Abstract: Advertising literature, photographs, color transparencies, publications, price lists, press releases, reports, correspondence, minutes, production records, and other audio and visual materials documenting the products and activities of the International Harvester Company. The company's product lines included trucks, tractors, farm implements, refrigerators, construction equipment, and lawn and garden equipment. The records document nearly every facet of the company's operations, including labor relations, employee activities, marketing, advertising, public relations, sales, finances, manufacturing, engineering, foreign operations, military contracts, experimental machinery, factories, and dealerships. International Harvester's corporate archives created this series over a period of several years. The files in the Original Collection are in random order and a file number has been assigned to each folder or item. Researchers must use a database to find relevant folder titles and their corresponding box and file numbers.

Abstract: The Society of American Archivists (SAA) is the oldest and largest national professional association of archivists in North America. The collection contains materials from the organization of the SAA in 1936 to present day. The main record groups document the activities of the SAA officers; councilors; executive directors; the editorship of The American Archivist; and SAA committees, roundtables, sections, and task forces.

Abstract: Records, mainly 1979-1981, of a non-profit membership organization originally formed in 1978 to promote solar energy technology in Wisconsin for the Mid-America Solar Energy Complex and the U.S. Department of Energy. Later the organization turned to information referral, lobbying, publication of the Wisconsin Solar News, conferences, and other project-oriented activities before dissolving from lack of funding in 1982. Included are articles of incorporation; board minutes; policy papers; financial records; correspondence; project and lobbying files; and reference files on the Badger Safe Energy Alliance, the Bailly Alliance, the Black Hills Alliance, Brown County Energy Conservation Center, the Wisconsin Citizens Environmental Council, the Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, the League Against Nuclear Dangers, the Madison Energy Conservation Committee, Northern Thunder, the Rainbow Alliance, and other state and national energy and social action organizations. Some files document the activities of president Michael Ducey as head of the Alternative Power Alliance. Wisconsin Solar News, the SERA newsletter published in cooperation with the Wisconsin Office of State Planning and Energy, is available in the Historical Society Library.

Abstract: Records of the American College of Apothecaries (ACA), an organization of professional pharmacists formed to promote public health education, to distribute pharmaceutical information, and to encourage medical prescribing and dispensing by professionals. Included is a history, conference and board minutes, annual reports, secretary's correspondence, membership applications and accompanying photographs of pharmacies, files on earlier organizations with similar purposes, press releases, papers read at meetings, and other records.

Abstract: Records from the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's early and continuing controversies with other inventors and implement manufacturers. Files from lawsuits are composed of briefs, records, arguments, exhibits, and specifications used in proceedings before civil courts and the U.S. Patent Office. Included also are descriptions of McCormick family patents; volumes showing the history of agricultural machinery patents, some dating back to seventeenth-century Britain; and a manuscript book of the McCormicks' own assignor-assignee patent records between 1860 and 1880.

Abstract: Papers of Rogozinski, a former Polish Army officer and immigrant to Milwaukee engaged in teaching English to new arrivals and organizing an association of Polish veterans, the Association of Veterans of the Second World War in the Polish Armed Forces. Included are several albums compiled by Rogozinski containing papers, copies of documents, photographs, and text, often in Polish, concerning himself, other Polish immigrants, and veterans' activities. Also included is a small newsclippings file about Rogozinski and the Association.

Abstract: Records of the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality (SEDFRE), a fund-raising and legal defense arm of the Congress of Racial Equality, also involved in providing scholarships to minority students, organizing black communities, and training black leaders. Throughout its history, SEDFRE evolved from a predominantly fund-raising organization to an activist group dedicated to social change through grass-roots organizing and leadership development. Most of the records in the collection date from the period of SEDFRE's greatest activity during the mid-1960s, and consist of Administrative Files, which are the records of the executive director; Leadership Development Files; and Legal Department Files, collected and created by Carl Rachlin. Of the three, the files of the Legal Department are the largest and most comprehensive.

Abstract: This collection consists of 196 letters written by a Milwaukee native and private (later corporal) in the United States Army during World War II. Addressed to his wife, the soldier's correspondence begins in May 1943 during his basic training, continues through his deployment to Great Britain and removal to military hospital in New York. The correspondence concludes with a letter from an Iowan medical facility, where he was reunited with his wife. The letters describe army life and conditions, the soldier's longing for his wife and home, the wife's activities in Milwaukee, and the husband's venereal disease.