Summary Information

Title: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Evansville, Wis.) Records
Inclusive Dates: 1889-1964

Creator:

• Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Evansville, Wis.)

Call Number: Whitewater Mss AO; Whitewater Micro 8; Micro 699

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives & Area Research Center, Harold Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; 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-Whitewater Library / Whitewater Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Records of the Evansville, Wisconsin, affiliate of the WCTU, an organization advocating total abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and narcotics. Records include minute books; a treasurer's book, 1930-1947; convention programs, 1953-1964; histories of temperance activities in Rock County; biographical materials about temperance leaders Frances Willard, Genesee Wesleyan, and Lillian Stevens; education and program materials, 1951-1964; materials from WCTU institutes; and a treasurer's book from the Rock County WCTU, 1889-1950. On microfilm are two scrapbooks, 1944-1946 and 1950-1951, and a few loose clippings pertaining to temperance and religious issues.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-whit00ao

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