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Boyum, Sid (Sidney), 1913-1991, artist and collector; Friends of Sid Boyum, compiler |
Title: Sid Boyum Collection, circa 1900-2018 (bulk 1950s-1980s)
Quantity: 6.0 cubic feet of mixed visual materials (8 oversize boxes), 0.4 cubic feet of posters and drawings (4 oversize folders), 2.0 cubic feet of photographic materials (4 card boxes, 2 binders, 3 archives boxes), 7 reels of film (16 mm), and 1.4 cubic feet of manuscript materials (4 archives boxes) Call Number: PH 6986; AE 726-AE 729; CD 343-CD 344; DG 356; Mss 1213 Abstract: The Sid Boyum Collection, mostly from the 1950s to the 1980s, consists of mixed materials created and collected by Sid Boyum, a cartoonist, commercial graphic artist, industrial photographer and advertising artist for Gisholt Machine Company, and a neighborhood outsider artist largely known for sculpture. The collection primarily contains photographic materials representing his diverse range of artistic talent and production, and documents his active professional and personal life in and around Madison. Visual materials include Boyum's commercial, non-commercial, and cartoon designs in genres such as mechanicals, drawings, paintings, and posters, as well as greeting cards and invitations for area businesses, attractions, and seasonal events. Also includes biographical papers, a photograph album, personal and professional correspondence, writings, and industrial trade magazines, brochures on Gisholt products, clippings, and tear sheets featuring Boyum's art. Some Gisholt materials appear to have been created by other artists, and other artworks are by known and unknown creators. Also includes filmstrips on Gisholt product promotion and films on Boyum's personal life. Additional materials compiled by the non-profit group, Friends of Sid Boyum, document Boyum's sculpture re-location project. |
| Knight, Sidney Clark, collector | Title: Sidney Clark Knight Film Collection, 1943-1978
Quantity: 443 film reels (16 mm) Call Number: CA 900; CA 933; DD 175-DD 176; DD 212; DD 244-DD 246; DD 279-DD 280; DD 294-DD 297; DD 318-DD 320; DD 322-DD 323; DD 398-DD 399; DD 405-DD 407; DD 485-DD 486; DD 490-DD 493; DD 495-DD 496; DD 505; DD 517-DD 519; DD 528-DD 530; DD 544-DD 546; DD 572-DD 573; DD 575-DD 577; DD 584-DD 593; DD 605-DD 613; DD 616-DD 618; DE 132-DE 133; FB 626-FB 627; FE 259-FE 261; FE 335-FE 337; FE 380-FE 382; FE 389-FE 390; FE 400-FE 404; FE 413-FE 415; FE 430-FE 434; FE 442-FE 443; FE 445-FE 446; FE 450-FE 457; FE 460-FE 467; FE 476-FE 477; FE 479-FE 481; FE 485; FE 487-FE 489; FE 493-FE 500; FE 503-FE 504; FE 511-FE 514; FE 517-FE 527; FE 532-FE 534; FE 538-FE 544; FE 582-FE 586; FE 591-FE 596; FE 627-FE 636; FE 648-FE 655; FE 675-FE 680; FE 721-FE 723; FE 730-FE 760; FE 773-FE 808; FE 813-FE 820; FE 824-FE 837; FE 840-FE 851; FE 855-FE 872; FE 875-FE 879; FE 885-FE 898; FE 902-FE 949; FE 954-FE 960; FE 963-FE 966; FE 969-FE 970; FE 975-FE 977; FE 988-FE 996; FF 002-FF 010; FF 013-FF 014; FF 025-FF 027; FF 036-FF 038; FF 044-FF 045; FF 062; FF 066-FF 070; FF 593-FF 594; HA 792-HA 797 Abstract: 187 shorts, television episodes, and feature films donated by life-long film collector Sidney Clark Knight of Southfield, Michigan. |
| Wells, Sidney D., 1885-1954 | Title: Sidney D. Wells Papers, 1904-1953
Quantity: 8.8 c.f. (22 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 264 Abstract: Papers of Sidney D. Wells, a chemical engineer and inventor involved primarily in pulp and paper making processes. Though he did frequent consultant work, most of his professional career was spent working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.; Paper Mill Laboratories, Quincy, Ill.; Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company, Port Edwards, Wis.; Central Fibre Products Company; Combined Locks Paper Company, Appleton, Wis.; and the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, Wis. The papers concern Wells' professional activities and are often very technical in nature. They include correspondence, reports, reprints of his writings, patents and accounts of the operations they cover, and paper samples. Correspondents include William Leonard Symons and John D. Rue. |
| Peck, Sidney M. (Sidney Morris), 1926- | Title: Sidney M. Peck Papers, 1946-1988
Quantity: 9.0 cubic feet (23 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder), 17 tape recordings, and 4 photographs Call Number: Mss 845; Audio 1280A; PH Mss 845 Abstract: Papers of social activist and academic sociologist Sidney Peck, documenting his involvement in the anti-Vietnam war movement; anti-nuclear, disarmament, and peace movements; as well as his recorded discussions with labor union shop stewards, made in the course of research on working-class consciousness for his University of Wisconsin doctoral dissertation (1959) and subsequent book, The Rank and File Leader (1963). Over half of the collection consists of FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and materials relating to hearings and court cases involving Peck which grew out of the FOIA. Correspondence, clippings, speeches, conference reports and resolutions, oral history interviews and other tape recordings, posters, and photographs constitute the remainder of the collection. |
| Harrington, Sidney N. | Title: Sidney N. Harrington Diary, 1837-1839
Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: SC 322 Abstract: Diary and log kept by Sidney N. Harrington, navigator on the United States battleship North Carolina, on a cruise from Virginia to Peru and back to New York. Included are accounts of weather, revolutions, a siege of the port of Callao, and naval life and discipline. Also included are miscellaneous verses, drawings, essays, and some entries by others, some made in earlier or later years. |
| Sheldon, Sidney | Title: Sidney Sheldon Papers, 1963-1968
Quantity: 12.2 c.f. (31 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 72AN Abstract: Papers of a television writer, producer, playwright, and author. The collection concerns both produced and unproduced television shows and includes pilots, final drafts, scripts, holographs, story synopses, call sheets, cast and crew lists, censor reports, correspondence, and shooting schedules. Television series represented in the collection are The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie, and Nancy. For the unproduced television shows there are scripts, holographs, notes, and casting materials for “The Connie Stevens Show” and “The Flip Wilson Show” (not the popular version first televised in September 1970). The collection also contains drafts, holographs, and notes for a published novel, The Naked Face; an unproduced play, “King of New York;” and a produced play, Roman Candle. |
| Sidran, Ben | Title: Sidran (Ben) collection Quantity: 115 Linear Feet 194 storage boxes, 4 photographic slide albums, 1 14-inch audiotape reel. Collection includes: books; journal issues; paper files; letters; business cards; newspaper clippings; music scores; sheet music; photographic prints; photographic negatives; photographic slides; posters; flyers; album cover artwork; audiotape reels; audio cassettes; CDs; DAT cassettes; MiniDiscs; Digital 8 cassettes; DA-8 cassettes; Vinyl LPs; Vinyl 45 singles; 78 recordings; 8-Track cartridges; Videotape reels; U-Matic video cassettes; Betacam video cassettes; D2 video cassettes; VHS cassettes; DVDs; LaserDiscs; DVCAM video cassettes; MiniDV video cassettes; text files; TIFFs; JPEGs; PDFs; MP3s. Call Number: mml023 Abstract: The Ben Sidran Collection contains print records and audiovisual recordings related to the career of Ben Sidran, a Madison-based jazz pianist, singer, music producer, writer, and television and radio presenter. |
| Sierra Club Upper Mississippi River Task Force | Title: Sierra Club Upper Mississippi River Task Force Records, 1969-1976
Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss CM Abstract: Records of the Sierra Club Upper Mississippi River Task Force, an environmental group organized by local Sierra Club chapters in response to perceived inadequacies of H.R. 10529, a bill sponsoring a National Recreation Area in the Upper Mississippi River Valley. The correspondence includes letters between Task Force members and from other interested parties to the Task Force. Subject files contain correspondence, reports, studies, surveys, minutes, memos, proposed legislation, meeting notices, and pamphlets of the Task Force and other environmental and non-environmental groups involved with the same issues. The collection also contains correspondence and subject files concerning the St. Croix River inclusion in the National Scenic and Wild River System, and other Mississippi River environmental issues. |
| Sierra Club. Coulee Region Group. | Title: Sierra Club, Coulee Region Group Executive Committee Meeting Minutes Quantity: 0.02 cubic foot (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 266 |
| Sierra Club. John Muir Chapter | Title: Sierra Club, John Muir Chapter Records, 1959-2011
Quantity: 24.3 cubic feet (24 records center cartons, 1 archives box, and 1 oversize folder) and 0.1 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder) Call Number: M2015-003 Abstract: Records of the John Muir Chapter of the Sierra Club in Madison, Wisconsin, consisting principally of the files of Caryl Terrell who was the Chapter Director and Lobbyist from 1983 through 2006. She volunteered on the Global Warming Solutions Team from 2009 until 2011 and has volunteered as the Legislative Chair since 2006. The administrative files consist of committee files including minutes, meeting materials, policies, action alerts, agendas, correspondence, strategic planning, conservation campaigns, legislative issues, E.J. Fellowship, environmental education, chapter history, events, groups and print materials. The subject files include topics such as air pollution, allies/collaborative efforts, concentrated animal feeding operations, energy, EQ conformity, federal conservation funding, forestry, green space, land use, legislative issues, mercury, mining, recycling, rivers, sewage, transportation, toxics, water, wastewater/groundwater, Great Lakes, wetlands, and wildlife. |
| Sierra Club. Midwest Office (Madison, Wis.) | Title: Sierra Club, Midwest Office (Madison, Wisconsin) Records, 1971-2005
Quantity: 120.8 cubic feet, 4 negatives, 10 photographs, 44 slides, 49 videorecordings, and 101 audio recordings Call Number: M91-089; M93-226; M96-063; M2000-106; M2001-031; M2008-077; Audio 1493A Abstract: Records of the Midwest Office of the Sierra Club, the Club's first regional office, established in 1972. Significant because of the large number of midwestern elected officials on key congressional committees, the records reflect the organization's influence on major environmental legislation since its founding, and document lobbying efforts and grass roots organizing on environmental issues of regional and national importance. Included are surveys, studies, transcripts of hearings, reports, correspondence, position papers, and clippings relating to specific projects, and files concerning the Sierra Club's Committee on Political Education (COPE). |
| Gissler, Sig | Title: Sig Gissler Papers, 1967-1993
Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 4 archives boxes), 8 tape recordings, 23 photographs, and 35 transparencies Call Number: M96-251; Audio 1884A Abstract: Papers of journalist Sig Gissler, editor at the Milwaukee Journal from 1967 until 1993 when he became an associate professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. The papers document Mr. Gissler’s career and include information about the Journal's guidelines and policies on covering controversial issues such as abortion and race relations; ethical issues in newspaper reporting; strategic planning by Journal executives; labor relations at the paper; the changing nature of newspapers and newspaper readers, and the Journal's reaction to these changes. |
| Mickelson, Sig, 1913-2000 | Title: Sig Mickelson Papers, 1947-1975
Quantity: 15.0 c.f. (15 record center cartons) and 39 tape recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 152AF; Tape 585A Abstract: Partially processed personal and professional papers of a broadcasting executive and journalism educator. Professional papers include subject files and correspondence amassed during Mickelson's employment with CBS News (1943-1961), Time-Life Broadcast, Inc. (1961-1973), and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University (1973-1975). Personal papers consist of correspondence about his book The Electric Mirror: Politics in an Age of Television (1972) and speeches, articles, and subject files relating to the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the International Broadcast Institute, the National News Council, and communication satellites. |
| Sigma Epsilon Sigma. Alpha Chapter (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) | Title: Sigma Epsilon Sigma, Alpha Chapter Records, 1937-1983
Quantity: .4 cubic ft. (1 box) 1 oversize folder Call Number: UWM Archival Collection 111 Abstract: Miscellaneous records of the UWM Chapter of Sigma Epsilon Sigma, a national freshman honor society. The collection contains a copy of the 1937 charter, constitution, membership cards and lists, initiation and chapter activity information, correspondence, financial statements, and other miscellaneous materials. |
| Schultz, Sigrid, 1893-1980 | Title: Sigrid Schultz Papers, 1835-1980
Quantity: 17.4 cubic feet (51 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), 1 tape recording, 814 photographs, 30 postcards, 1 photostat, and 13 color plates; plus additions of 1909 photographs, 92 negatives, and 1 reel of film (16 mm) Call Number: Mss 677; PH 3750-PH 3754; PH 3813-PH 3815; Audio 1009A; Micro 777; AE 878; M91-057 Abstract: Papers documenting the personal and business life of Sigrid Schultz, an American-born foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune who served as bureau chief in Berlin from 1926 to 1941, and was an author, radio broadcaster, and lecturer. Included also are materials generated by her parents, Hermann and Hedwig Schultz, and by her maternal forebears, the Jaskewitz family. Extensive correspondence includes family exchanges; letters from colleagues and friends such as Hans von Kaltenborn, Louis Lochner, William Shirer, and Wallace Deuel; and business letters to and from the Tribune's controversial owner, Col. Robert McCormick, and colleagues such as Floyd Gibbons, Richard Henry Little, J. Loy Maloney, Joseph Pierson, George Seldes, and George Scharschug. Other professional records document Schultz's involvement with the Overseas Press Club. The Jaskewitz family materials include correspondence and papers about their theatrical and musical work in Germany. Photographs include images of the Schultz family and friends, circa 1890-1976. |
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Olson, Sigurd F., 1899-1982; Olson, Elizabeth, 1897-1994 |
Title: Sigurd F. and Elizabeth Olson Papers, 1916-2003
Quantity: 9.0 cubic feet (23 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 3.8 cubic feet of photographs (9 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 tube), 6 videorecordings, 17 tape recordings, 1 film, and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Northland Mss 19; PH Northland Mss 19; PH 6614; AD 577; VHA 920-VHA 925; Audio 1468A; Northland Micro 2104; M2010-105 Abstract: Papers, 1916-2003, of Sigurd Ferdinand Olson, a nationally-known conservation advocate, outdoorsman, and writer who was raised in Ashland, Wisconsin, but lived in Ely, Minnesota during most of his adult life. The collection consists primarily of personal and family correspondence. Olson's literary career is also represented, including editorial correspondence, notes for public speaking and teaching, and book manuscripts for Listening Point (1958) and Of Time and Place (1982). Personal papers of his wife, Elizabeth Uhrenholdt Olson, are also included. Photographs document canoe trips in Minnesota and Canada, family life in Ely and Ashland, professional activities, and post-World War II conditions in Europe. |
| AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACTUP). Wright, Janet | Title: Silence=Death poster Quantity: 1.46 cubic feet 1 oversize box Collection includes a framed poster. Call Number: Accession 2015/347 Abstract: Collection consists of one poster. The text on the poster reads: "Why is Reagan silent about AIDS? What is really going on at the Center for Disease Control, the Federal Drug Administration and the Vatican? Gays and lesbians are not expendable… Use your power… Vote… Defend yourselves… Turn anger, fear, grief into action." |
| Litvak, Simi H. | Title: Simi H. Litvak Papers, 1961-1993
Quantity: 6.0 c.f. (6 record center cartons) Call Number: M2004-159 Abstract: Papers, primarily from the 1970s and 1980s, of Simi Litvak, an activist involved in various leftist political organizations in Madison, Wisconsin, and the San Francisco Bay area. The papers consist of correspondence, memos, notes, and materials related to various ideologies, causes, and events. Organizations documented include the communist organization Line of March and its publication Frontline as well as its national Marxist-Leninist Education Project, the United States Anti-Imperialist League, and the Madison Common Sense Coalition. Also included are materials relating to Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns, gay and women’s rights, and labor issues. |
| Sherman, Simon Augustus, 1824-1906 | Title: Simon Augustus Sherman Papers, 1848-1906
Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Wis Mss CF; Micro 71 Abstract: Reminiscences, diaries, and notes kept by Simon Augustus Sherman, a Portage County, Wisconsin, pioneer settler and lumberman. Included are typewritten copies of notebooks in which he recorded interviews with other pioneers, his own recollections of persons and events in the region, and meetings of pioneer societies; and excerpts copied from Portage County archives. Filed with these transcripts are a few pages of excerpts from Sherman's diaries for the years 1848-1872. The reminiscences written in 1866 describe Sherman's boyhood in Massachusetts, his experiences as a factory mechanic, and his journey to Plover, Wisconsin, where he engaged in lumber rafting on the Wisconsin River and operated a planing mill. He also includes some genealogical data and a discussion of spiritualism with descriptions of seances in which he participated in 1851. |
| Sinai Samaritan Medical Center | Title: Sinai Samaritan Medical Center Records, 1835-2013
Quantity: 58.4 cubic ft. (85 boxes) 5 oversize folders 1 audio reel 19 audio cassettes 6 videocassettes Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 108 Abstract: Records of Sinai Samaritan Medical Center and its predecessor institutions, Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Evangelical Deaconess School of Nursing, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse, Milwaukee Hospital, the Milwaukee Lutheran Hospital, the Milwaukee Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing. Most of the records are from the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital and the Milwaukee Hospital; each of these series include annual, department, and statistical reports, property records, news clippings, and staff newsletters. The collection contains an extensive number of visual materials (photographs, safety film negatives, slides, and lantern slides) of buildings, staff, and facilities. The collection also contains records of the auxiliaries include minutes of meetings, newsletters, and photographs. The records of the schools of nursing include commencement programs, yearbooks, student records, photographs, class notes of students, and alumnae newsletters. |
| Singer Manufacturing Company | Title: Singer Manufacturing Company Records, 1850-circa 1975
Quantity: 90.0 cubic feet (192 archives boxes, 11 flat boxes, 1 card box) and 579 reels of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: U.S. Mss AI; Micro 703; Micro 2002; Micro 2013; Micro 2014; Micro 2019; Micro 2020 Abstract: Records of the sewing-machine manufacturing company founded by Isaac M. Singer in 1851. The processed portion of the collection consists mainly of nineteenth century records, a large quantity of which is available only on microfilm. Included are historical materials, incorporation records, outgoing and incoming administrative correspondence, advertising materials and publications, subject files, and legal and financial records. The outgoing correspondence (primarily 1877 to 1924) covers many aspects of the company's business and includes letters dating from the presidencies of George McKenzie, Frederick G. Bourne, and Douglas Alexander that concern domestic and foreign management policy and routine administrative matters. Legal records and correspondence, 1846-1906, pertain to patents, litigation, and contracts. Subject files include circular letters; examiners' reports on company problems; and traveling notebooks of company executives. There are also extensive files about losses experienced in Russia following the 1917 Revolution, in Central Europe during the 1930s and 1940s, and in Japan and Germany during World War II. A large quantity of nineteenth century financial records, the majority of which are available only on microfilm, pertain to overall financial operations as monitored by the New York City office and to the operations at the Elizabethport, New Jersey factory. A few records and letterbooks relate to subsidiary companies or companies acquired by Singer such as the Wheeler and Wilson Company, the Morley Sewing Machine Company, and the National Machine Company. |
| Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity (Fond du Lac, Wis.) | Title: Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity Records, 1882-1976
Quantity: 11 reels of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Micro 753; Oshkosh Micro 14; Green Bay Micro 23 Abstract: Records of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity (SHN), an Episcopal women's order based in Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; and after 1905 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, working primarily with parish education, including Sunday school and parochial school, as well as with emergency and routine relief work. The records include general correspondence from the first forty years of the order's existence, pertaining to the founding of the order, relations with other church bodies, activities of scattered missions, and rules and regulations. The bulk of the collection is made up of diaries with entries pertaining to the members' activities such as attending mass, travel, routine chores, acceptance of new postulants, matters of concern to friends and acquaintances of the sisters, and retreats. A portion of the diaries contains similar information pertaining to activities at the Mission House on the Oneida Indian Reservation in Brown and Outagamie counties, Wisconsin, 1926-1935, 1943-1944. |
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Milwaukee Journal; Milwaukee Sentinel |
Title: Six Decades of News Collection, 1976
Quantity: 0.6 cubic ft. (3 boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 43 Abstract: This collection contains copies of 192 of the 250 photos that appeared in the exhibit Six Decades: The News in Pictures. They were exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Center from February 6th through March 21st, 1976. The photos were taken by Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel staff photographers between 1912 and 1975. |