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Summary Information
Joseph C. Schafer Papers 1862-1941
- Schafer, Joseph, 1867-1941
Mss 746; GA 094; GA 095; VBA 890
3.8 c.f. (8 archives boxes and 3 card boxes), 2 films, and 1 videorecording
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers, mainly 1920-1941, of Joseph C. Schafer, a historian and superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Correspondence, which is both personal and professional in character, includes letters to his wife (1891-1894) and exchanges with publishers, members of the Conference of Historical Societies and the Agricultural History Society, prominent historians such as Solon J. Buck, Avery Craven, Bernard deVoto, William Dunning, Max Farrand, Waldo G. Leland, Frederick Merk, Frederic L. Paxson, and Frederick J. Turner, and former colleagues on the University of Oregon faculty. Also included are working papers for the “Wisconsin Domesday” project; writings and addresses on a variety of historical subjects; an incomplete autobiography and other personal and family material; and research notes primarily concerning agricultural and Civil War history. English
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