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| Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 | Title: Zona Gale Papers, 1838-1970
Quantity: 7.7 cubic feet (19 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Wis Mss MP Abstract: Papers of Zona Gale, a Wisconsin novelist and playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1921 for her play Miss Lulu Bett. Literary papers, including manuscript drafts and revisions of plays, novels, articles, and other writings, form the major portion of the collection. The correspondence includes letters to and from many literary figures. Gale's interests in many other activities are also reflected; among these are woman suffrage, pacifism, prohibition, mysticism, civil liberties, and support of Progressive politics in Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin. |
| Zone A Emergency Government | Title: Zone A Emergency Government Records, 1955-1990
Quantity: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes) and 6 photographs Call Number: Milwaukee Series 33; PH 6508 Abstract: Records of the Zone A Emergency Government Office, one of five zones in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin charged with emergency management. The bulk of the records date between 1963 and 1980. Zones were created to pool the resources of each community's civil defense related activities, hence the administrative records largely document this coordination and include documentation of partnerships with other civil defense organizations. Included are agreements, minutes, and correspondence for the administration of Zone A, annexes related to the zone's emergency operating plan, and minutes and correspondence for civil defense organizations outside of Zone A for which the Zone A director, Robert Cavey, was a member. The organizations most represented are the Southeast Area, Wisconsin Division of Emergency Government; the United States Civil Defense Council; and the Wisconsin Civil Defense and Disaster Association. The director's subject files consist of information collected by the director to assist in his Zone A work. |
| Zonta Club of Milwaukee | Title: Zonta Club of Milwaukee Records, 1936-1972
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 179 Abstract: Records of the Milwaukee branch of an organization of business executive and professional women, formed to encourage civic participation by professional women and carry out various civic and social welfare activities. Included are copies of the Zonta Bulletin, the club's monthly newsletter, along with biographical briefs of Zonta members, copies of bylaws, meeting schedules and minutes, conference information, membership directories, and various other administrative materials. |
| Zoological Society of Milwaukee County (Wis.) | Title: Zoological Society of Milwaukee County: Records, 1910-2000
Quantity: 17.2 c.f. (44 archives boxes, 3 flat boxes, and 1 tube), 476 photographs and 74 transparencies in 4 boxes, 3 negatives and 45 negatives on 11 negative strips in 9 negative envelopes, 3 films (16 mm), and 10 videorecordings (1 1/2" VHS, 2 3/4" [U-Matic], and 7 1/2" open reel) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 204; PH Milwaukee Mss 204; AD 333-335; VBC 102-103; VHA 519; VCA 259-266 Abstract: Records of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee County, a non-profit organization established in 1910 to support the Washington Park Zoo, and its successor, the Milwaukee County Zoo. The records document the zoological society, not the zoo itself, which is an agency of Milwaukee County government. In general, the records focus on policy, membership, fundraising, public outreach, and development of the animal collection; some correspondence and blueprints also document building projects and exhibits constructed during the 1970s and fundraising efforts for the new Milwaukee County Zoo during the 1950s. Photographs include images of activities and views of both Milwaukee County Zoo and Washington Park Zoo, personnel, and animals and their zoo habitats. Several photographs of television personality Marlin Perkins are included. Also included is moving image material related to the zoo. |