Abstract: This collection contains 14 publications by UW-Extension Social Work professor Mary Reistroffer focusing on foster care. The papers cover topics including teenagers in foster care, foster parents, hyperactive children, and emotional abuse.

Abstract: Collection compiled by J. Wesley Miller, a University of Wisconsin graduate student in the 1960s and 1970s. The collection consists primarily of posters collected on the University of Wisconsin campus and State Street, and newsletters, brochures and other literature distributed by campus groups such as the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA). Also includes correspondence with his family and personal diaries of Miller, many written on the backs of posters and handouts.

Abstract: Audio recorded interviews by Society staff members with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust (Shoah) in Europe (1933-1945) who eventually settled in Wisconsin. The interviews discuss their pre-war circumstances, war-time experiences, post-war resettlement, and subsequent events in their lives. These experiences include deportation to labor and concentration camps, hiding “underground” in Holland and Germany, internment in Italy, slave-labor in Russia, escape to Shanghai, China, and other war-time events. Discussion of their post-war experiences concerns years in displaced persons camps, internment on Cyprus, temporary residences in Sweden, England, and Israel, and resettlement in the United States. Also included are two interviews with United States citizens who worked with displaced persons after the war. The photographs document the families of the survivors before and immediately after World War II. Also included are color transparencies of the survivors photographed by Historical Society staff, from December 1979 through February 1981, as well as copies of photographs supplied by the survivors.

Abstract: Materials from three oral history projects, relating to Cuca Records, Paramount Records, and the Park People, conducted by Sarah Filzen. The collection consists of taped interviews and transcripts for the Cuca Records and Paramount Records interviews and abstracts for the Park People interviews.

The oral history projects relating to Cuca Records and Paramount Records, in which interviewees were asked about their background and their knowledge of the history of these local Wisconsin record labels, were conducted while Filzen was a graduate student in history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Filzen's history of Paramount Records is also included in the collection.

The Park People project studied changes in public policy and recreational needs in the Milwaukee County Park System. Diane Buck co-conducted several of the Park People interviews.

Abstract: Papers of James I. Loeb, a journalist who was an intellectual leader of the anti-Communist left, a founder of the Americans for Democratic Action, a supporter of presidential candidates Averell Harriman and Hubert Humphrey, ambassador to Peru and Guinea, and owner of the Adirondack (N.Y.) Daily Enterprise. Included are correspondence, memoranda, subject files, speeches and writings, notes, photographs, and subject files on the ADA, various political activities, and ambassadorial assignments. Particularly important are several extended, reflective memoranda by Loeb which comment on various aspects of his career. Prominent correspondents include Hubert Humphrey, John and Robert Kennedy, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and many other leaders of the Democratic Party. An unpublished autobiography written in 1959 and comments on Adlai Stevenson are available only on microfilm.

Abstract: Contains the records of a project conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Nursing on behalf of the American Nurses Association to examine the feasibility of accreditation of basic and graduate education. The collection contains background materials, reports, staff papers, and verbatim transcripts of meetings. The collection also contains files on the Cooperating Groups (representatives from agencies involved in credentialing); Dean Mary Conway's files on committee appointments, budget expenditures, and research; and a few records of the committee's director, Inez Hinsvark, documenting funding sources and the end of the study. Additionally, the collection contains approximately one cubic foot of responses to a credentialling survey sent out by the UWM School of Nursing prior to and during the implementation of this study.

Abstract: Records of the Department of City Development, which promotes the development of neighborhoods, businesses, and quality of life in the City of Milwaukee. Contains reports, minutes, publications, as well as marketing slides and photographs.

Abstract: Charts, graphs, letters, maps, memoranda, photographs, and special committee minutes and studies which document the construction, extension of service, efficiency of operation, safety, convenience, and costs to consumers of water, electric power, railroads, street railways, steam heating, and telephone service in metropolitan Milwaukee. Many of the files concern the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company and the Wisconsin Telephone Company. Also contains many complaints and requests from individuals, commercial enterprises, and manufacturers concerning change or extension of service, rate discrimination, overcharges, inconveniences, nuisances, and inefficient service.