Summary Information

Title: Oscar and Dorothy Rynders Zerk Papers and Photographs
Inclusive Dates: circa 1900-1995

Creators:

• Zerk, Oscar, 1878-1968
• Zerk, Dorothy Margaret Rynders, 1911-1995

Call Number: Parkside Mss 92; PH Parkside Mss 92

Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (6 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 500 photographs, 185 negatives, and 41 transparencies (in 3 archives boxes and 1 flat box)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Library/Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers and photographs of inventor Oscar Zerk and of his fourth wife, Dorothy Rynders. Also included are files about Zerk's Kenosha estate, Dunmovin. Photographs mainly document Oscar Zerk's participation in World War I, his family, Dunmovin, Dorothy's heyday as a beauty queen, Oscar's first company and home in Cleveland, Ohio, social events at Dunmovin, his natural history collections, and Oscar and Dorothy's 1954 wedding.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pks0092

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