Title: Engsberg-Schallert Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1905-1944

Call Number: PH 6583

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 flat box)

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:

Scrapbooks and loose photographs of the Engsberg and Schallert families of Lake Mills and Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. The majority of the collection consists of photocopied scrapbooks, 1905-1944, containing postcards received by Malinda Schallert Engsberg (1888-1976), a postcard collector, and by her sister and brother-in-law, Mattie Engsberg Crump and Harold W. Crump. Before 1920 much of the postcard correspondence was addressed to Malinda Schallert at Johnson Creek from Ralph W. Engsberg (1891-1985) of Lake Mills, a student in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin (1909-1914). Malinda Schallert and Ralph Engsberg married in 1920, after which they resided in Oak Park, Illinois; in 1925 they moved to Lake Mills. Their daughter Mary Engsberg, a student at the University of Wisconsin during World War II, also received many postcards. The deteriorating scrapbook was disassembled, rearranged chronologically, and photocopied by archives staff. Original Wisconsin postcards were interfiled in the archives' postcard collection (PH 2744); cards from other states were discarded; and original postcards depicting Ralph Engsberg's activities were retained. One of the photograph albums documents the life and activities of Malinda Schallert in Johnson Creek, 1909-1917; and the other consists of unidentified family portraits and snapshots. Several large prints document the Lake Mills Fire Company.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph06583

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Mae Engsberg Bryant, Lake Mills, Wisconsin, 2009.

Box   1 Folder   1	Family census information
	Disassembled postcard scrapbooks
	Photocopied cards
Box   1 Folder   2-12	1905-1944
	, Undated cards
Box   1 Folder   13	To Malinda, pre-1920
Box   1 Folder   14	To Malinda from Ralph, pre-1920
Box   1 Folder   15	To Malinda, 1921-1926
Box   1 Folder   16	To Mattie Engsberg Crump
	Original photo postcards of Ralph Engsberg
Box   1 Folder   17	Buildings
Box   1 Folder   18	Ralph Engsberg; Football; Lake Mills Fire Company
Box   1 Folder   19	Johnson Creek
Box   1 Folder   20	Lake Mills
Box   1 Folder   21	Unidentified
Box   1 Folder   22	Malinda Schallert photo album, 1919-1917
Box   2 Folder   1	Unidentified album (possibly regarding the Schallert Family)
Box   2 Folder   2	Malinda Schallert portrait
Box   2 Folder   2	Lake Mills Fire Company photographs
Box   2 Folder   3	Ralph Engsberg passport and passport photograph, 1917