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| 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. |
| ZIV Television (Firm) | Title: “Highway Patrol” Films: ZIV-TV Productions, United Artists Corporation Records, 1955-1959
Quantity: 156 film reels (16 mm) Call Number: DA 605-DA 760 Abstract: One hundred and fifty-six episodes from the crime series Highway Patrol, about a highway patrol division investigating various crimes committed on the road. All the films are 16 mm prints in black and white with sound. |
| 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. |
| Elkins, Hillard, 1929- | Title: Hillard Elkins Papers, 1956-1979
Quantity: 33.2 c.f. (19 record center cartons, 34 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes) and 12 tape recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 137AN; Tape 1125A Abstract: Personal and professional papers of a theatrical and motion picture producer active in the United States, Canada, and England. The collection documents both Elkins' career and personal life, and to a lesser extent, the career and personal life of actress Claire Bloom, Elkins' wife from 1969 to 1976. Included are a general subject file of correspondence, agreements, clippings, and financial records relating to Elkins' work as an actors' representative and producer; personal papers of Elkins and Bloom; and fragmentary corporate records of Elkins' many production companies. Among the productions with the greatest documentation are the films Alice's Restaurant, A Doll's House, and Oh! Calcutta!; and stage plays Best Laid Plans, A Doll's House, Golden Boy, Oh! Calcutta!, The Rothschilds, the South African plays Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island, A Streetcar Named Desire, and This Winter's Hobby. Among papers in the general subject file are materials pertaining to Robert Culp, Alex Haley, John Ireland, Van Johnson, James Komack, John V. Lindsay, and Steve MacQueen. |
| Krieghbaum, Hillier | Title: Hillier Krieghbaum Papers, 1950-1976
Quantity: 4.3 c.f. (8 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 165AF Abstract: Papers of a nationally prominent journalism educator at New York University. Half of the collection documents Krieghbaum's concern with coverage of science by the mass media. This material, which consists of correspondence, speeches, articles, newsclippings, questionnaires, minutes, and reports, is especially good for his involvement with the National Science Foundation, the National Association of Science Writers, and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. Three boxes of correspondence, speeches, articles, and miscellany concern his membership in the Association of Journalism School Administrators and the Association for Education in Journalism. Coverage is best for his presidencies of these organizations in 1960 and 1971, respectively. The balance of the collection consists of correspondence, reports, articles, and books by Krieghbaum, and clippings about his other journalism-related activities. Located here is material pertaining to a report prepared for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1959 and a survey conducted for the American Association of Industrial Editors in 1961. |
| 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. |
| Wood, Sydney, collector | Title: Hillside Home School and Lloyd Jones Family Collected Materials, circa 1892-circa 1920
Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (1 archives box, 2 flat boxes, and 1 folder) Call Number: PH 6675 Abstract: Photographs, photograph albums, collotype prints, and a diploma collected by Sydney Wood relating to the Hillside Home School (Iowa County, Wisconsin) and the Lloyd Jones family. Included in the collection are three photograph albums documenting the Hillside Home School, circa 1892-circa 1920, a combination home, school, and farm founded by Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones in 1887 near Spring Green, Wisconsin; a composite of the school's graduating class of 1886; and a 1905 diploma from the school for Alice Lloyd Jones. The collection also includes an incomplete set of collotype prints and an original portfolio envelope used to promote the school and believed to have been designed, photographed, and lettered by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the nephew of Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones. Additional images include a drawing and a photograph of the Hillside Home School, the building designed by Wright in 1902. Images in the photograph albums include interior and exterior views of Hillside Home School buildings, students, teachers, and the surrounding landscape as well images of members of the Lloyd Jones family. In addition to images of the school, the untitled album also includes additional collotype prints and photographs related to the Tower Hill Assembly and the Lloyd Jones family including the family patriarch Jenkin Lloyd Jones. |
| Luckhardt, Hilmar F. (Hilmar Luckhardt), 1913- | Title: Hilmar Luckhardt Collection Quantity: 16 cubic feet 2 archival boxes, 21 records boxes, 1 oversize records box Collection includes: manuscript sheet music, published scores, paper records and audio tape reels. Call Number: mml013 Abstract: The Hilmar Luckhardt Collection contains sheet music, print records and audio tapes related to the career of Hilmar Luckhardt, a music composer and lecturer who worked at the University of Wisconsin - Madison from 1939 to 1989. |
| Baukhage, Hilmar Robert, 1889- | Title: Hilmar Robert Baukhage Papers, 1906-1962
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes), 5 tape recordings, and 26 disc recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 95AF; Tape 453A; Disc 80A Abstract: Papers of a writer, newspaperman, and Washington news commentator for NBC and ABC, primarily consisting of scripts, journals, speeches, and recordings. Scripts and discs relate almost exclusively to Baukhage's regularly-scheduled ABC radio program Baukhage Talking. Among the news events covered in the scripts are World War II, the 1944 political conventions, President Roosevelt's death, Truman's inauguration, the Nuremberg trials, the Cold War, and the Berlin crisis. Among the recordings are broadcasts about Roosevelt's funeral, the Japanese surrender, a speech by Andrei Gromyko before the Security Council in 1947, and Thomas E. Dewey's concession to Truman in 1948. The journals are comprised of notes on interviews during the 1940's with Washington, D.C., personages such as James F. Byrnes, John Foster Dulles, Harry Hopkins, Cordell Hull, Louis Johnson, George C. Marshall, Wayne L. Morse, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Robert A. Taft. Also present is an autobiographical manuscript and a history of Stars and Stripes. The remainder of the collection is comprised of speeches, fragmentary correspondence, and miscellaneous early writings. |
| Hanna, Hilton E. (Hilton Edward) | Title: Hilton E. Hanna Papers, 1938-1983
Quantity: 10.8 c.f. (10 record center cartons, 1 flat box, and 1 card box), 2 tape recordings, and 0.2 c.f. of photographs (1 archives box) Call Number: M88-010 Abstract: Papers of Hilton E. Hanna, an international vice-president of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of America, primarily documenting his work as executive assistant to Secretary-Treasurer Patrick Gorman and his personal involvement in labor education groups in Madison, Wisconsin from the 1950s into the late 1970s. Also documented is Hanna's role as writer for union and other publications, as contributor to local public radio programs, speech writer, and co-author of Pat Gorman's biography. Photographs document Hanna's general career and labor activities and provide the only documentation here of his work as a labor specialist for the State Department in Nigeria and Ghana in 1955. |
| University of Wisconsin--La Crosse. Special Collections Department. | Title: Historic Commercial La Crosse, Wisconsin Slides Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 022 Abstract: Slides made from photographs at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's Special Collections Department all representing industries and businesses in La Crosse. Most of the photographs predate 1920. Many of the businesses selected are still operating. Companies that are represented are: Doerflingers, Funke Candy Company, Hebberd's Drug Store, Fred Kroner Hardware Store, La Crosse Rubber Mills (now called La Crosse Footwear), La Crosse Tractor Company, Northern Engraving, Pamperin & Wiggenhorn Cigar Company, W. A. Roosevelt Company, Salzer Seed Company, Segelke-Kohlhaus Manufacturing Company, Trane Company, Exchange State Bank (now Valley Bank), and La Crosse National Bank (now Norwest Bank). |
| Buchel, Jack | Title: Historic Highlights of the Former Pammel Farm Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 043 Abstract: "Historic Highlights of the Former Pammel Farm" essay written by Jack Buchel, 1987. Gives information about this area of La Crosse, Wisconsin, later known as Wedgewood Valley and Wedgewood Terrace. |
| 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. |
| Milwaukee Public Library | Title: Historic Photo Collection, circa 1875-2000
Quantity: 26,000 photographs Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 6 Abstract: The Historic Photo Collection is the largest collection within MPL's Historic Photo Archives. It contains thousands of photographs of Milwaukee, ranging in date from the late 19th century through the latter part of the 20th century. |
| Milwaukee Public Library | Title: Historic Portrait Collection, circa 1875-2000
Quantity: 19 cubic ft. (11 drawers) Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 7 Abstract: This collection consists of photographs and images of almost 2,000 individuals related to Milwaukee. These individuals include Milwaukee residents of various levels of prominence, as well as photos of famous individuals who visited Milwaukee. The images run the gamut from ordinary citizens to prominent national politicians and celebrities. While the photos are mostly undated, they are generally from circa 1875-2000. |
| 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. |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. La Crosse Wisconsin Stake. | Title: Historical Sketch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in La Crosse, 1899-1907 Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 051 Abstract: Historical sketch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in La Crosse, Wisconsin between 1899 and 1907. Author and date when sketch was written are unknown. |
| University of Wisconsin - Parkside | Title: History Department Records, 1968-2011
Quantity: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) Call Number: UWP Archives Collection 30 Abstract: This series includes department newsletters, faculty presentations and publications, and course syllabi. |
| - - - | Title: History of Bantry, Ireland Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 192 Abstract: Materials include a four-page history on the town of Bantry, Ireland and a color copy of a map of Ireland. Bantry, Ireland and La Crosse, Wisconsin are sister cities. |
| Petersen, Bill, (William D.), 1959- | Title: History of Hixon Forest and Nature Center Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 074 Abstract: Photocopy of "History of Hixon Forest and Nature Center," written by Bill Petersen in 1989. |
| Wilson, Pat | Title: History of Hixon Forest Nature Center Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 115 Abstract: "History of Hixon Forest Nature Center," written by Pat Wilson, 25 September, 1993. |
| Larkin, Virginia | Title: History of Immanuel Lutheran Church of La Crosse Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 017 Abstract: Typewritten "History of Immanuel Lutheran Church of La Crosse." Written by Virginia Larkin, 1985. |
| - - - | Title: History of La Crosse Postcard Booklet Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 119 Abstract: Booklet made of postcards featuring buildings and other landmarks in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area. Most of the postcards were printed prior to 1950, and the booklet was assembled in approximately 1960. The booklet was used by elementary school students to learn about the history of La Crosse. |
| Nedden, William F. | Title: History of Milwaukee Horse Railways Manuscript, 1981
Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 126 Abstract: Manuscript history of the River and Lakeshore City Railway, Milwaukee City Railway, West Side Street Railway, and the Cream City Railroad, predecessors to the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The focus is on the period 1850-1896, and special attention is given to route layouts, use of horse-drawn railway cars, and administrative operations of the companies. |
| O'Neil, Marianne | Title: History of Southside Multi-Purpose Center Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 141 Abstract: "History of Multi-Purpose Center," written by Marianne O'Neil, March 21, 1972, detailing the history of the Southside Senior Center located at 1220 Denton Street in La Crosse, Wisconsin. |
| Reichert, Virginia, 1893- | Title: History of Stevenstown-Union Mills Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 001 Abstract: Typewritten history of the Stevenstown/Union Mills area in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. |
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Bice, Myrtle Olson; Church, Myn Knight |
Title: History of the Caledonia Street Methodist Church, 1856-1956 Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 010 Abstract: Typewritten "History of the Caledonia Street Methodist Church, 1856-1956" in La Crosse, Wisconsin, by Myrtle Olson Bice and Myn Knight Church, 1956. |
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Radcliffe, Irene; Spors, Florence |
Title: History of the Fauver Hill Study Club Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 003 Abstract: Typewritten history of the Fauver Hill Study Club in La Crosse County; previously known as the Campbell Library Association. |
| Holmlund, Jim, (James O.), 1918-2001 | Title: History of the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Post Office, 1843-1978 Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 065 Abstract: Photocopy of a history concerning the La Crosse, Wisconsin post office between 1843 and 1978, written by James O. Holmlund in 1978. |
| Dudley, Arthur S. (Arthur Serviss), 1883-1977 | Title: History of West Salem, Wisconsin: Illustrated with Photographic Views,
Quantity: 50 photographs in 1 volume of 24 leaves and 1 flier Call Number: PH 6019 Abstract: Album of cyanotypes including a historical sketch of West Salem and an index to the photographs. Views include streets; commercial buildings; churches; and residences, identified by resident, including writer Hamlin Garland's residence. Also includes a flier advertising Dudley's services as a photographer. |
| Potter, Hitty Wenzel, 1820-1864 | Title: Hitty Wenzel Potter Papers, 1840-1911
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (1 flat box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 147 Abstract: Transcribed and original letters written by Potter mainly from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin to family members in Massachusetts, and a few letters directed to her. The letters describe the life of a woman in territorial Wisconsin: household duties, raising children, religious and social life, and tending the sick. There is also mention of runaway slaves; national politics; outbreaks of cholera, smallpox, and scarlet fever; the local economy; descriptions of the family's land and livestock holdings; and attitudes towards new immigrants. Also in the collection are two letters (1885 and 1891) to Susan Potter DeGraff from two of her brothers (Hitty's children); several schoolgirl compositions; a 1911 clipping from a Wauwatosa newspaper giving details of the family history; and a typed copy of an 1864 manuscript about the history of the Johnston and Upson families. Most of the letters are photocopies of transcriptions, but sixteen are original letters. |
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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. |