UW-Milwaukee Department of Theatre Records, 1911-2015

Contents List

Container Title
Series: 1. Family, 1877-1978
Scope and Content Note: Family series contains materials on Erich and Lucia’s extended family members such as family histories, correspondence, journals, memorabilia, certificates and other records. It also includes financial and legal documents regarding family trusts, estates and wills. Erich often worked with or represented family members in regards to their legal and/or financial interests.
Baumgarten, Hermine – Estate
Marshall Property
Box   1
Folder   1
1938-1951
Box   1
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1937-1951
Box   1
Folder   3
Receipts, 1938-1950
Plankinton Property
Box   1
Folder   4
1941-1957
Box   1
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1942-1958
Box   1
Folder   6
Receipts, 1943-1960
Box   1
Folder   7
Cramer, Adolph, 1877-1978
Box   1
Folder   8
Genealogies, 1987
Box   1
Folder   9
Karker, Ella – Hymn book, 1898
Karker, Elizabeth and John
Box   1
Folder   10
1877-1939, undated
Box   29
Folder   1
1902
Box   29
Folder   2
Karker, John, 1894
Box   1
Folder   11
Karker - Miscellaneous, 1897-1935, undated
Box   2
Folder   1
Miscellaneous, 1898-1972, undated
Schlesinger, Emily – Estate
Box   2
Folder   2-3
1931-1940, undated
Box   2
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1936-1941
Box   2
Folder   5
Spenner, Ilma Cramer, 1980
Box   2
Folder   6
Stern, Adolphine B., 1919
Box   2
Folder   7
Stern, Alice - Trust, 1919-1971, undated
Stern, Alma Cramer
Box   2
Folder   8
Consumers League of Wisconsin, 1909-1916
Journals
Box   2
Folder   9-11
1889-1903
Box   3
Folder   1-4
1904-1925
Box   4
Folder   1
Obituary and Will, 1926-1928
Box   4
Folder   2
Stern, Alma Cramer and Carl G., 1928, undated
Stern, Carl G.
Box   4
Folder   3
Business, 1868-1928, undated
Correspondence
Box   4
Folder   4
1891, undated
Box   4
Folder   5
Condolences, 1929, undated
Box   4
Folder   6
Death, 1929, undated
Box   4
Folder   7
Education, 1859-1868, undated
Estate
Box   4
Folder   8
1936-1957
Box   4
Folder   9-12
Correspondence, 1936-1957
Box   5
Folder   1
Financial – Account books, 1893-1928, undated
Box   5
Folder   2-3
Journals - Travel, 1884-1917
Stern, Henry, Jr.
Box   5
Folder   4-5
Account books, 1850-1889
Burial
Box   5
Folder   6
1928-1936, undated
Box   29
Folder   3
1899-1934
Box   5
Folder   7
Contracts, 1876
Box   5
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1883-1910, undated
H. Stern Jr. & Bros. Co.
Box   5
Folder   9
1868-1934, undated
Box   29
Folder   4
1868-1923
Box   6
Folder   1
Receipts, 1876-1877, undated
Box   6
Folder   2
Stern, Hermann, 1853, 1919
Box   6
Folder   3
Stern, Julia, 1929, undated
Box   6
Folder   4
Summit Mineral Company, 1883-1967
Series: 2. Miscellaneous, 1898-1978
Scope and Content Note: Miscellaneous series contains some ephemera and memorabilia, a scrapbook and other miscellaneous documents that could not otherwise be assigned to a series. Included are three audio visual recordings of 1978 programs in which Lucia appeared.
Box   6
Folder   5
Camp Allis, 1929, undated
Box   6
Folder   6
Civic Music Association, 1932-1933
Box   6
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1905-1963, undated
Ephemera
Box   6
Folder   8
Progressive Party Charter Membership Certificate, 1912
Box   6
Folder   8
World’s Columbian Exposition ticket, 1893
Box   6
Folder   9
General, 1903-1979, undated
Box   9
Folder   10
Scrapbook – Mr. & Mrs. Petit, 1898
U-matic
Box   25
“Milwaukee, Milwaukee: Love at the Art Center”, 1978
Box   25
“Milwaukee, Milwaukee: Profile of Lucia Stern” (2 parts), 1978
Series: 3. Photographs, 1871-1982
Scope and Content Note: Photographs series contains mainly snapshots and portraits of Erich, Lucia, family and friends. There are also some images of places and unidentified people. Most photographs are loose but there are also several photo albums. There is a variety photography types represented including cased, tintypes and panoramic.
Erich and Lucia
Box   7
Folder   1-2
1930-1965, undated
Box   7
Folder   3
Erich, 1968, undated
Box   27
Erich, undated
Physical Description: 1 Daguerreotype 
Box   28
Erich, undated
Physical Description: 1 Tintype [?] 
Box   7
Folder   4
Erich and family, 1962, undated
Box   28
Erich and family, 1895
Physical Description: 1 Tintype 
Erich and Harvard University
Box   7
Folder   5-6
1898-1956, undated
Oversize Folder   1
1926
Physical Description: 2 panoramic 
Box   7
Folder   7
Erich and Max Murphy, 1930s, undated
Box   7
Folder   8-9
Erich portraits, 1883-1905, undated
Box   7
Folder   10
Lucia, 1930-1977, undated
Box   7
Folder   11
Lucia and art, 1977, undated
Box   8
Folder   12
Lucia and family, 1940, undated
Box   8
Folder   13
Lucia and others, 1964, undated
Box   8
Folder   14-15
Lucia portraits, 1927, 1930, undated
Family
Box   26
Folder   5 vols.
Albums, 1892-1966
Box   26
Folder   1
Albums - index, undated
Box   8
Folder   16
Baumgarten, 1941-1985, undated
Box   8
Folder   17
Cramer, 1890-1915, undated
Box   28
Cramer, Adolph, undated
Physical Description: 1 Tintype 
Box   28
Cramer, Alma, circa 1871, undated
Physical Description: 3 Tintypes 
Box   28
Cramer, Alma and Johanna, undated
Physical Description: 1 Tintype[?] 
Box   8
Folder   18
Karker, undated
Box   27
Karker, undated
Physical Description: 1 Daguerreotype and matching photographs 
Box   9
Folder   1-3
Stern, 1846-1945, undated
Box   29
Folder   5
Stern, 1883, 1898
Box   28
Stern, Julia, undated
Physical Description: 2 Tintypes 
Box   9
Folder   4
Miscellaneous, 1946-1982, undated
People
Box   9
Folder   5
1919-1974, undated
Box   27
Folder  
Undated
Physical Description: 3 Ambrotypes 
Box   28
Undated
Physical Description: 24 Tintypes 
Places
Box   9
Folder   6
Camp Allis, 1908-1925, undated
Box   9
Folder   7
Europe, 1892, undated
Box   9
Folder   8
General, 1894-1964
Series: 4. Stern, Erich Cramer, 1887-1974
Scope and Content Note: Erich Cramer Stern series is materials more directly attributed to Erich. This includes correspondence, personal journals and financial and legal documents regarding his work as an attorney as well as in representing personal finances or investments of him and Lucia. There are newspaper clippings, certificates, ephemera, memorabilia, personal records from his childhood, Harvard University, organizations he worked with and a small amount of campaign materials from his time as an elected official.
Civil liberties
Box   10
Folder   1
1918-1920, undated
Box   10
Folder   2
Clippings, 1920, undated
Box   10
Folder   3
Publications, 1917-1922, undated
Clippings
Box   10
Folder   4
1918-1961, undated
Box   10
Folder   5
Erich Stern, 1921-1969, undated
Correspondence
Box   10
Folder   6
1891-1968, undated
Box   10
Folder   7
Condolences, 1969, undated
Box   10
Folder   7
1969, undated
Box   10
Folder   8
Memorials, 1969, undated
Box   10
Folder   9
Social Concerns, 1915-1921, undated
Box   11
Folder   1
Droochsloot, 1911-1964, undated
Education
Harvard University
Box   11
Folder   2
1900-1969, undated
Box   11
Folder   3
Classes, 1898-1901
Box   11
Folder   4
Harvard Album, 1901
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   11
Folder   5
Harvard Class Book, 1901
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   24
Parsons Law Club stein, 1901
Box   11
Folder   6
Reunions, 1921-1956
Box   11
Folder   7
High school – German class, circa 1890s
Box   11
Folder   8
L'Universite de Paris, 1904-1905, undated
Box   11
Folder   9
Universitat Berlin, 1905, undated
Financial
Cash books
Box   12
1906-1937
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Box   13
1938-1961
Physical Description: 3 volumes 
Box   13
Folder   1
Estate, 1960-1974, undated
Box   13
Folder   2
Family, 1918-1966
Investments
Box   13
Folder   3
1925-1964, undated
Box   14
Folder   1
1929-1968
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Nuzum Farm
Box   14
Folder   2
1926-1953
Box   14
Folder   3-6
Correspondence, 1927-1959
Box   14
Folder   7
United Mineral Land Company, 1887-1968
Box   15
Folder   1-4
Williams & Stern – Cash books, 1921-1966
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Miscellaneous
Box   15
Folder   5
1898-1940, undated
Box   29
Folder   6
1911
Organizations
Box   15
Folder   6
City Club of Milwaukee, 1913-1915
Box   15
Folder   7
Committee of Forty-Eight, 1919, undated
Box   15
Folder   8
Community Welfare Council, 1909-1960
Box   15
Folder   9
Milwaukee Orchestral Association, 1915-1916
Box   16
Folder   1
National War Work Council of the YMCA, 1918, undated
Box   16
Folder   2
Other, 1917-1919, undated
Box   16
Folder   3
South Side Community Club, 1906-1919, undated
Box   16
Folder   4
War-Camp Community Service, 1917-1918, undated
Personal
Box   16
Folder   5
Appointments / elections, 1907-1937, undated
Attorney
Box   16
Folder   6
1911-1942, undated
Box   29
Folder   7
Certificates, 1904
Box   16
Folder   7
Wills, 1909-1924, undated
Box   16
Folder   8
Biographies and obituaries, 1933-1969, undated
Journals
Box   17
Folder   1-4
circa 1892-1905
Physical Description: 4 volumes 
Box   17
Folder   5
"Readings", 1946-1969
Travel
Box   17
Folder   6
1892-1914
Physical Description: 5 volumes 
Box   16
Folder   9
1888-1927, undated
Box   16
Folder   10
Notary, 1957-1969
Box   16
Folder   11
Records, 1931-1965
Publications
Box   16
Folder   12
Free speech, 1919, undated
Box   16
Folder   13
Minimum Wage, 1909-1919
Box   18
Folder   1
Prisoners, 1918-1919, undated
Box   18
Folder   2
Woman suffrage, 1906, undated
Note: Includes Erich C. Stern notes
Box   18
Folder   3-4
Speeches and writings, 1894-1965, undated
Series: 5. Stern, Erich and Lucia, 1924-1981
Scope and Content Note: Erich and Lucia Stern series contains mainly correspondence between Erich and Lucia. This includes longer correspondence, postcards, notes and greeting cards. There are also a few financial documents that represent them both along with some miscellaneous materials on art and travel.
Box   18
Folder   5
Art, 1931-1962, undated
Correspondence
Box   18
Folder   6
1946-1969, undated
Between Erich and Lucia
Box   18
Folder   7
1925-1952, undated
Box   18
Folder   8
Cards and postcards, 1924-1969, undated
Financial
Box   19
Folder   1
Insurance, 1938-1983, undated
Box   19
Folder   2
Miscellaneous, 1936-1960, undated
Box   19
Folder   3
Receipts, 1922-1980, undated
Box   19
Folder   4
Travel, 1948-1981, undated
Series: 6. Stern, Lucia Karker, 1895-1987
Scope and Content Note: Lucia Karker Stern series contains materials more directly attributed to Lucia. It mainly consists of documents from or relating to her work as an artist and a writer. Exhibition information, programs, lecture notes, sketches, drafts of short stories and work with the Milwaukee Art Center. Some materials are in French. Also included are some personal documents such as certificates, newspaper clippings, records, journals, her will and a few folders of financial papers.
Art
Box   19
Folder   5
Artist information, 1942-1965, undated
Box   19
Folder   6
Clippings, 1944-1977, undated
Box   19
Folder   7
Exhibition information, 1944-1985, undated
Designs and sketches
Box   19
Folder   8
Designs and sketches, undated
Box   29
Folder   8
Designs and sketches, undated
Box   19
Folder   9
Financial, 1959-1963, undated
Lectures / Seminars
Box   19
Folder   10
1962, undated
Box   19
Folder   11
Henry Matisse, undated
Box   19
Folder   12
Paris, undated
Box   19
Folder   13
Notes, undated
Box   20
Folder   1
Scripts, 1959, undated
Box   20
Folder   2
Miscellaneous, undated
Box   20
Folder   3
Milwaukee Art Institute, 1944-1957, undated
Milwaukee Art Center
Box   20
Folder   4
1949-1963, undated
Box   29
Folder   9
1963
Box   20
Folder   5
Guide notes, 1961-1964, undated
Box   20
Folder   6
Seminar programs, 1952-1982
Correspondence
Box   20
Folder   7
1923-1984, undated
Box   20
Folder   8
Art, 1935-1984, undated
Box   20
Folder   9
Fontaine, 1945-1946
Education
Box   21
Folder   1
1909-1921
Box   29
Folder   10
Certificates, 1896-1913
Financial
Box   21
Folder   2
1954-1955
Box   21
Folder   3-5
Account books, 1957-1970
Physical Description: 3 volumes 
Box   21
Folder   6
Investments, 1929-1935, undated
Personal
Box   21
Folder   7
Clippings, 1933-1977, undated
Box   21
Folder   8
Journals - Travel, 1953-1971
Box   21
Folder   9
Memberships, 1942, 1955
Box   21
Folder   10
Miscellaneous, undated
Records
Box   21
Folder   11
1914-1984
Box   29
Folder   11
1895
Box   21
Folder   12
Will and obituary, 1947, 1987
Writings
Art
Box   22
Folder   1
Drafts and notes, 1942-1973, undated
Box   22
Folder   2-3
English, 1946-1984, undated
Box   22
Folder   4
French, 1978, undated
Box   22
Folder   5
Publications, 1946-1971
Box   22
Folder   6
Collected Works of Lucia Stern, undated
Box   22
Folder   7
French , undated
Poetry
Box   22
Folder   8
undated
Box   23
Folder   1-2
undated
Prose
Box   23
Folder   3
Father of Mary, 1937, undated
Box   23
Folder   4
Life Begins, 1937, undated
Box   23
Folder   5
Life Begins for Eddie, 1937, undated
Box   23
Folder   6
Magical Night, undated
Box   23
Folder   7
Middle West, undated
Box   23
Folder   8
Miscellaneous, 1937-1983, undated
Box   23
Folder   9
Thursdays, 1937, undated
Box   23
Folder   10
Quotations, undated