The Albert G. Schmedeman Papers are a small collection consisting of personal and official correspondence. Papers for his two years as governor comprise the majority of the collection. Included are election congratulations, requests for patronage appointments, and reactions to state legislative affairs. Also included are letters exchanged with Leo Crowley, Joseph E. Davies, F. Ryan Duffy, Daniel Hoan, and Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning federal appointments, pensions for veterans, publicworks projects, and proposed legislation. A large number of letters from 1934 concern the amputation of his leg, but only a few items concern his unsuccessful reelection campaign. Also in the collection are two folders of gubernatorial speeches and one in which he accepted the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for Woodrow Wilson. There are also two volumes of insurance records, 1925-1927, kept by Katherine Schmedeman. Four volumes of biographical clippings are available on microfilm. The first volume, 1907-1913, concerns his activities as Madison alderman, congressional candidate, and minister to Norway; the three later volumes concern his tenure as governor. The scrapbooks were destroyed after filming.
Ephemera, 1933-1935, consists of social invitations, memorabilia, excerpts relating to Norway, menus, campaign cards of Wisconsin Democratic candidates for public office, and materials relating to the inauguration of President Franklin Roosevelt, 1933.
