Title: Felix Olkives Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1938-1966

Creator:

• Olkives, Felix, 1898-1971

Call Number: Parkside Mss 45

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Library/Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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

UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Olkives, a Kenosha, Wis., alderman and labor leader, primarily concerning the local post-World War II housing shortage, and the annual AFL-CIO sponsored city-wide bowling tournaments. The papers reflect Olkives' service as vice-chairman of the Kenosha Housing Authority, and as business manager and treasurer of the Brittles Recreation Match Bowling Team. Also present are typewritten and printed speeches delivered by Olkives to union conventions, and bowling tournament programs.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pks0045

 ↑ Bookmark this ↑

 ↑ Bookmark this ↑

For many years, Olkives was active in political and labor-related positions in Kenosha, including his service as president of the Kenosha Trades and Labor Council (for nine years), as public relations counsel with the Kenosha Manufacturers Association, and as president of the Kenosha City Council while an alderman. He also served on the Mayor's (or Veterans') Emergency Housing Committee, as vice-chairman of the Kenosha Housing Authority, and as business manager and treasurer of the Brittles Recreation Match Bowling Team.

The papers reflect Olkives' role as a Kenosha alderman and labor leader and primarily concern the local post-World War II housing shortage and Olkives' work with the housing committees, and the annual AFL-CIO sponsored city-wide bowling tournaments. Also present in the collection are typewritten and printed speeches delivered by Olkives to union conventions (Folders 1 and 2), and bowling tournament programs.

Other correspondence of Olkives may be found in the Conrad Shearer Papers, 1939 file, Parkside Mss 33, Micro 614, and Parkside Micro 4.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Dalton G. Johnson, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1974. Accession Number: M74-384

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd Klodt, June 22, 1979.

Box   1 Folder   1	Speech, 1938, to the Second Annual Convention, Wisconsin State Branch, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
Box   1 Folder   2	Stage Employes and Motion Picture Projectionists - Local No. 361 (I.A.T.S.E.) - Programs, 1939-1940
Box   1 Folder   3	Brittles Recreation Match Bowling Team - Records, 1944-1945
Box   1 Folder   4-5	Kenosha Housing Authority Records, 1946-1950
Box   1 Folder   6	Bowling Tournament Programs, 1954-1964
Box   1 Folder   7	Miscellaneous Program, 1966