Title: Writers' Program. Wisconsin: Writings and Research Notes
Inclusive Dates: 1935-1942

Creator:

• Writers' Program. Wisconsin

Call Number: Wis Mss MM

Quantity: 17.2 c.f. (43 archives boxes).

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

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Abstract:

Writings and research produced by the Wisconsin division of the Federal Writers' Project (1935-1942), which was designed to provide jobs for unemployed professional and white-collar workers. The collection consists of biographies of famous Wisconsinites; tour guides and histories of Madison, Milwaukee, Mineral Point and Wausau; radio scripts of dramatized biographies and dramatized recollections of pioneer days; and other writings.

Language: English

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The Federal Writers' Project of Wisconsin was part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program designed to provide jobs for unemployed professional and white-collar workers. In 1935, the WPA sponsored five nation-wide arts projects and established agencies in each state, including Wisconsin, with smaller units in each county. Statewide, the project employed 200 people in its early years. The Federal Writers' Project of Wisconsin was assigned the task of compiling a Wisconsin guide book as part of a national project. The writers were instructed to provide descriptions of the Wisconsin landscape, the people and the communities. The state was to sponsor the guide and assume the responsibility for its publication. The guide book for Wisconsin was compiled, but when the anti-New Deal administration of Governor Julius Heil took office, state support was withdrawn. Subsequently the Madison-Wisconsin Foundation agreed to sponsor the Madison portion of the Guide but eventually also withdrew its sponsorship. Eventually portions of the Madison, Milwaukee and Mineral Point guides were published. The Madison and Milwaukee tour guides, histories, and essays were heavily edited and included in the Wisconsin Library Association's 1941 book, Wisconsin: A Guide to the Badger State. The Mineral Point guide was published by the Mineral Point Historical Society in 1979 as The Story of Mineral Point. These published versions are briefer and in a more technical style than the detailed prose found in the original manuscripts.

In 1939 the Federal Writers' Project ended, causing the Federal Writers' Project of Wisconsin to close on September 1, 1939. It was re-opened in November as the Wisconsin Writers' Project, an independent state-wide agency. Its main job was to compile an Encyclopedia of Wisconsin Biography. The encyclopedia was tentatively divided into three volumes, the first of which would contain Wisconsinites who became prominent before the Civil War and were born before 1840. The second would encompass those who achieved prominence between 1865 and World War I, and the third would cover figures after World War I. Only a portion of the biographies for the first and second volumes were completed with the rest remaining in unedited form. Selected biographies were edited and published by the State Historical Society in 1960 as the Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography. No work was done on the third volume.

The Federal Writers' Project of Wisconsin collection does not consist of administrative records of WPA, but writings and research produced by the project. The collection consists of four parts: biographies of famous Wisconsinites, tour guides and histories of some Wisconsin cities, radio scripts of dramatized biographies and dramatized recollections of pioneer days, and miscellaneous writings.

The BIOGRAPHIES consist of three different sets of records, each of which profiles different individuals: completed biographies, rough drafts or “field notes” of biographies, and notes for biographies that were never written. The completed manuscripts and drafts are arranged together alphabetically, while the notes for intended biographies are arranged by occupation. A list and abstracts are available for each category (completed, rough drafts, notes) in box 9.

In general, the TOUR GUIDES AND HISTORIES consist of a history of each city (Madison, Milwaukee, Mineral Point, Wausau) and descriptions of points of interest in the city and surrounding area.

For the Madison area tours, the region within a fifty mile radius of Madison was divided into five main tours. These in turn were divided into smaller areas. The tours describe the historic and scenic spots in the lead region, the lower Wisconsin river region, the Dells, the Baraboo Bluffs, the Four Lakes country, the Koshkonong region and the Rock and Sugar River valleys.

The essays and notes on Madison were compiled for the history which was never completed. Each essay traces the development of a particular segment of Madison's industry and culture: e.g. art, music, labor, etc.

The Milwaukee guide consists of three parts. Part I includes a calendar of annual events, history, information on government, labor, industry, the press, and the arts. Part II is a tour of the city by section, and Part III is a tour of the surrounding area.

The Mineral Point guide contains maps, illustrations, a history, information on mining and the land, and a tour of the city.

The history of Wausau also includes points of interest in the city and maps. The Writers' Project was commissioned by the Wausau Centennial committee to write this history as part of the community's 100th anniversary.

The RADIO SCRIPTS consist of dramatized recollections of 19th century life in Wisconsin and dramatized biographies. The “Pioneer Recollections Series” scripts were based on the papers of early settlers that were published in the series of volumes, Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The scripts were written in 1939 but the air date is not known. The shows were produced by WHA and broadcast on station WHA (Madison) and WLBL (Stevens Point). The dramatized biographies were composed for the “Wisconsin Men and Women Series,” which was produced weekly between May 15, 1940 and May 28, 1941 on station WIBA (Madison).

The MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS portion of the collection consists of material commissioned by sponsors but never published. These include the history of the Camp Hayward Transient camp, an index to names of Milwaukee persons in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1917-1940, a history of Milwaukee street names, a catalog of relics at the Rhinelander Logging Museum, 1940, and notes from Karl Roeser's newspaper, the Wisconsin Demokrat, 1854-1860, which includes biographical data on Roeser and is in German.

Processing Information

Processed by Virginia Fritzsch, 1991.

	Series: Biographies
	Subseries: List and abstracts
Box   9	Completed biographies
Box   9	Field notes
Box   9	Notes for intended biographies
	Subseries: Completed biographies and Field notes	⇧
Box   9	Abert, George
Box   9	Ableman, Stephen Van Renssalear
Box   9	Adams, William
Box   9	Adler, Solomon
Box   9	Aikens, A.J.
Box   9	Akeley, Carl Ethan
Box   9	Allen, Charles H.
Box   9	Allen, Hiram Storrs
Box   9	Allen, Rufus
Box   9	Allen, Thomas S.
Box   9	Allen, William
Box   9	Allouez, Claude Jean
Box   9	Anderson, Canute
Box   9	Anderson, John (Capt.)
Box   9	Anneke, Francisca (Mathilde, Mrs.)
Box   9	Anneke, Fritz
Box   9	Appleby, John F.
Box   9	Armitage, William E.
Box   10	Armour, Philip D.
Box   10	Armstrong, Benjamin
Box   10	Arndt, John Philip or Penn
Box   10	Arnold, Jonathan E.
Box   10	Atwood, David
Box   10	Auer, Louis, Sr.
Box   10	Bach, Christopher
Box   10	Bache, Soren
Box   10	Bagnall, Joseph
Box   10	Bailey, Joseph
Box   10	Baird, Elizabeth Therese
Box   10	Baird, Henry S.
Box   10	Baker, C.M.
Box   10	Baker, Joseph
Box   10	Balatka, Hans
Box   11	Ballou, Daniel W.
Box   11	Baraga, Frederic
Box   11	Barber, George
Box   11	Barber, Hiram
Box   11	Barber, Lucius Isreal (2)
Box   11	Bardeen, Charles V.
Box   11	Barnard, Henry
Box   11	Barron, Henry Danforth
Box   11	Barry, A.C.
Box   11	Barstow, William A.
Box   11	Bartlett, John K. (Dr.)
Box   11	Bashford, Coles
Box   11	Bates, Eli
Box   11	Bayfield, Henry W.
Box   11	Beach, William Harrison
Box   11	Beall, Samuel Wotton
Box   11	Bean, Irvin
Box   11	Bean, Jacob L.
Box   11	Bean, Sidney A.
Box   11	Beaumont, William
Box   11	Becker, William
Box   11	Bennett, Elhanen Winchester
Box   11	Bernhardt, Theodore
Box   11	Best, Jacob
Box   11	Bielfeld, A. Henry
Box   11	Bird, A.A.
Box   11	Birchard, Harvey
Box   11	Black Hawk
Box   11	Black, John
Box   12	Blackstone, John Wilford
Box   12	Blanchard, Alvin
Box   12	Blatz, Valentin
Box   12	Bleyer, George M.
Box   12	Blodgett, Caleb
Box   12	Boebel, Hans
Box   12	Boeppler, William
Box   12	Bonnell, James
Box   12	Booth, Henry
Box   12	Booth, Sherman M.
Box   12	Borcherdt, Frederik
Box   12	Borup, Charles W.
Box   12	Bouck, Gabriel
Box   12	Bovee, Marvin H.
Box   12	Bracken, Charles
Box   12	Bradford, John
Box   12	Bradley, Allen
Box   12	Bradley, Chas. T.
Box   12	Brandt, Nils Olsen
Box   12	Brayton, Louisa M. (Mrs. George Sawin)
Box   12	Breck, James Lloyd
Box   12	Brendecke, Frederick (Dr.)
Box   12	Brice, Adele
Box   12	Brigham, Ebenezer
Box   12	Brisbois, Michael
Box   12	Brodhead, Edward H.
Box   12	Brookes, Samuel Marsden
Box   12	Brosius, George
Box   12	Brown, Beriah
Box   12	Brown, John Henry Hobart
Box   13	Brown, Samuel
Box   13	Brown, William, Jr.
Box   13	Brucker, Joseph
Box   13	Brumder, George
Box   13	Brumder, William C.
Box   13	Brunet, Jean
Box   13	Brunson, Alfred
Box   13	Brunson, Ira
Box   13	Bryant, George (General)
Box   13	Buck, James S.
Box   13	Buckner, Samuel Owen
Box   13	Bull, Ole Borneman
Box   13	Bullen, John, Jr.
Box   13	Burnett, Thomas
Box   13	Burnham, George
Box   13	Burnham, Jonathan
Box   13	Burns, Timothy
Box   13	Burt, William A.
Box   14	Butler, James Davie
Box   14	Button, Henry Harrison (Dr.)
Box   14	Cadle, Richard Fish
Box   14	Cadotte, Michel
Box   14	Camp, Hoel
Box   14	Carpenter, M.H.
Box   14	Carpenter, Stephen Decatur
Box   14	Carr, Ezra S.
Box   14	Carron, Thomas
Box   14	Carter, William E.
Box   14	Cary, John W.
Box   14	Case, Jerome I.
Box   14	Castleman, Alfred L. (Dr.).
Box   14	Cate, George W.
Box   14	Catlin, George
Box   14	Catlin, John
Box   14	Cha-Post-Kq-Kaw
Box   14	Chadbourne, Paul Ansel
Box   14	Chapman, Silas
Box   14	Chapman, T.A.
Box   14	Chase, Enoch (Dr.)
Box   14	Chase, Horace
Box   14	Chase, Reuben
Box   14	Chase, Warren
Box   14	Chesebro, Ebenezer
Box   14	Childs, Ebenezer
Box   14	Christiansen, Christian Ludwig
Box   14	Church, Benjamin
Box   14	Claflin, Increase
Box   14	Clark, John G.
Box   14	Clark, Julius Taylor
Box   15	Clark, Satterlee
Box   15	Clausen, C.L.
Box   15	Clinton, Norman C.
Box   15	Clinton, Urial C.
Box   15	Clough, Solon Huntington
Box   15	Cobb, Amasa
Box   15	Codding, Ichabod Note: [file missing, Dec. 1996, CK]
Box   15	Cole, Azel Dow
Box   15	Cole, Charles
Box   15	Cole, Orsamus
Box   15	Colman, Chalres Lane
Box   15	Coleman, John Crapser
Box   15	Coleman, William Werner (2)
Box   15	Collins, Alexander Lynn
Box   15	Collins, James
Box   15	Condit, A.B.
Box   15	Conkey, Theodore
Box   15	Coon, S. Park
Box   15	Cothren, Montgomery M.
Box   15	Cottington, Jesse
Box   15	Cotton, Stephen Rossiter
Box   15	Cram, Thomas J.
Box   15	Cramer, William E.
Box   15	Cravath, Prosper
Box   15	Crawford, Samuel
Box   15	Crocker, Hans
Box   15	Crocker, Oliver C.
Box   15	Cross, J.B.
Box   16	Cudahy, Patrick
Box   16	Cushing, Alonzo
Box   16	Cushing, Howard B.
Box   16	Cushing, William B.
Box   16	Cutler, Morris D.
Box   16	Daggett, D.
Box   16	Daggett, Samuel S.
Box   16	Dahl, Ole Rasmussen
Box   16	Daniels, Edwards
Box   16	Darling, Mason C.
Box   16	Dart, Anson
Box   16	Davidson, Henry P.
Box   16	Davis, Robert
Box   16	Decker, Chas. S.
Box   16	The Decorahs
Box   16	De Haas, Carl
Box   16	De Koven, James
Box   16	Deland, Ambrose Delos
Box   16	Dessert, Joseph
Box   16	Deuster, Peter V.
Box   16	Dewey, Nelson
Box   16	Dickson, Robert
Box   16	Dietrichson, Johannes Wilhelm Christian
Box   16	Dixon, Luther S.
Box   16	Dodge, Henry
Box   16	Domschke, Bernhard
Box   16	Doolittle, James Rood
Box   17	Doty, James Duane
Box   17	Dousman, George D.
Box   17	Dousman, John B.
Box   17	Dousman, Hercules L.
Box   17	Dousman, Michael
Box   17	Dousman, Talbot C.
Box   17	Downer, Jason (2)
Box   17	Draper, Lyman C.
Box   17	Du Bay, John
Box   17	Dundas, J. C.
Box   17	Dunn, Charles
Box   17	Durkee, Charles
Box   17	Durward, Bernard Issac
Box   17	Dziewanowski, Vincent
Box   17	Earles, William Henry (Dr.) (2)
Box   17	Eastman, Seth
Box   17	Edgerton, Benjamin Hyde
Box   18	Edgerton, Elisha W.
Box   18	Edwards, John, Jr.
Box   18	Eielsen, Elling
Box   18	Eldred, Anson
Box   18	Eldred, Elisha
Box   18	Ellis, Albert Gallatin
Box   18	Engelmann, Peter
Box   18	Enos, Elihu (Capt.)
Box   18	Esterly, George
Box   18	Fairchild, Cassius
Box   18	Fairchild, Jairus C.
Box   18	Fairchild, Lucius
Box   18	Flak, Franz
Box   18	Falk, Otto Herbert
Box   18	Fallows, Samuel
Box   18	Farnsworth, William
Box   18	Farrar, Charles S.
Box   18	Farwell, Leonard J.
Box   18	Favill, John
Box   19	Favill, Stephen
Box   19	Featherstonhaugh, George William
Box   19	Featherstonhaugh, George Wm., Jr.
Box   19	Ferguson, David
Box   19	Fessel, Johann Gottlieb Christian
Box   19	Henry, Fisher
Box   19	Fitch, Charles W.
Box   19	Flint, Edwin
Box   19	Foster, Joel
Box   19	Four Legs
Box   19	Frank, Michael (2)
Box   19	Frankfurth, William
Box   19	Franks, Jacob
Box   19	Fratney, Frederick
Box   19	Frazer, William C.
Box   19	Fuller, S.S.N.
Box   19	Furlong, John
Box   19	Gale, George
Box   19	Gallun, August F.
Box   19	Giard, Basil
Box   19	Giddings, David
Box   19	Glory of the Morning
Box   19	Goodell, Rhoda Lavinia
Box   19	Goodnow, Lyman
Box   19	Goodrich, A.E.
Box   19	Goodrich, Joseph
Box   19	Gorsline, William R.
Box   19	Graham, Wilson W.
Box   19	Gratiot, Henry
Box   19	Gratiot, Jean Pierre Bugnion
Box   19	Gray, Hamilton Hunter
Box   19	Great Buffalo
Box   19	Grignon, Augustin
Box   20	Grignon, Pierre, Sr.
Box   20	Guppex, J.J.
Box   20	Haertel, Herman
Box   20	Hall, Sherman
Box   20	Hamilton, Charles Smith
Box   20	Hamilton, William Stephen
Box   20	Hanchett, Luther
Box   20	Hannibal, Lars
Box   20	Haraszthy, Agoston
Box   20	Harnden, Henry
Box   20	Harrison, Mark Robert
Box   20	Harrison, Stephen A. (2)
Box   20	Harrison, Wooster
Box   20	Harvey, Louis Powell
Box   20	Haseltine, Ira Sherwin
Box   20	Hasse, Hermann E. (Dr.)
Box   20	Hathaway, Joshua
Box   20	Hatlestad, Ole
Box   20	Hazen, Chester
Box   20	Head, Charles Rollin
Box   20	Heg, Even
Box   20	Heg, Hans Christian
Box   21	Heiss, Michael
Box   21	Henni, Johann Martin
Box   21	Henry, William
Box   21	Henry, William T.
Box   21	Higby, L.J.
Box   21	Hill, Horatio
Box   21	Hill, Warren Brown (Dr.)
Box   21	Hobart, Harrison Carroll
Box   21	Hobart, H.C.
Box   21	Hobart, John Henry
Box   21	Hobbins, Joseph
Box   21	Hoffmann, Francis
Box   21	Hole-in-the-Day
Box   21	Hole-in-the-Day, Jr.
Box   21	Holton, Edward D.
Box   21	Hooker, Samuel T.
Box   21	Hopkins, J.C.
Box   21	Horn, Friedrich
Box   21	Houghton, Douglas
Box   21	Howe, Timothy O.
Box   21	Hoxie, Vinnie Ream
Box   21	Hoy, Philo Romyne
Box   21	Hubbell, Levi
Box   21	Huebschmann, Francis (Dr.)
Box   21	Hull, Lemuel Beach
Box   21	Humphrey, Herman Loin
Box   21	Hyer, George
Box   21	Hyer, Nathaniel F.
Box   22	Ilsley, Charles F.
Box   22	Inama, Adelbert
Box   22	Ingram, Orrin H.
Box   22	Irwin, David
Box   22	Iverson, Andreas M.
Box   22	Jackson, Joseph
Box   22	Jackson, Mortimer M.
Box   22	Jacobs, William H. (Col.)
Box   22	James, Charles
Box   22	James, Edward
Box   22	Janes, Henry F.
Box   22	Janssen, Edward H.
Box   22	Jenkins, Thomas
Box   22	Johnson, Burdette J.
Box   22	Johnson, Daniel H. (2)
Box   22	Johnson, James (Dr.)
Box   22	Johnson, Timothy
Box   22	Johnston, George
Box   22	Johnston, John
Box   22	Jones, Benjamin
Box   22	Jones, David
Box   22	Jones, David Benton
Box   22	Jones, Harvey
Box   22	Jones, John M. (Capt.)
Box   22	Jones, Thomas Davies
Box   22	Jones, William Arthur
Box   22	Judd, Truman H.
Box   23	Juneau, Solomon (3)
Box   23	Kennan, Mathew
Box   23	Keep, John M.
Box   23	Kellogg, Amherst W.
Box   23	Kellogg, Ansel N.
Box   23	Kellogg, J.A.
Box   23	Kemper, David Jackson
Box   23	Kemper, Herman G.C.
Box   23	Kennan, Thomas Lathrop
Box   23	Kennedy, Donald
Box   23	Kern, J.B.A.
Box   23	Kershaw, C.J.
Box   23	Kickbusch, August
Box   24	Kilbourn, Byron (4)
Box   24	King, Rufus
Box   24	Kinzie, John H.
Box   24	Kinzie, Juliette H.
Box   25	Kirby, Abner
Box   25	Kletzsch, Charles H.
Box   25	Knapp, Gilbert
Box   25	Knapp, John Holly
Box   25	Kneeland, James
Box   25	Kneeland, Moses
Box   25	Knowlton, Wiram
Box   25	Koeffler, Charles A.
Box   25	Koeppen, George
Box   25	Krez, Conrad
Box   25	Kroeger, Henry
Box   25	Krug, August
Box   25	Kuehn, Ferdinand
Box   25	Kumlien, Thure Ludwig Theodor
Box   25	Kundig, Martin
Box   25	Kurtz, Heinrich
Box   25	Ladd, Azel P.
Box   25	Langeland, Knud
Box   25	Langlade, Charles Michel de
Box   25	Langson, William J.
Box   26	Lapham, Increase A.
Box   26	Larrabee, Charles H.
Box   26	Lathrop, John Hiram
Box   26	Lawe, John
Box   26	Layton, Frederick
Box   26	Le Fevre, Clement Fall (D.D.)
Box   26	Leidersdorf, Bernhard
Box   26	Levy, John M.
Box   26	Lewis, Henry
Box   26	Lewis, James Otto
Box   26	Lewis, James Taylor
Box   26	Linsday, E.J.
Box   26	Lockwood, James H.
Box   26	Loeffelhilz, Adam
Box   26	Longstreet, William R.
Box   26	Love, William De Loss
Box   26	Ludington, Harrison
Box   26	Luening, F.A. (Dr.)
Box   26	Lyon, Lucius
Box   26	Lyon, William P.
Box   26	MacArthur, Arthur
Box   26	McCann, Stephen Smith
Box   26	McDill, Alexander Stuart
Box   26	McIndoe, Walter Duncan
Box   26	McMynn, John G.
Box   26	McWilliams, George
Box   26	Macy, John B.
Box   27	Maerklin, Edmund
Box   27	Magoon, Henry S.
Box   27	Magoon, Richard H.
Box   27	Mann, John Enders
Box   27	Mapes, David P.
Box   27	Mariner, Ephraim
Box   27	Marks, Solon (Dr.)
Box   27	Marquis, Alexander
Box   27	Martin, James B.
Box   27	Martin, Morgan L.
Box   27	Mazzuchelli, Smauel Martin
Box   27	Meeker, Moses
Box   27	Meikleham, William
Box   27	Merrill, Sherburn S.
Box   27	Metcalf, William H.
Box   27	Metoxin, John
Box   27	Miller, Andrew G.
Box   27	Miller, Mark
Box   27	Mills, Joseph Trotter
Box   27	Mills, Simeon
Box   27	Mitchell, Alexander
Box   27	Mitchell, Alexander (Mrs.)
Box   27	Mix, Edward Townsend
Box   27	Morrison, James
Box   27	Mortimer, Mary
Box   28	Muir, John
Box   28	Munck, Emanuel (Dr.)
Box   28	Myrick, Nathan
Box   28	Naprsteck, Votja
Box   28	Nattestad, Ole
Box   28	Nelson, John
Box   28	Neukirch, Franz
Box   28	Newhall, Daniel
Box   28	Newman, Alfred William
Box   28	Noonan, Josiah A.
Box   28	Norris, Greenleaf D.
Box   28	O'Brien, Timothy
Box   28	Oelhafen, John
Box   28	Olin, Chauncey C.
Box   28	Olin, Nelson
Box   28	O'Neill, Edward
Box   28	O'Neill, James
Box   28	Orton, Charles H. (Dr.)
Box   28	Orton, Harlow South
Box   28	Oschwald, Ambrose
Box   28	Oshkosh, Neopit
Box   28	Ottesen, Jacob Aall
Box   28	Owen, David Dale
Box   28	Owens, Richard G.
Box   29	Pabst, Frederick (2)
Box   29	Page, Herman L.
Box   29	Pain, Ira C.
Box   29	Paine, Byron
Box   29	Paine, Halbert Eleazor
Box   29	Palmer, Henry L.
Box   29	Park, Roswell
Box   29	Parkinson, Daniel Morgan
Box   29	Parkinson, Peter, Jr.
Box   29	Passavant, W.A. (Rev.)
Box   29	Pauquette, Pierre
Box   29	Pawling, Alonzo
Box   30	Payne, William
Box   30	Peck, Eben (Mrs.)
Box   30	Peckham, George Williams (Dr.)
Box   30	Peckham, Lila
Box   30	Percival, James Gates
Box   30	Perrot, Nicolas
Box   30	Pfister, Guido
Box   30	Phelps, Frank O.
Box   30	Phoenix Brothers, Henry and Samuel
Box   30	Pier, Edward
Box   30	Pinney, Silas U.
Box   30	Plankinton, John
Box   30	Platto, Jacob Van Vechten
Box   30	Pomeroy, Marcus Mills
Box   30	Poppet, George
Box   30	Porlier, Jacques
Box   30	Powers, David J.
Box   30	Prentiss, William A.
Box   30	Preus, Adolph Carl
Box   30	Preus, Herman Amberg
Box   30	Preusser, Christian
Box   30	Preusser, Frederick
Box   30	Pritzlaff, John
Box   30	Puchner, Rudolph
Box   31	Quentin, Karl
Box   31	Quiner, Edwin B.
Box   31	Quinney, John W.
Box   31	Randall, Adin
Box   31	Randall, Alexander Williams
Box   31	Randall, Thomas E.
Box   31	Ream, Robert
Box   31	Reaume, Charles
Box   31	Redbird
Box   31	Reed, Curtis
Box   31	Reed, Harrison
Box   31	Reed, George
Box   31	Rehrl, Casper
Box   31	Reymert, James De Noon
Box   31	Rice, John Blake
Box   31	Rideout, Wanton Kendrick
Box   31	Rindisbacher, Peter
Box   31	Robinson, Dr. Chauncey
Box   31	Roeser (Roser), Charles (Carl, Karl)
Box   31	Rolette, Joseph
Box   31	Rood, S.L.
Box   31	Rosenthal, F.A. (Dr.)
Box   31	Rountree, John Hawkins
Box   31	Rublee, Horace
Box   31	Rueping, William
Box   31	Rugee, John
Box   31	Ruger, Thomas H.
Box   31	Rusk, Jeremiah M.
Box   31	Rust, Julius
Box   32	Ryan, Edward G.
Box   32	Ryan, Samuel
Box   32	Salomon, Charles Eberhardt
Box   32	Salomon, Edward
Box   32	Salomon, Frederick
Box   32	Sampson, William Harkness
Box   32	Sampson, William H.
Box   32	Sanderson, E.
Box   32	Sawin, Louisa Manville (Brayton)
Box   32	Sawyer, Amos
Box   32	Schandein, Emil
Box   32	Schlessinger, Ferdinand
Box   32	Schlitz, Joseph
Box   32	Schoeffler, Mortiz
Box   32	Schulte, Victor
Box   32	Schurz, Carl
Box   32	Scott, Reuben M.
Box   32	Scott, Thomas B.
Box   32	Senn, Nicholas (Dr.)
Box   32	Seymour, Samuel
Box   32	Shaughnessy, Thomas G. (Sir)
Box   32	Shaw, Daniel
Box   32	Shaw, John
Box   32	Sheldon, John P.
Box   32	Sheriffs, James
Box   32	Sherman, Lewis
Box   32	Sholes, Christopher L.
Box   33	Sholes, C. L.
Box   33	Shull, Jesse W.
Box   33	Simmons, Z. G.
Box   33	Sivyer, Charles Milwaukee
Box   33	Slaughter, W. B.
Box   33	Sloan, A. Scott
Box   33	Sloan, Ithamar Conkey
Box   33	Smith, Abram Daniel
Box   33	Smith, Angus
Box   33	Smith, George (2)
Box   33	Smith, George Baldwin
Box   33	Smith, Hiram
Box   33	Smith, Horatio Nelson
Box   33	Smith, John E.
Box   33	Smith, Patrick Henry
Box   33	Smith, Reeder
Box   33	Smith, William E.
Box   33	Smith, William Rudolph
Box   33	Solberg, Carl Frederick
Box   33	Sorensen, Ramus M.
Box   33	Southworth, Emma D.
Box   33	Spaulding, Jacob
Box   33	Spooner, Wyman
Box   33	Stangeland, Elias
Box   33	Stark, Joshua
Box   34	Starkweather, John C. (Col.)
Box   34	Starr, Elisha
Box   34	Starr, H. A. (Col.)
Box   34	Stein, Matthias
Box   34	Stephens, Thomas
Box   34	Sterling, John W.
Box   34	Sterling, Levi
Box   34	Stevens, George
Box   34	Stevenson, Robert
Box   34	Stewart, Alexander (2)
Box   34	Stewart, Alva
Box   34	Stolper, Charles
Box   34	Stoughton, Luke
Box   34	Stow, Alexander W.
Box   34	Stowell, John M.
Box   34	Strang, James Jesse
Box   34	Street, Joseph
Box   34	Strong, Marshall Mason
Box   34	Strong, Moses M.
Box   34	Stub, Hans Andreas
Box   34	Suhm, Roman
Box   34	Suydam, John V.
Box   34	Sweet, Alanson
Box   34	Tainter, Andrew
Box   34	Tallmadge, John J.
Box   34	Tallmadge, Nathaniel P.
Box   34	Tallmadge, Samuel H. (Col.)
Box   34	Tank, Nils Otto
Box   34	Tank, Nils Otto (Mrs.)
Box   34	Taylor, David
Box   34	Taylor, Stephen
Box   34	Taylor, William Robert
Box   34	Tenney, Horace Addison
Box   35	Thormaelen, Anton
Box   35	Thorp, Asa
Box   35	Tiffany, George O.
Box   35	Tripp, James
Box   35	Trostel, Albert
Box   35	Turner, Andrew Jackson
Box   35	Tweedy, John H.
Box   35	Unonius, Gustaf
Box   35	Upham, Don A. J.
Box   35	Usher, Issac Lane
Box   35	Utley, William L.
Box   35	Van Den Broek, T. J.
Box   35	Van Doren, D.
Box   35	Van Dyke, John H.
Box   35	Van Rohr, Heinrich
Box   35	Vedder, H. R. (Mrs.)
Box   35	Vianden, Heinrich
Box   35	Vieau, Jacques
Box   35	Vilas, Levi B.
Box   35	Vineyard, James R.
Box   35	Vliet, Garret (2)
Box   36	Vogel, Frederick
Box   36	Von Baumbach, L.
Box   36	Von Baumbach, Moritz
Box   36	Von Cotzhausen, F. W.
Box   36	Wagner, Julius G.
Box   36	Wahl, Cristian
Box   36	Walker, George H. (3)
Box   36	Walker, Issac
Box   36	Wall, Caleb
Box   36	Walton, William B.
Box   36	Warren, Andrew Jr.
Box   36	Warren, Lyman M.
Box   36	Washburn, Cadwallader Colden
Box   37	Webber, William W.
Box   37	Weeks, Lemuel W. (Dr.)
Box   37	Wells, Daniel (3)
Box   37	Wells, Horatio Nelson
Box   37	Wentworth, John Theodore
Box   37	Wetherby, Lucien Porter
Box   37	Wettstein, Theodore
Box   37	Wheeler, Edwin
Box   37	Wheeler, Leonard H.
Box   37	Whistler, William
Box   37	White, Horace
Box   37	White, John
Box   37	Whitney, Daniel
Box   37	Whiton, Edward V.
Box   38	Wild, Henry
Box   38	Williams, Charles Henry
Box   38	Williams, Eleazer
Box   38	Williams, Joseph
Box   38	Williams, Micajah T.
Box   38	Williams, A. C.
Box   38	Wingfield, F. A.
Box   38	Winkler, Frederick C.
Box   38	Wittmann, Adolph
Box   38	Whittlesey, Asaph
Box   38	Willerup, Christian P.
Box   38	Wilson, Alexander
Box   38	Wilson, Amasa
Box   38	Wolcott, Laura J. Ross (Dr.)
Box   38	Wolf, William H.
Box   38	Wood, Joseph
Box   38	Woodman, Cyrus
Box   38	Wright, William Wallace
Box   38	Wunderly, Charles E.
Box   38	Wyman, Orvis Burke
Box   38	Wyman, William W.
Box   38	Zillier, Carl
	Subseries: Notes for intended biographies	⇧
Box   38	Agriculturists
Box   38	Architects & Builders
	Business Men
Box   38	A-D
Box   39	E-K
Box   39	K-P
Box   39	P-Z
Box   39	Docters
Box   39	Drama
	Educators
Box   39	A-H
Box   39	I-Z
Box   40	Explorers
	General
Box   40	A-H
Box   40	I-Z
Box   40	Indians
Box   40	Inventors
Box   40	Labor Leaders
	Lawyers
Box   40	A-J
Box   40	K-Z
Box   40	Music
Box   40	Painters & Sculptors
Box   40	Philanthropists
	Pioneer Builders
Box   41	A-F
Box   41	G-M
Box   41	N-Z
Box   41	Political Figures
	State
Box   41	A-H
Box   42	I-Z
Box   42	Federal
Box   42	General Politicians
Box   42	Local Officers
Box   42	Publishers & Editors
Box   42	Religious Leaders
Box   43	Scientists
	Soldiers
Box   43	A-M
Box   43	N-Z
Box   43	Traders
Box   43	Writers
	Series: Tour Guides and Histories	⇧
	Madison
	Tour guides
Box   1 Folder   1	Madison guide
Box   1 Folder   2	Maps
	City tours
Box   1 Folder   3	Around the square
Box   1 Folder   4	East side
Box   1 Folder   5	Lake Mendota
Box   1 Folder   6	Lake Monona
Box   1 Folder   7	Lake Wingra
Box   1 Folder   8	University area
Box   1 Folder   9	West Side
	Area Tours
Box   2 Folder   1	Introduction
Box   2 Folder   2-3	Tour 1 - 1A, Madison - Merrimac - Baraboo - Portage - Madison
Box   2 Folder   4	Tour 2, Madison - Columbus - Watertown- Lake Mills - Madison
	Tour 2A, Sun Prairie - Waterloo-Watertown
Box   2 Folder   5	Tour 3, Madison - Oregon - Edgerton - Fort Atkinson - Cambridge -Madison
	Tour 3A, Stoughton - Albion - Fort Atkinson
Box   2 Folder   6	Tour 4, Madison - Dodgeville - Mineral Point - New Glarus - Madison
	Tour 4A, US 151 - Mount Vernon - Wi Hwy 39 to Wi Hwy 78
Box   2 Folder   7	Tour 5, Madison - Wisconsin Dells - Spring Green
Box   2 Folder   8	Tour 5A, Sauk City to Wi Hwy 23
Box   2 Folder   9	Tour 5B, Prairie du Sac - Leland - North Freedom - Ableman
	Histories and essays
Box   3 Folder   1	Art
Box   3 Folder   2	Bibliography of books
Box   3 Folder   3	Economic development
Box   3 Folder   4	History
Box   3 Folder   5	Indians
Box   3 Folder   6	Labor
Box   3 Folder   7-9	Music
Box   4 Folder   1	Newspapers
Box   4 Folder   2	Racial groups
Box   4 Folder   3	Theatre
	Milwaukee
Box   4 Folder   4-6	Guide and tour
	Mineral Point
Box   5 Folder   1	Guide and tour
Box   5 Folder   2	Illustrations
	Wausau
Box   5 Folder   3	Maps
Box   5 Folder   4-5	History (draft)
Box   6 Folder   1-2	History (pre-final copy)
	Series: Radio Scripts	⇧
Box   6 Folder   3	List of scripts
	Pioneer Recollection Series
	Biddle, James
	Brevoort, Mary Ann
	Childs, Ebenezer
	Ellis, Albert G.
	Engsted, E.
	Kinzie, Juliette
	Parkinson, Daniel
	Wild, Joshua
	Wisconsin Men and Women Series
Box   6 Folder   5	Anneke, Mathilde
Box   6 Folder   6	Bailey, Joseph
Box   6 Folder   7	Beaumont, William
Box   6 Folder   8	Bond, Carrie Jacobs
Box   6 Folder   9	Booth, Sherman M.
Box   6 Folder   10	Brunson, Alfred
Box   6 Folder   11	Bull, Ole
Box   6 Folder   12	Case, Jerome I.
Box   6 Folder   13	Chase, Warren
Box   6 Folder   14	Curtin, Jeremiah
Box   6 Folder   15	Cushing, William
Box   7 Folder   1	Davis, Jefferson (capture of)
Box   7 Folder   2	Dietz, John W.
Box   7 Folder   3	Dodge, Henry
Box   7 Folder   4	Doty, James Duane
Box   7 Folder   5	Durward, Bernard
Box   7 Folder   6	Gale, Zona
Box   7 Folder   7	Garland, Hamlin
Box   7 Folder   8	Haraszthy, Agostin
Box   7 Folder   9	Hubbell, Levi
Box   7 Folder   10	Juneau, Solomon
Box   7 Folder   11	King, Charles Rufus
Box   7 Folder   12	Kinzie, John
Box   7 Folder   13	Lapham, Increase
Box   7 Folder   14	Mazzuchelli, Father Samuel
Box   7 Folder   15	Muir, John
Box   7 Folder   16	Murphy, John Benjamin
Box   7 Folder   17	Pauquette, Pierre
Box   7 Folder   18	Peck, Rosaline
Box   7 Folder   19	Percival, James Gates
Box   7 Folder   20	Pomeroy, Marcus (Brick)
Box   7 Folder   21	Red Bird
Box   7 Folder   22	Rusk, Jeremiah
Box   7 Folder   23	Ryan, Edward G.
Box   8 Folder   1	Schurz, Carl
Box   8 Folder   2	Strong, James Jesse
Box   8 Folder   3	Tank, Nils Otto
Box   8 Folder   4	Vilas, William F.
Box   8 Folder   5	Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Box   8 Folder   6	Willard, Frances
Box   8 Folder   7	Williams, Eleazer
	Series: Miscellaneous Writings	⇧
Box   8 Folder   8	Camp Hayward Transient camp history
Box   8 Folder   9	Index to names of Milw. persons in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1917-1940
Box   8 Folder   10	Milwaukee street names history
Box   8 Folder   11	Catalog of Relics at the Rhinelander Logging Museum, 1940
Box   8 Folder   12	Notes from Karl Roeser's Wisconsin Demokrat, 1854-1860