Summary Information

Title: Ethnic History of Wisconsin Project Recordings
Inclusive Dates: 1955

Call Number: Audio 125A; Audio 130A; Mss 332; Mss 333

Quantity: 55 tape recordings and 0.4 cubic feet (2 archives boxes)

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:

Recordings and partial transcriptions of both broadcasts and research interviews by William J. Schereck, from a Wisconsin State Historical Society radio series entitled "Sounds of Heritage," documenting different European ethnic groups who settled the state. The materials document prominent individuals, settlement patterns, and contributions made by Cornish, Croatian, Czech (Bohemian), English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Scottish, Slovak, Swiss, and Greater Syrian immigrants. Some recordings specifically concern Christmas customs, music, Washington Island, and Marathon County nationality groups.

Note:

This collection is considered part of State Archives Series 684.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00332

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