Series: 1. Civic and Professional, 1902-1957
Scope and Content Note: This series contains records relating to Dietz’s professional life including campaign advertisements, professional certifications, membership cards for a variety of local and national organizations, and legal documents pertaining to Dietz’s patent application.

Campaign Ads: Comptroller, Congress, Alderman, 1910, 1936, undated

Certificates: Insurance Company Agent, 1912, 1920, 1925

Certificates: Membership and War Registration Cards, 1902-1957

Certificates: Notary Public, 1912-1930

Certificates: Real Estate Broker, 1920-1930

Certificates: Sunday Morning Breakfast Club, 1947

Correspondence: Dietz Abstractor’s Comparative Rules, 1923

Correspondence: Professional, 1908-1952

Good Government Award, 1948

Patent Materials: Improvements to the Temporary Binder, 1922

Statue Unveiling: Robert La Follette, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., 1929

Typewriters and Sleigh Bells Donation to Milwaukee Public Museum - Sunday Morning Breakfast Club, award and presentation, 1947
Physical Description: 1 phonograph record (78 rpm) 
Access Restrictions: Access to the record is restricted; researchers must use the digital access copy.

Series: 2. Music, 1897-1951
Scope and Content Note: This series is comprised primarily of sheet music and copyright certificates for music written by Dietz. Also included are photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence from Dietz to music publishers and from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers relating to his application for membership.

Certificates: Copyright, 1897-1950

Clippings: Newspaper, 1939-1948, undated

Correspondence: Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, 1950

Membership Application: American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 1951

Photographs: Comus Quartet, Dorothy Sarnoff, Jon Norbert, undated, undated

Sheet Music and Materials: A Maiden by the Name of Kate and I Love You Dearly by Daisy McHugh, 1900, undated

Sheet Music and Materials: Milwaukee and My Broadway Girl, 1900, 1945

Sheet Music and Materials: My Rose of Milwaukee, 1945

Sheet Music and Materials: The Little Girl I Used to Call My Own and The Little Homestead by the Mill, 1950

Sheet Music and Materials: Parted Forever-more and When I Gaze into Your Eyes, 1899, 1950

Series: 3. Personal and Family Records, 1875-1956
Scope and Content Note: This series includes both personal and family documents such as Dietz’s marriage certificate, a birth certificate for his wife, Hedwig; correspondence, tax documents, and genealogical information on the Dietz family. This series also includes Dietz’s mother, Jeannette P. Dietz and Hedwig’s sister, Elsa Zahl. Dietz’s hobby of collecting typewriters is also represented, as is Hedwig Dietz’s artistic pursuits.

Artwork, undated

Cards: Christmas and miscellaneous, undated

Certificate: Baptism, Hedwig Zahl, 1888

Certificate: Marriage, Carl P. Dietz and Hedwig Zahl, 1902

Clippings, 1902-1949

Correspondence, 1905-1956

Dietz Family Genealogy, undated

Family Documents, undated

Financial Inventories, 1912-1953

Jeannette P. Dietz: In Memoriam, 1942

Poetry and Songs, undated, undated

Real Estate Taxes, 1936-1945

Receipts and Disbursements, 1953

Souvenirs, 1929-1946

Typewriter Collection Letters, 1947

U. S. Income Taxes (Carl and Hedwig), 1913-1954

Wisconsin Income Taxes (Carl and Hedwig), 1912-1953

Wisconsin Income Tax Receipts, 1919-1940

Zahl Family Documents, 1895-1949

Series: 4. Personal Photographs, 1877-1945, undated
Scope and Content Note: This series consists of two main areas: family photographs and vacation photographs. The family photographs include portraits and snapshots of various family members, many of whom are unidentified. The vacation photographs are divided by location and include pictures of the family and scenery or events they took part in.

Family Photographs, 1877-1945

Dietz, Carl P., 1877-1939, 1877-1939, undated

Dietz, Carl P. and Hedwig Dietz, undated

Dietz, Rev. Henry L., undated

Dietz, Henry (Nephew), undated

Dietz Family, 1934

Dietz Family Snapshots, 1897-1943

Glass Plate Negatives, undated

Miscellaneous Individuals, undated

Miscellaneous Places, 1935-1941, undated

Negatives, undated

Peoria Set, undated

Photos from an Old Album, undated

Unidentified Animals, undated

Unidentified People, undated

Unidentified Things, undated

Vacation Photographs, 1929-1939

Alaska, 1936

California (all negatives), 1934

Canadian Rockies (all negatives), 1929

Door County, 1931

Europe, undated

Florida (Christmas), 1937

Germany, 1937

Holland, Michigan, 1939

Niagara Falls, 1937

Northern Wisconsin and Lincoln County, 1935

Oakland and San Diego, California, 1936

Plymouth Sedan, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 1938

Smoky Mountains, 1931

St. Louis River and Washington DC, 1938

Texas, Arkansas, 1931

Vacation Photos (Unidentified), undated

Victoria, British Columbia, 1936

Wellington Factory, Plattsburgh, New York and Lake Placid, New York, World’s Fair, 1939

Series: 5. Wax Cylinders, undated
Scope and Content Note: This series includes recordings of the songs Carl P. Dietz composed and sung as well as of him whistling and speaking. The titles are handwritten on the ends of the cylinder cases with one exception where there is none. There are two copies of "The Little Homestead by the Mill" and "A Maiden By the Name of Kate" does not contain a wax cylinder, it is the case only.
Access Restrictions: The wax cylinders are available to view but playing the recordings is not permitted.

A Maiden By the Name of Kate by Carl P. Dietz (case only), undated

Because I Love You, Dear by Carl P. Dietz, undated

Ich Danke, Mrs. Leo Stern, undated

The Little Homestead by the Mill by Carl P. Dietz (2 copies), undated

Monologue by Carl P. Dietz, undated

Sailor Song – Dietz, undated

Und Fragst Du Was die Liebe Ist von H. Wieckert, undated

Unidentified, undated

Whistling by Carl P. Dietz, undated

Wie Schoen Bist Du Von Carl P. Dietz, undated