Black Settlers, Cheyenne Valley, Wisconsin Photographs, circa 1875-circa 1975
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Summary Information
Title: Black Settlers, Cheyenne Valley, Wisconsin Photographs
Inclusive Dates: circa 1875-circa 1975

Call Number: PH 4456

Quantity: 34 copy prints (1 folder) and 40 copy negatives (40 negative sleeves)

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:
Photographs of members of the Black community in Cheyenne Valley, Vernon County, Wisconsin, circa 1875-1975, one of the two Wisconsin farming communities settled by migrant Blacks. Included are images related to the Shivers, Bass, Owens, Revels, Barton, and Arms families as well as several images of the Eastman school and its pupils. The images were collected by Zachary Cooper while working on his book Black Settlers of Rural Wisconsin.

Note:

Reference prints and photocopies for all copy negatives are available.



Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph04456
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Related Material

Black Settlers from Rural Wisconsin Oral History Project. Oral history interviews of the Black Settlers from Rural Wisconsin Oral History Project, 1974-1981.

Administrative/Restriction Information
Use Restrictions

Individuals or corporate bodies other than the Wisconsin Historical Society may hold the copyright for portions of this collection. Permission from the appropriate copyright holder(s) may be required before reproducing items from this collection. See case file or specific copy negative jackets for further information.


Acquisition Information

The photographs were loaned from various sources, including members of the Shivers, Owens, and Arms families and H. Kandle.


Contents List
PH 4456
Folder   1
Item   1
Arms farmstead, Forest, Wisconsin, 1901: [Left to right] Samuel Arms, Mamie, Mary Roberts Arms holding Robert, Willie, Bernard, and Herman
Bass
Folder   1
Item   2
Alex Bass, circa 1885
Folder   1
Item   3
Alexander Bass (son of Samuel Bass) and Juel Revels
Folder   1
Item   4
Ellya Jane Bass, Hazel Shivers, Elsa Shivers and Rebecca Ann Shivers
Folder   1
Item   5
Samuel Bass and wife Eliza Jane Murphy
Folder   1
Item   6
Barton, Wesley
Folder   1
Item   7
Delaney, Effie, 1940 April 25
Folder   1
Item   37-38
Eastman school and pupils, Forest, Wisconsin, 1905 and 1910
Owens
Folder   1
Item   8
Clarence Owens with the Revels of Forest, Wisconsin
Folder   1
Item   9-11
Minnie Owens, daughter of Nathaniel Owens
Folder   1
Item   14
Nathaniel Owen [Owens?]
Nathan Owens house, 420 6th Avenue, Baraboo, Wisconsin
Folder   1
Item   12
Minnie and mother in front
Folder   1
Item   13
North side
Folder   1
Item   15
Revels, Henry, family [?]
Folder   1
Item   16
Malone, Jack, outside log cabin, Emory, Wisconsin
Shivers
Folder   1
Item   17
Alga Shivers, Flora Shivers, Minnie Drake, Blanche Arms [front], Otis Arms and son [back] in front of Shiver's home, Hillsboro, Wisconsin
Folder   1
Item   18-19
Ashley Shivers
Folder   1
Item   20
Claude Shivers, about 3 years old
Folder   1
Item   21
Hazel Shivers
Folder   1
Item   22
Hazel Shivers and Theodore Garrett, circa 1910
Folder   1
Item   23
Herbert Shivers
Folder   1
Item   24
Nettie Shivers about 2 years old, circa 1886
Folder   1
Item   25
Nettie Shivers and Clifford Bass, both about 17 years old
Folder   1
Item   26
Oscar Shivers, circa 1900
Folder   1
Item   27
Rebecca Ann Shivers, Nettie Shivers, Oscar Shivers [standing], Mathilde Bass and unidentified girl
Rebecca Ann Shivers
Folder   1
Item   28
About 40 years old
Folder   1
Item   29
With children
Folder   1
Item   31
Thomas Shivers
Folder   1
Item   30
Thomas Shivers' son
Folder   1
Item   32
Shivers family barbershop, Madison, Wisconsin: Claude Shivers, Rebecca Ann Shivers, Nettie Shivers, unknown, Ashley Shivers, unknown, unknown, Oscar Shivers
Stepp
Folder   1
Item   33
Charles Stepp on his farm, Reedsburg, Wisconsin, 1920s
Folder   1
Item   34
Stepp house with man astride horse, circa 1917
Folder   1
Item   36
Thorton, Abe, home, 8th Avenue, Baraboo, Wisconsin
Folder   1
Item   35
Waldon twins, Shard and Sherman
Unidentified
Folder   1
Item   40-41
Man
Folder   1
Item   42
Two men and a child
Folder   1
Item   43
Group of men
Folder   1
Item   44
Woman
Folder   1
Item   45
Man and woman
Folder   1
Item   46
Child
Folder   1
Item   39
Whitewater, Wisconsin house, 1914