Summary Information

Title: Messerschmidt Family Papers and Visual Materials
Inclusive Dates: 1915-2001

Creator:

• Messerschmidt Family

Call Number: M2003-074; AE 186-AE 189; VBC 289-VBC 292

Quantity: 0.1 c.f., 142 photographs, 6 transparencies, 4 films (16 mm), and 4 videorecordings (viewing copies of films)

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers of the Messerschmidt family, German immigrants and longtime residents of Madison, Wisconsin. William Messerschmidt and his son Samuel owned land near present-day Dane County Airport on which Samuel built a stone house in 1932 that was later purchased and moved during a runway expansion project in 1997-2001. Included in the collection are autobiographies by William and Lowell, Samuel's son. Lowell grew up on the family farm, initially registered as a conscientious objector during World War II, later saw service in an ambulance unit in Africa, the Middle East, and Italy, traveled extensively as a church pastor, and held office for the Madison welfare office in the 1970s. The photographs include shots of a tornado that touched down in Madison (1944), the first Northwest Airlines flight at Truax Field (1937), the Messerschmidt family farm, vacations, a G.A.R. parade in Madison, and Madison churches. The films are home movies featuring family vacations, the farm, a parade in Madison, and various family activities.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2003074

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