Summary Information

Title: Frances Goetsch Schwantz Papers and Photographs
Inclusive Dates: 1856-1980 (bulk 1894-1968)

Creator:

• Schwantz, Frances Goetsch, 1877-1968

Call Number: Mss 1033; PH 6514

Quantity: 1.9 c.f. (6 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder), 395 photographs and 8 negatives (in 4 archives boxes and 1 flat box), and 1.0 c.f. of scrapbooks (in 2 flat boxes)

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, 1856-1980, of Frances Loraine Goetsch Schwantz, documenting the Goetsch family's emigration from Germany to the area around Watertown, Wisconsin in 1845, Schwantz's education and work as a schoolteacher, her work for the State Board of Control under Mrs. Elizabeth Kading from 1923 to 1924, and the genealogy of her extended family. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks, memorabilia, account books, notebooks, clippings, photographs, and negatives, with the bulk of the items from 1894 to 1968. Some of the materials were used for the 1982 “Six Generations Here” exhibit organized by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin concerning the Krueger family, to which the Goetsch family is related.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01033

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