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Summary Information
Helen Finkelstein Bruner and Ervin Bruner Papers
1933-2010
1933-1984
- Bruner, Helen Finkelstein
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Collection includes primarily paper documents, photographs, and negatives.
- 1 Linear Feet
- One record storage carton
Helen Finkelstein Bruner worked at the
University of Wisconsin School for Workers in the 1940s and 1950s and later at the UW
Extension Center for Community Leadership Development, where she served as a specialist on
Latin American migrants from 1966-1976. Her husband, Ervin M. Bruner, founded two
interracial cooperatives at UW-Madison, served as a Dane County Family and Juvenile Court
Judge, and was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. The Helen Finkelstein Bruner and
Ervin Bruner Papers include organizational and academic records, correspondence,
publications, newspaper clippings, ephemera, photographs, and negatives documenting: Helen
Finkelstein Bruner's academic career; Ervin Bruner's work in the Youth Hostel and
cooperative movement; his involvement in the Boy Scouts of America Troop 1B S.A and Troop
100; the couple's life in the Truax Project for veterans; and the students and faculty of
the School for Workers. The collection was compiled by their daughter Cathie Bruner and
donated to the UW Archives in 2015.
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