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| - - - | Title: Documenting the Midwestern Origins of the Twentieth-Century Women's Movement, 1987-1992
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 172 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 823; Tape 1231A Abstract: Tape-recorded interviews with summary abstracts and one transcript generated by an oral history project undertaken by graduate students in the University of Wisconsin Women's History Program under the direction of faculty member Gerda Lerner. The interviews document 22 of the outstanding midwestern leaders in the twentieth-century feminist movement and explore the connections between the women's movements of the 1920s and the 1960s. Listed below, these women have been leaders in labor, education, politics, religion, and business at local, state, national, and international levels for as many as fifty years. The women interviewed are in many ways representative: seven are trade unionists and workers; eight are business women and professionals; six were full-time homemakers for more than a decade of their lives; four had political careers; two are Catholic women nuns. Three are African-Americans; many others are of immigrant families. What characterizes all of them is the broad range and long duration of their organizational commitment and activities. |
| Dodge County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools | Title: Dodge County (Wis.). Superintendent of Schools: Annual Reports of School Districts, 1911-1965
Quantity: 22.8 cubic feet (57 archives boxes) Call Number: Dodge Series 63 Abstract: Annual reports, including school censuses, submitted by school district clerks and teachers to the County Superintendent of Schools. The census section provides names and information about persons less than 20 years of age residing in the school district, some family information, and student attendance and enrollment. The annual report section provides aggregate statistical information regarding number of students, teacher salaries, enrollment figures, and financial statement. |
| - - - | Title: Dodge County Lutheran Church Records, 1840-1955
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 440; Oshkosh Micro 22 Abstract: Records of three Lutheran Church organizations in the Town of Hubbard, Dodge County, Wisconsin: St. Michaels Cemetery Association, including financial records, annual meeting minutes, burial permits, and lists, 1876-1955; Northwestern Lutheran Church family membership lists, 1870-1936; and the Evangelical Lutheran Community of the Augsburg Confession, including records of births, deaths, marriages, communicants, baptisms, confirmations, and burials, 1854-1888, with some information dating from 1840. |
| Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Dodge County) | Title: Dodge County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court Judgment Books, 1920-1956
Quantity: 3.2 cublic feet (8 volumes) Call Number: Dodge Series 67 Abstract: Record of judges' decisions and orders, generally pertaining to civil cases. Records include land/real estate lawsuits (with land descriptions,) divorces, debts, personal disputes, and probate issues. Volumes are in chronological order and most cases are dated, however, they are not indexed. |
| Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Dodge County) | Title: Dodge County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court Order Books, 1946-1984
Quantity: 6.8 cubic feet (17 volumes) Call Number: Dodge Series 68 Abstract: Record of judges' orders issued in civil cases. Orders include names of plaintiffs/defendants, actions and rulings issued (such as dismissals, injunctions, small claims, divorce settlements, guardian appointments,) and justification for decisions. Order volumes do not include a name index for plaintiff/defendants. Case numbers are not included with individual orders. |
| Dodgeville Mining Company (Wis.) | Title: Dodgeville Mining Company Records, 1924-1956
Quantity: 13.2 c.f. (12 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 1 flat box) Call Number: M79-293 Abstract: Records, 1924-1956, of the Dodgeville Mining Company (1939-1955), co-owned by Mansfield Richards and the mine managers, James J. MacDonald and Charles W. Singer, and of several other mining companies which were operating earlier in the same region including the Badger Mining Company (1924-1932), Wisconsin Zinc Flotation Company (1935-1937), Rule Mining Company (1935-1943), and the Vinegar Hill Zinc Company. The collection documents mining activities in southwestern Wisconsin primarily at the Simpson mine, the Dodgeville mine, and the Vinegar Hill mine; the company's financial and business operations; employees' benefits and wages; the company's Dodgeville Flotation Company affairs; and company interactions with the federal government regarding war-time supply and manpower management. |
| Dodgeville School District (Wis.) | Title: Dodgeville School District (Wis.): Predecessor School Records, 1859-1962
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Iowa Series 80 Abstract: Records of rural school districts that were consolidated into the Dodgeville School District, ca. 1962, consisting of clerk's record books containing minutes of district meetings and expenditures, treasurer's financial records; and pupil attendance registers. |
| Behm, Don, 1952- | Title: Don Behm Papers, 1971-1980
Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) and 7 photographs Call Number: Mss 593; PH Mss 593 Abstract: Papers of a journalist and activist in leftist Madison, Wisconsin, politics. The collection documents Behm's involvements in organizations such as the Mass Party Organizing Committee (1971-1976), the Common Sense Coalition (1978-1979), and issues such as the case involving Michael Cooper, an AWOL ROTC student who died resisting arrest (1976-1977), the Peace and Jobs Referendum (1978-1979), the James Rowen mayoral campaign (1978-1979), and the Howard Morland-Progressive magazine hydrogen bomb case (1979-1980). Materials include correspondence, leaflets, broadsides, some organizational records, and subject files. Also included is a “War Resisters Organizing Manual” prepared by the War Resisters League in 1977. Photographs include images from several peace marches in Madison, Wisconsin Dells, and Waupun, Wis., circa 1976. |
| 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. |
| Hyatt, Donald B., 1924-2008 | Title: Donald B. Hyatt Papers, 1952-1973
Quantity: 23.2 cubic feet (58 archives boxes); plus additions of 0.1 cubic feet Call Number: U.S. Mss 134AN; M85-018 Abstract: Papers of Donald Hyatt, an award-winning writer, producer, and director of television documentaries for NBC. The bulk of the collection consists of orchestral scores by composer Robert Russell Bennett for thirty-four Project XX programs. Also includes biographical materials and outlines, continuity, scripts, schedules, shot lists, and miscellaneous production, financial and promotional material for Project XX, Victory at Sea, America's Music, The World of..., and other programs with which Hyatt was involved. |
| Slichter, Donald Charles, 1900-1978 | Title: Donald C. Slichter Papers, 1936-1978
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 573 Abstract: Papers of Donald C. Slichter, a prominent Wisconsin business executive and civic leader documenting his later-life professional and civic activities. Slichter was president of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NWL), was active in Milwaukee civic and University of Wisconsin alumni affairs, and headed several educational studies. Besides materials such as speeches, awards, and related correspondence documenting Slichter's personal activities, this collection contains a large number of congratulatory letters written to Slichter as president of NWL which throw some light on the company's history and operation; correspondence between Slichter and Karl Paul Link, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. and with Warren Knowles, Governor of Wisconsin, 1965-1970; correspondence, reports, and newspaper clippings documenting many of Slichter's University of Wisconsin and civic activities; and a file of correspondence, writings, and clippings by and concerning Slichter's brother Sumner, a Harvard economist. |
| Hanaway, Donald D. | Title: Donald D. Hanaway Papers, 1981-1986
Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 1 archives box) Call Number: M87-008 Abstract: Papers of Donald D. Hanaway, a Republican state senator from De Pere, Wisconsin from 1979 to 1987, documenting Hanaway's communication with his constituents, including correspondence to express support for or opposition to various senate and assembly bills, requests for information, requests for assistance with various legislation-related issues, and some replies by Senator Hanaway. Also included are Legislative Hotline messages left by constituents. |
| Fisher, Donald E. | Title: Donald E. Fisher Papers and visual materials, Quantity: 0.4 linear ft. (2 half archives boxes) of papers, and 0.4 linear ft. (1 archives box, 1 folder, and 17 negative flaps) of photographs, and 1.18 gigabytes (452 files in 91 folders) of digital files and 1 digital video disc. Call Number: WVM Mss 1858 Abstract: Papers and still images of Donald E. Fisher, a Madison, Wisconsin resident who served with the PT boat squadrons of World War II. The collection includes a detailed photographic record of the progress of Donald's service, from his enlistment in Daytona Beach, Florida, service in both the European and Pacific theaters, to his discharge in Hawaii. Papers include his personal diary and manuscripts, which document the trials and tribulations faced by him and his fellow crew members. Of particular interest is the Blue Jackets manual which doubled as his diary, containing a detailed timeline of Donald's ports of call in the European theater of operations, photographs and a documentary on the skirmish between his squadron and a German convoy off the coast of Jersey, and memoirs and photographs of D-Day. Also included are photographs and records of Donald's family and his post-war life, which is illustrated in memoirs celebrating his life as well as correspondence detailing his graduation from college and job search after the war. Also included in the collection is a research file dedicated to documenting the PT boats and crews of the Second World War, organized by boat number, which includes a poster showcasing the unit art of each squadron from the war, a video documentary on the recovery of the wreck of PT 509, and a disc of digitized records and photographs both from Donald himself as well as other PT sailors he knew personally. |
| Francke, Donald E. (Donald Eugene), 1910-1978 | Title: Donald E. Francke Papers, 1941-1985
Quantity: 8.6 c.f. (22 archives boxes); plus additions of 11.4 c.f., 23 photographs, and 3 negatives Call Number: Mss 553; M87-015; M90-291; M94-279; M98-065 Abstract: Papers of Donald E. Francke, a distinguished American pharmacist and editor of several publications. As chief pharmacist for several large university hospital pharmacies and editor and publisher of several pharmacy journals, Francke was concerned with drug nomenclature, professional ethics, and drug information. From 1944 to 1963, Francke worked to improve pharmacy school curricula and the image and education of hospital pharmacists. Francke was also active in numerous professional organizations, and advocated establishing international ties among pharmacists. The collection includes correspondence, conference materials from European meetings and study missions, extensive materials on FIP conferences, 1953-1977, including copies of papers given at the Press and Documentation section meetings, speeches, research files, and writings. |
| Emerson, Donald, 1913-1998 | Title: Donald Emerson Papers, 1962-1981
Quantity: 1.6 cubic ft. (4 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 164 Abstract: The collection consists of manuscript copies of four novels written by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty member Donald Emerson from 1962 to 1981. Each work is represented by multiple drafts, as well as research notes documenting Emerson's creative process. |
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Richards, Donald F.; Milwaukee (Wis.). Common Council. |
Title: Donald F. Richards Aldermanic Records,
1973-2000
Quantity: 3.5 cubic ft. (11 boxes) 4 oversize folders Call Number: City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 81 Abstract: Records of Common Council Alderman Donald F. Richards who served Milwaukee's 9th District from 1988-2004. Collection contains correspondence, reports, subject files, clippings, photographs and publications. |
| Friske, Donald, 1961- | Title: Donald Friske Papers, 2001-2010
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 3.88 gigabytes (8633 files in 480 folders) Call Number: M2011-021 Abstract: Legislative papers of Donald Friske, a Wisconsin Assemblyman for the 35th Assembly District which included all of Lincoln and parts of Langlade, Oneida, and Marathon counties. Contains materials on the Harding Boat Landing, forestry, dams, and the Department of Natural Resources. Friske, a Republican, chaired the Forestry Committee. |
| Smith, Donald H., 1932- | Title: Donald H. Smith Collected Speeches and Interviews, 1955-1963
Quantity: 14 tape recordings Call Number: Audio 344A Abstract: Recordings of speeches by and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders in the civil rights movement and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955-1963, gathered by Smith for his dissertation, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Rhetorician of Revolt. Also included is a recording of a Ku Klux Klan meeting near Birmingham, Alabama, May 11, 1963 and of comments by white and black citizens on the Montgomery bus boycott and the Birmingham riots. |
| Meyer, Donald J., 1930- | Title: Donald J. Meyer Papers, 1976-2000
Quantity: 3.4 cubic ft. (10 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 191 Abstract: The collection documents Don J. Meyer's work in animal management since the 1970s. The collection contains Meyer's correspondence with zoos and other animal businesses regarding his work as a consultant, animal trainer, and animal care-giver. His business enterprise, Jo-Don Farms, Inc., located in Franksville, Wisconsin, was the focal point of his involvement in the exotic animal business. The collection also contains Meyer's general files regarding elephant and animal management, including a substantial newsclippings file about elephants. The collection also documents the emergence of Elephant Management, an organization dedicated to promoting the elephant species through a unique advantageous breeding program. |
| Mueller, Donald J. | Title: Donald J. Mueller Papers, [circa 1900]-1994
, 1966-1994
Quantity: 8 cubic ft. (8 boxes) 1 oversize folder Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 92 Abstract: Papers of Donald Mueller, former faculty member of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, consisting of his avocational research into the history of urban public mass transit, George Francis Train, and the street railway industry in Milwaukee. Contents include photographs (largely in slide format), correspondence, research files, manuscripts, and ephemera and collectibles. While a few collected items including photographs date from the turn or middle of the twentieth century, the collection was compiled by Mueller in the 1980s and early 1990s when he was most active in his public transport collecting and research. |
| Helgeson, Donald K., 1932-1976 | Title: Donald K. Helgeson Papers, circa 1956-1965, 1968-1976
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Green Bay Micro 20; Micro 722 Abstract: Papers of a Republican Assemblyman from Manitowoc, Wisconsin including newsclippings, brochures, and news releases from his campaigns, legislative service, and civic activities; campaign documents; and speeches. Includes a small amount of material related to Helgeson's non-political affiliation with Hamilton Industries. |
| Heiliger, Donald L. | Title: Donald L. Heiliger Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 5.1 linear ft. (9 archives boxes, 3 oversized boxes, and 4 oversized folders) of papers, 0.2 linear ft. (1 archives box and 4 negative flaps) of photographs, 1 film reel. Call Number: WVM Mss 1316 Abstract: Papers and photographs pertaining to the career Air Force service of Colonel Donald L. Heiliger, a Madison, Wisconsin native who served as a pilot in Vietnam, was shot down and held as a prisoner for six years, and served as an air attache' to several different countries. The collection is comprised of personal letters, invitations, correspondence, flight records, training materials, service records, military papers, certificates, information articles, and photographs documenting Heiliger's entire Air Force career. The majority of manuscripts pertain to his time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. Heiliger was captured in 1967 after ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief that had been hit by ground fire while flying a bombing mission over North Vietnam. Included are a few letters written by Heiliger to his parents and to his first wife, Carol, during his time as a POW. There are also letters written by Heiliger's mother to him while he was a prisoner. There is correspondence his parents received from government agencies and private organizations over Heiliger's status as a POW and efforts to have him released. Also found is a large collection of correspondence Heiliger received after his return home in 1973, mainly from people who had worn his name on POW remembrance bracelets. Also included are cards and welcome home signs that were made by Wisconsin schoolchildren and Madison residents. Other manuscripts pertaining to his POW time include materials pertaining to his reorientation program after his release, regulations and instructions regarding mailing items to POWs, and articles collected by his parents pertaining to the Vietnam War and American prisoners. There is also a large collection of materials pertaining to his post-Vietnam service as an air attache' with Uruguay, Chile, and Israel. Included are military papers and reports from his time spent working with each country, along with a large collection of personal invitations and thank you letters he received. Other manuscripts from his service include military papers and reports from his ROTC training and his service as a navigations instructor, flight records spanning his entire career, medical evaluations, and various certificates and promotion-related documents. Photographs in the collection also cover his entire service. Included are group images from his ROTC and Air Force navigation training classes, a few images of Heiliger posing next to an F-105, and a group image of he and his fellow pilots on nuclear alert while stationed in South Korea. Images from his attache' service include group photographs at events, Heiliger posing with various United States Air Force generals, and some group images from his assignments abroad. Of particular interest is a photograph taken during the signing of the first agreement between the United States Air Force and the Israeli Air Force. A few images of 9/11 attack on the Pentagon round out the photographs. Also included in the collection is a visual recording of a press conference given by Heiliger after release and return to the United States in 1973. The film shows Heiliger answering questions about his time in prison, his thoughts about the war protesters, and how he was adjusting back into everyday life. The end of the film is comprised of footage taken of Heiliger landing at an airport and meeting his parents. |
| Peterson, Donald O., 1925- | Title: Donald O. Peterson Papers, 1947-1980 (bulk 1967-1972)
Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (4 record center cartons) and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 10.0 c.f. and 2 posters Call Number: Eau Claire Mss BB; M90-285; M2006-119 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1967-1972, of Donald O. Peterson, a liberal leader of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. The papers document Peterson's work in state and national Democratic party politics and reform initiatives. Major subjects include Peterson's leadership of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign in Wisconsin (available only on microfilm); his participation in the New Democratic Coalition (1968-1973), the Commission on Rules of the Democratic National Committee (1969-1972), and the Democratic Charter Commission (1973-1974); and his unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in 1970. Also of interest is material on Peterson's involvement with George McGovern's 1962 senatorial campaign and Edmund Muskie's 1972 presidential campaign. |
| Innis, Donald Q., 1924-1988 | Title: Donald Q. Innis Papers, 1944-1988
Quantity: 3.5 cubic ft. (5 boxes) Call Number: AGSL Manuscript Collection 29 Abstract: The papers of Donald Q. Innis, a Canadian geographer who specialized in agricultural geography, particularly intercropping. The collection contains correspondence, research, notes, writings, reprints, and teaching materials. |
| McNeil, Donald R. | Title: Donald R. McNeil Papers, 1950-1995
Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) and 2 tape recordings Call Number: M63-231 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1950-1963, of Donald R. McNeil, former assistant director and acting director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (SHSW, now the Wisconsin Historical Society), primarily documenting his research and writing on fluoridation. Also present are materials related to McNeil’s interest in right-wing movements and organizations. The only materials related to his position at the SHSW are memoranda, mostly from Clifford L. Lord. |
| Richberg, Donald R. (Donald Randall), 1881-1960 | Title: Donald R. Richberg Papers, 1940-1957
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: U.S. Mss BL Abstract: Copies of speeches given by Donald R. Richberg, a Chicago lawyer, author, and public offical during the New Deal era. Most of the texts deal with his views on labor unions and political power and on the post-war growth of government intervention in economic and social problems which he labelled “creeping socialism.” |
| Sanford, Donald S., 1918- | Title: Donald S. Sanford Papers, 1937, 1949-1978
Quantity: 20.4 c.f. (51 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 179AN Abstract: Papers of Donald Sanford, a motion picture and television writer. Television files, which are most extensive, consist of correspondence, clippings, synopses, and scripts, many bearing informative annotations. Best represented of Sanford's many television credits are the series Bonanza (NBC), Days of Our Lives (NBC), Ellery Queen (DuMont), The Felony Squad (ABC), Gunsmoke (CBS), Laramie (NBC), The Loretta Young Show (NBC), M Squad (NBC), Martin Kane, Private Eye (DuMont), Passport to Danger (CBS), Perry Mason (CBS), The Plainclothesman (DuMont), Telephone Time (CBS), and Thriller (NBC). Motion picture files contain extensive revisions of seven screenplays including Casino Royale (Columbia, 1967, with Ben Hecht), The Ravagers (Columbia, 1979), and Midway (Universal, 1976). Also relating to the last named film are several drafts of the novel which Sanford adapted from his screenplay. The remainder of the collection consists of a few radio scripts, subject files containing correspondence and clippings, and miscellaneous business and legal papers. |
| Anderson, Donald Wells, 1900-. | Title: Donald Wells Anderson Papers, 1890-1972
Quantity: 5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 123AF Abstract: Correspondence of a publisher of the Madison-based Wisconsin State Journal, together with occasional clippings, reports, and speeches. The files deal almost entirely with Anderson's work as publisher and contain exchanges with Emmanuel P. and Philip D. Adler and Lee P. Loomis of the Lee Group of newspapers, which owns the State Journal, and with William T. Evjue, who joined Anderson in the formation of Madison Newspapers, Inc. Other correspondents include Aaron Bohrod, Chester B. Bowles, Erle Stanley Gardner, Roy L. Matson, Richard M. Nixon, William Proxmire, Frederick A. Seaton, Wendell L. Willkie, Frank Lloyd Wright, and a host of prominent Wisconsin politicians. Also of interest are substantial files on the early history of the paper, the Lee Group, World War II censorship, and correspondence from Madison-area servicemen. |
| Allen, Donna | Title: Donna Allen Papers, 1960-1987
Quantity: 4.9 c.f. Call Number: M92-226; M95-274; M2000-028 Abstract: Papers of peace and civil liberties activist Donna Allen, who began her activism with Women Strike for Peace (WSP) in the 1950s. The collection documents her involvement with many groups, most notably Women Strike for Peace and National Conference for New Politics, of which she was a member of the executive board. Also reflected in the papers is Allen's heavy involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, especially with Women Strike for Peace and the Washington Mobilization Committee. Additionally, the collection includes the anti-Vietnam War files of fellow activist Margaret Russell (Women Strike for Peace). |
| Schlieman, Donna | Title: Donna Schlieman Papers, 1914–2014
Quantity: 2.0 cubic ft. (7 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 99 Abstract: Donna Schlieman (1937-2013) was a nurse and passionate activist for historic preservation and park conservation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Utke, Donna, 1933-2001 | Title: Donna Utke Papers, 1971-1991
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 233 Abstract: Collection contains works written or presented by Donna Utke, a prominent figure in Milwaukee's feminist and gay/lesbian communities, mainly during the 1970s. It includes book reviews, essays, and public and radio presentations on topics such as sexual inequality, the relationship of feminism and lesbianism, the gay and lesbian rights movement, and literature. |
| - - - | Title: Door County Agriculture Film Collection, circa 1940s
Quantity: 4 film reels (16 mm) Call Number: AE 482-AE 485 Abstract: The collection consists of four silent Kodachrome films, circa 1940s, documenting aspects of agriculture in Door County, Wisconsin. Included is footage of horticulture spraying and ground spraying; men digging trees, brief shots of Hobb's Nursery, and unloading trees at Fruit Growers Cooperative in Sturgeon Bay; and cherry harvesting by young migrant workers from Jamaica and Mexico (according to the description in the film can), and images of a peach crop and apple harvest. |
| Batty, Dora M. 1900-1966 | Title: Dora M. Batty Poster Series: Survivals of the Past, 1924
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (1 flat box) Call Number: PH 3432 Abstract: Color lithographs, from the "Survivals of the Past" series, 1924, by Dora M. Batty, published by the London Underground, printed by John Waddington Ltd., primarily featuring royal guards and landmarks, corresponding to Underground stops. The posters were produced for display in the interior of the cars, and inside and outside the buses and trams. Batty designed posters for the Underground Group and London Transport from 1921 to 1938. In the 1920s and 1930s, Batty designed more posters for London Transport and the Underground than any other female artist. |
| Schary, Dore, 1905-1980 | Title: Dore Schary Papers, circa 1920-1980
Quantity: 74.2 cubic feet (203 archives boxes, 1 records center carton, and 1 flat box), 37 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 25 tape recordings, 237 disc recordings, 117 reels of film, 1 videorecording, and photographs; plus additions of 0.8 cubic feet Call Number: U.S. Mss 37AN; Micro 1062; Micro 2001; Audio 330A; Audio 920A; Audio 1010A; Audio 1228A; Audio 1750A; Disc 49A; Disc 158A; AC 140; AC 197-AC 218; AC 231; AC 259-AC 260; AC 404; CA 775; CC 956; DD 307-DD 309; DD 324-DD 325; DD 329-DD 330; DD 355-DD 359; DD 604; DG 194; DG 205-DG 206; FE 408-FE 410; FF 050-FF 055; GA 070-GA 072; GA 113-GA 116; GA 184-GA 193; GA 835; GA 839; HA 768-HA 773; HA 783-HA 786; HA 851-HA 861; HA 867-HA 869; HA 883-HA 887; HA 894-HA 903; HA 912-HA 916; VBA 249; M96-022 Abstract: Papers of Dore Schary, a playwright, motion picture executive, and activist in Jewish and liberal political causes documenting both his personal and professional life. Includes general correspondence; microfilmed scrapbooks; scripts and production material for plays and motion pictures; records pertaining to MGM; non-dramatic writings, speeches (many in recorded form), and an autobiography and a family memoir; home movies and photographs; correspondence, reports, lists, financial records, and speeches from his tenure as national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League and subject files on other organizations with which he was involved such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Committee, and the Democratic Party; and personal and biographical information. Documentation in the production files varies but may include correspondence, notes, variant drafts of scripts, clippings, financial records, publicity, stills, designs, and casting information. Records of Schary's years as executive producer, studio head, and vice-president at MGM include reports of executive meetings, correspondence and memoranda, and scattered financial reports. Also present are papers pertaining to the career of Schary's wife Miriam, painter M. Svet. |
| Hanson, Doris | Title: Doris Hanson Campaign materials Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet 1 letter document box Call Number: Accession 2017/281 Abstract: Doris Hanson was appointed by Governor Tony Earl to be secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Administration. She is the first woman to have held this appointment. This collection documents both Hanson and her opponents' 1992 campaign for Wisconsin State Assembly. |
| Platt, Doris S. | Title: Doris S. Platt: Wisconsin Writers interviews, 1962-1965
Quantity: 122 tape recordings Call Number: Audio 315A; Audio 338A; Audio 390A Abstract: Interviews by Doris Platt of the State Historical Society staff with authors on her Wisconsin Writers series, broadcast over WHA radio, Madison, Wisconsin. |
| Platt, Doris S. | Title: Doris S. Platt: Wisconsin Writers interviews, 1962-1965
Quantity: 122 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 315A; Tape 338A; Tape 390A Abstract: Interviews by Doris Platt of the State Historical Society staff with authors on her Wisconsin Writers series, broadcast over WHA radio, Madison, Wisconsin. |
| Slesinger, Doris Peyser | Title: Doris Slesinger Migrant Farmworker interviews Quantity: 5.25 Linear Feet 4 record storage cartons, 2 letter document boxes, 1 half size letter document box Call Number: uac83 Abstract: The Doris Slesinger Migrant Farmworker interviews contains the original interview schedules for three rounds of interviews collected by the University of Wisconsin-Madiosn Department of Rural Sociology between 1978 and 1998 on the healthcare needs and access of migrant workers, particularly Spanish speaking, around the state of Wisconsin. The interviews collected demographic data as well as data concerning specific health issues, the availability of doctors, and access to resources like dental care and Spanish speaking health care professionals. |
| Alexander, Dorothy Dannies | Title: Dorothy Dannies Alexander Papers, Quantity: 1.7 linear ft. (1 archives box and 5 flat boxes) of papers, 0.8 linear ft. (1 archives box, 1 flat box and 2 oversized folders) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 5 Abstract: Papers and photographs of Dorothy Dannies Alexander, who served as an officer and company commander in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II from 1942 to 1944 and was active in the Milwaukee chapter of the WAC Veterans Association. Papers from her service as a WAC officer include correspondence, personnel records, and a 1942 WAC officer training script. Five scrapbooks with numerous newspaper clippings and other memorabilia document her career, life at the military bases at which she served, and the broader world of the WAC. WAC Veterans Association papers include correspondence, convention business and activities documents, and newspaper clippings. Held in Milwaukee, the 1949 and 1965 WAC Veterans Association conventions are particularly well documented, as Alexander was instrumental in the organization of those conventions. The collection also contains a scrapbook and 1972 correspondence of Alice Watson, of Riverside, California, who served under Alexander in the WAC and was also active in the WAC Veterans Association. The correspondence includes reminiscences about the WAC and the scrapbook contains photographs taken at WAC Veterans Association conventions. The photographs in this collection document life at the three posts where Alexander served: Camp Grant (Illinois), Fort Custer (Michigan), and Camp McCoy (Wisconsin). Included are many candid and posed photographs of WAC soldiers at work and recreation, inspection visits by superior officers, and a 1944 WAC field services event in Wausau, Wisconsin. The WAC Veterans Association photographs are mostly posed groups from conventions from the 1940s to 1960s. The collection also includes a small number of personal photographs. |
| Dignam, Dorothy, 1896-1988 | Title: Dorothy Dignam Papers, 1907-1962 (bulk 1918-1955)
Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 3 flat boxes) and 25 photographs Call Number: U.S. Mss 19AF; PH 2240 Abstract: Papers of Dorothy Dignam, one of the first women copywriters in the advertising business, chiefly consisting of examples of her work for the McJunkin and Vanderhoff advertising companies of Chicago and N.W. Ayer & Son, of Philadelphia and New York City. Clients include the Ford Motor Company, Marshall Field & Company, and Cannon Mills. The advertising dates from Dignam's early career, and it reflects her specialization in women's products and advertising addressed to women. Also included are educational materials and radio scripts about women by Dignam and other members of the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women; materials she prepared as head of the Defense Committee of the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) during World War II; materials for Advertising Careers for Women (1939), a book edited with Blanche Clair; and other materials. The photographs are portraits and images used for Ford Motor Company advertising and for AWNY Defense Committee advertising. |
| Jeakins, Dorothy, 1914- | Title: Dorothy Jeakins Papers, 1938-1973
Quantity: 7.4 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 11 flat boxes) and 1 tape recording Call Number: U.S. Mss 42AN; Tape 519A Abstract: Papers of an Academy Award winning costume designer for motion pictures, theater, and television, including notes, costume sketches, workbooks with attached cloth swatches, photographs and transparencies of costume sketches, and a few wardrobe plots and information on costume costs. There are also a few letters, programs, and reviews. |
| Meredith, Dorothy Laverne, 1906-1986 | Title: Dorothy Laverne Meredith Papers, 1925-1980
Quantity: 1.2 cubic ft. (2 boxes and 1 scrapbook) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 27 Abstract: Papers of a Milwaukee woman artist which include correspondence with friends and artists discussing her personal life and views on art (1937-1980). In particular she had continued correspondence with Morino Hiroaki and a prominent Tokyo landscape designer, Shimoyama Shigemaro. Also included are programs of her art exhibitions (1926-1980), photographs of art work and personal life (undated), and a scrapbook that documents the recognition she received in newspapers (1925-1962). The programs of her exhibitions and the scrapbook are of primary importance because they document her life as an artist. |
| Zellner, Dorothy M., 1938- | Title: Dorothy M. Zellner Papers, 1960-1979, 1983
Quantity: 2.8 cubic feet (2 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes), 4 tape recordings, 107 photographs, and 62 negatives Call Number: Mss 674; Audio 1135A; PH 3677 Abstract: Papers created and collected by Dorothy Zellner with contributions from Robert "Bob" Zellner, two civil rights activists who worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Most of the materials are near-print items, with some original correspondence, memos, reports, and notes, concerning SNCC, SCEF and its Grass-Roots Organizing Work (GROW) project, among white southerners and many other civil rights and labor organizing groups. Among the other topics treated are the seven-month strike of Local 5-443, International Woodworkers of America against the Masonite Corporation, in Laurel, Mississippi and the Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association. Few personal papers are included; among them are autobiographical and biographical writings; other writings and correspondence; and a few items pertaining to Robert's father, Rev. James A. Zellner, and his civil rights activities. The tape recordings include a meeting of poor white people from Sunflower and Bolivar counties in Missisippi with GROW representatives in 1968 and an account by Robert Zellner of his early civil rights experiences and the couple's role in the formation of GROW. The photographs portray picketing by the Boston Friends of SNCC in 1965 and various unidentified meetings and rallies. |
| Park, Dorothy | Title: Dorothy Park Photographic and Film Collection, circa 1900-circa 1955
Quantity: 212 photographs (1 archives box of prints and 4 small boxes of negatives), 247 transparencies (8 small boxes), and 3 films Call Number: PH 4905; CA 754-CA 756 Abstract: Photographic prints, lantern slides, and negatives, primarily 1900-1905, collected by Dorothy Park, a former member of the staff of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and several home movies shot by her brother. The photographs not only depict the Allen and William Park families, who resided at 1114 and 1128 East Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin, but also the William Barckhan family who resided at 1150 East Johnson Street, and, to a lesser extent, the William Van Deusen family and other unidentified sources. |
| Plautz, Dorothy, 1928- | Title: Dorothy Plautz Papers, 1960-2007
Quantity: 14.4 cubic ft. (20 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 170 Abstract: The collection contains the personal papers of Dorothy Plautz of Greenfield, Wisconsin, a genealogist and writer. The majority of the collection consists of photographs and materials from scrapbooks compiled by Dorothy Plautz. She began assembling the scrapbooks around the time she met and married her second husband, Alan Brunka. The scrapbooks capture daily and special family events, such as hospital stays and vacations. Plautz continued gathering items that tell the story of her life and her family's throughout her divorce from Brunka, marriage to Paul Ogrizovich, his death, and subsequent marriage to John Plautz. The collection also includes short stories and family histories written by Plautz. |
| Skuldt, Dorothy | Title: Dorothy Skuldt Family Genealogies, circa 1970-1989
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 35 photgraphs (1 archives box) Call Number: Whitewater Mss CG; PH Whitewater Mss CG Abstract: Research papers compiled by Dorothy Skuldt, nee Randall, of Madison, Wisconsin, primarily documenting her mother's relatives who, after living in New England and Mid-Atlantic states for most of the eighteenth century, settled in south-central Wisconsin in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Best documented are the families of Bell and Randall, both having moved to Wisconsin between the 1870s and 1890s and settled in the towns of Shopiere, Beloit, and Janesville; less extensive are her files on the families of Austin, Clark, Culver, Dye, Haviland, Skuldt, Swingle, Van Bommel, Van Vranken, and Yates. Included are news clippings, correspondence with genealogists and relatives, research notes, and rough family trees. In addition there are some photographs, many of which are identified; they include portraits, group shots, and pictures of churches and family homes. |
| Tyra, Dorothy, 1926- | Title: Dorothy Tyra Compiled Files on the Crandon Mine Controversy, 1976-2001
Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: Stevens Point Mss BV Abstract: Papers compiled by environmentalist Dorothy Tyra documenting the Crandon, Wisconsin mine controversy through her involvement with the Pickerel/Crane Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District, Wolf River Watershed Alliance, Wisconsin Resources Protection Council, and Wolf Watershed Educational Project. The bulk of the collection consists of subject files and newsletters documenting the anti-mining publicity campaign and grassroots political organization of environmentalists, Native Americans, and sportsmen in opposition to the proposed mine at Crandon. Native American rights and issues are a key aspect of this collection, including material related to the Midwest Treaty Network and the Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa. |
| Dorset family | Title: Dorset Family Papers Physical Description: 6.0 cubic feet Call Number: MSS Z Abstract: The Colwell-Dorset Family were prominent pioneers in La Crosse, Wis., originating from New England. Key family members include Nannie Hammer who married Capt. Wilson Colwell, who was killed in the Battle of South Mountain in 1862 during the Civil War. They had one daughter together also named Nannie Colwell. The widow Nannie Colwell then married Rev. C. P. Dorset, an Episcopal minister. The couple had several children together: Marian, Helen, and Bernard Dorset. The collection has been divided up into four series: personal correspondence, business correspondence, genealogical notes, and miscellany. Because of the long span of correspondence, everyday family life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Midwest is well documented. The papers consist mainly of correspondence among members of the Colwell-Dorset family. There are also some travel diaries, business correspondence, genealogy material, and miscellany. |
| Connell, Douglas | Title: Douglas Connell Slides of Mississippi River Bridge Construction (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 104 Abstract: Douglas Connell, a La Crosse, Wis., native, is a local historian and writer for the La Crosse Tribune. He has written numerous books on La Crosse area history. The collection includes 311 images of the construction of the new bridge over the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wis., from March 2003 to November 2004. The slides are arranged chronologically in a binder. Each slide is labeled by Connell with a brief description and the date and time the image was taken. |
| Douglas County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: Douglas County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors: Index to the Proceedings, 1855-1971
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (2 volumes) and 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Douglas Series 57 Abstract: A name and subject index to the Proceedings of the Douglas County Board (Douglas Series 56). |
| Douglas County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: Douglas County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors: Proceedings and Committee Minutes, 1855-1992
Quantity: 14.0 cubic feet (30 volumes), 13 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and approximately 3981 sheets of microfiche Call Number: Douglas Series 56 Abstract: Records of the Board of Supervisors consisting of original volumes of the official board proceedings, 1855-1950; original papers of proceedings, 1950-1985, 1988-1992; and committee minutes, 1985-1992. The original volumes contain minutes of meetings, resolutions, reports of public officials and committees, financial reports, and related material. The original papers of proceedings provide similar information as the volumes only in more detail, plus include background documents related to matters considered by the Board, communications and claims addressed to the board, and other papers relating to the operations, services, finances, planning and policy of county government. Committee minutes include minutes of meetings and the correspondence of permanent standing committees and ad hoc committees. Records, 1855-1950, are available on microfilm and paper. Records, 1950-1976, are available on microfiche and paper. Records, 1976-1992, are available on microfiche only. |
| Douglas County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Douglas County (Wis.). Clerk: Registers of Health Services Professionals, 1898-1958
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (3 volumes in 1 archives box and 1 separate volume) Call Number: Douglas Series 94 Abstract: Volumes identify health-services professionals practicing in Douglas County. They contain licenses and/or certification documents for physicians, nurses, optometrists, chiropractors, veterinarians, and physical therapists. Information includes name of practitioner, date of licensing or certification, and date of registration. Each volume contains a name index. |
| Douglas County (Wis.). Treasurer | Title: Douglas County (Wis.). Treasurer: Assessment and Tax Rolls, 1856-1970
Quantity: 2.0 c.f. and 203 reels of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Douglas Series 5 Abstract: Rolls show variously legal description of land and name of owner, assessed valuation, taxes due on land, and record of payment. Some rolls may contain record of assessment and tax levy on personal property. Personal property and income tax rolls for the City of Superior, 1915-1927, show total taxable income. |
| Douglas County Hospital and Sanatorium (Wis.) | Title: Douglas County Hospital and Sanatorium Records, 1900-1965
Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 10 volumes) Call Number: Douglas Series 128 Abstract: Records of a Douglas County mental health institution located in the town of Parkland that was opened in 1909 and operated under various names until closing in 1991. Throughout the institution's lifetime it served as an asylum, poor house, tuberculosis sanatorium, and home for the elderly, and maintained a farm and garden. The records document the administration of the facility and provide limited information about the residents. Administrative records include minutes of the board of trustees (1909-1958), financial records (1913-1938), monthly population statistical reports (1951-1956) and correspondence (1951-1956) and correspondence (1955-1956). Patient records contain biographical data and information on the patients' physical condition and care. Cemetery and death records provide record of the facility's residents and others buried in Parkland Cemetery, 1900-1946, and information on some individuals who died while at the institution from 1916 through 1965. |
| Cater, Douglass, 1923- | Title: Douglass Cater Papers, 1959-1964
Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 69AF Abstract: Papers of an author, editor for The Reporter, and special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The collection consists of drafts, correspondence, and research and indexing material for two books, The Fourth Branch of Government (1959), which was a study of government and the press, and Power in Washington: A Critical Look at Today's Struggle to Govern in the Nation's Capital (1964), an examination of the executive and legislative branches. |
| Dousman family | Title: Dousman Family Photographs, circa 1856-1953
Quantity: 117 photographs, 215 negatives, and 19 drawings Call Number: PH 3945 Abstract: Collection documenting four generations of the Dousman family of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, especially Hercules Dousman II, his wife Nina Sturgis Dousman, and their children. Included are portraits of family members and servants; photographs of paintings, busts, and statues of the family; and exterior and interior views of their Prairie du Chien estate, Villa Louis, before and after its refurbishment in 1930. Also included are images, circa 1895-1905, of family members and friends engaged in a variety of leisure activities including boating, hiking, target shooting, golf, croquet, tennis, chess, amateur theatricals, and other social events. |
| 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. |
| Downtown La Crosse Business Association (Wis.)., University of Wisconsin--Extension., University of Wisconsin--La Crosse. | Title: Downtown La Crosse Visual Analysis Slides Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 020 Abstract: A coordinated project of the University of Wisconsin Extension, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and the Downtown La Crosse Business Association, this visual representation and analysis of downtown La Crosse businesses, streets, and buildings gives a glimpse of what downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin, looked like in November-December 1977. The project consists of 212 identified slides that were taken from the original collection of 1000. Also included are a press release and a script of the slide show which was originally intended to be shown from two projectors. The slides are arranged by address. |
| Downtown Luncheon Club (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Downtown Luncheon Club Records, 1961-1982
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 folder and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: UWM Small Collection 49 Abstract: Records of an informal club of faculty members of the downtown University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus before the merger with the Kenwood campus. The membership was composed of faculty in engineering and business who ate lunch in the faculty lounge. Members formed the club to spoof some of the formal events that were held at the larger Kenwood campus. The club also occasionally staged special events put on by members, e.g. a party for the college president. Collection consists of membership lists, promotional materials, an application for membership, event flyers, personal correspondence, reunion notices and lists of attendees, and a DLC pennant |
| Church, Dennis | Title: Downtown Madison Project Photographs Taken by Dennis Church, 1980-1981
Quantity: 76 photographs (1 flat box) Call Number: PH 6642 Abstract: Photographs taken by Church for the Downtown Madison project, partially funded by the city of Madison Cultural Affairs Commission. The photographs are predominantly taken from the Capitol Square and State Street areas. |