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| Hibbard, Carlisle V., d. 1954 | Title: Carlisle V. Hibbard Papers, 1811-1954
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) and 95 photographs (1 album) Call Number: Wis Mss QN; PH 1556 Abstract: Papers, primarily family correspondence, 1902-1954, of Carlisle Hibbard, a Y.M.C.A. executive involved with World War I and II relief work, and of his daughter, Esther L. Hibbard, a missionary and educator in Japan. The letters from the Hibbards' stay in East Asia (1902-1914) and during Esther's teaching career (1929-1940, 1946-1952) describe customs, living conditions, and Japanese culture. Described are Carlisle's work in prisoner of war camps (1915-1924), and general conditions in Europe, particularly Russia in 1922. Carlisle's office correspondence (1943-1944) from the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council concerns efforts to get interned students back into colleges. Photographs document Hibbard's 1904-1905 time in Manchuria and Korea. Also included are 15 letters from Daniel Densmore, most written while he served in the Union Army during the Civil War, concerning the 1864 Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, Indian skirmishes in Minnesota, and conditions in the lower Mississippi region. |
| Hibbard, Russell L. | Title: Russell L. Hibbard Papers, 1948-1973
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: M87-431 Abstract: Papers of Russell L. Hibbard, a former assistant director of the Unemployment Compensation Department of the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, and later, director of unemployment compensation for the General Motors Corporation. The collection includes speeches and articles written or presented by Hibbard during 1948-1973 related to unemployment and workmen’s compensation laws and use. |
| Hickman, John M. Tschopik, Harry, 1915-1956 Plummer, John F. (John Frederick) (1923-1967-12-28) | Title: John M. Hickman papers Quantity: 5.15 Linear Feet 1 records carton, 2 letter document boxes, 3 slide boxes, 2 narrow slide boxes, 1 mapcase folder Call Number: Collection ZZA Abstract: Materials about the anthropologic research of Harry Tschopik Jr, John F. Plummer, and John M. Hickman about the indigenous Aymara people of Peru and Bolivia from the 1940s and 1960s. The research focuses on the area around Lake Titicaca in Chinchera, Peru and Chucuito, Peru. The collection is separated into four series: Tschopik materials, Plummer materials, Hickman materials, and unattributed materials. Included is correspondence, research notes, unpublished and published writings, photographs and negatives, card guides, and reprints. Individually cataloged items can be found in UW Madison library catalog under the call number "Coll. ZZA". |
| Hicks, Clinton Flower, 1872-1956 | Title: Clinton Flower Hicks Papers, circa 1956
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Oshkosh Micro 2; Micro 67 Abstract: Reminiscences of Clinton Hicks describing pioneer life in Berlin, Wisconsin during the 1880s and 1890s, and in other communities in the vicinity of Lake Winnebago including Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, and Pine River during the 1870s; and genealogical information, 1539-1956, for the Hicks family and the following related families: Brown, Carpenter, Flower, Harmon, Mihill, Pier, and Skinner. |
| Hicks, George F., 1905-1965 | Title: George F. Hicks Papers, 1926-1965
Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (6 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 192AF Abstract: Papers of a broadcaster noted for his war coverage and his specialty of live remove broadcasts for NBC. Hick's most celebrated broadcast was an on-the-spot description of the D-Day Allied invasion of France. The collection focuses on Hicks' professional life, with radio and television scripts and transcripts, extensive background notes, personal and professional correspondence, and diaries. Hicks wrote most of his own broadcast material and the papers include numerous examples. Both the D-Day invasion and Hicks' other World War II experiences are thoroughly documented. Other materials include unpublished manuscripts based upon his work in broadcasting, and two scrapbooks and clippings. |
| Higgins, Henry Bournes, 1851-1929 | Title: Henry Bournes Higgins Correspondence, 1841-1869
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 112 Abstract: Copies of correspondence primarily between Henry Higgins' parents, John and Ann Bournes Higgins, about John's Wesleyan circuit in northern Ireland. Also includes letters from relatives concerning family and business, and a family tree for the Higgins family. |
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Highland Community College (Freeport, Ill.); Dubuque County Historical Society (Dubuque, Iowa) |
Title: River Harvest Project Collection, 1987
Contents: National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium: 71 documents, 13 audiocassettes, 322 slides, 297 negatives, 16 contact sheets Unique Identifier: CSUMC00017-CG Summary: The River Harvest Project surveyed mainly Upper Mississippi River commercial fishing, clamming, and duck hunting traditions in 1987, including custom wooden and aluminum flatboat building, wooden duckboat building and duck decoy carving, net-fishing, hoop-net knitting as well as fish pickling and smoking. Folklorist Janet C. Gilmore formally interviewed over half of the c. 30 commercial fishermen, fish marketers, and boat builders that she visited on both sides of the river in northeastern Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin, and northwestern Illinois. The survey led to presentations in Iowa and Illinois, photo exhibits at Highland Community College and the Dubuque County Historical Society Museum, as well as commercial fishing demonstrations at the Dubuque County museum in concert with other programming. |
| Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) | Title: Highlander Research and Education Center Records, 1917-2017
Quantity: 41.2 cubic feet (104 archives boxes), 50 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 2,243 audio recordings, 10.1 cubic feet of photographs (31 photo boxes, 1 archives box, and 1 oversize box), 0.2 cubic feet of proofs and negatives (1 box), and 10 videorecordings; plus additions of 171.2 cubic feet (100 record center cartons, 192 archives boxes, 3 flat boxes, 1 folder, and 3 oversize folders), 11.1 cubic feet of photographs, negatives, transparencies and pictorial materials (24 archives boxes, 8 photo boxes, 1 negative box, 1 folder, and 16 oversize folders), 410 videorecordings, 29 films, and 9.1 gigabytes (45 folders) Call Number: Mss 265; Micro 795; Micro 846; Audio 515A; Audio 807A; Audio 1450A; PH 4260; VCA 828-VCA 830; VDA 469; VHC 684-VHC 686; V8A 460-V8A 464; M83-030; M84-213; M88-362; M90-345; M99-039; M99-091; M2000-186; M2004-203; M2008-091; M2010-108; M2019-039; M2021-023; M2022-018 Abstract: Records of the Highlander Research and Education Center, 1917-2017, an adult education center and its predecessor, the Highlander Folk School, documenting its programs and workshops including labor, civil rights, and Appalachian poverty, and the harassment of Highlander by government agencies. Highlander continues to evolve taking on new causes including: environmentalism, globalization, LGBTQ issues and grassroots leadership in under-resourced communities. Files include: correspondence; minutes; annual reports; financial records; workshop materials; legal papers; play scripts and song books; clippings; speeches, writings and publications; tape recordings of meetings, interviews, addresses and speeches, workshops, etc.; and photographs of meetings, workshops and the grounds. |
| Hightower, John. M., 1909- | Title: John M. Hightower Papers, 1944-1971
Quantity: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes); plus additions of 1.2 c.f. Call Number: U.S. Mss 43AF; MCHC71-047 Abstract: Papers of John M. Hightower, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press correspondent and editor who specialized in international affairs. Most of the collection consists of notebooks, 1944-1971, about interviews, press conferences, and Hightower's own research. Correspondence, 1945-1960, includes informative personal letters about his coverage of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Russia, 1947, and Berlin, 1954. Background files exist primarily on such government officials as John Foster Dulles, W. Averell Harriman, and George C. Marshall. |
| Hiken, Nat, 1914-1968 | Title: Nat Hiken Papers,
1932-1968
Quantity: 14.0 cubic feet (36 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), 2 disc recordings, 151 films (16 mm), and 61 films (35 mm); plus additions of 4.0 cubic feet (4 records center cartons) Call Number: U.S. Mss 110AN; Micro 1024; Audio 1964A; AE 223; DC 271-DC 409; DC 640-DC 647; DG 055-DG 054; GA 008-GA 066; HA 023-HA 027; M97-032 Abstract: Papers of Nat Hiken, a writer-director-producer of comedy for radio and television, container correspondence, scripts, production materials and films. Radio files include scripts and recordings for The Fred Allen Show (NBC and CBS), scripts for The Grouch Club and The Magnificent Montague (CBS), and scripts and production information for The Milton Berle Show (NBC and CBS). Television files include correspondence, production and financial information, produced and unproduced scripts, and films for The Phil Silvers Show (CBS), Car 54, Where Are You? (NBC), Four Star Revue, The Martha Raye Show, and other series and specials. Smaller files include general papers, unproduced motion picture scripts, and scripts for four Broadway plays and several night club acts. |
| Hilgendorf, Otto | Title: Oral History Interview with Otto Hilgendordf, 1978
Quantity: 3 tape recordings Call Number: Audio 757A Abstract: Interviews conducted in 1978 by Olivia Mahoney with Otto Hilgendorf, Freistadt, Wisconsin, concerning his family's emigration from Pomerania to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century, farm work, domestic routines, and community celebrations. |
| Hilgendorf, Otto | Title: Oral History Interview with Otto Hilgendordf, 1978
Quantity: 3 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 757A Abstract: Interviews conducted in 1978 by Olivia Mahoney with Otto Hilgendorf, Freistadt, Wisconsin, concerning his family's emigration from Pomerania to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century, farm work, domestic routines, and community celebrations. |
| Hill & Valley Garden Club (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Hill & Valley Garden Club (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Yearbook Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 140 Abstract: Yearbook (1994) for the Hill & Valley Garden Club of La Crosse, Wisconsin. This yearbook contains information on club officers and activities. |
| Hill, Alvah Moore Hill, Irene Forbes, 1894-1982 | Title: Irene Forbes Hill Photograph Album Quantity: 1.0 cubic foot Call Number: MISC MSS 222 Abstract: The Irene Forbes Hill photograph album includes photographs taken by Hill of La Crosse, Wisconsin, locations and people in the 1910s. Most photographs are unidentified, but a few depict La Crosse Lutheran Hospital in the background. Also included are photographs taken by Alvah Moore Hill in Texas during military service in 1916. Alvah Hill served as a First Sergeant in Company M (of an unidentified unit). |
| Hill, George D., collector | Title: 13th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment Band Photographs, 1865 March
Quantity: 17 photographs (1 archives box) Call Number: PH 289 Abstract: Photographs of members of the 13th Wisconsin Infantry band with their instruments, March 1865. Also included is an image of L. W. Eastman, teacher at Huntsville, Alabama. The portraits are full length views of the men in uniform with their instruments. The images were all made in March of 1865. The collection also includes a composite photograph, made by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, of all 16 cartes-de-visite. |
| Hill, John W., 1890-1977 | Title: John W. Hill Papers, 1931-1977
Quantity: 44.8 c.f. (112 archives boxes) and photographs Call Number: U.S. Mss 62AF; PH 3991 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1947-1964, of John W. Hill, a founder and chairman of the board of Hill & Knowlton, a large public relations firm of international repute that specialized in representing industrial corporations and trade associations. The firm's clients included the American Iron and Steel Institute, the American Butter Institute, Aircraft Industries Association, AVCO Manufacturing Corporation, Licensed Beverage Industries, Manufacturing Chemists Association, National Gas and Oil Resource Committee, National Retail Dry Goods Associations, and the Tobacco Industry Research Council. Documentation of Hill's writings include drafts and research material for three books (Corporate Public Relations (1958), The Making of a Public Relations Man (1963), and an unpublished history of Hill & Knowlton). |
| Hill, Louis, 1913-1998 | Title: Register of the Louis Hill Papers, 1914-1978
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), 4 tape recordings, and 38 photographs Call Number: Eau Claire Micro 12; Micro 776; Tape 783A; Eau Claire Micro 2; PH 6165 Abstract: Papers of Hill, a Hawkins, Wisconsin educator and local historian, including essays by Hill on the history of Lawrence, Wisconsin (1887-1914), the Hawkins, Wisconsin schools (1889-1959), the Bethel Lutheran Church (1904-1978), the Hawkins American Legion (1922-1968), the Union Free High School (1912-1967), the Northern Sash and Door Company, and Hawkins fire protection (1914-1970); minutes and dues records of the Hawkins Businessmen's Club (1914-1948) which promoted area commerce; a tape recorded history of Hawkins; and recorded interviews with retired logger Dell Harris and railroad worker Red Weldon. Photographs include stereograph views of Hawkins, Wis., Ellingson Lumber Company camps, and Flambeau Lake (Wis.). |
| Hill, Norbert S., 1912-1983 | Title: Norbert S. Hill Sr. Papers, 1794-2013 (bulk 1950-1982)
Quantity: 6.0 cubic feet (6 records center cartons) and 0.1 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 204; PH Green Bay Mss 204 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1950-1982, of Norbert S. Hill Sr., a leader of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin and World War II veteran, documenting his career and personal life. The family papers include articles, correspondence, speeches, and photographs, as well as alumni information for Hill and his mother, Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill, one of the first Native American women to earn a physician's license. The professional papers reflect his leadership roles within the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, and other organizations relating to his efforts in health, education, housing, and economic development. The papers consist of a tribal history, enrollment procedures, agendas and minutes, agreements, progress reports, tribal corporate records, housing authority materials, programs, Oneida industrial development, election materials, forms, correspondence, memos, and copies of historic lawsuits and legislation. |
| Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933 | Title: Morris Hillquit Papers, 1886-1944
Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes), 10 reels of microfilm (35mm), and 17 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: New York Mss H; Micro 461; PH 3422 Abstract: Papers of Morris Hillquit, a New York attorney and internationally known socialist leader, theoretician, and author. Included is correspondence, 1895-1943; writings by Hillquit; a manuscript of an unpublished biography of Hillquit and biographical sketches of international socialist leaders, written by Nina E. Hillquit; photographs of Hillquit and his family; broadsides and circulars; and press releases and clippings. |
| Hillsboro School District (Hillsboro, Wis.) | Title: Hillsboro School District (Hillsboro, Wis.): Predecessor School District Records, 1873-1962
Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) Call Number: Vernon Series 27 Abstract: Records of rural school districts incorporated into the Hillsboro Public School system, consisting of clerks' and treasurers' records containing minutes of district meetings and financial information. |
| Hillside Home School (Iowa County, Wis.) | Title: Hillside Home School (Iowa County, Wis.) Portfolio, circa 1893-1900
Quantity: 30 photographs (1 archives box) Call Number: PH 2312 Abstract: Collotype prints of views from a portfolio of the Hillside School, Iowa County, Wisconsin, believed to have been designed, photographed, and lettered by Frank Lloyd Wright and used between 1893 and 1900. The school was run by Jane Lloyd Jones and Ellen Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. Included are images of the Jones sisters; students involved in classroom activities and playing golf and football; and views of the house, school, and surrounding countryside. Also included are photographic reproductions of the original portfolio enclosure. |
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Hilton, Robert; United Artists Corporation |
Title: Robert Hilton Files: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 1L, 1932-1953
Quantity: 11.6 cubic feet (29 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AN/1L Abstract: Files of Robert Hilton, head of the United Artists Print Department, consisting of copyright certifications, continuity scripts, censorship reports from state boards, translations, and correspondence regarding printing and foreign and domestic shipment of various feature films and short subjects. The documentation varies greatly. Some titles are represented only by correspondence, while others include dialogue continuities and a few are represented by complete screenplays. The majority of the series is arranged alphabetically by film title. Well documented films include Comedy Carnival, Garden of Allah, The Ghost Goes West, The Great Dictator, Hangmen Also Die, Henry V, Hurricane, Lady of Burlesque, The Lion Has Wings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Major Barbara, Of Mice and Men, The Outlaw, Raffles, Rebecca, Red Salute, Spellboard, Stella Dallas, Turnabout, and 2000 Women. |
| Hinde, Thomas S. (Thomas Spottswood), 1785-1846 | Title: Draper Manuscripts: Thomas Spottswood Hinde Papers, 1807-1845
Quantity: 6.0 cubic feet (41 volumes) Call Number: Draper Mss Y Abstract: Papers of Thomas Spottswood Hinde, a journalist, land salesman, legal clerk, and Methodist minister in Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois, who was one of the founders of Mount Carmel, Illinois. Includes diaries (1808-1809, 1825-1826, 1830-1846, 1856), scattered correspondence, articles, reminiscences, poetry, and sermons. |
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Hines, Willie L., Jr.; Milwaukee (Wis.). Common Council. |
Title: Willie L. Hines, Jr. Aldermanic Records, 1985-2013
Quantity: 6 cubic ft. (18 boxes) Call Number: City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 88 Abstract: Records of Common Council Alderman Willie L. Hines, Jr., who served Milwaukee's 17th District from 1996-2004, 15th District from 2004-2014, as well as Common Council President from 2004-2014. Collection contains correspondence, reports, subject files, clippings, and publications. |
| Hinkley, Julian Wisner, 1838- | Title: Julian Wisner Hinkley Papers, 1861-1922
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Wis Mss 63S Abstract: Papers of Captain Julian W. Hinkley, Company E, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Included is correspondence; diaries (1862, 1864); scrapbooks of newspaper clippings containing biographical information, membership lists, and veteran reunion activities (1890-1907); and handwritten essays about the 3rd Wisconsin, used extensively in publications. Also present is an unpublished essay containing research on cosmology, geology, archaeology, Darwin, and American Indian burial finds. |
| Hirsch, Alfred, 1908- | Title: Alfred Hirsch Oral History Interview, 1982
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) 7 audio cassettes Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 39 Abstract: An oral history interview by Stanley Mallach with Alfred Hirsch, a labor newspaper journalist who was editor of the CIO News (Wisconsin) from August 1942 to March 1944, conducted on November 8 and 18 and December 13, 1982 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The interview covers Hirsch's early life and education; his work with the International Labor Defense, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, and the Sunday Worker; his affiliation with the Cafeteria Employees Union and his editorship of the Cafeteria Call; and his editorship of the CIO News. |
| Hirst, Arthur R., 1881-1932 | Title: Arthur R. Hirst Papers, 1924
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 1041 Abstract: Correspondence, press releases, clippings, and other material pertaining to the unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign of Wisconsin highway engineer Arthur R. Hirst. Prominent correspondents include John Chapple, Ada James, and Francis McGovern. |
| Historic Milwaukee, Inc. | Title: Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Records, 1970-2009
Quantity: 3.5 cubic ft. (4 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 133 Abstract: Records of a Milwaukee, Wisconsin organization that encourages public awareness and preservation of the historical and architectural heritage of the Greater Milwaukee area. The collection contains records created by Historic Milwaukee, Inc., as well as records created prior to 1981, when the organization was named Historic Walker's Point. |
| Historic Sites Foundation, Inc. | Title: Historic Sites Foundation Inc. Records, 1958-1998
Quantity: 14.0 cubic feet (14 records center cartons), 1 reel of microfilm (16 mm), 2 tape recordings, and 16 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: M2002-032; Audio 1916A Abstract: Records of a non-profit corporation created in 1960 as the Historic Sites Foundation, which was authorized to receive and administer private funds for the benefit of the Wisconsin Historical Society, specifically for the promotion and operation of historic sites in Wisconsin. Around 1999 the name was changed to the Circus World Museum Foundation reflecting the actual scope of its interest. The records document the administration of the foundation and its work on behalf of the Society. |
| Historic Third Ward Association (Milwaukee, Wis.) Records | Title: Historic Third Ward Association Records, 1976-1997
Quantity: 3.8 cubic ft. (4 boxes) 7 oversize folders Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 101 Abstract: Records of a non-profit community association which coordinated the redevelopment of the Historic Third Ward area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The records date largely from the late 1980s through the 1990s; few records exist from the association's early years. The collection provides remarkably detailed information on the association's activities, especially its award-winning Streetscape Project. The project redesigned streets, lighting, and the overall appearance of the ward. Design and planning studies document the economic potential and architectural history of the ward. The records of the association's Architectural Review Board (ARB) contain details on how local property owners complied with design standards. The collection also includes numerous blueprints of the Streetscape Project and the association-sponsored parking structure (a retail and parking facility). No blueprints exist for individual buildings except for those submitted to the ARB, which are usually details of exteriors. Photographs of building exteriors are available for many of the structures. |
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Title: Hitz Family Papers, 1832-1993
Quantity: 10 cubic ft. (21 boxes) 1 oversize folder 34 nitrate negatives 33 safety film negatives Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 56 Abstract: Papers of the Hitz family, compiled by John B. Hitz, with some information on other extended family, especially Frederick C. Winkler and the Winkler family, mostly from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes family correspondence, mainly discussing their personal affairs, photographs, scrapbooks and artifacts that focus on the lives of these family members and other relatives, and genealogical histories for the Hitz and Winkler families. Some of the photographs are early photographic processes, such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and albumen prints. Of special interest is the typescript account of Carl Winkler's 1843 emigration from Bremen to New York; the letters and military records of Rudolph Hitz, who served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army in the Montana Territory from 1867-1869; and Henry Hitz's letters from the Army (where he was a surgeon) during World War I. The collection also contains news clippings, notes, and letters of Harold Hitz Burton, J. Edgar Hoover, and Norman Mailer, usually about personal affairs, sent to members of the Hitz family. |
| Hixon and Company (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: Hixon and Company Records, 1856-1928
Quantity: 54.0 cubic feet (101 archives boxes including 157 volumes, and 87 separate volumes) Call Number: La Crosse Mss B Abstract: Records of the lumber business and other investments of Gideon C. Hixon and his son Frank P. Hixon of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Correspondence, letter books, journals, ledgers, and other financial and legal papers document the extensive business enterprises of the Hixon family in Wisconsin and other states in the Midwest (Kansas, Minnesota, and Missouri), West, and South as well as Ontario and British Columbia. Various lumber company records contain information on many facets of the industry, especially in northwestern Wisconsin, including transportation and freight rates, lumber grading and pricing, the use of water and water rights, and taxation. Also included is pre-1900 correspondence containing information and hand-sketched illustrations of the logmarks used in that region. Lumber industry labor relations, union activity, and the influence of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is documented in letters written from 1917 to 1920. Other industrial and commercial concerns documented in the collection include flour and woolen mills, cattle ranches, tanneries, banks, railroads, pulp and paper manufacturing, electric power, and street railways. Included are business records, 1878-1919, of the T.B. Scott Lumber Company, a major affiliate of Hixon and Company as well as company records from the Crosby Hardwood Company; the Crosby Cattle Company; the Rousseau and Shepard Lumber Company; the Oneida Lumber Company; the McCloud River Lumber Company; the National Cooperage Company; Davis, Medary & Platz; and others. |
| Hixon Forest Nature Center (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: Hixon Forest Nature Center (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Physical Description: 3.6 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 057 Abstract: This collection is comprised of records of the Hixon Forest Nature Center, which was operated by the Friends of Hixon Forest, Inc. and was located in Hixon Forest, a 790 acre city park in the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, from 1983-2008. Most materials date from 1985-1997, and include four series: historical background, administrative files, financial materials, and related materials and organizations. The group dissolved and re-emerged as the Myrick Hixon Ecopark in 2008. |
| Hixon Forest Nature Center (La Crosse, Wis.). Trail Committee. | Title: Hixon Forest Trail Committee Records General Physical Description note: 0.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 025 Abstract: Records, 1975-1990, of the Hixon Forest Trail Committee. The committee builds and maintains the nature trails of Hixon Forest in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and now operates as a committee of the Hixon Forest Nature Center. Materials include committee administration records such as correspondence, finance, meeting minutes, resolutions, and general committee administration materials. Other materials are general correspondence, historical materials which include newspaper clippings, photos and slides, trail maps, and trail maintenance records. |
| Hixson, Kim | Title: Kim Hixson Papers, 2007-2010
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (1 record center carton and 3 archives boxes) Call Number: Whitewater Mss CJ Abstract: Legislative papers of Wisconsin state representative Kim Hixson (Democrat, 43th Assembly District, which includes parts of Rock, Jefferson, and Dane Counties), who served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2007-2010, consisting of materials on education policy, consumer protection for students, wind power, and other topics. Hixson chaired the Committee of Colleges and Universities while on leave as an associate professor from the communication department of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. |