Title: League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter, Records
Inclusive Dates: 1910-1982

Creators:

• League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter
• League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County (Wis.)

Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 100

Quantity:

• 0.3 cubic ft. (1 box)
• 1 oversize folder

Repository:

Milwaukee Public Library, Frank P. Zeidler Room

Archival Location:

Milwaukee Public Library (Map)

Abstract:

This collection contains meeting minutes, reports, administrative documents and correspondence of the League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter.

Note:

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Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.mwpl-lhmc0100

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt six months before the passage of the 19th Amendment and the achievement of women’s suffrage. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin (LWVWI) was also founded in 1920. The League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County (LWVMC) was formed in 1989 by merging the Wauwatosa, North Shore, and Milwaukee chapters/leagues. Catt was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. Lucille R. Krug, wife of former City Librarian Richard E. Krug, was the president of the Milwaukee Chapter from roughly 1947-1954.

This collection contains meeting minutes, reports, administrative documents and correspondence of the League of Women Voters in Milwaukee. The correspondence involves a number of prominent Wisconsinites, including Clement Zablocki, Senator Joseph McCarthy and other elected officials. Also included is a pamphlet from 1912 outlining information on women’s reasons for the legal right to vote.

The subjects are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically within each folder.

League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter, Records, 1910-1982, Collection 100. Local History Manuscript Collections, Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Archival Collections

• Election Commission Records. City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 58.

• Register - Inform Yourself - and Vote Drive Scrapbook. Local History Manuscript Collection 357.

Publications and Other Items

Know Your Milwaukee

League Lines (League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County)

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials. The collection is open to all in accordance with state law. The public may view Local History Manuscript Collections by appointment at the Central Library. To request an in-person appointment, create/login to your Special Collections Account. If you have any questions, please contact the Archives and Special Collections Department at mplarchives@milwaukee.gov.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

In 2019, another collection of LWV materials, the suffrage pamphlet and some other LWV publications from the MPL’s Pamphlet collection were merged with this collection. No acquisition information is currently available. Materials were accessioned as Local History Manuscripts.

Processing Information

Inventory by Rachel Arndt, 2013. Inventory by Charles Tonelli, Fieldwork Student, 2013. Processed by Casey Lapworth, 2019.

Box   1 Folder   1	By-laws, 1949-1952
Box   1 Folder   2	Contracts and copyright certificates, 1955-1967
Box   1 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1947-1951
	Meeting minutes
Box   1 Folder   4-5	Annual, 1950-1965
Box   1 Folder   6	Special, 1949-1966
Box   1 Folder   7	Intergroup Council for Women as Public Policy Makers, 1950
Box   1 Folder   8	Miscellaneous, 1925-1962
Box   1 Folder   9	National American Woman Suffrage Association Pamphlet, 1912
Box   1 Folder   10	Nonprofit status, 1953-1962
Oversize Folder   1	Poster, undated
Box   1 Folder   11	Publications, 1910-1982
	Reports
Box   1 Folder   12	General, 1930-1949
Box   1 Folder   13	Treasurer’s, 1952-1965