Ruth Kriehn Papers, 1897-1989

Contents List

Container Title
Series: 1. Family and Friends, 1890-1961
Scope and Content Note: Family and Friends series includes research, records, photographs, newspaper clippings and handwritten notes on various branches of the Waters and Hays families. The research is mostly Florence’s but also some compiled by her mother Josephine. Prominent names mentioned are William Howard Taft and Erastus Wolcott.
Family research
Box   1
Folder   1
1890-1959, undated
Box   1
Folder   2
Collins, 1896-1956, undated
Box   1
Folder   3
Collins and Reid, 1873-1957, undated
Box   1
Folder   4
Doty and Taft, 1903-1961, undated
Box   1
Folder   5
Galloway and Reid, 1955-1960, undated
Box   1
Folder   6
Hays, Henry and Josephine, 1873-1956, undated
Box   18
Folder   1 vol.
Hays, Henry and Josephine – scrapbook, 1873-1935
Box   1
Folder   7-8
Hays, Josephine Waters, 1873-1958, undated
Miscellaneous
Box   1
Folder   9
1955, undated
Box   18
Folder   1
undated
Box   1
Folder   10
Societies, 1959, undated
Box   18
Folder   2
Wyatt, Margaret, undated
Box   2
Folder   1
Friends, 1900-1961, undated
Box   2
Folder   2
Hays, Florence, 1883-1965, undated
Hays, Henry M.
Bemis-Hooper-Hays Company
Box   2
Folder   3
1900-1903, undated
Box   2
Folder   4
Condolences, 1908
Series: 2. Libraries, 1896-1960
Scope and Content Note: Libraries series has two main subject areas. First are various library professional associations that Florence was involved with or a member of as a librarian. The second area is about the librarian positions she held over the years. She often worked as a cataloging librarian and focused on collection development. Also included is a folder on her library school education.
Associations
Box   2
Folder   5
American Library Association (ALA), 1902, 1933-1942
Shanghai Library Association (SLA)
Box   2
Folder   6
1949
Box   18
Folder   3-6
1925-1926
Wisconsin Library Association (WLA)
Box   2
Folder   7
1942-1957, undated
Meetings
Box   2
Folder   8
Annual, 1927-1957
Box   3
Folder   1
District, 1898-1961
Box   3
Folder   2
Education – Library school, 1901-1949, undated
Positions
Columbia University, New York
Box   3
Folder   3
1916-1957, undated
Box   3
Folder   4
Scrapbook 1916-1956, undated
Box   3
Folder   5
General, 1912-1960, undated
Legislative Reference Bureau, Madison, Wisconsin
Box   3
Folder   6
1912-1952
Box   3
Folder   7
Clippings, 1912-1948
Box   3
Folder   8
Lutheran Welfare Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1942, undated
Box   3
Folder   9
Manistee Public Library, Manistee, Michigan, 1905-1906
Manitowoc Public Library, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Box   3
Folder   10
1902-1950, undated
Box   3
Folder   11
Clippings, 1902-1960, undated
Box   3
Folder   12
Oshkosh Public Library, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1896-1958, undated
Photoart, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Box   3
Folder   13
1946-1960, undated
Box   3
Folder   14
Clippings, 1946-1954
Box   4
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1948-1960
Ripon College, Ripon, WI
Box   4
Folder   2
1907-1912, undated
Box   4
Folder   3
Reports, 1908, 1911
Box   18
Folder   7
Ripon College Days, 1912
St. John’s University
Box   4
Folder   4
Clippings, 1922-1950, undated
Box   4
Folder   5
Faculty and Staff, 1922-1951, undated
Box   4
Folder   6
Low Library, 1922-49, undated
Box   4
Folder   7
Miscellaneous, 1922-1936, undated
Box   4
Folder   8
Publications, 1917-1927
Box   4
Folder   9
Subject Headings, 1924
Box   5
Folder   1
Yearbook, 1925
Spencerian College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Box   5
Folder   2
1954-1958, undated
Box   5
Folder   3
Reports/statistics, 1954-1957
Box   5
Folder   4
University of Wisconsin Extension, Municipal Reference Bureau, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1926
Watertown Public Library, Watertown, Wisconsin
Box   5
Folder   5
Clippings, 1926-1941
Box   5
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1926-1940, undated
Box   5
Folder   7
Miscellaneous, 1927, 1939, undated
Box   5
Folder   8
Reports, 1926-1939
Box   5
Folder   9
Speeches and writings, 1926-1954
Box   6
Folder   1
Wisconsin Librarians, 1936-1962
Series: 3. Personal, 1881-1961
Scope and Content Note: Personal series includes a wide range of items Florence created or collected. There are personal diaries, an autograph album, an intact scrapbook, general correspondence, many newspaper clippings and ephemera. There are samples of needlepoint and other things she created, writings and speeches as well as comics, quotes, poetry that she collected from friends or clipped from publications.
Box   6
Folder   2
Autograph album, 1884-1896
Beloit, Wisconsin
Box   6
Folder   3
Clippings and ephemera, 1888-1960
Box   6
Folder   4
Correspondence and notes, 1890-1951
Box   6
Folder   5
Churches – scrapbook, 1942-1960
Box   6
Folder   6
Comics, 1883, 1936-1960
Correspondence
Box   6
Folder   7-10
A-L, 1913-1961
Box   7
Folder   1-4
M-Z, 1913-1961
Diaries
Box   7
Folder   5-10
1884-1961
Box   8
Folder   1
“Lest We Forget”, 1926
Box   8
Folder   2
Handcrafts, 1881-1884, undated
Box   8
Folder   3
Madison, Wisconsin – clippings and ephemera, 1913-1960
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Box   8
Folder   4
Clippings, 1893-1955
Box   8
Folder   5
Ephemera, 1896-1917
Box   8
Folder   6
Pamphlets, 1888-1952, undated
Poetry, quotes and writings
Box   8
Folder   7-8
1884-1956, undated
Box   8
Folder   9
John G. Gregory, 1926
Box   8
Folder   10
Libraries, 1923-1946, undated
Box   8
Folder   11
Speeches and writings (by FCH), 1903-1960
Box   8
Folder   12
World War I – clippings and ephemera, 1917-1918, undated
World War II
Box   9
Folder   1-2
Clippings, 1939-1953, undated
Box   9
Folder   3
Ephemera, 1913-1953, undated
Box   18
Folder   8
Miscellaneous, 1942, undated
Series: 4. Photographs, 1888-1960
Scope and Content Note: Photographs series contains photographs but also postcards with images from places she visited. The bulk of the photographs are from her time spent in China but also cover other places she visited, friends and family.
Beloit, Wisconsin
Box   19
1888-1892, undated
Box   9
Folder   4
1894
Box   9
Folder   5
Cabot Lodge, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, 1921-1947, undated
China
Box   19-20
1922-1926, undated
Box   9
Folder   6
1923-1929, undated
Peking
Box   20
1924, undated
Box   9
Folder   7
1923
St John’s University
Box   20
1922-1926, undated
Box   21
Ladies home, 1922-1925, undated
Libraries
Box   21
1924-1926, undated
Box   21
Low Library, 1922-1925, undated
Box   21
St Mary’s Hall, 1922-1923, undated
Box   18
Folder   9
Wong, V. L., and family, 1928
Box   21
China to Europe, 1926, undated
Box   21
Europe – Italy and France, 1926, undated
Family
Box   9
Folder   8
1873, 1883, 1904, undated
Box   21
1869-1959, undated
Box   21
Friends, 1913-1961, undated
Box   9
Folder   9
Green Lake, [Wisconsin], 1917
Hays, Florence C.
Box   21
1875-1960
Box   9
Folder   10
1904, 1927
Box   22
Japan, 1922, 1925, undated
Box   22
Madison, Wisconsin, 1912-1922
Box   9
Folder   11
Miscellaneous, 1905-1959, undated
Box   22
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1896-1906, undated
Box   22
Photoart, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1948-1950, undated
Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin
Box   9
Folder   12
1908, undated
Box   22
1907-1939 undated
Box   22
US Northwest, 1935-1943, undated
Box   22
Watertown Public Library, Watertown, Wisconsin, 1926-1938
Box   22
World War I, 1917-1918
Box   22
Yellowstone and the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1905
Series: 5. Organizations, 1900-1961
Scope and Content Note: Organizations series contains materials from the organizations or groups Florence was active in. Some of organizations were places she was employed at but the material is generally outside of her work as a librarian. The records consist of newspaper clippings, ephemera, correspondence and publications.
American Flag House and Betty Ross Memorial
Box   10
Folder   1
1900, 1914, 1953
Box   18
Folder   10
1901
Daughters of the American Revolution
Benjamin Tallmadge Chapter, Milwaukee, WI
Box   10
Folder   2
1951-1961, undated
Box   10
Folder   3
Clippings, 1943-1961, undated
Box   18
Folder   11
Certificates, 1900
Box   10
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1951-1956
National Society
Box   10
Folder   5
Clippings, 1930-1959
Box   10
Folder   5
1930-1959
Box   18
Folder   12
1956
Box   10
Folder   6
Miscellaneous, 1951-1956
Box   10
Folder   7
Press Digest, 1957-1959
Box   10
Folder   8
Publications, 1951-1961, undated
Box   10
Folder   9
Oshkosh, WI Chapter, 1900-1909, undated
Box   10
Folder   10
Wisconsin Society, 1905-1956
Delta Kappa Gamma
Box   10
Folder   11
1937-1949, undated
Box   11
Folder   1
1951-1960
Box   11
Folder   2
Clippings, 1939-1961
Box   11
Folder   3
Dorothy Enders, 1941-1956
Box   11
Folder   4
Newsletters, 1948-1961
Box   11
Folder   5
Program, 1940-1961
Ripon College, Ripon, WI
Box   11
Folder   6
Clippings, 1907-1950
Correspondence
Box   11
Folder   7
1950-1960, undated
Box   11
Folder   8
“Davies Doings”, 1952-1957
Box   11
Folder   9
Ephemera, 1907-1912, undated
Box   18
Folder   13
Lafollette’s A Rural Pageant, undated
Box   11
Folder   10
Postcards, 1907-1911, undated
Box   12
Folder   1
Yearbook, 1910
Spencerian College, Milwaukee, WI
Box   12
Folder   2
1954-1963, undated
Box   12
Folder   3
Newsletters, 1954-1956
Publications
Box   12
Folder   4
1954-1958
Box   18
Folder   14
Spencerian News and Reviews, 1956-1958
Series: 6. Travels, 1899-1959
Scope and Content Note: Travels series contains newspaper clippings, ephemera and souvenirs of her travels. The bulk of this series is on her travels to, during and return from China to work at St John’s University in Shanghai. This area also includes correspondence, personal journals and publications.
Box   12
Folder   5
1899-1914, undated
Box   12
Folder   6
California, 1939, 1948, undated
Box   12
Folder   7
China to Europe, 1926, undated
Europe
Box   13
Folder   1
France, 1926
Box   13
Folder   2
Italy, 1926
Box   13
Folder   3
United Kingdom, 1926
Box   13
Folder   4
Holland, Michigan, 1939
Box   13
Folder   5-6
Japan, 1925, undated
Box   13
Folder   7
Mediterranean cruise, 1953
Box   13
Folder   8
US Northwest, 1935-1948, undated
Box   13
Folder   9
Yellowstone and Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1905, 1959, undated
China
Box   14
Folder   1
Art & Calligraphy, undated
Box   14
Folder   2
Booklets and Pamphlets, 1922-1947, undated
Box   14
Folder   3
Church Missions, 1922-1954, undated
Box   14
Folder   4
Clippings, 1921-1955
Correspondence
Box   14
Folder   5
1921-1955, undated
Box   14
Folder   6
Christmas cards, 1921-1959, undated
Box   14
Folder   7
Geography and history, 1923, undated
Journals
Box   14
Folder   8
1921-1925
Box   15
Folder   1-6
1922
Box   16
Folder   1-11
1922-1924
Box   17
Folder   1-5
1925-1926
Box   17
Folder   6
Prize Photo, 1925-1943, undated
Box   17
Folder   7
Speeches and Writings, 1922-1958, undated
Box   17
Folder   8
St. Mary’s Hall, 1922-1925, undated
Box   17
Folder   9
Souvenirs, undated