Collection documents the professional and volunteer activities of Frederick Irving Olson, a professor of history at the Milwaukee State Teachers College, Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the University Wisconsin-Extension from 1941 to 1985. Most of the records date from 1960-1980.
The collection contains teaching materials, including lectures, syllabi and research material; personal and professional correspondence dealing with research and publication, book reviews and articles; speeches given to local historical and genealogical groups; and research on local history.
The collection also holds records of UWM committees that Olson served on, such as the Golda Meir Collection Planning Committee, Appeals Committee, the Archives Committee, History Department's Committee on Graduate Affairs, the Physical Environment Committee's subcommittee on Parking and Transit, the Presidential Search and Screening Committee and the On-campus Course Development Committee. These files contain minutes, reports and correspondence. The Academic Administration and Social Science Dean's Serial Files are outgoing correspondence concerning budgets, hiring of professors, and class programs from Olson while serving in those two positions. Includes Olson's files on the preservation of the Milwaukee-Downer College buildings, especially Holton Hall.
The Educational Telephone Network was a program sponsored by UW-Extension that enabled a speaker to talk over telephone lines to persons who had special receiving devices. The Educational Telephone Network records are lectures that Olson gave through this network.
