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Le Sieur, Howard; United Artists Corporation |
Title: Howard Le Sieur Papers: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 7D, 1946-1950
Quantity: 2.4 cubic feet (6 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AN/7D Abstract: Papers of Howard Le Sieur, a member of the Advertising and Publicity Department who was promoted to director of the department in 1948 to replace Paul Lazarus Jr. Although the file mainly documents Le Sieur's work after 1948, some files relate to Lazarus' tenure. Part of the series consists of information on films that Le Sieur advertised, primarily information on official billing for actors and actresses, some reviews, and notes. The second part consists largely of files on advertising agencies such as Donahue and Coe and Buchanan and Company. Present are extensive files on several films including The Outlaw and Henry V, and a selection of comments submitted by previewers of The Underworld Story (working title: The Whipped). |
| Leach, Eugene Walter, 1857-1938 | Title: Eugene Walter Leach Papers, 1842-1851, 1898-1938
Quantity: 4.6 cubic feet (10 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 1113 photographs and 26 lithographs (5 archives boxes and 6 folders) Call Number: Parkside Mss 6; PH 700-PH 702; PH 706-PH 711 Abstract: Papers of Eugene Leach, a Racine, Wisconsin, historian and curator of the Racine County Museum, including an unpublished manuscript, “The Story of Racine County--History.” The collection also contains biographical files on important Racine residents, miscellaneous material relating to county history, and five scrapbooks of clippings describing the involvement of Racine residents in the Spanish-American War and World War I. There are also records of the Racine Senate, 1884-1851, and the Racine Relief Association, 1883-1898. The photographs are images of people associated with Racine County, Wisconsin, during the late 19th century, collected by Leach for use in illustrating his writings. |
| Leadership Conference on Civil Rights | Title: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Records, 1956-1976
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 535 Abstract: Records of a federation of religious, labor, and ethnic organizations interested in promoting passage of civil rights legislation and advancing the cause of equality. Founded in 1953, the LCCR was formerly known as Civil Rights Mobilization, and was headed for many years by Roy Wilkins. The collection contains printed memoranda regarding LCCR activities, legislation and lobbying efforts; as well as a folder of general printed correspondence, memos, and LCCR statements, and LCCR Enforcement Reports from 1976. |
| League Agains Nuclear Dangers (Stevens Point, Wis.) | Title: League Against Nuclear Dangers Records, 1973-1994
Quantity: 2.9 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 24 photographs Call Number: Stevens Point Mss BK; PH Stevens Point Mss BK Abstract: Administrative and working files of a grassroots, activist organization founded in 1973 to fight a proposed nuclear power plant in Rudolph, Wis. Active membership was primarily composed of women homemakers, several of whom, especially Gertrude Dixon and Naomi Jacobson, became extremely knowledgeable about nuclear issues in Wisconsin. Included are organization newsletters, press releases, correspondence, reference materials, newspaper clippings, testimony, speeches, flyers, and an article and paper written about the group by Virginia Kemp Fish, a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point sociology professor. Research and action files pertain to a variety of nuclear issues confronting Wisconsin including actions taken to fight proposed nuclear power plants in the Wisconsin communities of Genoa, Koshkonong, Point Beach, Rudolph, and Tyrone. Two such actions involved a milk radiation contamination study at Point Beach and involvement of the cranberry growers at Rudolph. Materials collected by LAND from other organizations contain a lot of information about other groups working in Wisconsin at the time. Included are materials from Safe Haven, Ltd. (Sheboygan, Wis.), Lake Superior Region Radioactive Waste Project, Stop Project ELF, Wisconsin Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (Madison, Wis.), and Women of All Red Nations (Sioux Falls, S.D.). Photographs depict various protest efforts including Burma Shave-type road signs near Rudolph, and protest rallies at Madison and possibly at Stevens Point. |
| League of Wisconsin Municipalities | Title: League of Wisconsin Municipalities Records, 1909-1957, 1972-1981
Quantity: 61.6 c.f. (35 record center cartons and 79 archives boxes) and 1 photograph (1 oversize folder) Call Number: M59-060 Abstract: Records, mainly 1927-1953, of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, an organization established in 1898 to benefit Wisconsin cities and villages. Documentation is best for the period after 1928 when Frederick MacMillen joined the organization as executive secretary and editor. Included are materials documenting the League's role in advising local communities and in drafting state legislation. Also included is a panoramic photograph of participants in the 16th annual convention of the League, 1914. |
| League of Women Voters of Dane County (Wisconsin) | Title: League of Women Voters of Dane County, Wisconsin Records, 1920-2009
Quantity: 8.0 cubic feet (20 archives boxes), 1 audio recording, and 0.5 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder and 1 flat box); plus additions of 16.8 cubic feet (16 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 475; PH 5031; PH 5032; Audio 2031A; M96-069; M97-218; M2001-134; M2011-033 Abstract: Records of the local League of Women Voters (LWV) that was organized as the Dane County League of Women Voters in 1920. In 1927 it became the League of Women Voters of Madison. In 1971 the Madison LWV merged with the League of Women Voters of Middleton (founded in 1958) to become the present organization. Records of all three groups are included, although the Madison League is the most extensively documented. Included are by-laws, annual reports, minutes of the Board of Directors and general membership meetings, financial reports, correspondence of officers, committee and local unit reports, membership materials, publications, and photographs. |
| League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay Records, 1929-1995
Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 2 record center cartons) and 3 disc recordings Call Number: Green Bay Mss 101; Disc 179A Abstract: Records of a Green Bay area civic group primarily for women, involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision-making, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general records such as minutes of board of directors meetings, monthly bulletins, by-laws and revisions, convention programs and minutes, correspondence, treasurer's reports, budgets, finance drive materials, the LWV fiftieth anniversary booklet and chapter history, membership handbooks and directories, reports to the state and national LWV, publications, and scrapbooks of newsclippings. Local study issues illustrate societal and political concerns of the Green Bay League, and include correspondence, notes, state and national position papers, clippings, reports, and other research material on the following topics: air pollution, Brown County library service, city-county budgets, county assessor, education, environmental quality issues, the Equal Rights Amendment, fair housing, foreign trade, hunger, I-43 and I-57 highways, juveniles, land use, local government, mass transit, public health, Brown County Sheriff's Department, reapportionment, school board election process, school budgets, solid waste, water quality, and welfare. The disc recordings are a 1950 radio program on the League, broadcast on WBAY, Green Bay, and a national LWV program “Congressional Strings on the Public Purse.” |
| League of Women Voters of Greater Milwaukee (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of Greater Milwaukee, 1920-1981
Quantity: 12.0 c.f. (22 archives boxes, 1 record center carton, and 19 volumes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 80 Abstract: Records of a Milwaukee area civic group primarily for women, involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision making, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general records such as minutes and reports of annual, executive board, and board of directors meetings, bulletins, by-laws, scattered committee records, some general correspondence, fiftieth anniversary records, a few financial records, membership records, some national and state LWV records, and scrapbooks. Local study issues illustrate societal and political concerns of the Milwaukee League, but files are incomplete. With the exception of a file on open housing dating from 1933, most local study materials date from the 1960s and 1970s, and cover such topics as the administration of justice, air pollution, city government, education, energy, environment, Equal Rights Amendment, foreign trade, housing, human rights, Lake Michigan water quality, land use, reapportionment, sewerage, solid waste, transportation, voter registration and rights, and water resources. The collection includes partial records of the Inter-League Council, formed in 1959 to coordinate local League activities, consisting of agreements and amendments, minutes and reports of annual meetings, bulletins, by-laws, convention reports, financial records, and minutes of meetings. There are also small files of annual reports, bulletins, minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership records, scrapbooks, and a few local study files from the League of Women Voters of Greendale and the League of Women Voters of West Allis. |
| League of Women Voters of La Crosse County (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of La Crosse County Records, 1924-2018
Quantity: 13.4 cubic feet (29 archives boxes and 2 records center cartons), 1 tape recording, and 2 compact discs Call Number: La Crosse Mss AP; Audio 1134A Abstract: Records of the League of Women Voters (LWV) of La Crosse County, a La Crosse, Wisconsin civic group involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision making, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general administrative records documenting the group's activities, publications, and state conventions. There are fragmentary records of some committees and records of anniversary celebrations. Also included are audio recordings related to political issues and material the chapter collected. Records are most numerous from the 1950s through the 1990s. |
| League of Women Voters of Oshkosh (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of Oshkosh, Wisconsin Records, 1925-1984, 2003-
Quantity: 5.0 cubic feet (10 archives boxes and 1 carton) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss Y Abstract: Records of the League of Women Voters of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, an Oshkosh area civic group involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decisionmaking, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general records such as minutes, bulletins, by-laws, correspondence, a history, membership lists, a few financial records, reports to the national league, scrapbooks of newsclippings, files on local study issues, and a manuscript and reference materials for Know Your Community, Oshkosh, Wisconsin: A Guide to Local Government and Services, published by the Oshkosh League in 1976. Local study issues illustrate societal and political concerns of the Oshkosh League, and include fragmentary correspondence, notes, near-print materials, clippings, and other papers on a few topics. Of greatest importance are the files from the League's study of the City Council-City Manager form of government under consideration by the City of Oshkosh during the 1960s. |
| League of Women Voters of Pierce-St. Croix Counties (Wis.) | Title: League of Women Voters of Pierce-St. Croix Counties Records, 1967-1995
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss DV Abstract: Records of the League of Women Voters of Pierce-St. Croix Counties, a River Falls area civic group involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision making, and encouraging voter participation. Included is correspondence (1970-1973); press releases (1967-1973); news clippings (1967-1974); candidate questionnaires; a membership list, a copy of a 1967 league study of city government; copies of the chapter's newsletter, The River Falls Voter (1967-1978); bulletins (1978-1995); and other records. |
| League of Women Voters of Wisconsin | Title: League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Records, 1920-1968
Quantity: 27.6 c.f. (69 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 44 Abstract: Records of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, an organization founded in 1920 to provide non-partisan political education to newly-enfranchised women voters and to promote support for needed legislation. Consisting of correspondence, minutes and reports, newsclippings, and print and near-print materials issued by the League, the collection concerns local chapters' activities and state League work in areas such as child welfare, education, taxation, and women's rights. Primary correspondents include the League's first president, Jessie Jack Hooper, and subsequent officers M. V. O'Shea, Cornelia Groth, Caryl A. Regan, Carroll Gundersen, and F. A. Marshall. |
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League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter; League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County (Wis.) |
Title: League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter, Records,
1910-1982
Quantity: 0.3 cubic ft. (1 box) 1 oversize folder Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 100 Abstract: This collection contains meeting minutes, reports, administrative documents and correspondence of the League of Women Voters, Milwaukee Chapter. |
| Leahy, William D. | Title: William D. Leahy Papers, 1897-1959
Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (7 record center cartons and 3 archives boxes), 5 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 10 reels of microfilm (16 mm), and 16 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: U.S. Mss AA; Micro 959; PH 404 Abstract: Photostatic copies of typescript diaries, 1897-1931, 1941-1945, photographs, and subject files of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who served as U.S. Ambassador to France, 1940-1942, and chief of staff to the commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, 1942-1949. |
| Leary, James P., 1950- March, Richard, 1946- | Title: Down Home Dairyland collection Quantity: 23.5 Linear Feet 2 document boxes; 13 record cartons; 3 flat archival boxes files; black and white photographs; slides; audiotape reels; audiocassettes; digital audiocassettes Call Number: mml008 Abstract: Sound recordings and documents relating to Down Home Dairyland radio show. |
| Lebanon Baptist Church (Dodge County, Wis.) | Title: Lebanon Baptist Church Records, 1849-1949
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Oshkosh Micro 13; Micro 129 Abstract: Records of a congregation founded in 1849 as the German Baptist Church; including minute books, membership and financial records for the congregation, its Sunday School, Ladies Aid Society, and Youth Society; a church history, and miscellaneous other records, including genealogical information regarding the descendants of H. J. Mueller, pastor from 1883 to 1897. |
| Lebiecki, Larry | Title: Larry Lebiecki Photographs of a Reenactment of the Signing of the La Crosse, Wisconsin City Charter Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 231 Abstract: Digital images taken on March 14, 2006, depicting a reenactment of the signing of the city charter for La Crosse, Wisconsin. These images were taken at the Hixon House; the reenactment was a part of the La Crosse Sesquicentennial celebration. |
| Lechita Society (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Lechita Society Records, 1936-1965
, 1980
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 35 Abstract: Minutes and other records, mostly in Polish, of a Polish-American mutual benefits organization (Towarzystwa Narodowych Lechitow) founded in 1912 in Milwaukee which became a purely social group in 1980. |
| LeClair, Wilbur J. | Title: Wisconsin Labor Oral History Project: Wilbur J. LeClair Interview, 1982
Quantity: 3 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 976A Abstract: Oral history interview conducted February 22, 1982 by Dale E. Treleven of the Historical Society staff with Wilbur J. LeClair at Sun City, Arizona. LeClair was the secretary-treasurer of the FLU at A.O. Smith in Milwaukee, 1947-1962. This interview is part of the Wisconsin Labor Oral History Project. |
| Lederer, William, 1912-2009 | Title: William Lederer papers Quantity: .5 Linear Feet 1 letter document box Call Number: MS 590 Abstract: The papers of William Lederer, an American author and Naval officer, about his first book "All the Ships at Sea" which was published in 1950. Most of the collection consists of manuscript drafts for various chapters of his book, which contains comedic accounts of Lederer's military service during World War II. The collection also contains some brief biographical information about Lederer from published articles and a book sleeve for his most well-known book, "The Ugly American." |
| Ledogar family | Title: Ledogar/Ledegar Family Genealogical Charts Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 183 Abstract: Copies of family history charts for six generations of the Ledogar/Ledegar family. This is a family of French origins, some of whom settled in La Crosse, Wisconsin. |
| Lee, Agnes | Title: Oral History Interview with Agnes Lee, 1978 May 11
Quantity: 3 tape recordings Call Number: Audio 689A Abstract: Tape-recorded interview conducted May 11, 1978 by Susan Eleuterio with Mrs. Agnes Lee, Deerfield, Wisconsin, concerning nineteenth century Norwegian-American daily life in southern Wisconsin; centering on seasonal farm work, clothing, and foodways. |
| Lee, Agnes | Title: Oral History Interview with Agnes Lee, 1978 May 11
Quantity: 3 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 689A Abstract: Tape-recorded interview conducted May 11, 1978 by Susan Eleuterio with Mrs. Agnes Lee, Deerfield, Wisconsin, concerning nineteenth century Norwegian-American daily life in southern Wisconsin; centering on seasonal farm work, clothing, and foodways. |
| Lee, Carl E. | Title: Carl E. Lee Papers, 1907-1941
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: M78-012 Abstract: Papers of Carl E. Lee, who taught dairying at the University of Wisconsin, 1909-1912, was an assistant Dairy Commissioner for Wisconsin, 1915-1920, and then for many years was plant supervisor for Gridley’s Dairy in Milwaukee. The collection documents Lee’s career and dairy farming and production in Wisconsin through correspondence, reports, writings, photographs, clippings, milk route books, circa 1907-1941, near-print publications, and photographs. |
| Lee, Glenda | Title: Welcome to Oak Grove Cemetery's Historic Mausoleum Quantity: 0.02 cubic foot (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 241 |
| Lee, Mordecai, 1948- | Title: Mordecai Lee Papers, 1976-2001
Quantity: 1.6 cubic feet (4 archives boxes) and 5 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 23 tape recordings and 33 videorecordings Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 199, Micro 1176; Milwaukee Micro 63; Audio 1920A, M2002-015 Abstract: Papers documenting the career of Mordecai Lee, a Milwaukee Democratic legislator, Jewish community leader, and political professor. The vast majority of these papers relate to Lee’s political career in the Assembly and Senate (1976-1989), his tenure as the Executive Director of the Milwaukee Jewish Council for Community Relations (1990-1997), and his tenure as an Assistant Professor of Government Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1997- ). These papers contain campaign literature Lee drafted, correspondence on legislation with which he was involved, newspaper clippings pertaining to legal and cultural issues central to Milwaukee and Judaism, and scholarly articles published by Lee on public administration policy. |
| Lee, Robert E., 1912-1993 | Title: Robert E. Lee Papers, 1953-1981
Quantity: 13.2 c.f. (28 archives boxes and 2 record center cartons), 3 tape recordings, 10 photographs, 45 transparencies, 1 film, and 1 videorecording Call Number: Mss 814; PH 3982; PH 3983; AC 589; VBB 316; Tape 1258A Abstract: Papers of Robert E. Lee, an FCC commissioner (1953-1981) and governmental official. Included are speeches and articles, correspondence, and dockets and subject files concerning obscenity in broadcasting, the development of UHF broadcasting, the Committee for the Full Development of All-Channel Television, congressional relations, the Catholic Apostolate of Mass Media which Lee helped found, and other topics. Photographs include images of Lee; a slide show concerns UHF broadcasting in New York City; a film contains interviews with Lee. |
| Leigh, Charles, -1953 | Title: Charles Leigh Home Movies, 1925-1930
Quantity: 16 film reels (16 mm) Call Number: AC 569-AC 584 Abstract: Footage shot by amateur photographer Charles Leigh in Superior, Wisconsin. Included is footage showing President Calvin Coolidge's arrival in Superior and his visit to Hibbing, Minnesota, during his 1928 vacation; activities at the Superior-Duluth harbor including ore boats arriving, tugboats, and the loading of a grain ship; winter and summer leisure activities; and street scenes and neighborhood activities in the Connor's Point neighborhood of Superior where Leigh lived. |
| Leiserson, William M. | Title: William M. Leiserson Papers, 1901-1959
Quantity: 28.5 c.f. (71 archives and 1 volume) and 49 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: U.S. Mss BB; PH 3024 Abstract: Professional and personal correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, book drafts, and other writings, biographical materials, clippings, and trade union files of William M. Leiserson, the labor economist, teacher, and arbitrator, who served on a number of state and national unemployment and labor relations boards. He also taught at Antioch College, 1926-1933, and did research in labor relations for the Twentieth Century Fund in the 1930s and 1940s. Particularly well documented is Leiserson's work as arbitrator for the clothing industry in the 1920s and his guidance in enactment of Ohio's unemployment law in the 1930s. While heading the National Mediation Board and serving as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, Leiserson provided expert opinion to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and members of Congress. In the trade union files are materials gathered from numerous unions in the 1940s for Leiserson's study of trade union government. |
| Lenz, Erich, 1907- | Title: Oral History Interview with Erich Lenz, 1979
Quantity: 4 tape recordings and 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: Tape 774A; SC 957 Abstract: Interview conducted by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society staff with Erich Lenz, first manager of the Wisconsin Association of Cooperatives; concerning his youth as a German resident of the Ukraine, internment of his family in Siberia by the Russians during World War I, immigration to South Dakota in 1921 and then to Merrill, Wisconsin, his experiences with cooperatives, lobbying, and other farm organizations, and his work with the Sun Prairie Ground Hog 4-H Club; accompanied by a copy of Lenz's “Black Book” on state legislators. |
| Leonard, E. G. | Title: Property Abstract and Title for Colonial Golf Course, La Crosse, Wisconsin Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 191 Abstract: Title and property abstract (prepared in 1947) for the property that at one time contained the Colonial Golf Course in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 1946, this property became the Robinsdale Addition within the Town of Shelby. Also included is a summary (written in 2004) documenting the chain of ownership for this land. |
| Leonard, Jerris, 1931- | Title: Jerris G. Leonard, Jr. Papers, 1956-1968
, 1998-2000
Quantity: 11.2 c.f. (28 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 115 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1958-1968, of a Republican state legislator who represented the northern Milwaukee suburbs in the Wisconsin Assembly (1957-1961) and Senate (1961-1969). The collection consists of correspondence to and from legislative colleagues, constituents, Milwaukee businessmen, lobbyists, and Republican Party leaders and an alphabetical subject file containing information about specific legislation, committee assignments, and investigations conducted by the senator. Among the well covered topics are budgets and taxes, the Governor's Commission on Human Rights and open housing, the Governor's Scholarship and Loan Committee, the Kellett governmental reorganization bill, alleged Communist influence of the Daily Cardinal, and pornography. Also included are copies of press releases, speeches and statements, and constituent newsletters and political correspondence relating to Leonard's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1968 and other Republican campaigns, the Senate Republican Caucus, and other political matters. Prominent correspondents include Raymond Bice, Ody Fish, Walter G. Hollander, Warren P. Knowles, Clifford Krueger, Gerald D. Lorge, John Mitchell, and F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. |
| Leonard, Levi, 1815-1908 | Title: Levi Leonard Papers, 1857-1906
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Whitewater Mss R Abstract: Mainly diaries, accompanied by several memoranda books and a folder of correspondence, kept by Leonard, a resident of Evansville, Wis., and stepfather of Burr W. Jones, Madison, Wis., lawyer, congressman, and state Supreme Court justice. Leonard's brief diary entries record expenditures, occasional weather observations, and his comments on personal and local events. |
| Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948 Jones, Sarah Elizabeth, 1919-2013 | Title: Sarah Elizabeth Jones papers Quantity: 0.19 cubic feet 1 half-size letter document box Collection includes handwritten letters, one magazine article, and other paper materials. Call Number: uac65 Abstract: The Sarah Elizabeth Jones papers consists of correspondence from Aldo Leopold to Sarah (sometimes spelled Sara) Jones, other miscellaneous materials, and photographs of Aldo Leopold. |
| Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948 McCabe, Robert A. (Robert Albert), 1914-1995 | Title: Robert A. McCabe Collection of the Writings of Aldo Leopold Quantity: 6.75 Linear Feet 8 letter document boxes, 1 legal document box, 2 flat boxes, 1 narrow slide box, 1 map case folder Call Number: zh Abstract: The Robert A. McCabe Collection of the Writings of Aldo Leopold contains materials written by and about Aldo Leopold (1886-1948), collected by Robert A. McCabe. Included in the collection are handwritten manuscripts and typescripts for published and unpublished works, miniature field diaries, speeches, correspondence, and course material. Materials about Leopold include newspaper clippings, offprints, photographs, and McCabe's own manuscripts of "Aldo Leopold: the Professor". Some other materials relate to or are by other members of the Leopold family. Individually cataloged titles can be found in the UW Madison library catalog under the call number "Coll. ZH". |
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Leopold, Aldo, 1887-1948
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Title: Aldo Leopold papers Extent: 27.6 cubic feet (83 archives boxes), 3 reels microfilm, 5 folios, 3 cases, 7 diaries, 12 journals, 1 scrapbook, and 1 photo album. Record Series: 9/25/10 |
| Leopold, Max, 1887- | Title: Oral History Interview with Max Leopold, 1976 March 21
Quantity: 2 tape recordings (89 minutes) Call Number: Audio 567A Abstract: Tape-recorded interview, March 21, 1976, with Max Leopold, a Jewish resident of Arpin, Wisconsin from 1904 to 1952; concerning his work in farming and farmers' cooperatives, on a committee formulating unemployment compensation legislation, as a justice of the peace, in the Progressive Party, in the Farm Bureau, and in other areas, his childhood in Rumania, and his retirement in San Diego, California. Interviewed at San Diego, California, by Ben Minkoff. |
| Leopold, Max, 1887- | Title: Oral History Interview with Max Leopold, 1976 March 21
Quantity: 2 tape recordings (89 min.) Call Number: Tape 567A Abstract: Tape-recorded interview, March 21, 1976, with Max Leopold, a Jewish resident of Arpin, Wisconsin from 1904 to 1952; concerning his work in farming and farmers' cooperatives, on a committee formulating unemployment compensation legislation, as a justice of the peace, in the Progressive Party, in the Farm Bureau, and in other areas, his childhood in Rumania, and his retirement in San Diego, California. Interviewed at San Diego, California, by Ben Minkoff. |
| LeRoy Wendt & Associates, Inc. | Title: LeRoy Wendt Homes Album, 1935-1940
Quantity: 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 37 Abstract: This collection contains black and white photographs of homes that were built by the LeRoy Wendt & Associates home construction company between 1935 and 1940. The collection consists of 64 photographs, 19 of which are identified. The homes in the photos are typical of the types of dwellings that were being constructed in Milwaukee and the surrounding area at this time. |
| Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee | Title: Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee Records, 1989-2013
Quantity: 1.6 cubic ft. (5 boxes) 21 safety film negatives Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 289 Abstract: The collection contains records of the Lesbian Alliance of Metro Milwaukee (LAMM), founded in 1989 to serve the social, political, artistic, and spiritual needs of Milwaukee-area lesbians. |
| Lescohier, Don D., 1883-1961 | Title: Don D. Lescohier Papers, 1921-1969
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 56 photographs Call Number: Mss 718; PH 3731; PH 3732 Abstract: Papers of Don D. Lescohier, a former industrial consultant and professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin primarily consisting of consultant reports and related materials, other writings, and bibliographies. For work done as a consultant for Allis-Chalmers there are reports on profit sharing and the closed shop, a personnel management course textbook, minutes of negotiations (1949), copies of form letters to employees (1946-1947) and a subject index of grievances. Also of interest are a photo scrapbook and interview notes for a study of the influence of the IWW during the harvest of 1921. |
| Lesly, Philip, 1918-1997 | Title: Philip Lesly Papers, 1946-1993
Quantity: 5.0 cubic feet (3 records center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 2 flat boxes), 6 photographs (1 folder), and 3 tape recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 177AF; PH 6661; Audio 753A Abstract: Papers of Philip Lesly, a prominent Chicago public relations counsel, consisting of speeches and writings (some in recorded form) and a miscellaneous assortment of printed matter prepared for clients. Of special interest is Lesly's Everything and the Kitchen Sink (1955), written for the centennial of the Crane Company, and a 1969 report on the public relations problems of the American Medical Association. |
| Lester, Clarence Brown, 1877-1951 | Title: Clarence Brown Lester Papers, 1865-1957
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 76 photographs Call Number: M2002-120 Abstract: Papers of Clarence Brown Lester, secretary of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. A graduate of Brown University, Lester attended graduate school in political science at the University of Wisconsin and held posts at the state libraries of Indiana and New York before returning to Madison, Wisconsin. Papers cover both his personal and professional life (bulk 1900-1951) and include correspondence, newspaper clippings, family history, reports, publications, and other ephemera. Also included are photographs of family, vacations, and his residence in Wisconsin. |
| Levenstein, Charles | Title: Charles Levenstein Papers, 1963-1967
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 137 Abstract: Fragmentary papers of Charles Levenstein, a student movement leader from the Boston area, including correspondence, writings by Levenstein and others, and subject files of printed matter collected by Levenstein relating to various local New Left organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society and the May 2 Movement. Correspondence includes a small file of letters to and from Levenstein and one folder of incoming letters to fellow activist John Maher. Prominent correspondents are Rennie Davis, Clark Kissinger, Staughton Lynd, and A. J. Muste. |
| Leveraas, Ole | Title: Ole Leveraas Papers Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 079 Abstract: Photocopies of correspondence and genalogical materials written by Ole Leveraas of the north side of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1879-1917. All materials are written in the Norwegian language. |
| Leverich, J. Earl, 1891-1979 | Title: J. Earl Leverich Papers, 1897-1973
Quantity: 14.0 cubic feet (34 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 21 photographs, and 7 negatives Call Number: La Crosse Mss CV; PH La Crosse Mss CV Abstract: Papers of J. Earl Leverich, a former Wisconsin legislator elected as both a Progressive and as a Republican (1935-1939 and 1943-1967) who was best known for his opposition to the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine in Wisconsin. Also included are papers of his father, James W. Leverich, a prominent fruit farmer and leading figure in the cooperative movement in western Wisconsin. The legislative papers, 1935-1939 and 1943-1967, consist of constituent correspondence and subject files, and they document dairy and agricultural issues, highway construction, aviation, Camp McCoy, education, taxation, and conservation. Correspondence, campaign literature, and financial reports document all of his electoral campaigns. Additional papers document his career as chairman of the Town of Angelo, his interest in aviation, management of the family farm, leadership in the 1931 demonstration that resulted in the passage of strong anti-oleomargarine legislation, membership in Governor Schmedeman's 1933 Dairy Committee, and management of the Sparta Cooperative Creamery. The elder Leverich's papers include some personal correspondence and additional papers concerning the Town of Angelo and the management of the family farm. There are also financial records of the Sparta Fruit Growers Association and the Sparta Produce Exchange. The photographs primarily document Leverich's inspection of the Petenwell Dam as part of a legislative committee in 1949. |
| Levin, Herman, 1907-1990 | Title: Herman Levin Papers, 1943-1981
Quantity: 30.0 c.f. (68 archives boxes, 8 flat boxes, 2 card boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), 4 tape recordings, 1 disc recording, and 2 reels of film Call Number: U.S. Mss 79AN; Micro 135; Tape 1076A; Tape 1254A; Disc 200A; GA 102-103 Abstract: Papers of Herman Levin, a leading Broadway producer. Especially rich in its coverage of the financial aspects of theatrical production, the collection also includes correspondence, contracts and Actors' Equity agreements, lyrics and orchestrations, microfilmed scrapbooks, a few scripts, and miscellaneous other production records. Much of the collection relates to Levin's much-acclaimed success My Fair Lady (1956), with the remainder consisting of material on other major productions including Call Me Mister (1946), produced with Melvyn Douglas; No Exit (1946); Gentlemen Prefer Blonds (1946), which he produced in collaboration with Oliver Smith; The Girl Who Came to Supper (1963); the award-winning The Great White Hope (1968); and a controversial Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen (1970). |
| Levin, Jack D., 1907- | Title: Oral History Interview with Jack Levin, 1975 April 27
Quantity: 1 tape recording (60 min.) Call Number: Tape 555A Abstract: Tape-recorded interview with Jack Levin, Milwaukee, Wis., concerning his father's saloon in Milwaukee, their 1914 move to a Racine County farm, and life there including information on crops, schools, difficulties of being an isolated Jewish family, and speaking Yiddish; recorded by State Historical Society of Wisconsin staff member Peter Gordy. |
| Levin, Rubin, 1902-1981 | Title: Rubin Levin Papers, 1920-1981
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes), 2 reels of microfilm (35mm), and 2 disc recordings Call Number: Mss 761; Micro 1163; Disc 189A Abstract: Papers, mainly 1925-1955, of Rubin Levin, a labor journalist who was associated with the Milwaukee Leader and other Wisconsin newspapers during the 1930's and who was editor of Labor from 1953 to 1981. Included are biographical materials; personal correspondence exchanged with friends and family; a few papers of his wife Bertha Greenberg Levin, who worked as a free-lance publicist during the 1930's; and subject files concerning Labor, the Labor Press Association, and Milwaukee politics and government. The personal correspondence includes many letters to and from his wife written in 1938, the year of his first work in Washington, D.C., and her first pregnancy and a few letters concerning a brother associated with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. Levin's writings include unpublished articles and stories; a literary journal kept during the 1920's when he traveled widely through the United States, Canada, and Europe; published free-lance articles; and a collection of his newspaper work which is available only on microfilm. |
| Lewandowski, Edmund D., 1914-1998 | Title: Edmund D. Lewandowski Papers, 1931-1996
Quantity: 2.4 cubic ft. (5 boxes) 1 oversize folder Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 229 Abstract: This collection contains biographical materials about Precisionist painter and mosaicist, Edmund Lewandowski. Lewandowski was an artist, educator, president of the Layton School of Art (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), and later chair of the Art Department at Winthrop College (now Winthrop University) in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The collection consists of a scrapbook that documents all of these roles, comprised largely of photocopied newspaper clippings. Also included in the collection are correspondence, exhibition catalogs, awards and photographs of his artwork. Some newspaper clippings are in Polish. The collection contains very little original art and few original personal papers. |
| Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858 | Title: The Aboriginal Port-folio: A Collection of Portraits of the Most Celebrated Chiefs of the North American Indians, 1835-1836?
Quantity: 74 lithographs (1 volume) Call Number: PH 350 Abstract: A published volume whose parts were issued monthly starting in 1835, plus additional loose lithographs of drawings; based on portraits made by James Otto Lewis of Native American Chiefs who attended treaty negotiations in the upper midwestern United States, primarily in Wisconsin and Indiana, 1825-1833. |
| Lewis, James T. (James Taylor), 1819-1904 | Title: James T. Lewis Papers, 1838-1904
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 box) Call Number: Wis Mss VY Abstract: Papers of a Wisconsin governor from 1838 just before he settled in the state until his death in 1904, including two autobiographical journals written for his children, newspaper clippings concerning his career, and correspondence. Letters include some references to his administration of 1864-1866 and the early organization of the University of Wisconsin. |
| Lewis, John Llewellyn, 1880-1969 | Title: John L. Lewis Papers, 1879-1969
Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes), 4 reels of microfilm (35mm), 1 tape recording, 34 disc recordings, and 1 film Call Number: Mss 91; Micro 458; Disc 103A; Tape 493A; Tape 1084A; DC 520 Abstract: Papers of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 1920-1960, including correspondence, speeches, reports, union financial and travel notebooks, genealogical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, film, tape recordings, and disc recordings containing many of Lewis' more important speeches. The union financial and travel notebooks provide important information about the UMWA from 1911 to 1926. The important subjects of correspondence include the following persons: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Philip Murray, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Wendell L. Willkie; and the following subjects: the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund, hospital care for miners, the Taft-Hartley Act, and Roosevelt and Willkie's relationship with the UMWA. |
| Lewis, John P., 1824?- | Title: John P. Lewis Business Records, 1844-1897
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (6 volumes in 2 archives boxes) Call Number: Platteville Mss K Abstract: Financial record books from the store of John P. Lewis, a Lancaster, Wisconsin merchant. The journal of 1844-1845 shows purchases made by well-known Grant County residents, among them Nelson Dewey, Joseph T. Mills, and George R. Stuntz. |
| Lewis, Reuben B. | Title: Reuben B. Lewis Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 1.0 linear ft. (2 archives boxes, 1 card file box, 1 flat box and 2 oversize folders) of papers, 0.4 linear ft. (1 archives box) of photographs and 1 video cassette. Call Number: WVM Mss 26 Abstract: Papers and photographs of Reuben B. Lewis, a bugler and military policeman with the 32nd Division during World War I, a County Veterans Service Officer for Portage County, and an active participant in many veterans organizations, especially Company “C” from the 4th Wisconsin Infantry. A large portion of the papers relate to Lewis's involvement in the Company “C” organization, which held annual reunions through the 1980's. Membership files and rosters, reunion announcements and reports, and newspaper clippings document the activities of the group and the camaraderie that the men shared. Scattered personal papers give some details about his World War I service, and ephemeral items show his involvement in numerous other veterans organizations. Home appraisals document his work in helping veterans buy their own homes. Photographs include group shots from Company “C” reunions and a photograph album from Lewis's World War I service. The video shows the 1986 Company “C” reunion where the last five surviving members share a seventy-year old bottle of cognac. |
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Lewis, Robert G., 1919-; Lewis, Martha Wells |
Title: Robert and Martha Wells Lewis Papers, 1889-2009 (bulk 1941-2009)
Quantity: 37.5 c.f. (36 record center cartons, 4 archives boxes, and 1 oversize folder), 100 photographs, 4 transparencies, 1 cartoon and 1 piece of ephemera in 1 archives box, 141 negatives on 33 strips (9 envelopes), and 2 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 1072; PH 6647; Audio 1516A Abstract: Papers, mainly 1941-2009, of Robert G. Lewis, a nationally prominent agricultural economist, consultant, government official, and freelance writer, and his wife, Martha Wells Lewis. The papers contain: personal papers including his service during World War II and his management of a Wisconsin farm; professional papers documenting his appointments to various positions in the public and private sector dealing with agricultural issues; and his freelance writings on agriculture. Among the documented interests in agriculture that cut across his many professional associations are agricultural cooperatives, milk and dairy products, wheat and grains, international trade, rural development, and food policies both in the United States and abroad. The photographs consist of formal and informal portraits and images used for article illustration. |
| Lewis, Ross A. (Ross Aubrey), 1902-1977 | Title: Ross A. Lewis Drawings, 1952-1953
Quantity: 7 items Call Number: PH 6008 (3) Abstract: This collection consists of seven original editorial cartoons on fluoridation done for the Milwaukee Journal in 1952 and 1953 by Ross A. Lewis. |