Summary Information
Victor C. Wallin Papers
1937-1976
Northland Mss C
2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes)
Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center / Ashland Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Papers, primarily 1950-1976, of Wallin, a Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly and a Bayfield County civic and conservation leader. Included is correspondence, reference materials, and clippings about his efforts to promote watershed management, other conservation activities, and legislative interests.
English
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Biography/History
Victor C. Wallin, State Assembly member and local civic and conservation leader, was born in Washburn, Wisconsin, May 27, 1899. He attended Grand View, Wisconsin, public schools and graduated from La Salle Extension University with courses in accounting methods. In 1924 he became a partner in Wallin Brothers and Habelt, petroleum products distributors. He operated a general store and, after 1948, an appliance store in Grand View. Prior to his election to the State Assembly in 1952 Wallin was Grand View Town Chairman, and a member of the Bayfield County Board, 1937-1947. Active also in conservation affairs, he was a member of the Grand View, Bayfield County and South Bay Conservation clubs, and president of the Bayfield County unit of the Conservation Congress.
Wallin was elected in 1952 as a Republican to represent Bayfield County in the Assembly. During 1956-1960, the last two of his four terms, his district included both Bayfield and Ashland counties. In the Assembly he served on the Conservation, Elections, and Labor committees. His primary legislative interests were education and conservation, especially watershed management. During his legislative career he also served on the Duluth-Superior High Bridge Commission, on the Legislative Council's Motor Vehicle Safety Committee and its special Great Lakes Ports Committee, and on the Governor's Water Resources Coordinating Committee. During the 1950's Wallin expressed concern for encroaching federal government activities and supported unsuccessful efforts to call a constitutional convention to limit federal powers. He also supported proposed state constitutional amendments to permit representation in the Legislature on the basis of land area as well as population. On educational issues he opposed school district consolidation and state and federal control over education, but supported a plan for government loans to college students.
Victor Wallin was a personal friend as well as political ally of Republican Governors Vernon Thomson and Warren Knowles. After Wallin's defeat in the 1960 election, Governor Knowles appointed him to the Governor's Water Resources Committee, to the Wisconsin Resource Conservation Council, and to the State Forestry Advisory Committee. In other civic affairs Wallin was chairman of the Bayfield County Community Action Committee, 1967-1968; a trustee of the Bayfield County Rest Home; a member and official of the Lake Superior Council and of Indianhead Country, Inc. He has taken an active interest in the Boy Scouts of America and several other organizations.
Scope and Content Note
The Victor C. Wallin papers, 1937-(1950-1976), are arranged by subject in a single file, substantially as they were received from the donor. They consist primarily of Wallin's correspondence but also include a few published articles and some reference materials. Among the latter are newspaper clippings, drafts of legislation, and pamphlets. The collection includes scattered correspondence with Warren Knowles and Vernon Thomson.
There is very little in the collection about Wallin's local government work except for his interest, in the 1940's, in a joint County and Town Board preventive health care plan (box 4, folder 9) and his service as a County Rest Home trustee (box 1, folder 5). Conservation is the best documented subject in the collection and information about it appears in many files. In addition to general materials in the folders labelled “conservation” (box 1, folders 18-19; box 2, folders 1-2), there is a great deal of information about Wallin's interest in watershed protection, particularly his efforts as a legislator to secure a coordinated state agency approach to watershed management (box 4, folders 18-22). The collection also includes files on three Bayfield County areas with environmental problems (box 1, folder 8; box 2, folder 11; box 5, folder 2); on federal actions to create an Apostle Islands National Park and to preserve wild rivers (box 1, folder 1; box 5, folder 3); and Wallin's assistance in organizing a Northland Environment Committee in 1971 (box 4, folder 5). A portion of the papers consists of correspondence with constituents concerning such matters as civil service employment and veterans' home loan programs (box 1, folder 10; box 4, folder 17) and with individuals and organizations interested in specific matters before the Legislature. The files on state and federal constitutional amendments reflect Wallin's conservative political views on many issues (box 2, folders 4-5). Only two folders of materials concern Wallin's personal life and political activities (box 3, folders 10-11).
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Victor C. Wallin, Grand View, Wisconsin, October 26, 1976. Accession Number: M76-453
Processed by J. Sorenson and J. Fleckner, July 13, 1977.
Contents List
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Box
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Folder
1
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Apostle Islands National Park - Legislation, 1954, 1966-1970 and Undated.
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Box
1
Folder
2
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Ashland - City and County Affairs, 1955, 1957-1958, 1967.
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Box
1
Folder
3
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Ashland Experimental Station, 1954-1955.
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Box
1
Folder
4
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Bayfield County Board, 1945, 1953 and Undated.
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Box
1
Folder
5-7
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Bayfield County Rest Home, 1968-1972 and Undated.
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Box
1
Folder
8
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Bibon Swamp, 1973 and Undated.
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Box
1
Folder
9
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Boy Scouts of America, 1958-1961, 1969, and Undated.
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Box
1
Folder
10
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Bureau of Personnel - Civil Service Employment, 1956, 1958.
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Box
1
Folder
11
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Capital Times News Clippings, 1953-1955 and Undated.
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Box
1
Folder
12
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Chiropractic Medicine - Proposed Legislation, 1953, 1957-1958 and Undated.
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Box
1
Folder
13
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Cities and Industrial Advertising, 1955.
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Box
1
Folder
14
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City of Bayfield 1951, 1953, 1957-1958.
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Box
1
Folder
15
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City of Washburn - Proposed Sewer Bond Issue Legislation, 1952-1953.
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Box
1
Folder
16
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Civic Affairs, 1946, 1954, 1956.
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Box
1
Folder
17
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Clam Lake Jobs Corps, 1965-1966 and Undated.
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Conservation,
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Box
1
Folder
18-19
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1940-1958, 1961-1963.
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Box
2
Folder
1-2
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1964-1968, 1972-1973, 1975-1976 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
3
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Conservation Congress, 1941-1944, 1954-1955.
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Constitution,
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Box
2
Folder
4
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Federal - Amendment Process, 1955-1970, and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
5
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State - Amendment Process, 1955-1959, 1962, and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
6
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Cornucopia - South Shore Scenic Drive Development, 1953-1954, 1956.
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Box
2
Folder
7
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Drummond School, 1955, 1957-1959, 1968, 1971.
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Box
2
Folder
8
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Duluth-Superior High Bridge Commission, 1957-1958, 1961 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
9
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Eau Claire Lakes Bridge, 1958-1959.
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Box
2
Folder
10
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Education - Local, 1948-1957, 1970-1971.
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Box
2
Folder
11
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Eighteen Mile Creek, 1952-1953, 1957, 1961-1962, 1964, 1970 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
12
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Elections - Rules and Regulations, 1954, 1956 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
13
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Electric and Telephone Company - Legislation, 1955-1956.
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Box
2
Folder
14
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Flood Insurance - Highway Disaster Fund - Proposed Legislation, 1946-1947, 1949, 1953 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
15
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Forest Crop Tax Refund Distribution - Proposed Legislation, 1953, 1955-1959 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
16
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Governor's Water Resource Committee, 1966-1967 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
17
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Grade “A” Milk - Legislation, 1948, 1952, 1954-1957 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
18
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Grand View Conservation Club, 1935-1958 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
19
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Grand View Fire Department, 1956-1957, 1969-1976 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
20
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Great Divide - Resort Sign Postings, 1958 and Undated.
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Box
2
Folder
21
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Great Lakes Ports Committee, 1955-1958 and Undated.
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Box
3
Folder
1-2
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Higher Education, 1950, 1953, 1955-1959.
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Box
3
Folder
3
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Highway Commission, 1954-1958, 1970, 1976 and Undated.
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Box
3
Folder
4
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Indianhead Country, Inc., 1942-1974.
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Box
3
Folder
5
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Insurance Plan - Protection From Uninsured Drivers, 1953-1954, 1956.
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Box
3
Folder
6
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Labor - Right to Work - Legislation, 1955, 1957-1958, 1969-1970.
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Box
3
Folder
7
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Lake Namakagon, 1970-1971.
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Box
3
Folder
8
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Lake Superior, 1968-1970.
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Box
3
Folder
9
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League of Women Voters - Reapportionment - Legislation, 1953, 1952-1958.
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Letters
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Box
3
Folder
10
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Personal, 1957-1976.
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Box
3
Folder
11
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Political - Miscellaneous, 1951-1975 and Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
1
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Monona Terrace, 1957-1958 and Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
2
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Motor Vehicle Department, 1956, 1958.
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Box
4
Folder
3
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National Guard, 1951, 1956.
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Box
4
Folder
4
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Nelson, Gaylord, 1957-1958, 1960, 1966 and Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
5
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Northland Environment Committee, 1971 and Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
6
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Office of Economic Opportunity, 1967-1968 and Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
7
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Office of Price Administration, 1943.
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Box
4
Folder
8
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Pesticide Control, 1966-1969, 1971 and Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
9
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Preventive Care Health Program, 1941-1945, 1948 and Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
10
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Project Sanguine, Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
11
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Proprietary Medicine - Proposed Legislation, 1957.
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Box
4
Folder
12
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Railroads - Full Crew Legislation, 1955, 1957.
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Box
4
Folder
13
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Reapportionment - Proposed State Constitutional Amendment, 1951-1953, 1963, 1969 and Undated.
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Box
4
Folder
14
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State Historical Society, 1955, 1964, 1969-1970, 1975-1976.
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Box
4
Folder
15
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Taconite Mining - Proposed Taxation Legislation, 1953, 1957-1958.
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Box
4
Folder
16
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Town of Pratt, 1937, 1939, 1946, 1959, 1969, 1972.
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Box
4
Folder
17
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Veteran Affairs Department - Home Loan Requests, 1954, 1956, 1958.
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Box
4
Folder
18
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Watershed Coordinating Committee, 1953, 1957-1962 and Undated.
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Watershed - Water Resource Coordinated Management
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Box
4
Folder
19-20
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Proposed Legislation, 1958-1962, 1964-1967, 1969.
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Box
4
Folder
21
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Miscellaneous, 1953-1956, 1958-1960.
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Box
4
Folder
22
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Undated
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Box
5
Folder
1
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Welfare - Constituent Requests, 1956-1958 and Undated.
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Box
5
Folder
2
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Whittlesy Creek Watershed, 1953-1958 and Undated.
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Box
5
Folder
3
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Wild Rivers - Proposed Legislation, 1943, 1965-1966.
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Box
5
Folder
4
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Wiley, Alexander, 1942-1943.
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Box
5
Folder
5
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Wisconsin Resource Conservation Council, 1961, 1964, 1966-1967, 1969-1971 and Undated.
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