Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

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Part 1 (Series 2297): Original Collection, 1955-1995

Part 2 (2002/130): Additions, 1996-1997

Part 3 (2011/122): Additions, 1993, 2000-2002

Container	Title
1988/227	Part 2 (1988/227, film and video): Additions, circa 1940-1983 Physical Description: 6.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes, 6 negatives boxes, 6 flat boxes, and 1 oversize album) of photographs, negatives, and transparencies, 1 audio recording (missing as of 2011), 19 films, and 1 videorecording Scope and Content Note: Audio-visual records, circa 1940-1983 including photographs, negatives, slides, and one audio recording pertaining to the Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled (NWCDD). Materials provide visual documentation of the NWCDD facility and staff, patients, and programs. This accession includes a small number of personal photos of Anna Lenz, Lenz lived at the NWCDD from 1923-1990. Lenz was not committed to the home for a disability, rather as a punishment for an accident and served as a caretaker for Cottage Number 1 and several children who lived at the Center. Accession contains materials originally accessioned as 1991/134, 2000/011 and 2009/004. Use Restrictions: Reproductions of images of patients requires permission of the Visual Materials Curator or the Visual Materials Archivist.
Box 1 Folder 1	Sports and Recreation
Box 1 Folder 2	Dancing
Box 1 Folder 3	Agriculture
Box 1 Folder 4	Vocational Training and handicrafts
Box 1 Folder 5	Theatrical Productions
Box 1 Folder 6	Laundry, kitchen and meals
Box 1 Folder 7	Buildings and Grounds
Box 2 Folder 1	Students, free time, boy scouts, groups and individuals
Box 2 Folder 2	Store and soda fountain
Box 2 Folder 3	Nursery
Box 2 Folder 4	Classrooms, students and teachers, students studying
Box 2 Folder 5	Administrators and staff
Box 2 Folder 6	Dormitories
Box 2 Folder 7	Displays of produce and handicrafts
Box 2 Folder 8-9	Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 1-2	Staff, patients, activities
Box 3 Folder 3	Theatrical productions
Box 3 Folder 4	Administrators, Students and teachers
Box 3 Folder 5	Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 6	Recreation sports
Box 3 Folder 7	1974 May
Box 3 Folder 8	“Blue” scrapbook pages/photographs
	Snapshots
Box 4 Folder 1	1940s-1970s
Box 4 Folder 2	Mid 1950s - early 1960s?
Box 4 Folder 3	1962
Box 4 Folder 4	Fair, 1962
Box 4 Folder 5-8	Snapshots and negatives
Box 5 Folder 1-8	Staff, patients, activities
Box 6	Staff, patients, activities, facilities from exhibit?
Box 7	Album pages
Box 8	Lantern slides
Box 9	Transparencies from slide presentations
	Negatives
Box 10	35 mm
Box 11	Sheet film
Box 12	Glass
	Albums
Box 13	In-service education orientations workshops, 1966-1973
Oversize	Pictorial Legend of Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
	Slides
Box 14 Folder 1	Youth Service Corps, 1976
Box 14 Folder 2	Ford Nursing Home
Box 14 Folder 3	Miscellaneous, 1983
Box 14 Folder 4	[Jacetto?] style show, 1970
Box 14 Folder 5	A.C. retirement, circa 1970s
Box 14 Folder 6	Aerial views of Northern Wisconsin Center
Box 14 Folder 7-9	Fair
Box 14 Folder 10	Residents, 1964-1968
Box 14 Folder 11	Miscellaneous, facilities and residents
Box 14 Folder 12	Cemetery maps
Box 14 Folder 13	Miscellaneous, duplicates
Box 15-16	Miscellaneous, residents, personnel, facilities and programs, circa 1963-1980
Box 19 Folder 5	Buildings and grounds
Box 19 Folder 6	Daily life and activities
Box 19 Folder 7	Cafeteria
Box 19 Folder 8	Children
Box 19 Folder 9	Family camp, 1973
Box 19 Folder 10	Farming
Box 19 Folder 11	Parade, 1976 July 4
Box 19 Folder 12	Laundry
Box 19 Folder 13	Vocational training
Box 19 Folder 14	Patient care
Box 19 Folder 15	Patient work and training
Box 19 Folder 16	Staff
	Lenz, Anna
Box 19 Folder 17	Biographical material
Box 19 Folder 18	Family and friends
Box 19 Folder 19-20	Friends and patients
Box 19 Folder 21	Anna and visitors
Box 19 Folder 22	Anna and her garden
	Parades
Box 19 Folder 23	Queen Ann [sic] and her court, 1967
Box 19 Folder 24	4th of July, 1973
	Snapshots
Box 17	Miscellaneous, 1961-1976
Box 18 Folder 1	Miscellaneous, 1961-1976 (continued)
Box 18 Folder 2	Parent organization fun fest, 1982
Box 18 Folder 3	Booklet pictures
Box 18 Folder 4	Cottage number 12, Christmas, 1931
Box 18 Folder 5	Negatives, 35 mm
Box 19 Folder 1	Christmas celebration
Box 19 Folder 2	Patient images
Box 19 Folder 3	Vocational training
Box 19 Folder 4	Family camp, 1973
	Films
AE 197	[Activities and events] Note 16 mm, black&white and color, silent. Footage of activities and events at the NWCDD. Included are winter scenes around Christmas, children outdoors-nursery school (winter), miscellaneous Christmas scenes, nursery school-front administration building, Indian pow-wow centennial Chippewa (Ojibwe), fourth of July, Bernice Peterson; winter scene 1938, hay baling and garden, potato scene and girls at play. Circa 1937-1938. Description was transcribed from reel.
EA(S) 181	Cooking Physical Description: Super 8 8 mm reel
EA(R) 074	Family camp, 1973 June Physical Description: 8 mm reel
EA(S) 179-EA(S) 180	[Hospital Improvement Project] Physical Description: 2 reels Super 8 8mm Note: Residents feeding themselves as part of the Hospital Improvement Project. 1968.
CC 390	Introducing the Mentally Retarded Note: 16 mm, black&white, sound. A documentary introduction to mental retardation. Discusses types and levels of retardation, the education and training of the retarded child, and the importance of recreational activities, socialization, institutionalization, and family life. Shows scenes of mentally retarded children and adults as they work, study, and play. Division of Health of Missouri, 1963.
EA(S) 182	Laundry Physical Description: Super 8 8 mm reel
AE 198	[Olympics and parades] Note: 16 mm, color, silent. Footage of Olympic games and parades including races, medal ceremonies, parade floats and marching bands. Circa 1970s.
CC 389	[NWCDD strike footage] Note: 16 mm, color, sound. Footage of the Center's buildings, grounds, facilities and residents during a strike in the 1970s. Includes footage of residents folding and sorting laundry and using the Center's large laundry machinery. Also includes footage of residents being shipped out of the Center by bus and an interview with Administrator A.C. Nelson. Circa 1970s.
CC 388	[Pageants] Note 16 mm, black& white and color, silent. Footage from NWCDD annual pageants featuring [residents?] in costume performing dance numbers. Compilation reel includes scenes from three outdoor pageants from the 1930s and an indoor pageant circa 1971. Pageant footage appears in order as: [miscellaneous, circa 1930s], Star Glow 1937, [miscellaneous, circa 1930s], and [miscellaneous, circa 1971].
EA(S) 183	Parade, 1976 July 4 Physical Description: Super 8 8 mm reel
EA(S) 072	[Recreation play and wading], 1969 July Physical Description: Super 8 8 mm reel
EA(S) 184	Sheets, 1972 June Physical Description: Super 8 8 mm reel
EA(S) 185-EA(S) 189	Sign language training Physical Description: 5 Super 8 8mm reels Note: An instructor showing pictures and items and then demonstrating the American Sign Language sign for the item.
EA(S) 073	Vocational training and therapy Physical Description: Super 8 8 mm reel
	Videotape
VCA 268	Speech pathology and audiology Physical Description: 1 1/2-inch open reel videotape Note: The film shows a patient constructing something out of plastic and a screwdriver. Then goes on to show various sorting activities and color matching.