Summary Information

Title: Will Ross Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1914-1980

Creator:

• Ross, Will, 1888-1951

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 111; Milwaukee Micro 55; Micro 1119; PH 3693; PH 3694

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm, and 44 photographs

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; 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-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Fragmentary papers of Will Ross, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin businessman, civic leader, and tuberculosis health care activist. Included are biographical information and microfilmed clippings; correspondence; articles and several versions of his autobiography, I Wanted to Live, which concerned his determined recovery from tuberculosis; and subject files primarily concerning his involvement in state and national tuberculosis associations and the interest of his widow in the Will Ross Medal and other memorials to her husband. The correspondence includes examples of the monthly mimeographed letters which he sent to friends and business associates between 1926 and 1951, concerning his hospital supply firm, Will Ross, Inc., which was established while Ross was still a patient in a tuberculosis sanitarium.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00111

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