Wisconsin Swiss Traditional Music Project Collection, 1986-1991

Collection Inventory and Description

Container Title
Series: I: MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS. Mills Music Library Wisconsin Music Archives. Wisconsin Folk Museum Collection.
Box   4
Swiss Music Project, 1986-1989
Series: II: MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS. Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives Division. Wisconsin Folk Museum Records, M98-044. Artist Files
Box   1
Artists A-J
Alphorn Trio (New Glarus, Clayton Streiff)
Bernet, Martha
Burkhalter, Rudy
Edelweiss Stars
Frauenfelder, Reynard (“Rheiny”)
Gempler, Anna B.
Box   2
Artists K-Z
Lorenz, Robert (“Bob”)
Monroe Swiss Singers (Trudy Brandli)
Rindlisbacher, Otto
Streiff, Clayton
Stucki, Martha (Mrs. Alfred)
Vetterli, Betty
Series: III: MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS. UW-Madison Folklore Program. Wisconsin Folk Museum Records. Swiss-American Music Project Files.
Folder   1
Grants: NEA/Swiss Project
Folder   2
Production--Swissconsin cassette
Folder   3
Production--Yodeling in Dairyland
Series: IV: MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS. James P. Leary Research Collection. Swiss-American Music Project Files.
Folder   1
Swiss Project: Sources
Folder   2
Swiss Project: Correspondence
Folder   3
Various Artists: notes, clippings, letters, interview notes on Martha Bernet, Betty Vetterli, and Trudy Brandli (Monroe Swiss Singers), 1986-1987
Folder   4
Typed interview sound recording logs for Bright, Burkhalter, Gemplers, and Mueller
Series: V: SOUND RECORDINGS. James P. Leary. Wisconsin Folk Museum Swiss-American Music Project Files.
Tape   1-2
Rudy Burkhalter, Madison, 1987 February 19
Tape   3
Rudy Burkhalter, Madison, 1987 April 16
Tape   4
Leo and Anna Gempler, Monroe, 1987 September 17
Tape   4
Roger Bright, New Glarus, 1987 September 17
Tape   5
Albert Mueller, West Allis, 1987 September 25
Tape   6
Recordings on 78s: Moser Brothers, Peters Brothers
Series: VI: GRAPHIC MATERIALS. UW-Madison Folklore Program. Wisconsin Folk Museum Records. Swiss-American Music Project Files.
Negatives and Contact Sheets
Physical Description: The negatives are housed in plastic pages holding up to 6 strips of negative strips of 6 images each; the sheets are labelled #30-#37. The contact sheets are filed with the matching negatives, and are in the box with the manuscript materials. 
Sheet   30
Maennerchor at Turner Hall, 1985, Madison rosemaler (maybe Gary Albrecht?), Swiss Chorus, Monroe
Sheet   31-32
New Glarus city scenes
Sheet   33
New Glarus and Monroe
Sheet   34
Dancing at New Glarus Hotel to Roger Bright and his orchestra
Sheet   35
March, 1988, Monroe, north of Monroe, New Glarus, Swiss Historical Village, Puempel's bar
Sheet   36
Swiss American musician Rudy Burkhalter, historical images
Sheet   37
Swiss American Turnfest, Monroe, historical images
Series: VII: ELECTRONIC MEDIA. James P. Leary Research Collection. Swiss-American Music Project Files.
Interview sound recording logs
Physical Description: 1 diskette (in folder 4)