Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids: Contents List

Container	Title
Wis Mss UJ	Part 1 (Wis Mss UJ, PH 6558): Original Collection, 1886-1932 Physical Description: 22.0 c.f. (55 archives boxes) and 10 photographs (1 folder) Scope and Content Note The M.V. O'Shea Papers Original Collection is comprised mostly of correspondence relating to his editorial work, writing, and communications with publishers. Occasionally there are letters exchanged with other educators of note, but few of these reveal his educational philosophy; they refer more often to publications and organizations. For his ideas and opinions on education the researcher is referred to his correspondence with other writers, with parents who read and had questions concerning O'Shea's editorials, and with school superintendents. Note: Attention is called to O'Shea's habit of using the back of a letter he received, for the carbon of a reply he sent. Subjects treated in the correspondence include: Problems of children, their health, development, and training. (See especially correspondence for the years 1917-1921.) Education of children and youth. Educational surveys for Virginia, Mississippi and Norfolk, Virginia, 1925-1927. The Zona Gale scholarship program of the University of Wisconsin, 1921-1929. The National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers Associations, 1912-1921. Testimonials relating to tobacco studies, 1919-1920. O'Shea's own publications, particularly his relation to the World Book, 1915-1913, 1927-1932; Junior Home Magazine, 1925-1926; Mother's Magazine, 1917-1921; and The Nation's Schools, 1927-1929. Teacher-training requirements, 1914. Student and teacher recommendations for positions. (Representative correspondence was kept; most was not retained.) Private investments, correspondence on household matters, and disconnected family letters. (Not retained) Publishers letters relating to proof, transmittal of contracts, and book orders. (Not retained) Persons of some note with whom M.V. O'Shea corresponded include: Baruch, Bernard: December 17, 1919 (letter from) Birge, Dean Edward A.: 1914-1925 Burbank, Luther: December 20, 1919 (letter from) Dewey, John: January 7, 1904 Gala, Zona: 1920-1929 Hall, G. Stanley: January 8, April 18, 1904 Harding, Senator Warren G.: January 23, 1920 (letter from) Kellogg, J.H.: 1907 Parkhurst, Helen: 1922-1924 Stoner, Winifred Sackville: 1912-1929 Roosevelt, Eleanor: April 8, July 27, 1931 (letters from) and April 21, 1931 (letter to) Van Dyke, Henry: December 19, 1919 (letter from) Van Hise, Charles R.: January 26, November 16, 1907; January 11, 1911 (letters from) Young, Ella F.: January 2, 1904 There are also five boxes of articles, editorials, speeches, and class plans. Many of the editorials O'Shea wrote for Junior Instructor, 1920-1923, are filed here. The final two boxes of documents are designated Miscellaneous. They include biographical material; book manuscripts, reviews, and brochures; notes on schools in Europe, 1906; reports on O'Shea's smoking survey and on the Newark, New Jersey all-year schools; and other materials. The 10 photographs include images of Michael O'Shea, Harriet O'Shea, Mary McAdams, and a group of people in front of an unidentified residence.
	Series: Correspondence
Box 1	1892 - 1910
Box 2	1911 - 1913, May
Box 3	1913, June - December
Box 4	1914, January - May
Box 5	1914, June - November
Box 6	1914, December - 1915, April
Box 7	1915, May - August
Box 8	1915, September - 1916, January
Box 9	1916, February - July
Box 10	1916, August - December
Box 11	1917, January - June
Box 12	1917, June - December
Box 13	1918, January - April
Box 14	1918, May - October
Box 15	1918, November - 1919, April
Box 16	1919, April - September
Box 17	1919, September - 1920, February
Box 18	1920, February - May
Box 19	1920, May - July
Box 20	1920, August - 1921, January
Box 21	1921, February - June
Box 22	1921, July - December
Box 23	1921, December - 1922, May
Box 24	1922, May - September
Box 25	1922, October - 1923, February
Box 26	1923, March - July
Box 27	1923, August - December
Box 28	1924, January - April
Box 29	1924, May - November
Box 30	1924, November - 1925, May
Box 31	1925, May - November
Box 32	1925, November - 1926, April
Box 33	1926, April - November
Box 34	1926, November - 1927, May
Box 35	1927, May - November
Box 36	1927, November - 1928, February
Box 37	1928, March - June
Box 38	1928, July - December
Box 39	1928, December - 1929, April
Box 40	1929, April - August
Box 41	1929, September - December
Box 42	1930, January - April
Box 43	1930, May - November
Box 44	1930, November - 1931, March
Box 45	1931, April - July
Box 46	1931, August - December
Box 47	1931, December - 1932, August
	Series: Articles, Editorials, Speeches, Class Plans	⇧
Box 48 Folder 1	Bibliographical
Box 48 Folder 2-5	Miscellaneous editorials Note: See also Box 49-51.
Box 48 Folder 6	Articles
Box 49 Folder 1	Editorials for The Nation's Schools Note: See also Box 51.
Box 49 Folder 2	Editorials for Junior Home Note: See also Box 51.
Box 49 Folder 3-4	Miscellaneous editorials
Box 50	Miscellaneous editorials (continued)
Box 51 Folder 1	Miscellaneous editorials (continued)
Box 51 Folder 2-4	Editorials for The Nation's Schools Note: See also Box 49.
Box 51 Folder 5	Editorials for Junior Home Note: See also Box 49.
Box 52	Speeches; articles; plans for publication; class materials for “Social Development and Education”
Box 53	Miscellaneous class materials and plans for publication
	Series: Miscellaneous	⇧
Box 53	Biographical
Box 54	Book Manuscripts, reviews, and brochures
Box 54	Smoking survey report
Box 54	Report on the Newark, New Jersey all-year schools
Box 54	Notebooks with notes on the schools of Europe, circa 1906, March-April
Box 55	Guides and articles regarding books
Box 55	Examinations
Box 55	University of Wisconsin Nursery School
Box 55	University of the Air
Box 55	Miscellany
PH 6558	Series: Photographs	⇧
Wis Mss UJ	Part 2 (Wis Mss UJ): Additions, 1883-1924 Physical Description: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Scope and Content Note: The Additions include a chronological file of O'Shea's personal correspondence, his college classnotes, and Harriet Eastabrooks' high school class notes. The early correspondence includes letters from classmates and acquaintances before and during his college career at Cornell University. The letters, however, are predominantly to and from his family, especially his wife, Harriet. Much of this correspondence is from O'Shea while either on lecture tours or at summer schools. Scattered throughout are letters relating to his professional activities particularly during his tenure at the Mankato State Normal School, Mankato, Minnesota.	⇧
	Series: Correspondence
Box 56	Pre-1883 - 1893, July
Box 57	1893, August - 1896
Box 58	1897-1918
Box 59	1919-1924
	Series: Class Notes	⇧
Box 59	Subseries: Harriet Eastabrooks, 1885-1896
Box 59	Subseries: M.V. O'Shea, 1889-1891	⇧
M86-467	Part 3 (M86-467): Additions, 1889-1932 Physical Description: 2.1 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 2 small card file boxes) Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1889-1932, documenting O'Shea's professional research and writings, including notes on observations of children and published articles and manuscripts of articles. Present is a daily record of O'Shea teaching his daughter Harriet arithmetic, a series of home study pamphlets published by Mother's Magazine, papers written by O'Shea's wife, Harriet Eastabrook, and personal correspondence and biographical material.	⇧
	Articles
Box 1 Folder 1	Early articles in education journals, circa 1893
Box 1 Folder 2	Popular Educator articles, 1908-1915
Box 1 Folder 3	Primary Education articles, 1908-1915
Box 1 Folder 4	Junior Home articles, 1929-1931
Box 1 Folder 5	Milwaukee Sentinel articles
Box 1 Folder 6	Mother's Magazine articles, 1915-1919
Box 1 Folder 7-9	Miscellaneous magazine articles, 1895-1916, 1922-1930, undated
Box 1 Folder 10-17	Manuscripts of articles
Box 1 Folder 18	Notes on observations of children and drafts of articles, 1899-1901
	Papers
Box 1 Folder 19-26	Written at college or shortly after
Box 2 Folder 1	Written at college or shortly after
Box 2 Folder 2	Harriet F. Eastabrook (O'Shea's wife), 1890, undated
Box 2 Folder 3	Daily record of teaching Harriet arithmetic, 1902-1904
Box 2 Folder 4	Journal - early notes on Harriet, 1899-1903
	Lectures, undated
Box 2 Folder 5-8	On mental development (Mankato College)
Box 2 Folder 9-11	On principles of education (Mankato College)
	Research topic files (articles), 1900-1903, undated
Box 2 Folder 12	Interest
	Instinct
Box 2 Folder 13	Inheritance, criminal
Box 2 Folder 14	Fear, supernatural, anger, animal instincts
Box 2 Folder 15	Periods in development, senses - order of development
Box 2 Folder 16	Suggestion - pictures
Box 2 Folder 17	Questions
Box 2 Folder 18	Art
Box 2 Folder 19	Recapitulation - games, fear, love, sympathy, anger, affection
Box 2 Folder 20	Youth
Box 2 Folder 21	Other
Box 2 Folder 22-25	Miscellaneous articles and correspondence, 1892-1932, undated
	Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 26	Professional, 1909-1932, undated
Box 2 Folder 27	Family, 1988, 1902, 1922, undated
Box 2 Folder 28	Newspaper clippings about O'Shea
Box 2 Folder 29	Obituaries
Box 2 Folder 30	Personal memorabilia
Box 3	Mother's Magazine home study pamphlets
Box 4	Note cards, listing articles for magazines O'Shea edited