Summary Information
Isabel H. Baumann Papers
1924-1976
- Baumann, Isabel H., 1906-
Mss 591
0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of a farm organization activist including scripts from the radio series called the “We Say What We Think Club,” minutes of the Pierceville Mothers' Club concerned with improving rural education, newsletters of the Dane County Rural Federation, and miscellany.
English
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Biography/History
Isabel Baumann was born on July 28,1906, and was raised in the Town of Dunkirk, Dane County, Wisconsin. After completing a one-year teachers' training course, she taught at a one-room school in the Town of Sun Prairie. In 1928, she married Daniel McCarthy and resigned her teaching position to work on her husband's family farm near Sun Prairie. A truck accident left her a widow in 1942, and in 1947, she married August Baumann.
Isabel Baumann was a strong advocate of rural women's organizations and of women's involvement and representation in rural organizations in general. Soon after moving to the farm in 1928, she joined the Pierceville Mothers' Club, a social group begun in 1924 to provide support for the school. She was active in the Dane County Rural Federation in the 1920's and 1930's, and joined and was elected treasurer of the newly-formed Dane County Farm Bureau Federation women's organization in 1934. In 1937, Dane County agricultural extension agent J. W. Clark invited Isabel Baumann and four other women to initiate a regular broadcast called the “We Say What We Think Club,” a monthly program that continued for twenty years over a Madison radio station. From approximately 1961 to 1967, she served on the board of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation.
Scope and Content Note
The Isabel H. Baumann Papers consist of scripts and other papers from the “We Say What We Think Club,” newsletters from the Dane County Rural Federation, minutes and correspondence of the Pierceville Mothers' Club, and miscellaneous other items.
Related Material
A rich source of additional information is the oral history interview conducted with Mrs. Baumann in 1980 by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society staff. It is cataloged separately under her name.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Isabel H. Baumann, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 1980. Accession Number: M80-618
Processed by Karen Baumann, July 27, 1983.
Contents List
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Box
1
Folder
1-13
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“We Say What We Think Club” scripts and miscellany, 1937-1957
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Box
2
Folder
1-2
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Dane County Rural Federation newsletters, 1925?-1942
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Pierceville Mothers' Club
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Box
2
Folder
3-6
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Minutes, 1924-1956, n.d.
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Box
2
Folder
7
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Correspondence and other papers, 1933-1975, n.d.
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Box
2
Folder
8
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Miscellany, 1937-1976
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