Summary Information

Title: Arnold Strickon Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1883-1987

Creator:

• Strickon, Arnold

Call Number: La Crosse Mss CR; Audio 1363A; PH La Crosse Mss CR

Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet (5 archives boxes), 35 tape recordings, and 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box) of slides, negatives, and contact prints

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:

UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Research papers created and compiled by Arnold Strickon, an anthropology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, while conducting field work in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The bulk of the papers are from 1974 and 1975 and consist of research notes, subject files, genealogies, oral history recordings, color slides, and black and white contact prints. Also included in the collection are survey forms which were completed by residents of Vernon County documenting such topics as tobacco farming, social life and customs, churches and ethnicity.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-lx00cr