Summary Information

Title: Alvin M. Peterson Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1921-1977

Creator:

• Peterson, Alvin M., 1884-

Call Number: La Crosse Mss CP

Quantity: 8.5 c.f. (19 archives boxes, 1 record center carton, 1 small box)

Repository:

Housed at the Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; 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-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Alvin M. Peterson, a La Crosse County, Wis., naturalist and writer, consisting primarily of his writings documenting observations of nature, particularly birds and wild flowers. Present are many of Peterson's published works of fiction and non-fiction, draft manuscripts, clipping scrapbooks, leaf prints of wild flowers in the Coulee region, checklists and surveys of plants in the area, and illustrated notebooks on the transformation of his farm. The fiction consists of children's books which, like the non-fiction works, mainly feature nature topics. Three writing by Peterson's wife, Mae Rose (Draeger) Peterson, are also included in the collection.

Note:

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Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-lx00cp

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