The Jacob Muchin Papers, 1942-1956, are divided into two subject files, Rent Control and the American Jewish Tercentenary.
The largest part of the collection, 1942-1956, deals with rent control and includes correspondence, clippings, and office subject files. The correspondence is between Muchin and various state and federal government officials regarding administrative and rent control matters; there are also two folders of office memos from the Manitowoc office. The clippings, 1942-1952, are arranged chronologically in scrapbooks and on loose sheets of paper. These are from Chicago and Manitowoc area newspapers regarding rent control, the Office of Price Administration (O.P.A.), and Muchin's activities. The office subject files maintained by Muchin deal with both rent control matters and routine operations of the Manitowoc office.
The second section concerns the American Jewish Tercentenary in 1954. There is correspondence between Muchin and various Wisconsin and national Tercentenary committee members and are folders regarding Tercentenary activities at the national, Wisconsin, and Manitowoc levels. The Manitowoc activities included the dedication of a new building of the Anshe Poale Zedek Congregation. The Wisconsin activities included the formation of the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning, which established a Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and also later at UW-Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning later founded the Wisconsin Jewish Archives.
