The collection consists of the Proceedings of the General Relief Committee and its Executive Committee, correspondence and financial records relating to the collection and distribution of the Fund, and a file on the administration of relief to victims of the fires in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. The latter file includes statements collected by “visitors” investigating individual losses and injuries, and records of the Committee to Solicit Money, Clothing, and Prepared Provisions. There are also some miscellaneous lists and notes, and a folder of Xerox copies of clippings from Hayward and Superior, Wisconsin newspapers (July and August, 1894) of news reports of the fires. The newspapers from which these copies were made are on microfilm in the State Historical Society Library.
The records have been arranged by type and chronologically thereunder, except for the “Visitors Blanks” for which the original alphabetical order has been maintained and refined.
