manhattan Liberal Club. Part of the autobiography is water-damaged and unreadable. |
| Visher, Stephen Sargent, 1887-1967 | Title: Stephen Sargent Visher Papers, 1907-1971
Quantity: 3.2 cubic ft. (4 boxes) Call Number: AGSL Manuscript Collection 31 Abstract: The papers of Stephen Sargent Visher, a geographer and climatologist who taught at the University of Indiana. The collection primarily contains correspondence, but includes manuscripts and teaching materials as well. |
| Sondheim, Stephen, 1930-2021 | Title: Stephen Sondheim Papers, 1946-1965
Quantity: 8.0 cubic feet (11 archives boxes and 9 flat boxes); plus additions of 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: U.S. Mss 66AN; M94-241 Abstract: Papers of Stephen Sondheim, a composer and lyricist, consisting of correspondence, scripts and drafts, music and lyrics, manuscripts, and miscellaneous writings. Coverage is best for Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), Gypsy (1957), and West Side Story (1957), for which Sondheim wrote the lyrics, and for Anyone Can Whistle (1964) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), for which he wrote both the music and the lyrics. Also included are small files for several other musicals and television series, both produced and unproduced; a group of miscellaneous songs; and professional correspondence, 1949-1960. Among the prominent correspondents are George S. Kaufman and Oscar Hammerstein II. |
| Stephenson (Marinette County, Wis. : Town). Clerk | Title: Stephenson (Marinette County, Wis. : Town). Clerk: Records, 1910-1951
Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Marinette Series 16 Abstract: Records categorized as Town Business (1910-1950); Finances and Taxation (1912-1951); Public Assistance (1931-1950); and the Works Progress Administration (1935-1938). Town Business includes correspondence on the construction and maintenance of bridges, fences, dams, sewers, roads and highways; electric lighting, power, and telephone facilities; the operation of schools; the maintenance of police and fire protection; court cases and injury claims; vital records and proofs of residency; and property ownership and property transfers. Finances and Taxation includes annual financial reports, bond issues and town loans, statements of taxes and assessments, correspondence involving personal and property taxes, and hearings before the Board of Review. Public Assistance includes correspondence with government agencies and private parties. Works Progress Administration contains payroll information, project proposals, progress reports, and miscellaneous correspondence. |
| - - - | Title: Stereographs of Children at Play, circa 1885-1905
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 cardfile box) Call Number: PH 2524 Abstract: Stereographs, black and white and hand-colored photographs, of children at play, circa 1885-1905, published by American Stereoscopic Company, T.W. Ingersoll, and North-Western View Company of Baraboo, Wisconsin. Scenes feature children involved in indoor and outdoor activities, with toys, household items, pets, and other animals. A few scenes depict racial stereotypes. |
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Bennett, H. H. (Henry Hamilton), 1843-1908; Anger, H. W.; Sherman, W. H. (William Hayward), 1821-1898; Vollert, William P.; Union View Company |
Title: Stereoscopics Collection, circa 1865-1915
Quantity: 1.0 cubic ft. (9 boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 29 Abstract: This collection consists of 499 stereoscopic photographs, or stereograms, of national and international people and places. The collection is primarily comprised of popular tourist destinations. Of special interest are images of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Dells, and Lake Superior. While the images are largely undated, they are most likely from circa 1865-1915. |
| Schallert, Sterling W. | Title: Sterling W. Schallert Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 0.6 linear ft. (2 archives boxes and 4 oversized folders) of papers, 0.8 linear ft. (1 archives box, 2 flat boxes, and 3 oversized folders) of photographs, 0.1 linear ft. (1 master tape, 1 master disc, 1 user disc) of sound recordings. Call Number: WVM Mss 104 Abstract: The papers and photographs of Sterling W. Schallert, a Navy officer who served aboard Landing Ship-Tank (LST) 465 in the Pacific during World War II. Collection contains materials from his wartime service as well as his research and writings regarding the history and role of LSTs in the U.S. Navy. Included are numerous leaflets of Japanese propaganda, aimed at Australian soldiers, that are colorful and sometimes sexually explicit in trying to convince their targets that the Americans were betraying them. Schallert's handwritten notes from Midshipman school provide insight into wartime training in the Navy while collected poems and songs reveal ways in which soldiers and sailors found humor in their service. Numerous articles, by Schallert and others, provide insight into the history of several LSTs, including 465, as well as amphibious assaults in which LSTs were used like Leyte Gulf. A list of LSTs built in Wisconsin provides a local connection. The wartime reminiscences of fellow LST crewman Alvin Steinbach are in the collection, along with papers relating to the Philippine War service of Schallert's uncle Frank Schallert and also George Van Norman. Photographs include two scrapbooks with pictures of Schallert in uniform, the launching of LST 465, and LSTs in action during the war. A large photograph shows Moro Bay, California where Schallert served at the end of the war. Candid photographs from Frank Schallert show Philippine natives and U.S. soldiers while those from Van Norman include the Company F, 18th U.S. Infantry baseball team and a military funeral. Also included is an audio recording of Schallert discussing his time spent on shore patrol duty in San Francisco and how much he enjoyed being a supply officer on an LST during the war. |
| Stern Fund | Title: Stern Fund Records, 1936-1992
Quantity: 23.1 c.f. Call Number: M97-170; M2001-078; M2005-087 Abstract: Records of the Stern Fund, a philanthropic foundation established by Edgar and Edith Stern in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1936. In its early years, the Fund mainly supported New Orleans organizations, especially those related to the arts and the education of African Americans. Later, the Fund touched a wide variety of groups and projects, particularly fledgling organizations working for social change. The bulk of the collection consists of grant files and documents applicants to the foundation's funding programs. |
| Gunderson, Steve, 1951- | Title: Steve Gunderson Papers, 1980-1996
Quantity: 12.0 cubic feet (12 records center cartons) and 82 photographs (1 archives box) Call Number: La Crosse Mss DL; PH La Crosse Mss DL Abstract: Papers of Steve Gunderson, Republican congressman who represented Wisconsin's 3rd district from 1981 to 1997. The papers include campaign materials, such as newspaper clippings, debate information, mailings, policy briefs, and information concerning trips to the district; committee materials; press releases and speeches; news clippings arranged by subject as well as by newspaper; legislation authored or coauthored by Gunderson; and subject files. Much of the collection relates to the Agriculture Committee and the Education and Labor Committee, of which Gunderson was a member, primarily information regarding legislation considered by those committees. The photographs show Gunderson campaigning and talking with constituents, speaking to various groups, and interacting with community leaders and other politicians. |
| Rees, Steve, 1945- | Title: Steve Rees Papers, 1970-1978
Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes), 4 tape recordings, and 24 photographs Call Number: Mss 779; Tape 1220A; PH 3897 Abstract: Papers of Steve Rees, a writer, editor, and anti-Vietnam war activist whose involvement with the revolutionary organization of Movement for a Democratic Military (MDM) led to the establishment in 1970, of the underground GI newspaper Up Against the Bulkhead. Included in the organizational records are background materials, administrative records, articles and research, correspondence, and files relating to the production of the newspaper. A prominent correspondent is David Cortright, author of Soldier's Revolt. There are also limited files documenting Rees's activity in the formation of the above-ground GI newspaper Enlisted Times and some fragmentary records of the Stop Our Ship (SOS) movement, closely allied with Up Against the Bulkhead. Records consist of material relating to the production of the SOS Newsletter, correspondence, mailing lists, and project files on specific U.S. aircraft carriers. |
| Brist, Steven C., 1954- | Title: Steven C. Brist Papers, 1977-1986
Quantity: 9.0 c.f. (20 archives boxes and 5 index card boxes) Call Number: Mss 1028 Abstract: Papers of Steven C. Brist, a three-term Democratic assemblyman for the 67th assembly district from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, documenting his political career. Files consist of legislation records organized by bill number, constituent correspondence referenced by last name and topic, news clippings, and newspaper columns authored by Brist. The bulk of the collection consists of papers from Brist's second and third terms in office (1982-1985) with only a limited amount of material from his first term (1976-1977). Brist was instrumental in creating legislation relating to securities, property and real estate, employee disclosure of improper activities in governmental units (whistleblower protection), and the designation of milk as the official state beverage. Other topics covered in the collection include marital property reform, changing the legal drinking age, mandatory seat belt usage, voter registration, abortion and wrongful birth, and groundwater pollution and waste management. |
| Hensen, Steven L., 1944- | Title: Steven L. Hensen Papers, 1971-2008
Quantity: 11.4 cubic ft. (12 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 298 Abstract: Steve Hensen's papers document his career as a professional archivist and manuscript curator. The collection is comprised of his correspondence, drafts of his writings, and papers relating to his activities, including his involvement with the Society of American Archivists (SAA), workshops conducted, projects undertaken, and various archives conferences. |
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Cullen, Steven S.; Milwaukee (Wis.). Common Council. |
Title: Steven S. Cullen Aldermanic Records, 1978-1992
Quantity: 2.8 cubic ft. (7 boxes) Call Number: City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 33 Abstract: Records of Common Council Alderman Steven Cullen, who served Milwaukee's 5th District from 1980-1992. Contains correspondence, reports, and planning documents. |
| Stevens family | Title: Stevens Family Papers, 1829-1922
Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 half-archives box), 3 certificates (1 folder), and 23 photographs, 7 ferrotypes and 1 piece of ephemera (1 folder) Call Number: Parkside Mss 11; PH 4060(3); PH 4091 Abstract: Papers of members of the Stevens family, relatives of Alanson H. Stevens who migrated from Schoharie County, New York to Bristol, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, in 1844. Family correspondence, a diary (1857-1861) kept by Martha A. Stevens, records of land transactions including two Revolutionary War bounty land certificates, genealogical information, and a draft of Volume 1, No. 2 of The Literary Avalanche, a literary journal co-published by a member of the family. The correspondence includes a letter describing effects of the Peshtigo Fire. Photographs are primarily studio portraits of unidentified family members and other ephemera. |
| Stevens Point (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Stevens Point (Wis.). Clerk: Clerk's and Treasurer's Financial Records, 1858-1899
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (4 volumes in 1 archives box) Call Number: Portage Series 73 Abstract: These records document the financial transactions of the City of Stevens Point. They consist of account books, 1858-1882; a cash book and journal, 1878-1896; and a journal and account book, 1880-1899. |
| Stevens Point (Wis.). City Council | Title: Stevens Point, Wisconsin, City Council Proceedings, 1858-1916
Quantity: 9.0 cubic feet (27 volumes) Call Number: Portage Series 75 Abstract: Minutes of the proceedings of the City Council. |
| Stiles (Oconto County, Wis.: Town). Clerk and Assessor | Title: Stiles (Oconto County, Wis.: Town). Clerk and Assessor: Records, 1860-1977
Quantity: 3.7 cubic feet (5 archives boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 folders, and 8 volumes) Call Number: Oconto Series 8-15; Oconto Small Series 5-6 Abstract: Records of the Town of Stiles including election results, naturalization records, clerk's records, property assessments, poll taxes, chattel mortgages, highway records, and school records. |
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Mereness, Newton Dennison; Stock, Leo Francis, b. 1878 |
Title: Stock and Mereness Archival Calendars, 1670-1908
Quantity: 6.8 c.f. (50 card file boxes) Call Number: Mss 445; Mss 446; Mss 447; Mss 448; Mss 449; Mss 450 Abstract: Calendars prepared by Newton D. Mereness or L. F. Stock, circa 1912-circa 1937, summarizing letters and other items held by U.S. government offices and concerning the Mississippi Valley and the Midwest. Included are records of the Interior (1820-1880), Post Office (1789-1893, 1908), State (1670-1865), and War (1789-1873) Departments, the United States Senate (1786?-1888?); and several manuscript collections at the Library of Congress including the papers of Arthur St. Clair, John McLean, Duncan McArthur, and Hamtramck's “Standing Orders at Detroit, 1802.” |
| Stockton (Portage County, Wis. : Town). Clerk | Title: Stockton (Portage County, Wis. : Town). Clerk: Town Records, 1855-1920
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (6 volumes in 2 archives boxes) Call Number: Portage Series 27 Abstract: Record books including proceedings of the annual town meetings and meetings of the town board, 1855-1878, 1883-1915; register of officers, 1870-1915; oaths, 1870-1918; order register, 1867-1915; chattel mortgage record, 1869-1897; record of school tax and apportionment, 1870-1920; and a treasurer's journal, 1869-1915. Each volume contains several types of records. |
| Stoddard family | Title: Stoddard Family Correspondence Quantity: 0.02 cubic foot (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 104 Abstract: The Stoddard Family correspondence dates from 1797 through 1864 and includes a letter announcing Thomas B. Stoddard as the first mayor of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1856. |
| Stoddard Hotel (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Stoddard Hotel (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Physical Description: 8.5 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 099 Abstract: Stoddard Hotel operated as the most upscale hotel in La Crosse for nearly 80 years, but also served as a center for entertainment, weddings, conferences, meetings and the like. Records include guest registers (with the guest’s signature) from 1904-1927; 1929-1930; financial volumes, 1903-1939, and a scrapbook, 1932-1934 highlighting events which took place at the Stoddard Hotel. |
| Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej w Ameryce. Post No. 94 (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej w Ameryce. Post No. 94: Records, 1942-1977
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 51 Abstract: Records of one of two Milwaukee chapters of the Polish Army Veterans Association of America (Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej w Ameryce), consisting of minutes of meetings, all in Polish, 1945-1966, and jubilee albums of the Post and its Ladies Auxiliary. The organization is composed of veterans of the Polish army from World Wars I and II, and Americans of Polish descent who served with the American armed forces during World War II. |
| Title: “Strange Experiences” Films, 1955-1956
Quantity: 2 reels of film (16 mm) Call Number: FG 587-FG 588 Abstract: Twenty-eight of twenty-eight episodes from the five-minute-long television program Strange Experiences, which aired on ATV in the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1956. The show told stories involving suspense, the supernatural, or the otherwise uncanny. |
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Stroeh family; , Unnasch family |
Title: Stroeh Family and Unnasch Family Papers Physical Description: 1.6 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 102 Abstract: Personal papers and photographs of La Crosse, Wis., residents, Fern (Stroeh) Unnasch (1917-1981) and her husband Ernest Unnasch (1918-1996). The bulk of the collection consists of black and white family photographs related to the Stroeh and Unnasch families which connects with the Heberlein, Krause, Ready, Schumacher, Schieche, Secor, and Smolek families. Beside family images, other photographs include pictures of the Shelby Dairy truck, the Stroeh farm in the town of Shelby, a Shelby fire truck, the La Crosse Garment Workers (1938), Hamilton Homemakers, and Shelby Homemakers. Photographs of La Crosse, Wis., residences include 1020 So. 4th St., 1220 So. 4th St., and 223 No. 23rd St. Additional materials include brief family trees; newspaper clippings (1918-2006); a scrapbook (1941-1942); photographs of friends; two milk/cream caps marked “Shelby Dairy” and “Joe Stroeh;” and an 1877 marriage certificate which appears to be written in the German language for Franz Dobbratz and Auguste Behnke. |
| Carlson, Stuart | Title: Stuart Carlson Editorial Cartoons, 1983-2008
Quantity: 11.5 cubic ft. (23 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 275 Abstract: Collection consists of original drawings by Stuart Carlson, the editorial cartoonist of the Milwaukee Sentinel from 1983 to 1995 and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 1995 to 2008, concerning local, state, and national topics. |
| Ewen, Stuart | Title: Stuart Ewen Papers, 1961-1965
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 531 Abstract: Papers collected by Ewen regarding civil rights work in Mississippi, primarily in the fall of 1964. The collection includes Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee proposals for future work, outlines of programs and projects, material from workshops and meetings, and similar papers. Also present are reports, November 1964, of jointly sponsored SNCC-COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) projects throughout the state, and some COFO correspondence, notes of meetings, and food and clothing aid applications, also from November 1964. A folder of materials concerning Robert U. Jones, a Corinth, Mississippi crusader against racism, contains copies of his “newsletter,” and a 1965 letter to Ewen summarizing his work. All items in the collection are copies; originals were photocopied and returned to the donor. |
| Gordon, Stuart, 1947-2020 | Title: Stuart Gordon Papers, 1968-2007
Quantity: 37.0 cubic feet (86 archives boxes, 10 flat boxes, and 2 oversize folders), 1.4 cubic feet of photographs (4 archives boxes and 1 cardfile box), 64 film reels (35 mm), 174 videorecordings, 47 videodiscs, and 29 audio recordings Call Number: M2008-074; HC 204-265; VHA 759-897 Abstract: Papers, 1968-2007, of Stuart Gordon, theater director, film director, and screenwriter. The bulk of the collection documents his work in cinema and, to a lesser extent, television. Motion pictures directed by Gordon represented include Re-Animator, 1985; From Beyond, 1986; Space Truckers, 1996; The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, 1998; Dagon, 2001; and Stuck, 2007. Documentation of other motion pictures to which he contributed includes, among others, papers concerning Pet Sematary, 1989; and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, 1989. There is a small quantity of material relating to Gordon's theatrical career as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and as a co-founder of the Organic Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction | Title: Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) Records, 1994-2007
Quantity: 29.6 cubic feet (28 record center cartons and 4 archives boxes), 3 videorecordings, and 35.5 gigabytes Call Number: 2015/033; 2017/016; 2018/022; VHC 156-VHC 158 Abstract: The Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program was established in the 1996-1997 school year to improve student achievement by limiting class size, increasing collaboration between schools and communities, implementing rigorous curriculum, and improving staff professional development. Records include project evaluation reports, proposals for the project design, senate bills, research designs, and data collected for project evaluations. |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison. University Archives and Records Management | Title: Student Conduct Policy reports Quantity: 0.25 Linear Feet One half-sized letter document box. 0.25 linear feet of paper documents. Call Number: uac154 Abstract: Student Conduct Policy reports contains eight reports prepared by campus committees in between 1949 and 1970. Each report addresses some aspect student conduct, discipline, or role in governance. This collection of reports was curated by the Office of Legal Affairs. |
| Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam | Title: Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records, 1966-1973
Quantity: 6.5 c.f. (17 archives boxes), 15 photographs, and 22 negatives Call Number: Mss 339; PH Mss 339 Abstract: Records of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (SMC), a national coalition (1966-1973) formed to coordinate opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam among college and high school students. Best represented is the early period (1966-1968) when the national office was headquartered in New York City. Most complete are the files on anti-war groups in California (some correspondence from Bettina Aptheker is included here), Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York. Most extensive international contacts involved Australia, Canada, France, and Vietnam. Other files concern the G.I. Press Service, an arm of SMC which organized anti-war sentiment in the military. |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Arkansas Project | Title: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Arkansas Project: Records, 1960-1971
Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (8 archives boxes), 3 tape recordings, and 422 images on 83 contact strips and 9 photographs in 1 archives box; plus additions of 0.4 c.f. Call Number: Mss 488; Audio 805A; PH 2917; M2004-217 Abstract: Records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Arkansas Project initiated in 1962 and of the Arkansas Summer Project begun in 1965, which were designed to combat segregation in public facilities and schools, to assist voter registration, and to raise the consciousness of black citizens. Included in the collection are records of the state headquarters in Little Rock, as well as the records of three local SNCC-sponsored citizens' groups: the Gould Citizens for Progress, the Pine Bluff Movement, and the St. Francis County Achievement Committee. Accessions of personal papers of Arkansas SNCC workers, including Laura Foner, William W. Hansen, Collin Minert, Vincent O'Connor, and Mitchell Zimmerman, have also been added to this collection. The records of all these allied groups and individuals consist of correspondence, reports, notes, affidavits and legal papers, and reference files, recorded interviews, and photographs. |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Vine City Project (Atlanta, Ga.) | Title: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Vine City Project (Atlanta, Ga.): Records, 1960-1971 (bulk 1965-1971)
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box) and 0.1 cubic feet (1 oversize folder) of posters Call Number: Mss 347; PH 4475 Abstract: Records, mainly 1965-1971, of a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) experiment in local political organizing among Blacks in Atlanta, Georgia. Organizational records include correspondence, a notebook kept by project head William Ware, position papers, miscellaneous financial records, and publications. Subject files relate to social, economic, and political activities of the project and variously contain petitions, reports, press releases, clippings, and leaflets. |
| Student Peace Center (Madison, Wis.) | Title: Student Peace Center Records, 1955-1962
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 128 Abstract: Records of the Student Peace Center, an organization of pacifist students that was active on the campus of the University of Wisconsin from the mid-1950's to the mid-1960's. Included are correspondence, posters, clippings, minutes, and organizational material concerning its anti-military balls and its agitation against the draft. |
| Student Peace Union (U.S.) | Title: Student Peace Union Records, 1958-1964
Quantity: 3.8 cubic feet (9 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 514 Abstract: Records of the Student Peace Union, a national organization of students and youth (1959-1964) opposed to the nuclear arms race that bridged the gap between the “old peace movement” and the opposition to the war in Vietnam. Included are minutes, convention papers, correspondence, publications, miscellaneous local records, and miscellany. Both the collection as a whole, and the correspondence which comprises two-thirds of the collection, are most complete for the period 1961 through 1963. Subjects treated range from routine communications with local chapters to exchanges over policy with many of the individuals and organizations then most important in the peace movement. |
| Student Wisconsin Education Association (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) | Title: Student Wisconsin Education Association (University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Records, 2000-2011
Quantity: 1.6 cubic feet (3 boxes) 84 digital files (5.70 GB) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 348 Abstract: This collection documents the activities of the Student Wisconsin Education Association at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 2000-2011. The majority of the documents are in scrapbook format, which highlights the group's outreach events such as Read Across America and Toys for Tots, as well as its board members. The collection also holds records for the Urban Teacher World Milwaukee program, which provides information about the program and their events for students. |
| Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) | Title: Students for a Democratic Society Records, 1958-1970
Quantity: 22.2 cubic feet (57 archives boxes), 24 tape recordings, and 41 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 1.2 cubic feet Call Number: Mss 177; Audio 517A; Micro 655; M78-179; M96-081; M2000-040; M2001-026; M2008-108; M2010-118 Abstract: Records of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a national organization of students founded in 1960 that provided much of the force and direction for the New Left during the 1960s. Three boxes relate to SDS during its initial growth, 1958-1962, and contain national convention papers (including the Port Huron Statement); files on the League for Industrial Democracy and the Student League for Industrial Democracy from which SDS developed, projects, and related organizations; and correspondence of early leaders Al Haber and Tom Hayden. Thirty boxes date from the fall of 1962 to August 1965, the period when SDS still considered reform possible and when it maintained four separate national offices: the administrative national office and the offices of the Economic Research and Action Project, the Peace Research and Education Project, and the Political Education Project. National office records include voluminous correspondence of leaders such as Todd Gitlin, Paul Potter, and Clark Kissinger, reports, minutes, membership lists, pamphlets, registration forms, newsletters, clippings, and check stubs. These records relate to conventions and meetings, projects involving the anti-war movement and South Africa, publications, and intra-organization matters and relations with local chapters and other organizations. ERAP, which was headed by Rennie Davis, sought to organize a radical political movement among the poor. This section includes files on meetings, publications, and projects such as its extensive work among the poor in Chicago. PREP, which served as a clearinghouse and publisher for research on peace, disarmament, and foreign policy, is documented by correspondence, leaflets, manuscripts, newsletters, prospectuses, reports, and files on Boston PREP. One-half box of correspondence, memos, minutes, leaflets, prospectuses, and reports document PEP's efforts to push national electoral politics leftward in 1964. The third series consists of 23 boxes regarding the operations of the national office from late 1964 to 1970 when SDS became increasingly action-oriented, violent, and fractious, ultimately dividing into Progressive Labor, Weathermen, and Revolutionary Youth Movement. Included are correspondence (containing many references to Paul Booth and Bernadine Dohrn); minutes, notes, resolutions, and further correspondence of the national conventions and meetings; office files; project and subject files; reference files; and material concerning local chapters and related groups. Also part of the manuscript collection, but not available with the microfilm edition, are 24 tape recordings of SDS conferences, conventions, meetings, and speeches; the April 17, 1965, March on Washington; and the 1966 National Conference for New Politics Electoral Campaign Institute. |
| Students for a Libertarian Society | Title: Students for a Libertarian Society Records, 1978-1984
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes), 14 photographs, and 1 poster Call Number: Mss 739; PH 3775; PH 3775 (3) Abstract: Records of the Students for a Libertarian Society (SLS) and of its local chapters in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1979-1980), Madison, Wisconsin (1981-1984), and Evanston, Illinois (1983-1984) created and collected by an active member, David Beito. SLS is a group formed in April, 1979, to move college students toward the Libertarian Party movement, with which it is associated. Included are local and national SLS administrative records, correspondence, convention records, flyers, opinion papers, literature, and clippings primarily relating to anti-draft and anti-tax activities and to a proposed anti-pornography ordinance in Madison. Also present is some material on related anti-draft organizations in Minnesota with whom the SLS collaborated and some personal papers of Beito including campaign literature from his unsuccessful 1982 congressional campaign. |
| Students for Peace and Justice in the Middle East (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Students for Peace and Justice in the Middle East Records, 1969-1973
Quantity: 1.8 cubic ft. (4 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 4 Abstract: Most of the collection is background materials, especially published literature, concerning Israel and Palestine, compiled by Joseph McCarty, a former officer of the SPJME, a UWM student organization. The only material dealing exclusively with the organization is a scrapbook containing a constitution, correspondence, flyers, letters, and memorabilia. The collection also contains audio reel recordings of a December 6, 1970 edition of a Milwaukee radio talk show, Milwaukee Talkie, hosted by Bob Schuster with guest Uri Davis, an Israeli pacifist and war resister. |
| Studies on the Left | Title: Studies on the Left Records, 1959-1967
Quantity: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 74; Micro 997 Abstract: Records of a socialist journal whose editorial focus included the social and natural sciences, literature, and the arts. Over half of the collection is comprised of correspondence concerning content, advertising, exchanges, circulation, and other business and financial matters. The correspondence, which deals with content and which spans the journal's existence (1959-1967), relates to editorial policy in general and to the publication of individual articles. Included are extensive exchanges with authors such as Herbert Aptheker, Noam Chomsky, David Dellinger, W. E. B. DuBois, Philip Foner, Eugene Genovese, Thomas Hayden, Langston Hughes, Corliss Lamont, Staughton Lynd, Herbert Marcuse, C. Wright Mills, Sidney Peck, Howard Selsam, William A. Williams, C. Vann Woodward, and Maurice Zeitlin. For the period 1965-1967, there are manuscripts of articles and reviews. The remainder of the collection is comprised of fragmentary business and financial records. |
| - - - | Title: “Studio One” Films, 1955-1958
Quantity: 8 film reels and 5 videocassettes Call Number: see list below Abstract: Ten episodes of Studio One, an hour-long dramatic anthology series that ran on CBS from 1948 to 1958. All the episodes are in black and white with sound. The film reels are a mix of 16 mm kinescopes and 16 mm archival positives. The videocassettes are a mix of 1/2" VHS tapes and 3/4" U-Matic tapes. See the episode list below for details. All episodes include commercials for Westinghouse products. These items are parts of several collections held by the Archives. |
| Study Club of La Crosse (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Study Club of La Crosse Records Physical Description: 1.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS T Abstract: The Study Club of La Crosse (Wisconsin) was organized in 1928, under the name Thursday Study Club. In 1929, the group became affiliated with the Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs. At biweekly meetings, club members took turns presenting programs of intellectual interest or inviting guest speakers to lecture. The name of the club was changed to Study Club of La Crosse in 1950, and the group was disbanded in 1983 due to the advanced age of its members and a lack of interest. Records of the Club, 1928-1983, include study club program announcements (1928-1983 with gaps), minutes (1962-1980) and several scrapbooks (1928-1978). |
| Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (Sturgeon Bay, Wis.) | Title: Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Records, 1916-1941
Quantity: 15.6 c.f. (33 archives boxes and 8 volumes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 8 Abstract: Records of the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, whose main purpose was to build new ships, to repair damaged ships, and to erect, maintain, and operate dry docks and other equipment necessary to the shipbuilding business. Materials include business correspondence and records (1922-1941), inventories, annual reports, tax records, employee records, and time books. Also included are records of a predecessor firm, Rubolt and Wolter Co. |