Summary Information

Title: Robert Weigend Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1951-1967 (bulk 1958-1965)

Creator:

• Weigend, Robert, 1926-2009

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 221; PH Milwaukee Mss 221; AD 402-AD 403; CB 842

Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (6 archives boxes), 203 transparencies (1 flat box), 38 photographs and 10 negatives (1 archives box), and 3 films (16 mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Center
Contact Information

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 civil engineer Robert Weigend, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin civil defense employee who specialized in fallout shelter surveying and planning. The collection documents his work on local civil defense efforts, especially relating to evacuation and fallout shelter planning in Milwaukee. Records date from 1951 to 1967 (mainly 1958 to 1965). Materials include civil defense informational handouts and pamphlets, assorted disaster plans, memos, agendas, maps, shelter information, research on creating a KP Corps, and other financial and administrative documents relating to the county and city’s civil defense procedures and preparations for nuclear attack. Also included are notes and research related to Weigend’s work for the Wisconsin Electric Power Company, as well as materials related to civil defense courses he taught to the general public and to architects and engineers.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00221

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