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| O’Neill, Jean H. | Title: Jean H. O'Neill Family Genealogies, 1790-1985
Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (5 archives boxes) and 0.4 c.f. of photographs Call Number: M2004-030 Abstract: Family genealogies compiled by Jean O’Neill principally documenting the Bacon, Brockway, Coors, Coren, Higbee, Kjos, Losey, O’Neill, and Waddington families as well as other family names. The materials consist of correspondence, family group charts and pedigree sheets, census materials (1790–1900), land records, news clippings and newsletters, photographs, and other genealogical materials. |
| Pierce, Jean M. | Title: Jean M. Pierce Papers, 1890-1961, 1990
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: M90-347 Abstract: Genealogy of the Amelse-Berger and Pierce-Ellis families, including family group sheets, compiled by Jean M. Pierce in 1990. Records also include photographs and ephemera, circa 1890-1961. |
| - - - | Title: Jean Oliva collection Quantity: .21 Linear Feet One half size letter document box buttons, a t-shirt, and correspondence Call Number: uac103 Abstract: This collection contains buttons collected by Jean Oliva from the years 1941-1981 related to the College of Engineering and the story that Saint Patrick was an engineer. It also includes a medal from the Chemical Engineering Department's 1925 University Exposition and a t-shirt from the 1981 Engineering Exposition Oliva helped to organize. |
| Rosenthal, Jean, 1912-1969 | Title: Jean Rosenthal Papers, 1938-1972
Quantity: 16.8 cubic feet (42 archives boxes and 2 oversize folders) and 3 discs; plus additions of 30.8 cubic feet Call Number: U.S. Mss 40AN; Audio 1897A; MCHC67-060; MCHC70-093; M98-185 Abstract: Papers of Jean Rosenthal, a lighting and scenic director, including lighting plots, charts and notes, and set designs for numerous Broadway productions, performances of the New York City Opera, and various community and school productions for which she served as consultant. Among her documented Broadway productions are Caligula (1961), Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), Destry Rides Again (1959), The Disenchanted (1958), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Jamaica (1957), Take Me Along (1959), and West Side Story (1957). |
| Arnold, Jeanne, 1931-. | Title: Jeanne Arnold and Barbara Lindquist Papers, 1977-2009
Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (6 archives boxes) Call Number: UWP Manuscript Collection 17 Abstract: Jeanne Arnold (formerly Jeanne Chalekian) is a lesbian feminist author of Racine, Wisconsin. Arnold and her partner Barbara Lindquist founded Mother Courage Bookstore and Art Gallery in Racine in 1978 to promote feminism and to establish a gathering place for women. The collection contains manuscripts, papers concerning the 1977 St. Luke’s Hospital Strike, materials from Mother Courage Press, memoirs of the lives of Arnold and Lindquist, and personal papers. |
| Bell, Jeannette | Title: Jeannette Bell Papers, 1983-1996
Quantity: 6.6 c.f. Call Number: M91-072; M93-207; M97-042 Abstract: Papers of Jeannette Bell, a Democratic representative of Wisconsin’s 15th Assembly District (the West Allis area), 1982-1996. Included are files documenting her legislative interests, particularly her work on child abuse issues, sexual predator and stalking laws, and files accumulated during her term as member and chair of the Environmental Resources Committee. The collection contains committee, legislative, and issue files which include background information, notes from meetings, press releases, correspondence, reports, prepared testimony, and drafts of bills; and Bell’s newsletters, speeches, and press releases. |
| Gersch, Jeff | Title: Jeff Gersh: Sustainable Agriculture Interviews, 1988
Quantity: 20 tape recordings Call Number: Audio 1223A Abstract: Tape-recorded interviews about sustainable agriculture, conducted with farm families by Jeff Gersh as academic research for his master's thesis, “Why Some Wisconsin Farmers Choose to Farm Sustainably: A Question of Circumstances, Values and Validation.” |
| Koterba, Jeff | Title: Jeff Koterba Editorial Cartoons, circa 2000
Quantity: 8 drawings (1 folder) Call Number: PH 6570 Abstract: Original political cartoons created by Jeff Koterba for the Omaha World Herald, representing national and international political issues. |
| Jefferson County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Jefferson County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Deeds, 1838-1902
Quantity: 49 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Jefferson Series 30 Abstract: Microfilmed warranty, quit claim, and other deeds for land located in Jefferson County. Records provide names of persons involved in land transfers, a description of the land, and the amount of money involved. |
| Jefferson County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Jefferson County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Grantor and Grantee Indexes, 1838-1900
Quantity: 8 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Jefferson Series 31 Abstract: Index to Jefferson County deeds (Jefferson Series 30). Includes name of grantor and grantee, and volume and page of deed. |
| Jefferson County Farm Bureau (Wis.) | Title: Jefferson County Farm Bureau Records, 1928-1965
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Whitewater Mss AB Abstract: Records of a farmers' buying and selling cooperative, including minutes, financial records, and membership cards. Also included is a list of shareholders of the Jefferson County Cooperative Service Company and minutes of the Concord-Sullivan Farm Bureau. |
| Cruger, Jefferson, 1804(?)-1884 | Title: Jefferson Cruger Diary, 1831-1871
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 765 Abstract: Diary of Jefferson Cruger, including poems and sermon extracts, concerning his deep involvement in religion and the temperance movement, and his daily activities as a teacher in New York, farmer in Iowa, Civil War soldier in the 46th Iowa Infantry, farmer in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and teacher near Mondovi, Wisconsin. |
| Jefferson Elementary School (La Crosse, Wis.). Parent-Teacher Association. | Title: Jefferson Elementary School (La Crosse, Wisconsin), Parent-Teacher Association Records Physical Description: 0.8 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 094 Abstract: Jefferson School, also known as Fifth Ward School, was built in 1877. Located on the corner of St. James and Caledonia Streets, it was razed in 1950, and was replaced by Jefferson Elementary, which opened to classes in 1950. Parent organizations were supportive of the school and its students. A Mother’s Club was formed in 1921, and by 1943, became the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). The school operated for over fifty years until closed by the La Crosse School District at the end of the 2005 school year. Materials in the collection include correspondence, newspaper clippings, minutes, miscellaneous materials, and photographs. |
| Jefferson Elementary School (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Jefferson Elementary School, Second and Third Grade Classes, Letters to Santa Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 150 Abstract: Photocopies of letters written to Santa by students in Deb Keller and Jan Marson's 2nd and 3rd grade class at Jefferson Elementary School (La Crosse, Wisconsin), 2000. |
| Jefferson School of Social Science (New York, N.Y.) | Title: Jefferson School of Social Science Records, 1942-1956
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 840 Abstract: Records of a Marxist adult education center (1944-1956) in New York City that mainly concern its listing by the Subversive Activities Control Board as a communist front. Such records include legal documents, hearing transcripts, and petitions and statements in support of the school's positions. Concerning internal administration of the Jefferson School are incomplete files of correspondence, annual reports, executive committee meeting minutes, Bulletins of the school's predecessor, the School for Democracy; departmental memoranda; course listings; newsclippings; and speeches and statements by the director, Howard Selsam. Of note among the fragmentary, routine correspondence is a letter from Philip S. Foner, who taught labor history at the school. |
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Pawlinski, Jeffrey A.; Milwaukee (Wis.). Common Council. |
Title: Jeffrey A. Pawlinski Aldermanic Records, 1990-2004
Quantity: 7.5 cubic ft. (22 boxes) Call Number: City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 86 Abstract: Records of Common Council Alderman Jeffrey A. Pawlinski, who served Milwaukee's 13th District from 1996-2003. Collection contains correspondence, reports, subject files, ordinance copies/drafts, handwritten notes, clippings, and publications. |
| Coonjohn, Jeffrey J. | Title: Jeffrey J. Coonjohn Papers and Still Images, 1990-1991 , Quantity: 0.1 linear ft. (3 folders) of papers, 0.6 linear ft. (1 archives box and 1 half box) of photographs, 0.4 linear ft. (1 archive box) of paper prints. Call Number: WVM Mss 542 Abstract: Still images and scattered materials related to the Persian Gulf War service of Coonjohn, a soldier from Madison, Wis. who served with the 826th Ordnance Company, a unit comprised of mainly Wisconsin service men and women. The core of the collection are the numerous color photographs Coonjohn took while stationed at the “Badger Pit” (headquarters of the 826th) near Dhahran and Al Khafji. Images document a range of activities including camp life, interactions with civilians, building damage, Middle Eastern cities, military vehicles, and American and international troops. There are a number of photographs of identified groups and individuals. Papers include information about the publishing of Coonjohn's book “Operation Desert Storm: Stories from the Front.” There are also Desert Storm trading cards, materials about Saudi Arabia, and Valentine's Day cards received from school children in Richmond, Virginia showing home front support of troops. |
| - - - | Title: Jenks-Thomas Family Genealogical Records, ca. 1920-1973
Quantity: 5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes) Call Number: Platteville Mss AD Abstract: Genealogical records for the families of Volney Virgil Jenks and Britannia Thomas Jenks compiled and updated to 1973 by their daughter, Ruth E. Jenks of the Darlington, Wisconsin, branch of the family. Included are materials tracing the Jenks family history back to Medieval England with considerable information about Joseph Jenks, who received the first patent issued in America for his waterwheel mill engine invention (1646); struck the “Pine Tree Shilling,” the first coin in New England (1652); and manufactured the first hollow ware made in America. In addition to genealogical charts, the collection contains photographs, family memorabilia, notebooks, two family Bibles, and other records related to the Barker, Jenks, Merriam, and Thomas families. Also, there is collected information about communities and life in rural southwestern Wisconsin for the better part of the twentieth-century. |
| Teesdale, Jerald T. (Jerald Tyrrell) | Title: Jerald T. Teesdale Papers, 1918-2007
Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder) and 5.0 cubic feet of photographs, negatives, and transparencies (7 archives boxes, 2 negative boxes, 5 transparency boxes, and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Mss 1058; PH 6573 Abstract: Papers and photographs collected and created by Jerald Teesdale, amateur photographer, antique automobile enthusiast, gun collector, and life-long resident of Shorewood Hills, Madison, Wisconsin. The papers include: family account books; materials related to his father, Laurence [Lawrence?] Victor Teesdale, an engineer at the United States Forest Products Laboratory; material collected by Jerald Teesdale about Woodcraft Camp (Waushara County, Wisconsin) where he spent summers as a youth; information about his career in the United States Navy (1945-1951); and a diary of his trip to the 1933 World's Fair. The majority of the photographs document the built environment around southern Wisconsin including Madison and Dane County. Additional photographs document summers spent at Woodcraft Camp and Camp Indianola (Dane County, Wisconsin); his service in the United States Navy (1945-1951); and his father's work. |
| Rusk, Jeremiah McLain, 1830-1893 | Title: Jeremiah Rusk Papers, 1862-1898
Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (4 archives boxes, 7 flat boxes, and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Wis Mss ER Abstract: Private correspondence and letter books of Jeremiah Rusk, a Wisconsin Republican congressman (1871-1877), governor (1882-1889), and the first United States Secretary of Agriculture (1889-1893), particularly concerning state and national elections and his tenure as Secretary of Agriculture. There are some official papers concerning his military service with the 25th Wisconsin Infantry and scant incoming correspondence concerning his years in Congress and as governor. Also included is Rusk's correspondence as Secretary of Agriculture. |
| Stamler, Jeremiah, 1919- | Title: Jeremiah Stamler Papers, 1938-1976
Quantity: 16.0 cubic feet (13 records center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 2 flat boxes), 13 photographs, and 2 reels of film (16 mm) Call Number: Mss 684; PH 3670; DC 808-DC 809 Abstract: Papers of Jeremiah Stamler, a distinguished Chicago physician and cardiovascular researcher who refused to testify at a 1965 hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee and instead filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Committee. The collection includes legal papers from the three lawsuits involved: the original suit, Stamler v. Willis; the Committee's criminal contempt of Congress suit, United States v. Stamler; and a counterclaim, Stamler v. Mitchell. The lawsuits were joined by Dr. Stamler's research assistant, Yolanda Hall, and intervening plaintiff Milton M. Cohen. Also present are a few personal materials, and research materials created and collected by Stamler's lawyers, Albert E. Jenner Jr., Thomas P. Sullivan, and Chester Kamin. Included is a major statistical study conducted by Dr. Hans Zeisel, University of Chicago, of the effects of the Committee's subpoena power and the results of testifying or refusing to testify at a HUAC hearing. In 1973, after the House Committee on Committees unanimously recommended that the government's lawsuit be dropped and the Committee be eliminated, the contempt suit was dismissed at the government's request. Subsequently, Stamler and Hall withdrew their civil suits. Photographs includes images of District Court proceedings, courtroom interiors, and White Supremacist movement protesters outside the courtroom. Also includes the film Committee on un-American Activities, a Robert Cohen production. |
| Sudut, Jerome A. | Title: Jerome A. Sudut Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 0.5 linear ft. (1 archives box and one oversized flat box) of papers and 0.2 linear ft. (1 archives box) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 1700 Abstract: Papers and photographs pertaining to the service and award of Jerome A. Sudut, a Wausau, Wisconsin, resident who was killed in action and awarded the Medal of Honor during the Korean War. The collection includes papers and photographs pertaining to his two enlistments in the Army, along with the posthumous awarding of the Medal of Honor for his actions in securing an enemy held hillside near Kumhwa, Korea. Manuscripts pertaining to Sudut's two enlistments in the Army include his discharge certificate from his first enlistment, training and promotion certificates, two military Christmas greetings sent to his parents, and a pencil drawing of Sudut done while he was stationed in Japan. Manuscripts pertaining to his death and awarding of the Medal of Honor feature the original telegrams informing his parents of his death, the transport of his body back to Wausau, and the awarding of the Medal of Honor; the original Medal of Honor citation and certificate signed by President Harry Truman, and information pertaining to the presentation ceremony. The collection also includes newspaper clippings about Sudut's death and Medal of Honor presentation, and personal papers prior to joining the Army. Photographs include images of Sudut in uniform, relaxing, undergoing jump training, and posing with fellow soldiers; various tourist images from Japan and several photographs of civilians; images of military bases; and photographs of fellow soldiers posing individually and in groups. Particularly interesting images include a photograph of Sudut jumping out of an airplane and rolling up his parachute after a jump, several photographs taken while he was serving as a motorcycle escort for President Truman, two copy prints of original images taken just before his death, and a photograph of his father, Joseph Sudut, being presented with his son's Medal of Honor. |
| Watrous, Jerome A., 1840-1922 | Title: Jerome A. Watrous Papers, 1864-1922
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss FC Abstract: Papers of Jerome A. Watrous, a Wisconsin journalist, veteran of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, and leader in the Grand Army of the Republic, consisting of correspondence and writings. About three-fourths of the collection consists of draft and printed speeches and writings concerning the Civil War, the Philippine Islands, the GAR, and general Wisconsin biography and history. Some items focus on the Iron Brigade, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and other Civil War battles, the Milwaukee Soldiers Home, and the history of several Wisconsin regiments. With these papers are comments on the proposal to place General Robert E. Lee's statue in Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C.; a collection of letters, 1864-1865, of General Joseph Bailey, then lieutenant colonel of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry, relating to his actions during the Red River campaign of 1864; and a Waterhouse/Watrous family history. The correspondence is very incomplete, and although his duty as a paymaster in the Philippines has some coverage, there is no correspondence about Watrous' military service in the Civil War. Prominent correspondents include Edward W. Bragg and William A. Ketchum, commander-in-chief of the GAR. |
| Bolan, Jerome E., 1909- | Title: Jerome E. Bolan Papers, 1932-1942
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 66 Abstract: Papers, primarily consisting of scripts and programs from plays, of a Milwaukee Polish American educator and writer. While teaching at Milwaukee high schools, Bolan formed several student Polish clubs, for which he wrote and selected Polish-language plays for presentation; several of the original scripts are in the collection. Also included is a scrapbook of clippings from Polish language newspapers regarding his teaching career in Milwaukee, the activities of the Polish clubs in the Milwaukee area, and reviews of the plays. In addition, there are two handpainted letters of appreciation for clothing sent to Polish school children by the American Red Cross during World War II, miscellaneous Polish travel brochures and literature from the 1930s, and a poster. |
| Blaska, Jerome L., 1919- | Title: Jerome L. Blaska Papers, 1959-1963
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 681 Abstract: Papers of a Dane County farmer and Assemblyman (1959-1966), consisting of campaign literature, photographs, and constituent correspondence concerning trading stamps, Sunday store closing, the 21-year-old drinking age, the state budget, and other issues of the 1963 legislative session. |
| Brigham, Jerome Ripley, 1825-1897 | Title: Jerome R. Brigham Papers, 1812-1897
Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss KX Abstract: Papers of Jerome R. Brigham, a Milwaukee attorney. The early papers consist largely of personal letters from former schoolmates at Amherst College and from relatives including his brother-in-law, Horace G. Bliss, in regard to real estate matters and the large farm at Blue Mounds, Wis., owned jointly with Bliss, and from the operators of the farm. Present for 1854-1855 are typewritten copies of letters written by prominent orators of the day to Brigham while he was secretary of the lecture committee of the Milwaukee Young Men's Association. Beginning about 1859, there are scattered letters on political subjects, including several from John F. Potter, relating to the election of 1860 and secession and occasional letters from Horace Rublee in regard to Wisconsin and national party matters and politics and to the Milwaukee Sentinel. Some letters of Senator Timothy O. Howe relate to the patronage aspects of the struggle between President Johnson and Congress. In the early 1870s, there are letters to Brigham in his capacity as a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, relating to the presidency of Dr. John H. Twombly. |
| Ross, Jerome, 1911- | Title: Jerome Ross Papers, 1949-1969
Quantity: 7.6 c.f. (19 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 92AN Abstract: Papers of Jerome Ross, a television and motion picture writer, consisting mainly of scripts, drafts, notes and research, and other production materials for over 40 television series with which Ross was involved. Most thoroughly documented is his writing for Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre (NBC), Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS and NBC), Bing Crosby Show (ABC), The Defenders (CBS), Dr. Kildare (NBC), I Remember Mama (CBS), NBC Matinee Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC), and Studio One (CBS). Two boxes contain similar, but less extensive materials pertaining to radio and motion pictures. |
| Leonard, Jerris, 1931- | Title: Jerris G. Leonard, Jr. Papers, 1956-1968
, 1998-2000
Quantity: 11.2 c.f. (28 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 115 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1958-1968, of a Republican state legislator who represented the northern Milwaukee suburbs in the Wisconsin Assembly (1957-1961) and Senate (1961-1969). The collection consists of correspondence to and from legislative colleagues, constituents, Milwaukee businessmen, lobbyists, and Republican Party leaders and an alphabetical subject file containing information about specific legislation, committee assignments, and investigations conducted by the senator. Among the well covered topics are budgets and taxes, the Governor's Commission on Human Rights and open housing, the Governor's Scholarship and Loan Committee, the Kellett governmental reorganization bill, alleged Communist influence of the Daily Cardinal, and pornography. Also included are copies of press releases, speeches and statements, and constituent newsletters and political correspondence relating to Leonard's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1968 and other Republican campaigns, the Senate Republican Caucus, and other political matters. Prominent correspondents include Raymond Bice, Ody Fish, Walter G. Hollander, Warren P. Knowles, Clifford Krueger, Gerald D. Lorge, John Mitchell, and F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. |
| Apps, Jerold W., 1934- | Title: Jerry Apps Papers, 1945-2022 (bulk 1967-2020)
Quantity: 40.6 cubic feet (37 record center cartons, 5 archives boxes, 2 half-archives boxes, 1 card file box, and 2 flat boxes), 125 audio recordings, 0.6 cubic feet of photographs (3 half-archives boxes), 1 compact disc of photographs, 16 video recordings (VHS), and 8 video recordings (DVD) Call Number: M2018-061; M2022-075; Audio 2065A Abstract: Papers of Jerry Apps, a writer and educator with a focus on rural Wisconsin, contain materials relating to books, instructional materials, speeches and presentations, correspondence, and material relating to the National Extension Leadership Development Program (NELDP). Book materials covering rural life and adult education include research, drafts, correspondence, reviews, and promotional and publicity materials. Instructional materials relate to courses in adult education and workshops on writing. Speeches and presentations relate to continuing education, extension programs, non-fiction writing, and rural Wisconsin which include speeches, presentation, program notes, and travel plans. The NELDP materials contain proposals, meeting information and planning, correspondence, and budget materials. Also includes personal journals, photographs, audio and video, as well as awards and nominations for writing and university service. |
| Austin, Jerry | Title: Jerry Austin Collection of Jandt/Yandt Family, Salzwedel Family, Affeldt Family, and Walter Family Papers, Physical Description: 0.8 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 069 Abstract: Jerry Austin, a family researcher from St. Paul, Minnesota, compiled research on six German immigrant families who settled in western Wisconsin including the Carl Jandt/Yandt (1837-1901) family, the Johann Jandt (1828-1911) family, the Herman Salzwedel (1834-1915) family, the William Salzwedel (1840-1919) family, the Emilie (Salzwedel) Affeldt (1843-1922) family, and the Joseph Walter (1839-1922) family. Materials in the collection include photocopies of family reports, correspondence, birth records, census records, death records, marriage records, obituaries, passenger lists, pictures, maps, and some information provided by family researchers in Germany. |
| Johnson, Jerry Peace Paper Project(Organization) | Title: Jerry Johnson Collection of Wisconsin Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
and Transgender Ephemera, 1978-2006
Peace Paper Project Records, 1999-2019
Quantity: 2.5 cubic ft. (6 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 253 Abstract: Collection of ephemera gathered by Jerry Johnson relating to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender populations in Wisconsin from the late 1970s to 2006. Most materials pertain to Milwaukee-area organizations and businesses. |
| McNeely, Jerry Clark | Title: Jerry McNeely Papers, 1953-1979
Quantity: 36.0 cubic feet (90 archives boxes) and 62 tape recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 148AN; Audio 1001A Abstract: Papers of Jerry McNeely, an educator and television writer. The papers document McNeely's work both as a writer and producer for television and as a University of Wisconsin-Madison speech professor, a role he gave up in 1975 to work full-time for MTM Enterprises. The majority of the papers are correspondence, outlines, variant drafts of scripts, production information, notes, tape-recorded episodes, and publicity for television specials and for series such as Dr. Kildare (NBC), Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC), Lucas Tanner (NBC), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (NBC), Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC), Owen Marshall: Counselor At Law (ABC), The Streets of San Francisco (ABC), Studio One (CBS), and Three for the Road (CBS). Other portions of the collection contain personal and professional correspondence, financial records, files on membership in ASCAP and the Screen Writers' Guild, lyrics, scripts for unproduced plays and motion pictures, and information on plays presented by the Wisconsin Players which McNeely produced while teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prominent correspondents include Jerry Bock, Norman Felton, John Simon, and McNeely's agent, Flora Roberts. |
| Covelli, Jerry O., 1913-2009 | Title: Jerry O. and Elinore Covelli Papers, 1941-2009
Quantity: 1.2 cubic feet (3 archives boxes) Call Number: UWP Manuscript Collection 28 Abstract: Personal papers of Jerry Covelli and his wife Elinore (nèe Vidakovic), including clippings, correspondence, biographical material, awards and personal belongings (especially from post-active duty military groups), and photographs. |
| Ross, Jerry, 1926-1955 | Title: Jerry Ross Papers, 1934-1955
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 91AN Abstract: Papers of composer and lyricist Jerry Ross, consisting of contracts and handwritten and printed copies of songs by Ross alone or in collaboration with Richard Adler. Most notable are the files on Damn Yankees (1950) and Pajama Game (1954). |
| Sondreal, Jerry, 1942- | Title: Jerry Sondreal Papers, 1961-1978
Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes), 6 photographs, 80 negatives, and 3 pieces of emphemera Call Number: River Falls Mss CE; PH River Falls Mss CE Abstract: Papers of the managing editor of the Amery Free Press, Amery, Wis., documenting his work with the newspaper, his service with the Peace Corps in the Philippines (1962-1964), and his community involvement. Papers pertaining to his Peace Corps service include letters from friends in the United States and the Philippines, official memos, training brochures, and photographs. Free Press records consist of reader mail, other correspondence, and clippings. Activity in community work is revealed through the subject file, which contains material on local schools and hospitals, and organizations. |
| Tecklin, Jerry | Title: Jerry Tecklin Papers, 1964
Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 538 Abstract: Papers of Jerry Tecklin, a civil rights worker in Mississippi for the Freedom Summer of 1964. The collection includes scattered correspondence, leaflets and flyers, freedom newsletters, and research material and reports. Tecklin worked in Sunflower and Bolivar Counties, and accumulated printed material; statistics, especially agricultural figures; political data; and hand-written notes about all aspects of life in the two counties. Using his research material, he wrote periodic reports which were submitted to the Atlanta office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. These reports and research material present detailed information about the Freedom Summer in Bolivar and Sunflower Counties. |
| Mecum, Jesse M., 1869-1957 | Title: Jesse M. Mecum Papers, 1898-1920
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss 2PB Abstract: Letters of scattered dates, an autobiographical sketch, account books, 1898-1916, and memoranda books kept by Jesse M. Mecum, a physician in Bagley, Wisconsin. |
| Smith, Jesse, 1785-1851 | Title: Jesse Smith Papers, 1816-1868
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Pennsylvania Mss E Abstract: Papers of Jesse Smith, a Pennsylvania Presbyterian minister and teacher. Included is family correspondence, 1816-1868, containing much genealogical information; diaries, 1816-1840; personal account books, 1820-1831, 1836; papers on legal cases and miscellaneous business papers; fifty-nine volumes of manuscript sermons delivered mainly in the 1820s and 1830s; and records of the Bethel and Ebenezer Presbyterian congregations in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 1822-1835. Smith was defrocked in 1834 on a charge of drunkenness. |
| Walker, Jesse T. | Title: Jesse T. Walker Papers, 1932, 1941-1964
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 97 Abstract: Papers of conservationist Jesse T. Walker, Baraboo, Wisconsin, including correspondence concerning the Citizens Natural Resources Association, the Gordon MacQuarrie Foundation, the Wisconsin Conservation Congress and its pollution committee, and general conservation topics. |
| Hooper, Jessie Jack, 1865-1935 | Title: Jessie Jack Hooper Papers, 1889-1935, 1971
Quantity: 6.2 c.f. (14 archives boxes, 1 flat box, 1 oversize folder), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and 44 photographs Call Number: Wis Mss IU; Micro 2093; PH 5-1483; PH Wis Mss IU; PH Wis Mss IU (3) Abstract: Papers, mainly 1920-1935, of Jessie Jack Hooper (Mrs. Benjamin Hooper), an Oshkosh, Wis., suffrage speaker, Democratic Party leader, and worker for permanent peace. The papers concern her work as the first president of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters and her later work as chairman of its department on Indian affairs; her campaign against Senator Robert M. La Follette in 1922; the split in the state Democratic Party over the Prohibition issue, and her work for other party candidates; and cooperation with the Wisconsin State Conference of Social Work and many other state and national social agencies and peace organizations. The bulk of the correspondence concerns her speaking tours and policy-forming work as chairman of the department of international relations of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1928-1932. There is additional correspondence with national and state officers relating to the League of Nations, the World Court, the Kellogg Pact, the Pan-American Treaties of Arbitration, and proposals for a neutrality bill. In addition there is information about the origin of the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War and Mrs. Hooper's work as recording secretary of its national committee, and chairman of its committee that took petitions to the World Disarmament Conference at Geneva, 1932. There are letters from women prominent in organizations all over the United States, including Carrie Chapman Catt, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Anna J. H. Pennybacker, Laura McMullen, and men and women active in state and national Democratic Party work. With these are copies of addresses and radio speeches, biographical material, miscellaneous organizational material, reports, and minutes of executive boards of the various organizations to which she belonged. There are also newspaper clippings (available only on microfilm), one unfilmed scrapbook concerning the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference, engagement books, and a volume containing a typewritten biography of Mrs. Hooper. The biography is also available on microfilm in the holdings of the SHSW Library. Hooper family papers include probate records, files of Ben Hooper pertaining to the development of Pau-ko-tuk on Lake Winnebago, and notes of Mrs. Hooper's daughter, Lorna Hooper Warfield, about her mother's career. Photographs received with the collection consist primarily of portraits and group pictures of various women's organizations to which Mrs. Hooper belonged, as well as a poster from her 1922 senatorial campaign. |
| Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee | Title: Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee Records, 1929-1977
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 flat box) and 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss DG; Milwaukee Micro 18; Micro 725 Abstract: Records of a Milwaukee community center, earlier known as the Milwaukee Jewish Mission, the Abraham Lincoln Settlement House, and the Milwaukee Jewish Center; including minutes, scrapbooks, and other administrative papers. |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Jewish Family and Children's Service Records, 1867-1973
Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 87 Abstract: Records of a Milwaukee social welfare organization which originally collected money and distributed it to the city's needy Jews, but expanded to include social work, job training, medical and dental services, immigrant resettlement, counseling, and care for emotionally disturbed children. Included are minutes, clippings, financial reports, case records, and organization histories; plus minutes (1893-1914) of the United Hebrew Charities; and annual reports, articles of organization, bylaws, and rules of order (1902-1925) of the Federated Jewish Charities of Milwaukee. |