The collection consists primarily of the correspondence of the Association from 1930 to 1957. The bulk of this correspondence is from 1935 to 1941. The correspondence deals with mainly with the organization, development, and work of the Association. During the early 1940's there is material dealing with the Association's relation to a new national organization, the American Industrial Arts Association.
In addition to chronological correspondence the collection contains files for the curriculum committee, district meetings, the constitution, minutes of meetings, directories, and miscellany. A portion of the curriculum committee and district meetings records consist of correspondence. And the files noted here are not entirely inclusive; for instance, there are portions of letters in the general correspondence which relate to the curriculum committee, to the district meetings, etc.
The curriculum committee records primarily are concerned with the years 1936 to 1941. The district (or sectional) meetings records begin in 1932 and end in 1940. They deal with the district meetings held throughout Wisconsin for industrial arts teachers. The bulk of these papers are concerned with the years 1937 and 1938.
The minutes of the Association include the years 1933 to 1954. These minutes are the minutes of meetings of 1) the annual Wisconsin Industrial Arts Association meeting, 2) the executive committee of the Association, and 3) the curriculum committee of the Association. The minutes for these three groups are not complete for the years 1933 to 1954.
The directories cover the period from 1932 to 1959. They include official Association membership lists, statewide lists of industrial arts teachers, city and sectional lists of industrial arts teachers, and lists of industrial arts teachers by subject matter, e.g. auto mechanics teachers in Wisconsin.
Several of the men who figure prominently in the Association files are: Roy R. Van Duzee, Clyde A. Bowman, Thomas Hippaka, Leo R. Ebben, and H.J. Shufelt.
