Edwin E. Witte Papers, 1903-1970

Contents List

Container Title
Wis Mss VJ
Series: Reuben Gold Thwaites
Box   1
Folder   1
Biographical material and memorabilia
Photographs
PH 780
Photographic views of Colorado, 1880-1890
PH 810
Photographic views of Leadville, Colorado, 1880, 1890
Wis Mss VJ
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   2
Personal (RGT to JTT), 1903
General
Box   1
Folder   3-9
1885-1903
Box   2
1904-1905
Box   3
1906-1910 March
Box   4
1910 April-1928 August, undated
Box   5
Folder   1
Ely development of University Heights, 1906-1913
Writings
Drafts
Box   5
Folder   2-3
1888, Historic Waterways, draft
Box   5
Folder   4
1888, Jesuit Relations, publicity
Box   5
Folder   5
1892
Box   5
Folder   6
1893, In Britain and Ireland with a Kodak, drafts
Box   5
Folder   7
1893-1894, UW Extension lectures
Box   5
Folder   8-9
1894-1903
Box   5
Folder   10
1903, UW lectures
Box   5
Folder   11
1904-1905
Box   5
Folder   12
1905, Cyrus McCormick biography
Box   6
Folder   1
1905, Berkeley lectures
Box   6
Folder   2
1906, “Among the Pueblos”
Box   6
Folder   3
1906-1910
Box   6
Folder   4
1910, History 52 notes
Box   6
Folder   5
1911-1913
Box   6
Folder   6-9
, Undated writings
Micro 2025
Publicity scrapbook, 1888-1901
Wis Mss VJ
Box   6
Folder   10
Miscellaneous publicity
Box   6
Folder   11
Contracts
Notes
Interview notes
Box   7
Folder   1
Notebook, 1887-1888 (Morgan L. Martin, A.J. Vieau, and A. Clermont)
Box   7
Folder   2
Notebook, 1889, Peter J. Vieau
College notes, 1874-1874
Box   7
Folder   3-4
William Graham Sumner courses
Box   7
Folder   5
Professor Wheeler, 1874-1875
Box   7
Folder   5
Francis Walker, 1874-1875
Box   7
Folder   6
Miscellaneous notebooks
Box   7
Folder   7
Fragments
Box   8
Folder   1
Fragments (continued)
Travel notes
Box   13
Folder   4
Family/travel diary, 1882-1887
Box   8
Folder   2
1887, Fox River trip and Rock, Wisconsin, and Yahara rivers trips
Box   8
Folder   3
1890, Brule River trip
Box   8
Folder   4
1891, England and Ireland
Box   14
Folder   1-4
1894, Ohio River trip
Box   14
Folder   5
1901, Virginia trip
Box   8
Folder   5
1902, Norway
Family business papers
Account books (and RGT social appointment book, 1908-1913)
Box   8
Folder   6
1882-1892
Box   8A
Folder   1
1892-1907
Box   8
Folder   7
1908-1929
Turville Point house
Box   8A
Folder   2
Specifications
Box   20
Plans, elevations, topographic surveys by FTT, 1892-1929
Series: Family Papers
Box   19
McConnell family miscellany
Box   9
Folder   1
Mueller family miscellany
Amy Mueller Thwaites
Box   9
Folder   2-7
Correspondence, 1916-1931, undated
Box   13
Folder   5
Expense record, 1960-1977
Writings
Box   13
Folder   6
Record of Rocky Mountain field course (Geology 139s), 1925
Box   17
Folder   1
Papers on regional geology (AMT?), undated
Box   17
Folder   2
Field notes on Rocky Mountain trip, 1925
Box   17
Folder   3
Class notes (Physiography?)
Box   17
Folder   4
Travel/photography notes, undated
Fredrik (or Frederick) T. Thwaites
Correspondence
Box   9
Folder   8-12
Personal, 1913-1932
Professional
Box   9
Folder   13-14
1904-1912
Box   10
Folder   1-2
1913-1928, undated
Box   10
Folder   2A
Chippewa Falls water, 1960
Box   10
Folder   3-4
Geology Department, 1929-1959
Box   10
Folder   5-6
Class notes
Box   10
Folder   7
Field notes
Instruction and writings
Box   11
Folder   1
Summaries of Glacial Geology, 1922
Box   11
Folder   2-4
Outline of Glacial Geology, 1925, 1927, 1934
Box   11
Folder   5
Illustrations, 1933
Box   11
Folder   6
Geology II, undated
Box   11
Folder   7-8
Miscellaneous and unidentified writings
Diaries
Box   14
Folder   6-35
1883-1929
Box   15
Folder   1-7
1929-1957
Box   15
Folder   8-11
Financial account books, 1892-1916
Jessie Turvill Thwaites
Correspondence
Box   12
Folder   1
American Fund for French Wounded and notebook
Box   12
Folder   2
Condolences on death of RGT, 1913-1914
Box   12
Folder   3
General correspondence
Diaries
Box   15
Folder   12
1877
Note: Also contains some RGT notes.
Box   15
Folder   13
, 1891 trip to England and address book
Box   15
Folder   14
, 1899-1914 entertainment diary
Box   15
Folder   15
1902
Note: Also contains Thomas Turvill entries, 1924.
Box   15
Folder   16-17
1930-1931
Box   15
Folder   18-19
1935-1937
Box   15
Folder   20
Housekeeping notes, undated
Box   12
Folder   4
Sheldon History Club notes, 1887-1893
Box   12
Folder   5
Rug patterns
Box   12
Folder   6
Thwaites family miscellany
Box   16
Folder   2-3
Henry Turvill Jr.?, diaries, 1870-1871
Henry Turvill Sr.
Diaries
Box   15
Folder   21-29
1856, 1858, 1860-1863, 1865-1866, 1868
Box   16
Folder   1-2
1869-1870
Box   12
Folder   7
Legal papers, 1832-1862
Financial records
Box   12
Folder   8
Day book and diary, 1847-1856, and day book, , 1843-1858
Box   12
Folder   9
Daily journal and ledger, 1858-1866
Box   19
Folder   1
Ledger, 1843-1849
Box   19
Folder   2
Ledger, 1867-1878
Thomas Turvill
Box   12
Folder   10
Accounts, 1902-1920
Box   16
Folder   4-6
Diaries, 1871-1872, 1916
Turvill family
Box   16
Folder   7
Unidentified diary, 1893? regarding trip from Madison to Florida
Box   13
Folder   1
Unidentified account book, 1875-1882
Box   13
Folder   2
Turvill brothers correspondence, 1912
Box   13
Folder   3
Wood family miscellany
M94-176
Series: Visual Materials
Subseries: Thwaites Family iconographic collections
Note: Some material originally boxed with this photographic material has been integrated into the Thwaites Manuscript Collection, Wis Mss VJ
Separated: Blanchard Harper (RGT family friend) glass plate negatives added to existing negatives series (H3), (H31), (H32), (H302).
Box   1
Fredrik (or Frederick) Turville (or Turvill) Thwaites
Box   1
Small album: trip to Arizona, New Mexico and California, 1905
Box   1
Small album: trip to Rocky Mountains, Pikes Reak, circa 1906
Box   1
4 albums: Geological travels, 1905-1920
Box   1
Album: Amy Mueller travel snapshots, circa 1928-1932
Box   2-3
F.T. Thwaites albums, circa 1923-1955
Note: 1 album unnumbered; 9 albums with photos numbered 1-2579.
Box   4
F.T. Thwaites negatives, most corresponding to numbered geological albums
Box   5
Lantern slides, lecture on trip to Britain, 1883?
Box   5
Lantern slides, trip to Norway, 1902
Box   5
Herbarium scrapbook of botanical samples by Jessie T. Thwaites begun in 1871
Box   5
Cartes de visites and cabinet card album of Turvill family (English relations)
Box   5
Cartes de visite album, Christmas 1877
Box   5
Reuben Gold Thwaites family cartes de visite album from Turvill family
Box   5
“Gem” thumbnail tintype album Turvill/Thwaites families
Reuben Gold Thwaites travel albums
Volume I
Box   6
“Photographs taken by Reuben G. Thwaites”
Box   6
Virginia and West Virginia Bicycling Trip, 1901
Box   6
Morris Park, 1901 July 20-August 5
Box   6
Library Conference, Lake Placid, New York, 1901 September 22-30
Box   6
Yellowstone Park, 1903
Box   6
Jackson's Lake, 1903
Volume II
Box   6
“Photographs taken by Reuben Gold Thwaites”
Box   6
Yellowstone Park (Geo. K. McConnell, photographer), 1903
Box   6
Driving trip to Washington (F. Thwaites, photographer), 1903 August
Box   6
Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, etc., 1904
Box   6
Santa Fe, New Mexico and California, 1905
Volume III
Box   6
“Photographs taken by Reuben Gold Thwaites,” 1905-1913
Box   6
High Sierras, 1905
Box   6
Cornwall, Brittany and Normandy, 1907
Box   6
New Hampshire, 1909
Box   6
Caribbean trip, 1913 February-March
Box   6
“Yachting Cruise in the West Indies” (Cuba, Jamaica, Panama Canal Zone, Martinique, Porto Rico)
Box   6
“Photograph taken in Europe by Reuben Gold Thwaites” (Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Paris, England), 1897 May-September
Box   6
Norway, etc., photographs by Reuben Gold Thwaites, volumes 1 and 2, 1902
Box   6
Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, “with a few bits in the Laurel Hills,” Reuben G. Thwaites, photographer, 1894 May 3-June 11
Note: Later described in Afloat on the Ohio
Set of rough proofs from original negatives produced 1991.
Box   6
1891 England bike trip, R.G. Thwaites, photographer described in Our Cycling Tour in England, 1892
Note: Photocopy: original returned to donors, 1989.
Box   6
Partial album with some views from American Library Association, 1899
Box   6
Georgia, etc.
Note: corresponding negatives separated and filed as Negative series (T53); some still in Box 4
Box   7
Snapshots by William Thwaites
Box   8
Flat box of loose album pages of Blanchard Harper photos of the Turvill family, Lakeside, etc.
Loose photographs in categorized envelopes
Box   9
Langdon Street houses, 1886, 1898, 1909
Box   9
Old Turville Point house, 1889-1899
Box   9
The Old Homestead, 1885
Box   9
Picnics, Hunting, Boating (mostly on Turvill farm)
Box   9
Turvill farm, scenic views, family outdoors
Box   9
Farm activities, Turville Point
Box   9
Thwaites Cottage, Lakeside, 1887, 1895
Box   9
Thwaites house at Turville Wood, circa 1910
Box   9
Miscellaneous Madison views
Box   9
Portraits: including Thwaites, Turvill and family members, and Historical Society staff
Negative Series WHi(T53)
Subseries: Nitrate negatives, 1891-1907
Note: See Appendix A for item descriptions.
Access Restrictions: Use of nitrate negatives restricted. Consult reference archivist regarding access to negatives.
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