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May family	Title: Tobias and Louisa May Family Records Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 011 Abstract: Records of the Tobias and Louisa May family, 1866-1891. All materials are in German.
- - -	Title: “Today” Films, 1979-1987 Quantity: 10 videocassettes Call Number: see list below Abstract: Segments from eight episodes of network television's first early morning program, Today, which aired on NBC beginning in January, 1952. The episodes held in the archives are primarily from the years 1979 and 1980 when Betty Rollin was being tested on the air to fill the position left by Barbara Walters when she exited the show. One of the episodes is from 1987. VBA 792-796 are 3/4" videocassettes in color with sound. All the other videotapes are 1/2" videocassettes in color with sound.
Gitlin, Todd, 1943-; Hollander, Nanci, 1943?-	Title: Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander Papers, 1961-1970 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 254 Abstract: Papers of student activists Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander including correspondence and subject files relating to his leadership of student peace and protest groups at Harvard and her participation in similar groups at the University of Michigan. Material on his presidency of SDS may be found in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) records, though this collection does include a draft and related correspondence and papers for Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (1970), which was based on their involvement with SDS's Jobs or Income Now project (JOIN). Much of the correspondence concerns TOCSIN, a disarmament organization at Harvard, its involvement with Turn Toward Peace, the Washington Action demonstration, and the senatorial campaign of H. Stuart Hughes in 1962. Prominent correspondents include Cyrus Eaton, Sanford Gottlieb, Jerome Grossman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacob K. Javits, Robert Kastenmeier, David Riesman, C. P. Snow, U Thant, and James A. Wechsler.
Kerry, Tom; Kerry, Karolyn	Title: Tom and Karolyn Kerry Papers, 1933-1983 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 301; Micro 2042 Abstract: Papers of Tom and Karolyn Kerry, leaders of the Socialist Workers Party: he as an editor and national organizer and she as a labor activist and party worker. Included are biographical information, a bibliography, correspondence, speeches and writings, and miscellany. Among the correspondence are exchanges with various SWP leaders including James Cannon (1938) and Farrell Dobbs (1950s) about internal party matters. Correspondence with George Breitman, Louis Sinclair, and others concerns articles for The Militant and the International Socialist Review. Also represented are the activities of socialist youth leader Tim Wohlforth and San Francisco union leader Nat Weinstein. There is one letter from Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. Personal correspondence documents Kerry's shipboard experiences within the International Seamen's Union (1939-1941) and Karolyn Kerry's friendship with the wives of other SWP leaders.
Curtis, Tom	Title: Tom Curtis Cartoons, 1968-1989 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. Call Number: M2004-006; M2005-022; M2006-006; M2007-042 Abstract: Original political cartoons created by Tom Curtis for the Milwaukee Sentinel and National Review representing national and international political issues.
Donovan, Tom	Title: Tom Donovan Papers, 1943-1974 Quantity: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 153AN Abstract: Papers of Tom Donavan, a television producer-director known for his work on dramatic anthologies and daytime serials. Of the many programs on which Donovan worked, the collection is best for CBS Daytime 90, Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC), Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (CBS), Love of Life (CBS), Studio One (CBS), United States Steel Hour (CBS), Where the Heart Is (CBS), and A World Apart (ABC). Types of documentation include correspondence, scripts, notes, budgets, set designs, photographs, and reviews. Other sections contain minutes and correspondence pertaining to his activities in the Directors Guild of America and miscellaneous correspondence with other professional organizations.
Kriegl, Tom University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Dairy Profitability	Title: Tom Kriegl collection of dairy publications Quantity: 5.50 cubic feet 4 record cartons and 1 letter document box Collection includes papers, perfect bound publications, and spiral bound publications. Call Number: uac57 Abstract: This collection contains publications and articles by Thomas S. (Tom) Kriegl, the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Great Lakes Grazing Network, among others. Articles and publications relate to dairy cows, dairy farms, organic dairy production, and finances/profitability.
Kristensen, Tom, 1893-1974	Title: Tom Kristensen papers Quantity: .25 cubic feet 1 half letter document box Collection contains paper materials and some bound items all within folders Call Number: MS 589 Abstract: Various writings by Tom Kristensen, a Danish poet and author who lived from 1893 to 1974. Most of the materials are handwritten poems, notes regarding the poems, and other manuscripts. Also included are some published poems, and some small bound volumes with poem or story drafts inside.
Luljak, Tom, compiler	Title: Tom Luljak Collection of WTMJ Records, circa 1949-circa 1991 (bulk 1976-1991) Quantity: 4.4 cubic feet (11 archives boxes and 2 oversize folders), 0.3 cubic feet of photographs (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder), 13 film reels (16 mm) (4 cans), 5 video recordings (2-inch), 14 audio discs (12-inch), and 18 audio discs (16-inch) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 232; PH 7083; CD 279-CD 281; FH 459; VAA 105-VAA 109; Audio 1962A Abstract: Collection of WTMJ Records, mostly from 1976 to 1991, are materials compiled by Tom Luljak during his tenure working for WTMJ-TV, WTMJ-AM and WKTI-FM as a broadcast journalist as well as news director. The records include station evening news lists of stories and scripts, subject files, procedures and policies of the stations, awards, photographs, news film outtakes and a news feature entitled “Faces: German.” Also includes audio recordings from the 1950s of radio broadcasts. Some of the materials appear to have been created by Luljak, including the subject files.
Lux, Tom	Title: Tom Lux Papers, 1971-1979 Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) and 1 audio recording Call Number: M2016-018; Audio 1768A Abstract: Papers of Tom Lux, a former officer of A.O. Smith Steelworkers Local 19806 and former chairman of the Rank and File Action Committee and co-editor of Rank and File News. While serving on the Nominating Committee of Local 19806, Lux, along with Jim Siesenopp, was removed from office on a charge of having been members of the Communist Party. The papers consist of records of the negotiating committee, newsletters and memos of the Rank and File Action Committee, and correspondence, notes, and court documents relating to the lawsuit brought by Lux and Siesenopp against the Union. Also included is a sound recording of an interview of Lux conducted by Mike Heard in 1974 discussing the involvement and impact of the Rank and File Caucus.
Mohr, Tom, 1923-	Title: Tom Mohr Papers, 1950-1964 Quantity: .4 cubic ft. (1 box) 1 oversize folder Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 241 Abstract: Pamphlets, brochures, booklets, and other instructional materials related to the Milwaukee Bureau of Civil Defense, the Home Defense Corps, medical care and emergency preparedness and evacuation. The collection was accumulated by Tom Mohr, who served as a block warden/instructor for the Milwaukee Bureau of Civil Defense with his wife.
Shick, Tom W	Title: Tom Shick papers Quantity: 27 Linear Feet 25 record cartons, 1 document box, and 3 media boxes. Collection includes mostly paper records, but also includes magnetic tape, cassette tapes, and other audiovisual formats. Call Number: Accession 2004/080 Abstract: Tom W. Shick was a professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received both his Masters and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing his research on Civil Rights in the United States and on Liberia, its social and economic history and colonization. He is the author of Behold the Promised Land: A History of Afro-American Settler Society in Nineteenth Century Liberia; Emigrants to Liberia, 1820 to 1843: An Alphabetical Listing; and South Carolina Phosphate Boom and the Stillbirth of the New South, 1867-1920. This collection includes various materials such as notes, lectures, manuscripts, course materials, sound recordings, University materials, and personal correspondence which date from 1960-1999.
Shick, Tom W.	Title: Tom W. Shick Collected Papers, 1966-1976 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 609 Abstract: Photocopied papers concerning civil rights and black history collected during the 1960s and 1970s by Shick, a professor in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Included are files on the alleged conspiracy to assassinate Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young in Jamaica, New York in 1967; the 1972 Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana; the Institute of the Black World; Nairobi College, an alternative school in California; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee position papers, primarily letters and statements by James Forman on the relationship between the black American movement and Africa, 1966-1967; near-print material on the Soledad Brothers and the Venceremos Brigade; and the campaign of Warren Widener for mayor of Berkeley, California.
Waller, Tom, 1900- ; United Artists Corporation	Title: Tom Waller Files: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 5D, 1942-1947 Quantity: 3.2 cubic feet (8 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AN/5D Abstract: Press releases, biographies of stars and reviews of films, and correspondence with agents, advertising firms, United Artists and production company personnel from the files of Tom Waller, publicity manager of United Artists from 1945 to 1947, and the files of his predecessor Jimmie Dunn.
Weston, Tom, 1948-1985	Title: Tom Weston Papers, 1976-1984 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 729 Abstract: Personal papers of a media historian, writer, and host (born Thomas Wisniewski) for several nationally-broadcast PBS television programs produced by WHA-TV from 1977 through 1985. Included are notes, student papers, and working files on an uncompleted dissertation on The Twilight Zone which document work as a student of mass communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and additional notes, teaching materials, plays, and production information which pertains to his professional activities as a writer, instructor, and producer.
Tomahawk Investment Club (La Crosse, Wis.)	Title: Tomahawk Investment Club Records, 1955-1984 Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box) Call Number: La Crosse Mss BH Abstract: Records of the Tomahawk Investment Club, a La Crosse, Wisconsin investment club and its successor, Tomahawk II (1955-1981, 1982-), documenting the financial and social aspects of club membership. Included are articles of agreement, correspondence, financial statements, membership and attendance records, minutes and investment committee recommendations, and evaluations of the club's financial standing by the National Association of Investment Clubs.
Comics Cousins TOMBOY [Digitized content]	Title: TOMBOY Composition Book collection Quantity: 0.5 Linear Feet One letter document box Three volumes Call Number: uac196 Abstract: This collection includes three composition notebooks by UW-Madison student TOMBOY, also known as Moonie, filled with assignments from the courses Making Comics 1, Making Comics 2, and Images, the first two taught by Jeff Butler and the third taught by Lynda Barry. Assignments include daily diary comics, X page stories, drawing yourself as batman, and drawing strangers as animals. The composition books exemplify how students in these courses often turn their composition books into a scrapbook and a record of their daily lives, pasting newspaper clippings, photographs, stickers and other artifacts on the pages and adding additional sketches. The diaries include entries discussing the author's college life, childhood experiences, and identity.
ZIV Television (Firm)	Title: “Tombstone Territory” Films: ZIV-TV Productions, United Artists Corporation Records, 1959-1960 Quantity: 91 film reels Call Number: DB 804-DB 894 Abstract: Ninety-one episodes of Tombstone Territory, a half-hour western series that ran on ABC and in syndication from 1959 to 1960, about the exploits of Harris Clayton, editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, as he attempts to establish peace through the power of the press. All the films are 16 mm prints in black and white with sound. Each episode is approximately 950 feet long.
Thompson, Tommy George, 1941-	Title: Tommy Thompson Papers, 1967-1986, 1989, 1991, 2000-2005 Quantity: 20.2 cubic feet, 1 tape recording, 1 videorecording, and 21 compact discs Call Number: M85-516; M86-049; M87-064; Audio 1942A; M99-019; M2008-117 Abstract: Papers of Tommy Thompson, an Elroy, Wisconsin, Republican Assemblyman, 1966-1986, who was elected Governor in 1986 and appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush in 2001.
Sender, Toni, 1888-1964	Title: Toni Sender Papers, 1934-1964 Quantity: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes) and 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: U.S. Mss BA; Micro 510 Abstract: Papers, 1934-1964, of Toni Sender, a United States labor activist who was the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' delegate to the United Nations. Included is correspondence; diaries; and reports, memos, and speeches relating to her work as director of European labor research for the Office of Strategic Services, 1941-1944; senior economist for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944-1946; and consultant to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, 1946-1956. The collection contains information on displaced persons, forced labor, economic affairs in Austria and Czechoslovakia particularly, and German labor personalities. Significant correspondents include Herbert Morrison, Herta Gotthelf, Paul Löbe, Fritz Heine, Wilhelm Sander, Julius Braunthal, and William Green. Also present are minutes of the International League for the Rights of Man, drafts of Sender's Autobiography of a German Rebel describing her experiences as a German citizen and Reichstag member before Hitler's rise, and other biographical material.
Baéz, Tony, 1948-	Title: Tony Baéz Papers, 1968-2008 Quantity: 27.8 cubic feet (70 archives boxes), 15 photographs and 8 CD-ROMs (1 archives box), 3 tape recordings, and 53 videorecordings Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 8; PH Milwaukee Mss 8; Audio 1475A; VBC 122-VBC 124; VHA 926-VHA 975 Abstract: Papers of Tony Baéz, a leader of Milwaukee's Hispanic community, 1968-2008. Includes files relating to his work at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Most of these materials are associated with bilingual education, or other alternative educational programs, including Milwaukee's South Division High School. Other materials include his work with schools and districts outside of the Milwaukee area, including Hostos Community College in New York City. Files pertaining to his involvement in educational and Hispanic organizations are also included, as are research and writings on these subjects by both Baéz and other authors. The collection also contains numerous VHS tapes of a local PBS television show co-hosted by Baéz titled Adelante.
Hedengren, Torsten R.	Title: Torsten R. Hedengren Papers, 1820-1941 Quantity: 2.4 cubic ft. (6 boxes) Call Number: Local History Manuscript Collection 353 Abstract: Torsten R. Hedengren was born in Finland and came to the United States in 1913. After two years in New York, he was hired by Nordberg Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a diesel design engineer. He fostered Scandinavian and U.S. yachting interests and was involved in bringing the Scandinavian Gold Cup Race to the United States in 1927. Most of this collection contains correspondence, documents and drafts relating to Hedengren’s research on the history of the Queen’s Cup.
Tousey Family	Title: Tousey Family Collection, 1979-1993 Quantity: 12.4 c.f. (12 record center cartons and 1 archives box) Call Number: M97-132 Abstract: Papers collected by members of the Tousey family concerning the research and writing of a petition seeking Federal recognition of the Brothertown Indian Nation of Wisconsin as a sovereign nation. Olivia Christine Nowell Tousey and Philip George Tousey, Sr. played an active role in this process through their leadership of various committees and in tribal government.
Town and Gown Club (Madison, Wisconsin)	Title: Town and Gown Club Records, 1894-1987 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 flat boxes) Call Number: M87-315 Abstract: Records of the Town and Gown Club, an all-male club founded in 1878 whose members included University of Wisconsin professors and administrators, state governors, and other prominent Madison men, consisting mainly of bound volumes of meeting minutes, 1894-1987. Held fortnightly on Saturday evenings at members’ homes, meetings generally consisted of a dinner, a short paper on some topic of the day, and an informal discussion. Also included are membership lists, some correspondence, and a copy of the Golden Anniversary of the Town and Gown, 1878-1928.
Carson (Portage County, Wis.: Town)	Title: Town of Carson, Wisconsin, Records, circa 1858-1933 Quantity: 1.0 cubic feet (2 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: Portage Series 93 Abstract: Records consist of town supervisors meeting minutes, 1858-1906, clerk record books covering all aspects of town business, 1895-1915, miscellaneous treasurers records, 1920-1931, and highway records, 1870-1933.
Joint School District No. 7, Town of Clear Creek and Otter Creek (Eau Claire County, Wis.)	Title: Town of Clear Creek and Otter Creek School District, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, Records, 1874-1959 Quantity: 1.6 cubic feet (4 archives boxes); plus additions of 0.1 cubic feet (1 volume) Call Number: Eau Claire Series 131 Abstract: Records consisting of clerk's record books including school district and school board meeting minutes, 1902-1959; financial records, 1876-1959; and teacher's registers, 1874-1957. Clerk records generally include meeting minutes, teachers' contracts, registers of school officers, register of orders drawn, annual reports and censuses which give student names and ages. Financial record books typically contain yearly financial statements, and cash receipts/disbursements. Teachers' registers and attendance books generally contain student names, ages and grades, curriculum information and visitor logs.
Granville (Wis.)	Title: Town of Granville Records, 1842-1963 Quantity: 8.2 cubic ft. (20 boxes) 28 volumes 45 oversize folders Call Number: City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 10 Abstract: Records of the Town of Granville, which was annexed by the City of Milwaukee in 1956. Contains meeting minutes, tax information, financial records, correspondence, and materials on schools and streets.
Isabelle (Pierce County, Wis.: Town)	Title: Town of Isabelle, Pierce County, Wisconsin, Records, 1859-1961 Quantity: 1.4 cubic feet (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Pierce Series 162 Abstract: Records of the Town of Isabelle, including one volume from the village of Bay City. Includes minutes of town meetings, financial records, and records from the Board of Health.
Lake (Wis.)	Title: Town of Lake Records, 1842-1960 Quantity: 2.4 cubic ft. (6 boxes) 29 volumes 3 oversize folders Call Number: City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 15 Abstract: Records from the Town of Lake, Wisconsin, primarily dealing with its consolidation and annexation to the City of Milwaukee. Contains meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, maps, and litigation files.
McMillan (Marathon County, Wis.: Town). Assessor	Title: Town of McMillan, Marathon County, Wisconsin, Assessment Rolls, 1890-1940 Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet (19 volumes) Call Number: Marathon Series 8 Abstract: Assessment rolls covering both real property and personal property. Rolls show name of property owner, legal description of real property (including land and improvements); classification of taxable personal property; assessed valuation of real and personal property; and taxes levied. This series consists of a volume for every year 1890-1900 and every fifth year thereafter through 1940.
Milwaukee (Milwaukee County, Wis.: Town)	Title: Town of Milwaukee Records, 1835-1955 Quantity: 20.1 cubic feet (47 archives boxes, 48 volumes, and 6 folders) and 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Milwaukee Series 5; Milwaukee Micro Series 5; Milwaukee Series 9; Milwaukee Series 30; Milwaukee Series 31; Milwaukee Series 34; Milwaukee Micro Series 6 Abstract: Records maintained by the Town Clerk, Treasurer, Assessor, and other officers for the Town of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. The town was created in 1838 and disappeared as a legal entity in 1955. Records document both the evolving forms and functions of town government and the transition of this local area from a sparsely settled agricultural frontier to a distinctly urban and suburban region.
New Hope (Portage County, Wis.: Town)	Title: Town of New Hope Records, 1856-1969 Quantity: 3.0 cubic feet (7 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: Portage Series 89 Abstract: Town of New Hope records contain materials from the Board of Supervisors (1856-1914), the Town Clerk (1866-1945), and the Treasurer (1858-1962). The documents consist of minutes, financial records, and school district reports and maps. Also includes documents on the 1864 enlistment of Civil War volunteers, as well as documents related to highway and road development administered by the Overseer of Highways and Highway Supervisor.
Wauwatosa (Wis.)	Title: Town of Wauwatosa Records, 1885-1957 Quantity: 2.7 cubic ft. (7 boxes) 17 oversize folders 80 volumes Call Number: City of Milwaukee Archival Collection 14 Abstract: Records for the Town (and later City) of Wauwatosa. Collection contains annexation materials, meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, maps, and tax rolls.