Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Racine County): Naturalization Records, 1837-1982

Container Title
Audio 1133A
Part 2 (Audio 1133A; PH call numbers): Additions, 1958-1993
Physical Description: 1 oversize folder, 4 tape recordings, 1969 photographs, 6.3 cubic feet of photographs (11 flat boxes), 368 negatives, 0.4 cubic feet of negatives, 111 frames of 35 mm negatives and contact sheets, 394 transparencies, and 2 photographs 
Scope and Content Note

AUDIO includes recordings of a lecture by Vanderbilt on “The Photographic Project of the Farm Security Administration,” 1986 January; Paul Vanderbilt and Barbara Crane discussing “Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph,” 8 January 1974 (original recordings held by the Center for Creative Photography); and 2 interviews with Vanderbilt by James Rhem, conducted in 1990.

The series of VISUAL MATERIALS includes lantern slides, photographs, and transparencies, including material from projects done by Vanderbilt in his position as curator of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin's photograph collections. Photographs include images of Historical Society of Wisconsin staff at work, as well as materials from and documentation of exhibits on various historic and artistic topics. Also included are photographs made by Vanderbilt showing Wisconsin rural and urban scenes, including landscapes, buildings, and detail photographs documenting man's imprint on the natural environment.

WRITINGS includes materials for Between the Landscape and Its Other by Paul Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, including a copy of the book and selected panels.

Series: Audio
1133A/1-2
Lecture by Vanderbilt on “The Photographic Project of the Farm Security Administration,” 1986 January
1133A/3-4
Interview with Barbara Crane, Chicago, Illinois, 1974 January 8
Note: Original recordings held by the Center for Creative Photography.
Series: Visual Materials
PH 2068
Lantern slides assembled by Paul Vanderbilt for use in a lecture “Snapshots in Limbo,” 1959
Physical Description: Lantern slides 3 1/4 x 4-inches 
Note: Originally presented at the Chicago Art Institute in November 1959. Lecture dealt with conventions in photographic representation and sometimes unrecognized values in informal photography considered as a folk art.
Photographs by Paul Vanderbilt
PH 2214 (3)
Folder   1
A folding panel with mounted photographs of the exhibition “Women a Century Ago,” 1960
Note: The exhibition was sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in 1960. The photographs and layout were prepared by Vanderbilt.
Corresponding negatives are filed as WHi(X2)12462-12465 and WHi(X21)12139-12145.
PH 2350 (3)
Folder   1
Members of the exhibitions installation staff of the Historical Society at work during the final hours before the opening of an exhibition commemorating the centennial of the Civil War, 1961 January
Note: The photographs were made by Vanderbilt and are mounted on a hinged panel.
The corresponding negatives are filed as WHi(X15)12780-12849 and WHi(X21)12092.
PH 2382 (3)
Historical Society staff's transformation of standard display manikins into Native American manikins for a Historymobile exhibit contrasting Plains Indians with Woodland Indians, 1961
Note: The photographs were made by Vanderbilt and mounted on hinged panels.
Corresponding negatives are filed as WHi(X15)13034-13141, WHi(X21)8005-8014, and WHi(X2)12469.
PH 2476 (3)
Folder   1
Street scenes in Saxon and Mellen, Wisconsin, being used by 20th Century Fox studio in making the movie Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, 1961
Note: The settings were altered to represent a 1916 lumbering village's entertainment area in upper Michigan. Images show the altered facades of buildings, crews at work, rehearsals, and other scenes and are mounted in a volume.
Partially corresponding negatives are filed as WHi(X2)13572-13587, WHi(X2)13512-13522, and WHi(X15)14101-14165.
PH 2520
Folder   1
Portage, Wisconsin, 1962
Note: Photographs to accompany an article by Ray Billington, “Young Fred Turner,” in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1962-1963 Winter. Images include buildings, streets, and details.
PH 2539
Folder   1
Modern views of scenes depicted in paintings made in 1856 by Samuel M. Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson of locks and towns along the Fox River canal, 1962 August 2-5
Note: Photographs commissioned by Morgan L. Martin.
PH 2563
Folder   1
Scenes along the Upper Mississippi River in the vicinity of Lynxville, Wisconsin, and on a bridge and causeway across river islands between Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and Marquette, Iowa, 1962 September 29
PH 2666 (5)
Oversize Folder   1
Staff members of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum installing modular vertical panels in newly redesigned Gallery 118, 1963
Note: Also includes photographs of the finished gallery with paintings, including designers measuring, drilling panels, painting, setting up on spring poles, and adjusting.
PH 2684
Everyday activities of the children of Robert P. Meyer of Madison, Wisconsin, 1963
Note: Created by Vanderbilt for the exhibit, “A Child's World,” at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963 May-June.
PH 2684 (3)
Large photographs
PH 2760
Folder   1
Photographs of circulating exhibit panels on Wisconsin history, 1958-1960
Note: 21 topical sets, each of 5 20 x 30-inch panels of graphics and text, were compiled to provide small, cheap, and readily handled exhibit material for use by state groups and institutions. These photographs show 15 of the 21 sets.
PH 2824
Folder   1
Installation and other material relating to the exhibit, “Our Own Time,” 1964
Note: Exhibit designed and edited by Paul Vanderbilt at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1964 May 6-July 25. The installation photographs by WHA-TV were used for a television promotional broadcast.
Washington Island, Door County, Wisconsin
PH 2854
Box   1
Mounted photographs of people, scenic views, buildings, and other scenes at Washington Island, 1964
Note: Some images are in color. A list of the negatives from which these prints were made is included in the box; the negatives are not yet cataloged.
PH 2995
Folder   1
Photographs related to an exhibition created by Vanderbilt on Washington Island, 1964
PH 2878
Folder   1
Daily activities in the processing rooms and stacks of the Wisconsin State Historical Society archives, 1965
Note: Photographs by Vanderbilt for selection of a cover photograph for the annual report of the Archives Manuscripts Division of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
PH 2896
Folder   1
Executive Residence in Madison, Wisconsin, mainly interiors and details, showing the building before remodeling and redecoration, 1965
PH 3010
Folder   1
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1959
Note: Some photographs were taken in the same locations as original images created by Charles Van Schaick, 1900-1910.
PH 3439
Folder   1
Negatives and proofs showing activities in the State Archives and the Manuscripts Section of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1962-1973 and undated
Note: Images show staff at work, researchers, storage area, field work at the Milwaukee Area Research Center, and other scenes.
PH 3445
Volume   1
Contact proofs of views in Neenah and Menasha, Wisconsin, 1963
Note: Images show the lakeshore, canals, river, industrial buildings, new Kimberly-Clark administrative buildings, railroads, bank construction, foundry, fishing bait dealer, residences, and other views.
Corresponding original negatives are filed as WHi(X2)13902-15760.
PH 3592
Wisconsin rural and urban scenes
Note: Many of the images include cropping marks and/or are stamped “Proof Print.”
Box   1
Tab   1
Abbotsford
Box   1
Tab   2
Algoma
Box   1
Tab   3
Allouez
Box   1
Tab   4
Appleton
Box   1
Tab   5
Arena
Box   1
Tab   6
Arena - Barneveld
Box   1
Tab   7
Argyle
Box   1
Tab   8
Ashton
Box   1
Tab   9
Attica
Box   1
Tab   10
Avoca
Box   1
Tab   11
Babcock
Box   1
Tab   12
Badger
Box   1
Tab   13
Bailey's Harbor
Box   1
Tab   14
Bangor
Box   1
Tab   15
Baraboo
Box   1
Tab   16
Barneveld
Box   1
Tab   17
Basco
Box   1
Tab   18
Bayfield
Box   1
Tab   19
Bear Valley
Box   1
Tab   20
Beaver Dam
Box   1
Tab   21
Beetown
Box   1
Tab   22
Belleville
Box   1
Tab   23
Black Earth
Box   1
Tab   24
Black Hawk
Box   1
Tab   25
Blanchardville
Box   1
Tab   26
Blue Mounds
Box   1
Tab   27
Blue River
Box   1
Tab   28
Boaz
Box   1
Tab   29
Bonduel
Box   1
Tab   30
Boscobel
Box   1
Tab   31
Bridgeport
Box   1
Tab   32
Brooklyn
Box   1
Tab   33
Brown County
Box   1
Tab   34
Buckman
Box   1
Tab   35
Butte des Mortes
Box   1
Tab   36
Cambria
Box   1
Tab   37
Cassville
Box   1
Tab   38
Castle Rock
Box   1
Tab   39
Cedar Rapids
Box   1
Tab   40
Chaseburg
Box   1
Tab   41
Clyde
Box   1
Tab   42
Cobb
Box   1
Tab   43
Columbus
Box   1
Tab   44
Coon Valley
Box   1
Tab   45
Crandon
Box   1
Tab   46
Cross Plains
Box   1
Tab   47
Daleyville
Box   1
Tab   48
Dane
Box   1
Tab   49
Darlington
Box   1
Tab   50
De Pere
Box   1
Tab   51
De Soto
Box   1
Tab   52
Denmark
Box   1
Tab   53
Denzer
Box   1
Tab   54
Devil's Lake
Box   1
Tab   55
Dodgeville
Box   1
Tab   56
Donald Rock
Box   1
Tab   57
Door County
Box   1
Tab   58
Dunn
Box   1
Tab   59
Durand
Box   1
Tab   60
Eagle
Box   1
Tab   61
Elm Tree Corners
Box   1
Tab   62
Esofea
Box   1
Tab   63
Fargo
Box   1
Tab   64
Fayette
Box   1
Tab   65
Fennimore
Box   1
Tab   66
Ferryville
Box   1
Tab   67
Fifield
Box   1
Tab   68
Fond du Lac
Box   1
Tab   69
Fort Atkinson
Box   1
Tab   70
Gays Mills
Box   1
Tab   71
Genoa
Box   1
Tab   72
Gilmonton
Box   1
Tab   73
Gotham
Box   1
Tab   74
Governor Dodge State Park
Box   1
Tab   75
Green Bay
Box   1
Tab   76
Green Leaf
Box   1
Tab   77
Greenbush
Box   1
Tab   78
Gresham
Box   1
Tab   79
Harmony Grove
Box   1
Tab   80
Henrysville
Box   1
Tab   81
Hill Point
Box   1
Tab   82
Hillsboro
Box   1
Tab   83
Holland
Box   1
Tab   84
Hollandale
Box   1
Tab   85
Horicon
Box   1
Tab   86
Hubertus
Box   1
Tab   87
Ithaca
Box   1
Tab   88
Jefferson
Box   1
Tab   89
Juneau County
Box   1
Tab   90
Kaukauna
Box   1
Tab   91
Kenosha
Box   1
Tab   92
Keshena
Box   1
Tab   93
Kettle Moraine
Box   1
Tab   94
Kingston
Box   1
Tab   95
Knapp
Box   1
Tab   96
La Crosse
Box   1
Tab   97
La Farge
Box   1
Tab   98
Lake Poygan
Box   1
Tab   99
Lake Winnebago
Box   1
Tab   100
Lancaster
Box   1
Tab   101
Lark
Box   1
Tab   102
Leland
Box   1
Tab   103
Lime Ridge
Box   1
Tab   104
Little Chute
Box   1
Tab   105
Lodi
Box   1
Tab   106
Loganville
Box   1
Tab   107
Loyd
Box   1
Tab   108
Lynxville
Box   1
Tab   109
Madison
Box   1
Tab   110
Marshfield
Box   1
Tab   111
Martinsville
Box   1
Tab   112
Marxville
Box   1
Tab   113
Marytown
Box   1
Tab   114
Mauston - Reedsburg
Box   1
Tab   115
Mazomanie
Box   1
Tab   116
Medford
Box   1
Tab   117
Mellen
Box   1
Tab   118
Menasha
Box   1
Tab   119
Mendota State Hospital
Box   1
Tab   120
Menomonie
Box   1
Tab   121
Merrimac-Portage
Box   1
Tab   122
Middleton
Box   1
Tab   123
Millville
Box   1
Tab   124
Milwaukee
Box   1
Tab   125
Mineral Point
Box   1
Tab   126
Monticello
Box   1
Tab   127
Mt. Calvary
Box   1
Tab   128
Mt. Hope
Box   1
Tab   129
Mt. Horeb
Box   1
Tab   130
Mt. Ida
Box   1
Tab   131
Mt. Vernon
Box   1
Tab   132
Mt. Zion
Box   1
Tab   133
Muscoda
Box   1
Tab   134
Neenah
Box   1
Tab   135
Neopit
Box   1
Tab   136
New Glarus
Box   1
Tab   137
Norwalk
Box   1
Tab   138
Okee
Box   1
Tab   139
Ontario
Box   1
Tab   140
Oregon
Box   1
Tab   141
Oshkosh
Box   1
Tab   142
Paoli
Box   1
Tab   143
Pardeeville
Box   1
Tab   144
Parfrey's Glen
Box   1
Tab   145
Park Falls
Box   1
Tab   146
Patch Grove
Box   1
Tab   147
Phillips
Box   1
Tab   148
Pine Bluff
Box   1
Tab   149
Pipe
Box   1
Tab   150
Pittsville
Box   1
Tab   151
Plain
Box   1
Tab   152
Plymouth
Box   1
Tab   153
Poland
Box   1
Tab   154
Port Andrews
Box   1
Tab   155
Portage
Box   1
Tab   156
Portage - Endeavor
Box   1
Tab   157
Potosi
Box   1
Tab   158
Poynette
Box   1
Tab   159
Prairie du Chien
Box   1
Tab   160
Prairie du Sac
Box   1
Tab   161
Preble
Box   1
Tab   162
Primrose
Box   1
Tab   163
Pulaski
Box   1
Tab   164
Purdy
Box   1
Tab   165
Racine
Box   1
Tab   166
Red Banks
Box   1
Tab   167
Reedsburg
Box   1
Tab   168
Richland Center
Box   1
Tab   169
Ridgeway
Box   1
Tab   170
Ripon
Box   1
Tab   171
Rockbridge
Box   1
Tab   172
Rosendale
Box   1
Tab   173
Roxbury
Box   1
Tab   174
Saint Joseph
Box   1
Tab   175
Sauk City
Box   2
Tab   176
Saxon
Box   2
Tab   177
Sextonville
Box   2
Tab   178
Shiocton
Box   2
Tab   179
Sobieski
Box   2
Tab   180
Sparta
Box   2
Tab   181
Spring Green
Box   2
Tab   182
Spring Grove
Box   2
Tab   183
Springfield Corners
Box   2
Tab   184
Steuben
Box   2
Tab   185
Stoddard
Box   2
Tab   186
Stoughton
Box   2
Tab   187
Suamico
Box   2
Tab   188
Verona
Box   2
Tab   189
Viola
Box   2
Tab   190
Viroqua
Box   2
Tab   191
Washington Island
Box   2
Tab   192
Waukechon
Box   2
Tab   193
Waunakee
Box   2
Tab   194
Wausau
Box   2
Tab   195
Wautoma
Box   2
Tab   196
Wauzeka
Box   2
Tab   197
Wayside
Box   2
Tab   198
West Bend
Box   2
Tab   199
Westboro
Box   2
Tab   200
Westport
Box   2
Tab   201
Wild Rose
Box   2
Tab   202
Winneconne
Box   2
Tab   203
Wisconsin Dells
Box   2
Tab   204
Witwen
Box   2
Tab   205
Woodman
Box   2
Tab   206
Wrightstown
Box   2
Tab   207
Wyalusing State Park
Box   2
Tab   208
Wyocena
Box   2
Tab   209
Yuba
Box   2
Tab   210
Unspecified locations
PH 3792
Folder   1
Images related to the “Changing Role of Women” traveling photograph exhibit
Note: Includes images of display panels and exhibit photographs.
PH 4061 (3)
Oversize Folder   1
Display panels assembled by Vanderbilt of pictures and paraphrased text from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1873 January, illustrating the history of Christmas customs throughout Europe
PH 4177
Folder   1
Interior of the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall in Madison, Wisconsin
PH 4356
Folder   1
Employees and works of art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Note: Many of the images are of artworks and exhibits being photographed as well as galleries and storage areas.
PH 5001 (3)
Enlargement prints, many annotated by Vanderbilt as “exhibition quality”
Note: Prepared from the original Wisconsin landscape photographic negatives filed elsewhere in the collections. A set of proof prints is in Lot 3592.
Box   1-2
Mounted prints
Box   3
Loose prints
PH 5001 (7)
Box   4
Oversize mounted prints
PH 5002 (5)
Landscape photographs made by Vanderbilt with historic images from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin collection for the “Pairings Project”
Box   1
Unpublished pairs 3-27
Box   2
Unpublished pairs 28-54
Box   3
Unpublished pairs 56-84
Box   4
Unpublished pairs 85-109
Box   5
Unpublished pairs 110-148
Transparencies
PH 2528
Folder   1
Mrs. Edward C. Jones' collection of Georgian silverware of the 18th and early 19th centuries
Physical Description: Color transparencies (2 x 2-inches) 
Note: Transparencies made by Vanderbilt of Georgian silverware of the 18th and early 19th centuries, portions of a collection formed by Mrs. Edward C. Jones of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, for a lecture by Jones at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin on October 12, 1962.
PH 2770
Folder   1
Selected photographs shown in the exhibition, “Our Own Time,” 1964
Physical Description: Transparencies 2 x 2-inches, black and white 
Note: Transparencies designed and edited by Paul Vanderbilt for exhibit at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, May 6-July 25, 1964, of news and other photographs used in an examination of the historical adequacy of current interpretive photography of daily life. The slides were used in a television panel discussion of the exhibition on WHA-TV, May 20, 1964.
PH 2843
Folder   1
Leslie H. Fishel Jr.
Physical Description: Color transparencies 2 1/4 x 3 1/4-inches 
Note: Photographic portraits of Leslie H. Fishel Jr., director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, photographed by Vanderbilt in various poses with the society's library reading room as a background. Photographed on Ansocochrome D-50 under “daylight” floodlamps without filter.
PH 2862
Folder   1
Color transparencies of the Wisconsin Governor's Mansion, Madison, Wisconsin, 1965
Note: Includes interiors and views of the garden.
PH 2934
Folder   1
Color transparencies of the Executive Residence at Madison, Wisconsin, 1965
Note: Mainly includes interiors, before alteration and re-decoration. Numbered in sequence, the transparencies were intended for projection simultaneously with a black-and-white 16 mm motion picture film of the same material on a double screen and eventual synchronization. Project incomplete.
PH 3144
Folder   1
Color transparencies copies from the Sierra Club's publication of Eliot Porter's photographs of Glen Canyon; details of merchandise at Treasure Island, a Madison, Wisconsin, discount house; and related material assembled by Vanderbilt for lectures, 1968
PH 3145
Folder   1
A trip to western Wisconsin and Minnesota, 1967 October
Physical Description: Transparencies (2 x 2-inches) 
Note: Images, made by Vanderbilt, depict largely scenic and transportation details, including trucking and harbor scenes; fields, foliage details, rock canyons; and views of Duluth, Minnesota.
PH 3474
Folder   1
Varied building details, landscapes, plant forms and juxtaposed elements, 1968
Physical Description: Color transparencies (2 x 2-inches) 
Note: Includes industrial buildings, grain elevator, streets, burning leaves in backyard, farmland, and other views, from Waterloo, Pewaukee, Delafield, Hartford, and elsewhere in Wisconsin, along with Wanamingo, Minnesota. Slides are numbered in a presumed presentation sequence.
PH 5003
Series: Writings
Between the Landscape and Its Other
Box   1
Folder   1-6
General
Box   1
Folder   7
Draft I
Box   1
Folder   8
Draft II
Box   1
Folder   9
Photographs
Box   1
Folder   10
Pairings exhibit promotions
Box   1
Folder   11
Project proposal
Box   1
Folder   12
Book: Johns Hopkins University Press
Box   1
Folder   13
Index and notes
Box   2-3
Selected panels
Box   4-5
Negatives