Title: Fidelia Van Antwerp Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1945-1958

Creator:

• Van Antwerp, Fidelia, 1881-1956

Call Number: Wis Mss QW; PH 1629

Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 1 card box) and 15 photographs (1 folder)

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 documenting the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association (formerly the Wisconsin Rural Writers' Association) and the Badger Folklore Society, consisting of stories, poems, notes, photographs, and correspondence concerning Wisconsin folklore and legends, kept by Fidelia Van Antwerp, first president of the association. A large group of letters concerns plans for a book on Wisconsin folklore pertaining to trees by the Wisconsin Idea Theatre. A Wisconsin place-names collection, compiled by Mrs. Helen C. Smith, relates the origins of the names and brief histories of present towns and villages in the state. Photographs include images of various unidentified landscapes and activities perhaps assembled circa 1950 for use in the publication Songs of the Winter Wilderness.

Language: English

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The papers consist of stories, poems, music, correspondence, and miscellaneous notes and clippings based on Wisconsin folklore and legends, and sent to the Wisconsin Rural Writers' Association, which became the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association in 1910. The Association, a state-wide group of writers, was founded to encourage the efforts of creative writers toward state and local history and folklore. Fidelia Van Antwerp, first president of the Rural Writers' Association, kept and organized the material, classifying and indexing it by subject. The arrangement of the papers as received in the Archives was preserved.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association, through Neita O. Friend of Hartland, Wisconsin, and Robert Gard, Director of the Wisconsin Idea Theater and University Professor.

Wis Mss QW	Articles, alphabetically arranged
Box   1	A-H
Box   2	I-S
Box   3	T-Z
Box   3	Newspaper clippings and miscellaneous stories
Box   4	Miscellaneous and incomplete stories and legends
Box   4	Folklore Institute of America lecture notes
Box   4	Correspondence, 1945-1958
Box   4	Miscellaneous notes, printed material, and sheet music
Box   5	Index file
Box   6	Pioneer reminiscences
Box   6	Lumbermen and raftsmen
Box   6	Medical lore
Box   6	Proverbs and sayings
Box   6	Selected materials
Box   7	Wisconsin Place Names File Note: Sent in by Mrs. Helen C. Smith, Evansville, 1962-1963.
Box   8	Additional Materials Note: Received in 1962 from Robert Gard; boxed just as received.
PH 1629 Folder   1	Photographs