Title: Milton B. Freudenheim Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1947-1978

Creator:

• Freudenheim, Milton B., 1927-

Call Number: Mss 1064; PH 6621

Quantity: 9.6 cubic feet (24 archives boxes), 27 photographs, and 90 negatives

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Milton B. Freudenheim, news journalist during the 1960s and 1970s for the Chicago Daily News, an independent newspaper. The collection consists of his work during this time and also includes a small amount of material from his career prior to the Chicago Daily News and from his personal life. Images from the Chicago Daily News can be found at the Chicago History Museum. The newspaper ran from 1875 until 1979.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01064

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Milton B. Freudenheim, 1927-, worked as a journalist for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky from 1948-1949, and the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio from 1950-1952. From 1956-1966, Freudenheim worked as the United Nations and New York correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. In 1966, he became a foreign news editor for the Chicago Daily News. He worked as the Chief of Foreign Services in Paris until 1977.

The Chicago Daily News was an independent newspaper founded in 1875 as an afternoon paper geared toward working people. The newspaper became unprofitable due to the competition with television news programs during the 1970s and finally closed on March 4, 1978.

The Freudenheim papers document Freudenheim's early professional career as a journalist for several newspapers. The materials date from 1947-1978, with the bulk of the collection pertaining to Freudenheim's work as a foreign services correspondent at the Chicago Daily News. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, writings, personal and visual materials. The papers have been divided into three series: PROFESSIONAL, PERSONAL, and VISUAL MATERIALS.

The PROFESSIONAL series includes three sub-series: Correspondence, Financial Records, and Writings. The Correspondence papers include two separate sets of records arranged by correspondence to and from Freudenheim and correspondence regarding the Chicago Daily News foreign services. These files document Freudenheim's correspondence before his time as Chief of Foreign Services and the correspondence of the Foreign Services Bureau. Some of these letters are written in French. The Financial Records include sets of records arranged by correspondence and statements regarding the bureau. These materials are mostly written in French and document the financial workings of the Foreign Services Bureau during the years of 1948-1977. The Writings include two sets of records separated by creator, specifically materials created by the bureau and materials created by Freudenheim. In those sub-series are sub-series of the types of writings. Freudenheim's writings are broken up into newspaper articles and manuscripts. The bureau's writings include articles, published materials such as a stylebook and newsletters, and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of Paul Ghali's articles (a fellow foreign services journalist of Freudenheim's). These documents include newspaper clippings, transcripts, published works, articles, notebooks, and manuscripts. They have been arranged chronologically by year with no internal chronological arrangement, except for Freudenheim's manuscripts, which have been arranged thoroughly by month and day. The newspaper clippings are from both, the Akron Beacon Journal and the Chicago Daily News but are not completely separated from each other. During the early 1960s Freudenheim was writing for both newspaper companies.

The PERSONAL series is divided into two sub-series: Correspondence and Miscellaneous. The Correspondence sub-series includes letters from Freudenheim to his wife while he was in Europe at various times in his career. The Miscellaneous sub-series includes a passport, address book, personal documents, and invitations to special events throughout Freudenheim's career.

The VISUAL MATERIALS series is divided into two sub-series: Professional photographs and negatives as well as Personal photographs and negatives. The Professional photographs and negatives include pictures of Freudenheim at events and professionally taken headshots. The Personal photographs and negatives are the bulk of the VISUAL MATERIALS series, including images of Freudenheim and his wife, images of their first baby, and home life.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Milton B. Freudenheim. Accession Number: MCHC79-022

Processing Information

Processed by Elizabeth Fox-Corbett (Practicum student), May 2010.

Mss 1064	Series: Professional
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1-4	Freudenheim, 1949, 1952-1973
	Foreign Services Bureau
Box   1 Folder   5-6	undated
Box   2 Folder   1	1949-1950
Box   2 Folder   2	1964-1965
Box   2 Folder   3-6	1968-1976
	Financial records, Bureau
Box   3 Folder   1-3	Correspondence, 1948-1976
	Statements
Box   3 Folder   4	1946-1950
Box   3 Folder   5-6	1966-1977
	Writings
	Freudenheim
	Manuscripts
Box   3 Folder   7	1942-1963
Box   4 Folder   1	1969 September-December
Box   4 Folder   2-4	1970
Box   5 Folder   1-4	1971
Box   6 Folder   1-4	1972
Box   7 Folder   1-5	1973
Box   8 Folder   1-4	1974
Box   9 Folder   1-4	1975
Box   10 Folder   1-3	1976
Box   10 Folder   4	1977 December
	Articles
Box   10 Folder   5	Communism
Box   10 Folder   6	Tearsheet
Box   11 Folder   1	Trade unions and labor wages
Box   11 Folder   2-7	Akron Beacon Journal, 1950-1952
Box   12 Folder   1-2	Akron Beacon Journal, 1952
Box   12 Folder   3-4	Africa, 1963, 1965
Box   12 Folder   5	Poland, Bonn and London, 1966
Box   13 Folder   1	United Nations, 1966
Box   13 Folder   2	China, Middle East, and Russia, 1967
Box   13 Folder   3-9	General, 1948-1949 and 1953-1957
Box   14 Folder   1-4	General, 1957-1959
Box   15 Folder   1-5	General, 1959-1961
Box   16 Folder   1-4	General, 1961-1962
Box   17 Folder   1-5	General, 1963-1965
Box   18 Folder   1-4	General, 1965-1967
Box   19 Folder   1-5	General, 1968-1970
Box   20 Folder   1-5	General, 1971-1973
Box   21 Folder   1-5	General, 1974-1976
Box   22 Folder   1-2	General, 1977-1978
	Foreign Services Bureau
Box   22 Folder   3	Transcripts, administrative procedures, policies
Box   22 Folder   4	Articles
Box   22 Folder   5-6	Published materials
Box   23 Folder   1-2	Scrapbooks
	Series: Personal	⇧
Box   23 Folder   3	Correspondence
Box   23 Folder   4-5	Miscellaneous
Box   24	Notebooks, 1977
PH 6621	Series: Visual Materials	⇧
	Professional
	Personal