Wisconsin Folk Art: A Sesquicentennial Celebration Project Collection, 1995-1999

Collection Inventory and Description

Container Title
Series: I. Manuscript Materials.
Subseries: Administrative Files
Box   1
Folder   1
Personnel
Note: Contracts, correspondence.
Box   1
Folder   2
Agendas and Budgets
Box   1
Folder   3
Master List of Artists
Box   1
Folder   4
Participant Letters
Exhibit Companies
Box   1
Folder   5
Derse
Box   1
Folder   6
Display Craft
Box   1
Folder   7
Great Big Pictures
Box   1
Folder   8
Hale, T.J.
Box   1
Folder   9
Script Samples, 1995-1997
Box   1
Folder   10
Exhibit Script
Note: Including exhibition outline, list of objects, related correspondence.
Box   1
Folder   11-17
Drafts
Note: Including annotated copies by James P. Leary, Janet C. Gilmore, and Robert T. Teske?
Box   1
Folder   18-24
Label signage
Note: Many versions.
Box   1
Folder   25
Photograph Lists
Box   1
Folder   26-27
Photocopies of Exhibit Images
Exhibit Design
Flat Box   1
Schematics (8.5x14)
Flat Box   1
Floor Plans (18x24)
Note: 4 CCC, 3 touring sites.
Box   1
Folder   28-29
Exhibit Binder
Note: Includes images, text, floor plan.
Box   1
Folder   30
School Tours, 1998
Box   1
Folder   31
Exhibit Publicity
Note: Brochure and opening invitation.
Catalogue
Box   1
Folder   32-33
Manuscript
Box   1
Folder   34
Mock-up
Box   1
Folder   35
Photograph Lists
Box   1
Folder   36
Acknowledgements, quotations
Box   1
Folder   37-40
Essays (Teske, Olson, Gilmore, Leary)
Box   2
Folder   1
Exhibition Checklists
Box   2
Folder   2-3
Artist Biographies
Flat Box   1
Cover Proofs
Subseries: Research Files
Box   2
Folder   4-5
Field Reports, 1996-1997
Note: By Ruth Olson, Anne Pryor, Janet Gilmore, James P. Leary, Terese Allen, Gina Grumke, and Barbara Lau. Includes audio logs and consent forms (Pryor), and photo index (Leary).
Box   2
Folder   6
Elda Schiesser
Note: Field report and log by Janet C. Gilmore; notecards with reproduction of Scherenschnitte.
Box   2
Folder   7
Photograph and Slide Logs, Consent Forms
Box   2
Folder   8
Research Articles
Box   2
Folder   9
Photocopied Images
Note: From State Historical Society of Wisconsin and Monroe Cheese Days.
Series: II. Sound Recordings.
Anne Pryor Interviews
Box   3
Folder   1-3
Norman Seamonson, Norwegian woodcarver, Stoughton, Wisconsin, 1997 April 10
Box   3
Folder   4
Monroe Johnson, Norwegian woodcarver, Cashton, Wisconsin, 1997 April 28
Box   3
Folder   5-6
Stephanie Lemke, Croatian egg decorator, Mazomanie, Wisconsin, 1997 May 2
Janet C. Gilmore Interview
Box   3
Folder   7-9
Elda Schiesser, Scherenschnitter, New Glarus, Wisconsin, 1997 May 21
Series: III. Graphic Materials.
Flat Box   1
Exhibit Images
Note: 17 color and 14 black-and-white prints; assorted sizes.
Flat Box   1
Display Case Specifications
Note: 2 comb-bound booklets, 4 sets drawings (8.5x14).
Binder   1-3
35 mm color slides
Note: Mostly by Lewis Koch; also includes slides by James P. Leary, Janet C. Gilmore, and slides of exhibition.
Binder   3
35 mm black-and-white negatives by Leary and Gilmore
Binder   3
35 mm color negatives of exhibition
Box   4
4x5 color and black-and-white internegatives
Binder   4
Prints
Physical Description: Black-and-white and color 8x10s, color 4x6s and 3.5x5s. 
Note: Mostly by Lewis Koch; also includes prints by James P. Leary, Janet C. Gilmore, copies of historic photographs, and prints of exhibition objects.
Folder   1
Contact Sheets (Lewis Koch)
Series: IV. Electronic Media.
Catalogue essays, 1997
Diskette   1-2
James P. Leary
Diskette   3
Ruth Olson
Diskette   4
CC text, 1997
Note: RTF files: acknowledgements, artist bios, Robert T. Teske essay, exhibition checklists.
Diskette   5
Folk Art, Wisconsin Folk Art Quotes, 1997
Note: Catalogue introduction by Robert T. Teske, folk artist quotes, font files.
Diskette   6
Unlabeled, circa 1997
Note: Includes creditpnl.fh7 and font files.