Abstract: General records of the bureau and its predecessor, the Bureau of Child and Maternal Health, relating to its broad public health responsibilities for maternal and child health, mental health, mental retardation, and school health. Some files document the tenure of Amy Louise Hunter as head of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, and they include documentation on numerous statistical studies she initiated or participated in concerning infant blindness, premature birth, maternal and neonatal mortality, midwives, migrant workers, and other topics. There is also data on midwives, the distribution of incubators, and Wisconsin generally.

Abstract: Files from a program providing grants-in-aid to qualified county and multi-county planning commissions throughout the state pursuant to Chapter 109 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Included is correspondence, progress reports, initial inquiry and reply form, maps, agreements, grant amounts, press releases, applications, and resolutions.

Abstract: Business records of the Catlin and Williamson real estate firm operating in Madison, Wisconsin, consisting of journals, ledgers, record books of contracts, mortgages, and land sales, and conveyances of lands chiefly in Dane, Sauk, and Fond du Lac counties to Catlin, Williamson, and Simeon Mills. Also included are a school copybook, a ciphering book, and a teacher's certificate for Williamson.

Abstract: Mainly records of business enterprises engaged in by three brothers, A. J., H. H., and Martin Rich, onetime residents of Horicon, Wisconsin. Three letterbooks, 1874-1882, contain outgoing letters from the Ontonagon, Michigan, office of their firm, which manufactured lumber and shingles and dealt in general merchandise in Wisconsin and Michigan. Two volumes of financial records include a ledger, 1857-1858, for Rich and Roper Livery in Horicon; journal entries, 1864-65, for Rich Brothers' general merchandise store in Horicon; and personal accounts, 1860-1868, of H. H. Rich. The bulk of the final volume consists of financial records of the Horicon Windmill Company, 1874-1895, but a few pages contain sales records kept by an unidentified merchant dealing in iron, lumber, and other products in Southport (Kenosha) in 1846-1847.

Abstract: Papers of a Milwaukee native and U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class who served at Base Hospital No. 22 (named Beau Desert) near Bordeaux, France during World War I. Most of the collection consists of photographs, originally stored in two scrapbooks. For preservation reasons, Piepers' scrapbook of hospital photos was disassembled; his compilation of sightseeing images from France remains in its original scrapbook. The images include unit photographs, and scenes of camp life, German prisoners, hospital wards, nurses, patients, and training in Milwaukee. The unit was manned by men and women organized by the Milwaukee County chapter of the American Red Cross. A unit history published in 1940 provides details on the origin, operations, and demobilization of the hospital.

Abstract: Writings and social correspondence of a New York drama critic and fiction writer. The bulk of this collection consists of clippings of Hawkins' World-Telegram newspaper articles (1946-1956) and notes and drafts of his published and unpublished books and plays, as well as two published works, The Big Red Pocketbook and Tell the Mischief. There are also letters from dozens of theater performers and producers; most are notes which thank Hawkins for a pleasant interview or a good review, and the rest are friendly, often chatty letters which deal with the writer's immediate social and professional activities. A number of business letters as well as clippings about, and photographs of, Hawkins are included in the collection.