Browse Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids: browse
|
Browse by:
|
Creator
|
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | ||||||
| Sa Sc Se Sh Si Sk Sl Sm Sn So Sp St Su Sv Sw Sy Sz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
There are items in this collection Browsing Creators starting with St.
|
|
| Creator | Item information |
|---|---|
| St. Angelo, Thomas, 1889-1967 | Title: Thomas St. Angelo Papers, 1960-1967 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 664; Stout Micro 1 Abstract: Papers of a Barron County, Wisconsin state assemblyman, consisting of campaign materials, correspondence, and an obituary. The campaign materials include a newspaper clipping announcing St. Angelo's decision to seek the assembly seat in 1960 and two campaign brochures dated 1960 and 1962 respectively. The correspondence comprises the bulk of the collection and is composed of alphabetical constituent correspondence and St. Angelo's replies for the years 1962-1963. Among the subjects discussed are lowering the drinking age, the sales tax and oleo margarine controversies, the problems of maintaining effective education in northern Wisconsin, and retention of the Barron County Teachers College in Rice Lake. |
| St. Bridget's Catholic Church (River Falls, Wis.) | Title: St. Bridget's Catholic Church (River Falls, Wis.) Records, 1890-1950 Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: River Falls Mss DC Abstract: Records of the first Catholic church in the River Falls area consisting primarily of financial records and of cemetery burial permits. |
| St. Croix County Extension Homemakers (Wis.) | Title: St. Croix County Extension Homemakers Transcribed Interviews, 1973-1974 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: River Falls Mss EK Abstract: Photocopies of transcripts from forty-seven oral history interviews pertaining to Saint Croix County, Wisconsin history conducted as a project of the St. Croix County Extension Homemakers. Although farm and daily work, recreation, education, and family life were discussed, the interviews focus on description and history of various cities, villages, and townships in the county. These include the cities or villages of Baldwin, Burkhardt, Deer Park, Erin, Glenwood City, Hammond, New Richmond, Pleasant Valley, Wildwood, and Woodville; and the townships of Cylon, Erin, Hudson, Kinnickinnic, Pleasant Valley, Springfield, and Troy. One interview relates to the Mann Valley Cemetery and nearby German settlement. |
| St. Croix County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: St. Croix County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors: Official County Proceedings, 1863-1943 Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (8 volumes) Call Number: St. Croix Series 11 Abstract: Official manuscript and typescript volumes of the proceedings of the County Board of Supervisors, including clerk's minutes of meetings, and complete or partial copies of documents considered at meetings. Volume 1 has no index but the other volumes contain separate indexes for each year. |
| St. Croix-Pierce Bi-County Federation of Women's Clubs (Wis.) | Title: St. Croix-Pierce Bi-County Federation of Women's Clubs Records,1922-1973 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss AT Abstract: Records of an affiliate of the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs, including the constitution, reports, and minutes of the St. Croix County Federation of Women's Clubs, 1922-1952, and records of the Bi-County Federation from its formation in 1954 to its dissolution in 1973. Included is correspondence, annual reports and yearbooks of local clubs, and other records. |
| St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Flambeau, Rusk County, Wis.) | Title: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Flambeau, Rusk County, Wis.) Records, 1866-1981 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Eau Claire Micro 22; Micro 1014 Abstract: Records of a parish which first served French-Canadian settlers and Chippewa Indians; including a record book, 1866-1908, noting baptisms, first communions, confirmations, and marriages; financial records; and miscellaneous papers. |
| St. Francis School of Nursing (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: St. Francis School of Nursing Records Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 115 Abstract: The St. Francis School of Nursing operated in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from 1902 to 1970, and was associated with St. Francis Hospital (now Franciscan Skemp Health Care), Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and Viterbo College (now Viterbo University). Materials of the School of Nursing include historical photographs, newspaper clippings about the school and students, bulletins and promotional materials, handbooks for students, biographical information on nursing faculty, clippings and other miscellaneous information about St. Francis Hospital. Also included are records of the St. Francis Alumnae Association, the nursing school’s alumni group, which include constitution/bylaws, historical materials, and homecoming booklets (1943, 1947, 1963, 1970, and 1983). |
| St. Gregory's Church (St. Nazianz, Wis.) | Title: St. Gregory's Church (St. Nazianz, Wis.) Records, 1854-1911, 1954 Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) and 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: Green Bay Micro 5; Green Bay Micro 22; Green Bay SC 109; Micro 488; Micro 731 Abstract: Records of a church and its founders, an association of Roman Catholic emigrants from Freiburg, Germany, led by Father Ambrose Oschwald, who sought a religious environment and practiced a communal economic system. Available in paper form is a copy of the articles of agreement governing the colony and a newsclipping on finding the articles in Manitowoc County, Wis., Circuit Court files. On microfilm is a published history, a chronicle book, financial records, a pastor's diary (1884-1890), and records of land transactions and other activities. Much of the collection is in German. The collection documents the establishment of the village of St. Nazianz in 1854, building of the church in 1866, dissension within the church over communal property ownership and transfer of property to a corporate entity known as the Roman Catholic Religious Society of St. Nazianz, and an 1896 agreement with the Society of the Divine Savior in Rome to provide spiritual and temporal care for members in exchange for property rights. |
| St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church (Elkhorn, Wis.) | Title: St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church (Elkhorn, Wis.) Records, 1848-1984 Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 1013; Whitewater Micro 17 Abstract: Minute books of congregation and vestry meetings, 1853-1949, 1966-1974; parish registers, 1853-1984, including baptism, marriage, funeral, and membership records; minutes of the Ladies Society (1892-1983), St. Mary's Guild (1915-1983), and Rector's Guild (1959-1967); centennial history of the congregation, 1941; and miscellaneous scattered financial records, correspondence, historical notes, clippings, and photographs. |
| St. John's Lutheran Church (Madison, Wis.) | Title: St. John's Lutheran Church Records (Madison, Wis.) Records, 1856-1956 Quantity: 4 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 333 Abstract: Records of St. John's Lutheran Church in Madison, Wisconsin. Included are financial records, 1917-1949; registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, and communicants, 1856-1956; and records of monthly council meetings, 1941-1956. |
| St. Joseph's Nurses Alumni Association (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: St. Joseph's Nurses Alumni Association Records, 1893-1924 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 25 Abstract: Fragmentary records regarding graduates of St. Joseph's Hospital Training School for Nurses, with a small addition pertaining to Trinity Hospital School for Nurses, both of which later combined to form the Marquette University College of Nursing. Included is a certificate of incorporation of St. Joseph's School (1899); volume of minutes, articles of incorporation, and by-laws of the St. Joseph's Nurses Alumni Association (1914-1924); and lists of graduates of St. Joseph's and Trinity Schools. Each list also gives the married names and addresses of many of the nurses. |
| St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Watertown, Wis.) | Title: St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Watertown, Wis.) Records, 1849-1982 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Whitewater Micro 11; Micro 919 Abstract: Records of a congregation founded as St. Luke's Free Church in 1848 by German residents of Watertown. The congregation became St. Luke's Lutheran Church in 1909 and St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1966. It is affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The records include sacramental records, nineteenth century family membership records, and copies of 1898 articles of reorganization and of other legal documents, 1922. Most of the entries are in German. |
| St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing (Racine, Wis.) | Title: St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing Records, 1908-1986 Quantity: 9.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes and 4 record center cartons) and 4 reels of microfilm (16mm) Call Number: Parkside Mss 70; Parkside Micro 17; Micro 1155 Abstract: Records, mainly 1935-1986, of a three-year diploma school of nursing in Racine, Wisconsin, that operated from 1906 to 1986. Included are publications and catalogs, reports to the Board of Directors, faculty minutes and handbooks, and other incomplete administrative records; correspondence and reports to the National League of Nursing and the Wisconsin Board of Nursing concerning accreditation and revision of the curriculum; records of individual students; and extensive files of course materials, 1969-1986. |
| St. Luke's United Methodist Church (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: St. Luke's United Methodist Church (La Crosse, Wis.) Records Physical Description: 4.8 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 073 Abstract: St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 1858-2001, is located on the North Side of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The congregation, begun in 1856 under the name La Crosse Second Church and later known as the Caledonia Street Methodist Church, is still active and is affiliated with the United Methodists. Records include historical materials, including photographs, clippings and historical booklets, as well as materials related to buildings and grounds, Christian Education, events, financial materials, membership, a few sacramental records (1897-1918), church clubs, the West Wisconsin Methodist Conference, and the Bice Family (a family with a long association with the church). |
| St. Mary's Hill Hospital (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: St. Mary's Hill Hospital Records, 1956-1972 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 172 Abstract: Records of St. Mary's Hill, a private psychiatric hospital which offered both patient care and instructional programs in psychiatric nursing. The collection pertains to the instructional program and includes minutes of various administrative, faculty, and working committee meetings; accreditation materials; a faculty manual; monthly reports to the Wisconsin State Dept. of Nurses; yearly reports; and two brochures providing a history of the program. There are also some materials relating to nursing education elsewhere in Wisconsin. |
| St. Mary's School of Nursing (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) | Title: St. Mary's School of Nursing Records, 1894-1972 Quantity: 16.9 c.f. (40 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 folder) and 50 lantern slides Call Number: Milwaukee Mss CV; Milwaukee SC 69; PH Milwaukee Mss CV Abstract: Records concerning administration, faculty, accreditation, the curriculum, students and alumnae, and historical and miscellaneous files; plus photographs, newsclippings, and lantern slides. The collection documents the school from its inception in 1894 to its final year in 1969. It provides information on the Daughters of Charity, St. Mary's Hospital, and a variety of medical and nursing topics. Milwaukee SC 69 contains miscellaneous materials on the 1972 dedication of a historical marker at the school. |
| St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Hudson, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Hudson, Wis.) Records, 1896-1978 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss DB Abstract: Records including annual reports, treasurers' reports, records of congregation women's groups and of vestry meetings, and printed histories of the congregation and of the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire. |
| St. Paul's Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul's Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 042, Micro 15 Abstract: Records of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, mainly 1878-1920, located on the North Side of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The congregation is still active and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The church records include baptisms, 1878-1924; confirmations, 1882-1920; marriages, 1881-1920; burials, 1888-1920; lists of members of the congregation; lists of members who have left the congregation; holy events, communion records, 1877-1920; and congregational minutes, ca. 1877-1880. All records were written in the Norwegian language. |
| St. Paul's Lutheran Church (La Crosse, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul's Lutheran Church (La Crosse, WI) Records Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 019, Micro 6 Abstract: Microfilmed records of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1870-1898, a church affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, located on the North Side of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The records were filmed from several bound volumes kept by the minister and the microfilm reflects the inherent order of those books. The earliest records are congregational minutes which span from 1870-1881. Sacramental records date from 1873-1898 and include baptisms (1873-1898), marriages (1881-1898), burials (1888-1898), confirmands (1882-1898), communion records (1877-1898), members of the congregation, members who have left the congregation, and holy events. All records are written in the Norwegian language. |
| St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Town of Fountain, Juneau County, Wis.) | Title: St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Town of Fountain, Juneau County, Wis.) Records, 1889-1980 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Micro 1098; La Crosse Micro 13; Stevens Point Micro 24 Abstract: Record book containing registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, and communicants, and a few brief financial notes; and articles of incorporation, bylaws, and minutes. |
| St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Lebanon, Wis.) | Title: St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Lebanon, Wis.) Records, 1881-1981 Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Oshkosh Micro 17; Micro 889 Abstract: Congregational meeting minutes, 1887-1971; Board meeting minutes, 1931-1943; sacramental record books, 1881-1981, noting baptisms, confirmations, marriages, communicants, and burials; and miscellaneous papers, including a church cemetery grave list, a history of the Lebanon, Wisconsin, band, publications from the Church cornerstone, and other items. Also present is a sacramental record book, 1934-1948, of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hustisford, Wisconsin, a congregation which shared St. Peter's pastor. Most of the records are in German. |
| St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Town of Clifton, Monroe County, Wisconsin) | Title: St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Town of Clifton, Monroe County, Wisconsin) Records, 1868-1967 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: La Crosse Micro 14; Micro 1099 Abstract: A minute book of St. Peter's Lutheran Church and records of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, and communicants, and a few brief financial notes. A list of pastors, 1862-1969, is at the back of Volume 3. |
| Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser, and Hansen (Law firm) | Title: Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser, and Hansen (Law firm): State of Wisconsin vs. Milwaukee Braves et al. records, 1953-1966 Quantity: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 93 Abstract: Legal papers, trial transcripts, memoranda, exhibits, correspondence, and reference material created and collected by Willard S. Stafford and other members of the law firm of Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser, and Hansen, in preparation for the 1966 trial of the case State of Wisconsin vs. Milwaukee Braves, Inc., et al. The case involved Wisconsin's attempt to prevent the Braves National League baseball team from moving to Atlanta, Georgia. Stafford served as special counsel to the state attorney general (plaintiff) during the trial of alleged violations of the state's anti-trust laws. |
| Stahl, John Meloy, 1860-1944 | Title: John Meloy Stahl Papers, circa 1930-circa 1944 Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Illinois Mss K Abstract: Papers of John Meloy Stahl, a writer and lecturer, consisting mainly of typescripts for his book The Battle of New Orleans, concerning this battle from the War of 1812, and for two unpublished books: “The Congressional Lobby: Its First Century,” and “Jeff Davis: Unknown,” almost 2000 pages long and including chapters on early Wisconsin history. Correspondence, 1931-1938, relates to the last-named book. |
| Stalbaum, Lynn, 1920- | Title: Lynn Stalbaum Papers, 1955-1968 Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (4 record center cartons) and 6 photographs Call Number: Parkside Mss 89; PH Parkside Mss 89 Abstract: Papers of Democratic State Senator and U.S. Congressman Lynn Stalbaum, representative of Wisconsin's 21st Senate District from 1954-1963 and the 1st Congressional District from 1964-1965. (Stalbaum unsuccessfully ran for re-election in 1966 and 1968.) The collection documents his political career, especially his campaigns, as well as issues of interest to his constituents. Included are press releases; newsletters; clippings; speeches; campaign materials; photographs; legislative, topical, constituent, and campaign correspondence; statements and testimony before committees; and project files. Of note is a file devoted to Stalbaum's work as chairman of the “Wisconsin Harriman for President Committee” containing Stalbaum's correspondence and Averell Harriman campaign material. |
| Stamler, Jeremiah, 1919- | Title: Jeremiah Stamler Papers, 1938-1976 Quantity: 16.0 c.f. (13 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 2 flat boxes), and 13 photographs Call Number: Mss 684; PH 3670 Abstract: Papers of Jeremiah Stamler, a distinguished Chicago physician and cardiovascular researcher who refused to testify at a 1965 hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee and instead filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Committee. The collection includes legal papers from the three lawsuits involved: the original suit, Stamler vs. Willis, the Committee's criminal contempt of Congress suit, U.S. vs. Stamler, and a counterclaim, Stamler vs. U.S. The lawsuits were joined by Dr. Stamler's research assistant, Yolanda Hall, and intervening plaintiff Milton M. Cohen. Also present are a few personal materials, and research materials and photographs of the HUAC hearing in Chicago created and collected by Stamler's lawyers, Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Thomas P. Sullivan, and Chester Kamin. Included is a major statistical study conducted by Dr. Hans Zeisel, University of Chicago, of the effects of the Committee's subpoena power and the results of testifying or refusing to testify at a HUAC hearing. In 1973, after the House Committee on Committees unanimously recommended that the government's lawsuit be dropped and the Committee be eliminated, the suit was dismissed at the government's request. Subsequently, Stamler and Hall withdrew their civil suits. |
| Stare, Fredrick J., 1911- | Title: Fredrick J. Stare Papers, 1912-1935 Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 594 Abstract: Papers, mainly 1930-1935, of Fredrick J. Stare, a biochemist and physician originally from Columbus, Wisconsin, entirely concerning his undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Wisconsin and his National Research Council fellowship at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Included are personal correspondence, records concerning the Kappa Sigma social fraternity, and research and professional material. The personal correspondence includes exchanges with his father, Fredrick A. Stare, and other family members; his fiancee (Joyce Love Allen, daughter of Governor Oscar Allen of Louisiana); numerous fraternity brothers such as University of Wisconsin Dean Scott Goodnight; and other friends. Kappa Sigma files, which make up half of the collection, include planning files for the 1933 national conclave held in Madison, correspondence, reports on individual students, and other documentation pertaining to his preceptorship in the fraternity house. The research files are incomplete but include exchanges with Conrad A. Elvehjem, his doctoral advisor, and other scientists at the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere. |
| Starobin, Joseph R. (Joseph Robert), 1913-1976 | Title: Joseph R. Starobin Papers, 1932-1979 Quantity: 5.4 c.f. (14 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 592 Abstract: Papers of Joseph Starobin, a leftist writer, university professor, and activist who associated with many Communist Party leaders throughout the world and who attempted to arrange peace talks between North Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War. He served as a professor of political science at York University in Toronto from 1968 to 1976; edited and wrote for Communist publications, including The New Masses (1939-1942) and The Daily Worker (1942-1954); and was a member of the Communist Party from 1934 to 1954. The collection consists primarily of personal, business, and political correspondence, with the bulk of materials dating from 1954 to 1976. Included are letters from political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, Senator J.W. Fulbright, columnist James B. Reston, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and a 1962 letter from author Doris Lessing. Also included are manuscripts and writings by Starobin and others, and subject files. |
| Starobin, Robert S. | Title: Robert S. Starobin Papers, 1960-1967 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 428 Abstract: Papers of New Left historian and social activist Robert Starobin, chiefly consisting of collected print and near-print material relating to the Free Speech Movement at the University of California-Berkeley where he was a graduate student and to a number of civil rights organizations. The limited amount of original material in the collection consists of annotated organizational draft proposals and handwritten directives of the Graduate Coordinating Committee and the Teaching Assistants Union. |
| Starr, Mary Agnes | Title: Mary Agnes Starr Papers, 1920-1984 Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 28 Abstract: Papers of a Wisconsin folklorist, including biographical data, letters of thanks from individuals, newsclippings, and programs from several folk festivals. The collection also contains publications, primarily bulletins from the French Folklore Society, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs; Starr's writings including a play entitled Jesous Ahatonhia, a brochure Let's Have a Folk Festival, and several journal articles. |
| Starr, William J., 1861-1921 | Title: William J. Starr Papers, 1902-1938 Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Eau Claire Mss N Abstract: Papers of Starr, a lumberman and real estate investor, relating to the timber and land holdings of the Davis and Starr Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; other business investments in Wisconsin, Louisiana, and California; and the management of his estate after his death. Also present are papers of companies with which Starr was closely affiliated: the Weston Heights Stock Farm and the Weston Orchard Company, both in Dunn County, Wis., 1919-1927; the California Forest Protective Association, 1922-1926; and the Florence-Louisiana Company, 1920-1935; and documentation of other real estate holdings in Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, and elsewhere. Correspondence, financial and legal records, minutes, and other papers are included, much of it relating to insurance and tax matters, rentals and sales, mortgages, and similar matters. Business associates included A. L. Arpin, C. T. Bundy, Burt E. DeYo, J.D.R. Steven, and staff of the Red River Lumber Company representing the California timber interests of T. B. Walker. J. B. Tasker managed the stock farm and reported regularly on cultivation and the Hereford cattle there. Paul Grant corresponded with Steven, executor of the Starr estate, on the apple orchard operations. |
| State Association of Wisconsin Architects | Title: State Association of Wisconsin Architects Records, 1932-1949 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 36 Abstract: Records of the State Association of Wisconsin Architects including a constitution and by-laws, 1932; minutes and reports, 1934-1949; records of dues paid, 1934-1949; financial reports, 1948-1949; and proceedings of annual conventions for 1936, 1938, 1947, and 1948. |
| State Bank of Hilbert (Wis.) | Title: State Bank of Hilbert Records, 1903-1970 Quantity: 8 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Green Bay Micro 6; Micro 494 Abstract: Records of the Bank, which was chartered on May 3, 1903. These include minutes; general journals, 1908-1937; examining committee reports, 1907-1919; and volumes recording distribution of expenses, 1921-1961, and trial balances, 1904-1926. |
| State Bank of Prentice (Prentice, Wis.) | Title: State Bank of Prentice Records, 1920-1937 Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 7 volumes) Call Number: Northland Mss 10 Abstract: Records of a small country bank that closed its doors in 1927 and completed liquidating its assets in 1937; consisting of cashier's correspondence relative to loan accounts, 1921-1925; tax returns, 1931-1936; commissioner's reports concerning liquidation; and bank ledgers relating to accounts and expenses, 1920-1937. |
| State Bar of Wisconsin | Title: State Bar of Wisconsin Records, 1878-2000 Quantity: 13.2 c.f. (33 archives boxes); plus additions of 10.3 c.f. and 3 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 260; M64-101; M69-149; M89-008; M92-328; M2010-026 Abstract: Records of an organization founded as the Wisconsin Bar Association which in 1957 became the integrated bar for Wisconsin to which all lawyers were required to belong. The records include convention proceedings (1933-1947), the Board of Governors minutes (1939-1948), correspondence of the president's office (1933-1945), and records of the secretary-treasurer (1913-1948). The records document the lobbying efforts by the association to establish an integrated bar, activities of the American Bar Association and Wisconsin county associations, membership campaigns, and financial activities of the organization. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin National Organization Correspondence, 1940-1996 Quantity: 4.2 c.f. (11 archives boxes); plus additions of 15.6 c.f. Call Number: Series 2046; 1979/174; 1981/157; 1982/048; 1984/241; 1991/209; 1993/034; 1993/178; 1996/102; 1997/075; 1997/181; 1998/185 Abstract: Correspondence of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin director and other administrative staff with national historical organizations, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Society of American Archivists, American Historical Association, American Heritage Magazine, American Association for State and Local History, and others. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Board of Curators Committee Records, 1940-1972 Quantity: 7.2 c.f. (18 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 1910 Abstract: Files of standing and special committees of the Board of Curators, the governing body of the Historical Society; including committee lists, minutes, correspondence, reports, and recommendations to the Board. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Project Files, 1919-1965 Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons) Call Number: Series 1762 Abstract: Files containing correspondence, publications, memoranda, reports and other materials concerning projects involving the Society. The largest aggregates of material relate to the Civil War Centennial Commission (1958-1965), the Ethnic Project (1954-1962), the Labor History Project (1951-1965), and the Wisconsin State Centennial (1945-1948). |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Correspondence, 1900-1966 Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 1723 Abstract: Correspondence of the director and other Society staff members with faculty and staff members of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Milwaukee concerning building, historical agencies courses taught by Society personnel, and other areas of common concern. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: State Agency Correspondence, 1940-1997 Quantity: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes); plus additions of 33.3 c.f. and 2 tape recordings Call Number: Series 1048; 1977/171; 1978/155; 1978/193; 1980/067; 1981/127; 1984/202; 1988/019; 1988/244; 1990/172; 1991/115; 1992/002; 1992/188; 1993/011; 1994/030; 1995/082; 1995/156; 1997/077; 1998/066; 1998/130; 2001/101 Abstract: Correspondence of the director and other State Historical Society of Wisconsin staff members with officials of other State of Wisconsin agencies and with others on topics related to state government action. Topics include legislation, budget issues, historic sites, personnel, unemployment compensation, and many others. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: School Histories, 1938-1948 Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 990 Abstract: Histories of Jackson and Green Lake County schools, written by grade school students and dealing with the founding of one-room schools, teachers, community histories, family trees, and other subjects. Some photographs are included. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Biographical Sketches of Members, 1900-1981 Quantity: 4.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes, 8 volumes) Call Number: Series 956 Abstract: Compilations of biographical data on Society members. Each sketch, prepared by the subject, shows date and place of birth, names of parents, education, professional or business career, public career, marriage, children, and residence. The files occasionally include additional information, usually of a genealogical nature, which members sent in with the questionnaires. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Building Additions and Sites Blueprints and Drawings, 1911-1985 Quantity: 2.5 c.f. (35 oversize folders) and 47 aperture cards Call Number: Series 949 Abstract: Drawings, blueprints, and sketches of additions to the Society's headquarters building in Madison, the new museum building (including exhibit design drawings), and of construction and remodeling to buildings at Old Wade House, Circus World Museum, and other Society sites. Shown are elevations and floor plans, with detail drawings of finish work, decorations, equipment, and furniture. |
| State Historical Society Of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Building Commission Blueprints and Drawings, 1894-1900 Quantity: 37 oversize folders Call Number: Series 942 Abstract: Blueprints and drawings for the construction of the original SHSW building. Included are elevations, floor plans, and sections for construction, finish work, and decoration, as well as detailed drawings for furniture prepared by architects Ferry and Clas. Also included are blueprints submitted by suppliers and subcontractors, especially the Art Metal Co., Otis Elevator Co., and L.J. Mueller Furnace Co. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Building Commission Records, 1895-1915, 1923 Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes) and 147 photographs Call Number: Series 941; PH 136; PH 347 Abstract: Records, mainly 1895-1915, of several commissions appointed to oversee the construction of the Historical Society building and various early additions. The photographs, primarily cyanotype prints, document the construction, circa 1897-circa 1900. Included are images of the interior and exterior of the building, construction details, construction drawings, and workmen. Also included are views of the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus and of the Milwaukee Public Library. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Minutes of Proceedings, 1849-2001 Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (26 volumes), 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), and 3 reels of microfilm (16 mm); plus additions of 3.0 c.f. Call Number: Series 932; 2004/108 Abstract: Minutes of all meetings of the Board of Curators of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, including reports made to the Board, materials distributed to Board members, and meeting agendas. Records created prior to 1990 may also include minutes of meetings of the Society membership and Board of Curators committees. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Divisional Files, 1854-1979 Quantity: 18.4 c.f. (46 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 678 Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and other documents concerning Society divisions and their projects in which the Society Administration was involved. Included are divisional annual reports, staff field reports, and files on the establishment of several Society historic sites and on matters of general staff concern such as procedures, membership, and personnel. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Administrative and Fiscal Services Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Administrative and Fiscal Services Division: Awards, 1949-1970 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 flat box) Call Number: Series 2010 Abstract: Awards and citations for distinguished service and activities, presented to the Society by historical agencies and local organizations. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Administrative and Fiscal Services Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Administrative and Fiscal Services Division: Financial Records, 1879-1951 Quantity: 2.5 c.f. (3 volumes and 3 archives boxes including 14 volumes) Call Number: Series 936 Abstract: Journals and ledgers recording receipts and disbursements, chiefly of private funds, showing the amount and date of each transaction, item involved, and generally the person or agency paying or receiving. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Archives and Research Services Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Archives and Research Services Division: Accession Records, 1952-1992 Quantity: 13.8 c.f. (13 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 38 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Series 2355 Abstract: Accession master lists, accession number assignment logs, and completed accession forms recording library, museum, sites, and manuscripts (private papers) acquisitions from donors. (Government records accessions are part of a separate system.) Created originally by the Office of Field Services (later a division), the collecting arm of the Historical Society, the records diminish in completeness as the various collecting programs within the Society assumed responsibility for this function and the associated record keeping. In 1982, the Archives Division absorbed Field Services and subsequently that staff's collecting and accessioning focused entirely on manuscripts. By 1992, procedures and record keeping practices changed significantly and this series was discontinued. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts: Paul Vanderbilt's Subject Files, 1951-1971 Quantity: 3.8 c.f. (10 archives boxes and 2 card boxes) Call Number: Series 2489 Abstract: Classified subject files, mainly 1954-1965, and other administrative materials of Paul Vanderbilt (1905-1992), the first curator of the Historical Society's Iconographic Collection, including correspondence, memoranda, reports and writings, reference material, product samples, photographic tests, notes, and reference materials pertaining to the organization of the section, its operation, and the cataloging, exhibit, and promotion of its collections. Prominent correspondents include Ansel Adams, Roy Stryker, George Talbot, and Franklin Wallick, as well as Historical Society administrators Leslie J. Fishel jr., J. W. Jenkins, Clifford Lord, and Don McNeil. Numerous films and photographs created by Vanderbilt as head of Iconography are separately catalogued in the Visual Materials Section. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Archives and Manuscripts: Administrative Subject File of the State Archivist, 1942-2001 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box); plus 15.0 c.f. of additions Call Number: Series 979; 1990/180; 1991/001; 1995/003; 2003/176 Abstract: Memoranda and communications, primarily with the director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, on such problems as the establishment of the Archives Division, work procedures, space, establishment of regional depositories, relationship of the Division to the Committee on Public Records, examination of county and local governmental records, the Social Science Data Reference Center, and the preparation of an inventory of the Society’s records. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Sites | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Historic Sites: Sites Correspondence, 1947-1997 Quantity: 3.4 c.f. (9 archives boxes); plus 10.4 c.f. of additions Call Number: Series 992; 1980/256; 1983/258; 1999/113 Abstract: General correspondence concerning the administration of the historic sites operated by the Society and other matters of concern to the Division. The files include correspondence with Society administrators, site curators, the general public, the Conservation Department, and historical agencies in other states, plus other documents such as reports, memoranda, news clippings, and committee papers. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History: History of Wisconsin Project Files, 1964-1998 Quantity: 4.8 c.f. Call Number: 1999/097; 2011/080 Abstract: Administrative files relating to the planning, publicity, awards, budget, and agreements with contributors and authors for the multi-volume History of Wisconsin. Includes detailed files on the creation and publication of each volume including author notes, drafts, publicity, and correspondence. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History: Administrative Files, 1967-2003 (bulk 1990-2000) Quantity: 9.6 c.f. (9 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) Call Number: 2011/178 Abstract: Administrative files of State Historic Preservation Officer and State Historian. Included are subject files, containing meeting materials, correspondence, monthly reports, and speeches. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Division of Public History: John O. Holzhueter Research Files, 1964-2000 Quantity: 11.6 c.f. (28 archives boxes and 1 custom box) and 30 tape recordings; plus additions of 1.0 c.f. Call Number: Series 2742; Audio 1377A; 2007/004 Abstract: Research files of John O. Holzhueter, a Wisconsin historian and researcher/editor for the State Historical Society. Materials include professional correspondence, research notes, clippings, photocopied published material, research papers, and other material relating to a wide range of Wisconsin history topics. Included are files on the Wisconsin state flag and seal, the fur trade, lynchings, Gerald L.K. Smith, and the Martin Treptow Pledge, among many others. Also included are a number of tape recordings of Wisconsin Public Radio interviews with Holzhueter. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Editorial Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Editorial Division: Publications Production Files, 1956-1995 Quantity: 6.4 c.f. Call Number: 1990/176; 1999/182 Abstract: Production files for all State Historical Society of Wisconsin (SHSW) publications. Major publication categories include historic site guides, travelers' guides, book and gift catalogs, and calendars. Production files may involve correspondence, notes, drafts, administrative files, and some finished products. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Editorial Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Editorial Division: Manuscripts of Publications in Series, 1868-1947 Quantity: 4.8 c.f. (12 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 983 Abstract: Manuscripts published in their entirety or in part in the publications of the Society, including such series as the Wisconsin Historical Publications, the Wisconsin Historical Collections, the Biography Series, the Domesday Book, and the Proceedings. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Historic Preservation Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Historic Preservation Division: Unpublished Archaeology Reports, 1970-2008 Quantity: 135.0 c.f. (135 record center cartons) Call Number: Series 2834 Abstract: Unpublished archaeological survey reports generated as a result of Section 106 compliance archaeological projects, survey and planning archaeological subgrant projects, and all projects conducted under the auspices of the Wisconsin Regional Archaeology program. The survey reports, which are required by both state and federal law, are conducted over large areas to determine if an archaeological site exists. These files are part of the Wisconsin Bibliography of Archaeological Reports database (BAR). |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Historic Preservation Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Historic Preservation Division: Compliance Files, 1976-2000, 2011 Quantity: 1888 photographs (2 record center cartons), 1044 negatives (3 boxes), 31 transparencies, and 71 drawings (7 oversize folders); plus additions of 158 photographs Call Number: PH Series 2273; 2011/194 Abstract: Photographs and drawings pertaining to the division's evaluation of the effects on properties of historical, architectural, engineering, cultural, or archaeological significance by projects using federal or state funds or requiring federal licenses or permits. Records held by the Archives are of two types: 1) duplicate copies of reports about Wisconsin buildings and structures submitted to the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and 2) similar files submitted to the Historic Preservation Division in compliance with legal agreements to which the division was a party. Most often these files concern historic structures scheduled for destruction. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library: CETA Project Files, 1977-1981 Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (1 record center carton and 1 archives box) Call Number: 1986/190 Abstract: Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) project files, 1977-1981, for CETA projects supervised by James P. Danky of the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS). Records primarily relate Project History and Project Discovery. The projects inventoried WHS collections, prepared newspapers for microfilming, cataloged newspapers, indexed the 1905 Wisconsin census, land records index, indexed Wisconsin photographers, and indexed the Wisconsin Magazine of History. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library-Archives Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library-Archives Division: Bureau Directors' Subject and Correspondence Files, 1991-2005 Quantity: 7.0 c.f. Call Number: 2008/093; 2012/005 Abstract: Primarily subject files with some related correspondence documenting the routine work and special projects undertaken by the Bureau or supervised by the Bureau director. Bureaus include Public Services, Preservation, Library Acquisition and Technical Services, and Archives Acquisition and Technical Services. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Local History | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Local History: Minutes of the Council for Local History and Its Subcommittees, 1957-2002 Quantity: 4.2 c.f. (4 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 12 tape recordings Call Number: 2005/163; Audio 1594A Abstract: Administrative records, 1957-2002, of the Council maintained in the Office of Local History, including minutes and working files for state and regional conventions, local history institutes, meetings of the advisory and administrative committees (some in recorded form), rosters of affiliated societies and officers, and planning files for the sesquicentennial of Wisconsin statehood. Several sesquicentennial meetings are available only in recorded form. The administrative committee is well documented, but there are minutes for only a few annual state conventions, despite the fact that minutes are the only document type specified by RDA 245/0113. There are no financial records or officer files. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Public Information | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Public Information: Subject File, 1942-1975 Quantity: 10.0 c.f. (10 record center cartons) Call Number: Series 1820 Abstract: Files containing news releases, publications, correspondence, memoranda, reports, scripts, clippings, and other materials generated by the Public Information (formerly Public Contacts) Office. No records exist for 1943-1945. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Public Information | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of Public Information: Clippings, 1941-1984, 1989-1992 Quantity: 10.2 c.f. (14 volumes, 1 archives box, 7 record center cartons); plus additions of 5.8 c.f. Call Number: Series 1751; 1985/028; 1986/101; 1991/198; 1992/149; 1993/020 Abstract: Clippings from Wisconsin newspapers concerning activities of the State Historical Society. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of School Services | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of School Services: Subject File, 1947-1965 Quantity: 4.4 c.f. (10 archives boxes, 1 flat box) Call Number: Series 989 Abstract: Correspondence, reports, promotional material, newsclippings, and other papers concerning the Junior Historian program, publications, conventions, copyrights, the Historymobile, historic sites, division matters, and special projects and programs. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of School Services | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Office of School Services: Reference Files, 1969-1997 Quantity: 2.8 c.f. Call Number: 2001/109; 2005/097 Abstract: Subject files created and used by the State Historical Society's Office of School Services (OSS) as a reference source for OSS research and publication projects. The subjects include a number of Wisconsin-related and more general historical topics such as Indians, family history, land use, archaeology, and architecture. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Research Division | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Research Division: Project Files, 1923-1958 Quantity: 4.2 c.f. (11 archives boxes, 2 card file drawers) Call Number: Series 991 Abstract: Project files including correspondence, questionnaires, statistical summaries, bulletins, reports, and pamphlets relating to each project. The projects were: Ethnic Population Analysis by Schools, 1923; Business Records Survey, 1948-1953; Labor History Project, 1950-1952; Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, 1950-1958; and Wisconsin Inventors Project, 1954-1956. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum. | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum: Museum Exhibits File, 1949-1957 Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 975 Abstract: Correspondence, diagrams, drawings, posters, lists of artifacts, background material, research notes, capsule biographies, pamphlets, bibliographies, and clippings used in the preparation of specific museum exhibits. |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum | Title: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. State Historical Museum: Administrative Subject File, 1946-1963 Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 973 Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, reports, and minutes concerning museum projects, professional museum organizations, policies, activities, and related topics. |
| State Medical Society of Wisconsin | Title: State Medical Society of Wisconsin Records, 1855-1999 Quantity: 104.1 c.f. (244 archives boxes, 6 record center cartons, and 1 oversize folder), 5 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 66 disc recordings, 105 photographs, 17 negatives, and 1 film; plus additions of 20.0 c.f., 31 photographs, 34 negatives, and 2 disc recordings Call Number: Mss 843; PH Mss 843; Micro 2088; Disc 206A; Audio 1294A; AB 728; M2000-011; M2001-034; M2001-115; M2004-124; M2005-062; M2007-040; M2008-124 Abstract: Records, mainly 1930-1975, of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, a private, professional organization of Wisconsin physicians founded in 1841 to promote research, education, and legislation on health and medical issues. The collection documents the Society's governance and activities, and changes in Wisconsin physicians' concerns, attitudes, and practices over the years. It contains extensive information on the early development of prepaid sickness insurance plans; the development and administration of Wisconsin Physicians Service insurance plans; distribution of medical care to the poor in Wisconsin, especially before World War II; medical malpractice issues, including the founding of the Wisconsin Health Care Liability Insurance Plan (WHCLIP); and the Society's attempts to monitor chiropractors and homeopathic health practitioners. The records also contain biographical information on many deceased physicians who were members. |
| Stearns, Forest | Title: Forest Stearns Papers, 1966-1987 Quantity: 1 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 249 Abstract: The collection documents the professional activities of Forest Stearns during his tenure as faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1966 to 1987. The collection includes files documenting Stearns' role as consultant for the U.S. Forest Service and his UWM commmittee service. It also includes Stearns' files pertaining to the Environmental Education Council of Greater Milwaukee. |
| Steel, Thomas, 1809-1896 | Title: Thomas Steel Papers, 1660, 1834-1909 Quantity: 0.4 c. f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Wis Mss 51PB Abstract: Mainly correspondence, 1834-1860, of Thomas Steel, a Waukesha County, Wisconsin, physician and farmer with his family in England, describing his voyages to India and China as a ship's doctor and his efforts to find a fruitful medical practice in the United States and Canada. Later letters comment on his struggles to homestead and eke out a living as a rural physician; some discuss the Socialist Society of Equality, a group with which Steel immigrated to Wisconsin in 1843 to establish a socialistic community. Other letters mention local and national political affairs. There is also a folder of miscellaneous legal documents, including an agreement written in Middle English, November 9, 1660, concerning the use of land at Inveraray, Scotland. |
| Steele Lumber Company (Lodi, Wis.) | Title: Steele Lumber Company Records, 1896-1964 Quantity: 14.0 c.f. (10 record center cartons and 8 flat boxes) Call Number: M88-204 Abstract: Records of the W.W. Steele Lumber Company, incorporated circa 1896 by William Washington Steele, documenting the financial and business aspect of the company through general accounting ledgers, inventory lists, mortgages, bonds, information on the Steele estate, and sparse correspondence belonging to W.W. Steele. Also included are records of the Wisconsin-Oregon Timber Company, incorporated 1907 by partners W.W. Steele, W.G. Bissell, and J.C. Neill, documenting timber and land purchases mainly in Oregon state through land title abstracts, contracts, a small amount of correspondence, and other miscellaneous financial materials. |
| Steensland, Halle, 1832-1910 | Title: Halle Steensland Papers, 1849-1978 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and 24 photographs Call Number: Mss 711; PH Mss 711 Abstract: Fragmentary papers, mainly 1849-1907, of Halle Steensland, a prominent Norwegian immigrant and Madison, Wisconsin businessman who was a founder of the Hekla Fire Insurance Company and the Savings, Loan and Trust Company Bank and who served as vice-consul for Sweden and Norway for many years. The papers, which are written in Norwegian and English, consist of correspondence, official documents and certificates, speeches, biographical clippings, and a brief journal. Also included is a biography of Steensland by Byron C. Ostby and a transcription of all documents by Oskar Garstein. The correspondence, which was primarily written to Steensland during the 1850s and 1860s consists of letters from his family in Norway and from friends who were also Norwegian immigrants. Photographs include the Steensland family and homes in Maple Bluff, Wis., and the Wisconsin Governor's Mansion and Tenney Park, Madison, Wis. |
| Steffes, Herbert J., 1904-1975 | Title: Herbert J. Steffes Papers, 1936-1974 Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 7 Abstract: Papers of Steffes, a lawyer who served as a Milwaukee County district attorney and municipal judge. Judicial subject files (1957-1974) emphasize court reorganization and other legislative measures affecting judges. Also present are materials on Steffes' political campaigns (1936-1955), some of his public appearances and speeches, and his public activities. |
| Steiger, William A., 1938-1978 | Title: William A. Steiger Papers, 1952-1979 Quantity: 80.8 c.f. (70 record center cartons, 27 archives boxes), 117 tape recordings, 3 films, and 13 reels of microfilm [35mm] Call Number: Mss 601; Micro 970; Tape 1064A Abstract: Congressional office papers of William Albert Steiger of Oshkosh, who represented Wisconsin's Sixth Congressional District, 1967-1978. Included are correspondence to and from constituents, colleagues, and governmental agencies; working files on legislation supported or introduced by Steiger; files on local grants and issues; press material and information; reference materials; and correspondent indexes. Brief personal files relate to his first term in Congress and to his prior career in the Wisconsin Assembly and as a leader in Republican student politics. The files are generally arranged by function or by subject, with indexes to individual correspondents. Documentation is extensive on a number of legislative initiatives with which Steiger was connected: the Williams-Steiger Bill, which established OSHA, and the Steiger Amendment which reduced capital gains taxation in 1978. There are also files on the all-volunteer army of the post-Watergate era and congressional reform. Arising from his membership on the Education and Labor and the Ways and Means committees are files on his interest in manpower legislation and legal services for the poor. There are also substantial files of correspondence on issues which stirred general constituent interest during his term in office such as abortion, environment, Watergate and Vietnam. The press material includes press releases, newsletters (additional titles are available on microfilm in the SHSW Library), clippings, speeches, and statements. Extensively weeded case files primarily concern the Selective Service and Vietnamese immigration. |
| Stein, Joseph | Title: Joseph Stein Papers, 1942-1969 Quantity: 12.6 c.f. (31 archives boxes, 1 package) Call Number: U.S. Mss 33AN Abstract: Papers of a playwright, screenwriter, and Tony-winning librettist, consisting of scripts, revisions, outlines, correspondence, routines, lyrics, programs, photographs, reviews, and financial records for works in various genre for which Stein was writer or collaborator. Among the plays represented are Enter Laughing, (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Juno (1959), Lend an Ear (1948), Mr. Wonderful (1956), No Time for Sergeants (1955), Plain and Fancy (1955), Take Me Along (1959), and Zorba (1968). Stein also adapted Enter Laughing (Col., 1967) and Fiddler on the Roof (UA, 1971) for the screen, and scripts are included for both these titles. During the 1940's and 1950's he wrote extensively for radio and television. Well represented are contributions to The Henry Morgan Show (ABC), NBC Comedy Hour,Your Show of Shows (NBC), and numerous other series, specials, and routines for performers such as Tallulah Bankhead, Hildegrade, and others. |
| Steinbock, Edward J., 1905-1964 | Title: Edward J. Steinbock Papers, 1930-1964 Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (36 volumes in 5 archives boxes) and 191 photographs, 1 negative, and 1 drawing in 2 folders Call Number: U.S. Mss BH; PH 2931; PH 3095 Abstract: Papers of Edward “Twenty Grand” Steinbock, a nationally-known auto race announcer, consisting mainly of reference notes and statistics he compiled on auto racing during the period 1935-1962. Included are track records of drivers of sport cars, stock cars, and midget racers; race results; point and place standings; and histories of speedways. Also present are several printed articles; clippings by or about Steinbock; and photographs of Steinbock at the microphone, race drivers, and race tracks, and Steinbock with celebrities. |
| Steinhilber, Jack D., 1931- | Title: Jack D. Steinhilber Papers, 1967-1974 Quantity: 12.2 c.f. (31 archives boxes and 1 reel of tape) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss BN; Tape 1096A Abstract: Papers of a Republican legislator from Oshkosh who served in the State Senate and Assembly, 1966-1974. Included are legislative bill files, constituent correspondence, subject files, and documentation on committee assignments such as the Senate Urban Affairs Committee and the Legislative Council's Advisory Committee on Court Reorganization and its Special Committee on Criminal Penalties. The urban affairs files include minutes, agendas, and memoranda of the Wisconsin Housing Finance Authority collected by Steinhilber as an authority member for his investigation in the propriety of the agency's financial activities. An audio recording of the public hearing held as part of this investigation is included with the collection. |
|
Steinkopf, Alvin, 1897-1981; Steinkopf, Irene, 1901- |
Title: Alvin and Irene Steinkopf Papers, 1916-1962 Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 3 flat boxes) Call Number: Mss 683 Abstract: Papers, 1916-1962, of an Associated Press correspondent, who reported on Europe during the late 1930s and on Great Britain during the post-World War II years, and additional papers (1943-1945) of his wife, who was also a journalist. Included is a personal file on Alvin Steinkopf; his writings, in the form of printed and rough drafts of articles and wire copies (1916-1923, 1939-1962); records from the time he spent interned at Bad Nauheim, Germany during World War II; and general correspondence (1942-1945). The only material pertaining to Irene Steinkopf consists of transcripts of broadcasts made in Chicago during World War II. |
| Stella, Frank R. | Title: Frank R. Stella Papers, 1928-1980 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Parkside Mss 60 Abstract: Records collected by Stella while he was an officer of several organized labor groups in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Included are fragmentary records of the Union Co-Operative Publishing Company; Allied Council of Senior Citizens of Wisconsin; International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Lodge 34; Racine County Community Action Group; Ke-Nash-a Club; Kenosha Union Club, Inc.; Journeymen Barbers' International Union of America, Local 379; Kenosha AFL-CIO Council; and Kenosha Trades and Labor Council. There is also a little personal material in the collection. |
| Stelter, Anthony B. | Title: Anthony B. Stelter Papers, 1830-1899, 2000 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 1 tape recording Call Number: La Crosse Mss CZ; Tape 1399A Abstract: Research of Anthony Stelter for his booklet All Roads Lead to Hope Valley: A Look at Black and Tri-Racial Migration to the Hope Valley Located in the Forest Township of Vernon County, Wisconsin. Hope Valley was settled by a mix of Black, White, and Native American settlers who peacefully co-existed until ca. 1900 when racial tensions began to escalate. Stelter, a descendant of the Walden family, documents the histories of various extended families residing in Hope Valley in 1899, principally the Revels, Walden, Shivers, and Roberts families. Included are papers relating to the churches and schools in the Hope Valley area and genealogical materials on individual family members including notes, news clippings, school and cemetery records, and other biographical information. The tape recording is an interview with Gen Roberts (2000) during a drive through Hope Valley in which Roberts recounts the history of the area and various anecdotes regarding life in the community. |
| Stenberg, France Walker | Title: France Walker Stenberg Family Genealogies, 1846-1984 Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) Call Number: Stevens Point Mss BU Abstract: Papers and correspondence, 1846-1984, documenting the Barber, Hamilton, Hilditch, and Walker families of Waushara County, Wisconsin. The papers consist of family trees, biographies, correspondence some of which has been transcribed, and other genealogical materials. Family members who first settled in Waushara County include William Henry Hilditch, James Poole Walker, his wife Joanna (Snell), their fives sons, and Chester Peter Barber and his wife Cecilia (Johnson). |
| Stephenson (Marinette County, Wis. : Town). Clerk | Title: Stephenson (Marinette County, Wis. : Town). Clerk: Records, 1910-1951 Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Marinette Series 16 Abstract: Records categorized as Town Business (1910-1950); Finances and Taxation (1912-1951); Public Assistance (1931-1950); and the Works Progress Administration (1935-1938). Town Business includes correspondence on the construction and maintenance of bridges, fences, dams, sewers, roads and highways; electric lighting, power, and telephone facilities; the operation of schools; the maintenance of police and fire protection; court cases and injury claims; vital records and proofs of residency; and property ownership and property transfers. Finances and Taxation includes annual financial reports, bond issues and town loans, statements of taxes and assessments, correspondence involving personal and property taxes, and hearings before the Board of Review. Public Assistance includes correspondence with government agencies and private parties. Works Progress Administration contains payroll information, project proposals, progress reports, and miscellaneous correspondence. |
| Stergar, Albert | Title: Albert Stergar Photographs, 1974-1992 Quantity: 12.8 c.f. (30 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: M2007-064 Abstract: Photographs taken by Milwaukee activist, Al Stergar, that document various social justice events. Some of the most thoroughly documented events are Milwaukee area protests including anti-war demonstrations, anti-apartheid demonstrations, labor strikes, Native American demonstrations, anti-racism demonstrations, and demonstrations against the U.S. policy on Central America. There are also photographs that depict the Latin American community in Milwaukee, the United Community Center, and various activists, speakers, and political figures who spoke at or attended Milwaukee events. These figures include Amiri Baraka, Jimmy Carter, Jaime Escalante, Jane Fonda, Magic Johnson, and Dr. Spock. In some cases there is a concise description of the event written by Al Stergar on the back of the photograph. |
| Stern Fund | Title: Stern Fund Records, 1936-1992 Quantity: 23.1 c.f. Call Number: M97-170; M2001-078; M2005-087 Abstract: Records of the Stern Fund, a philanthropic foundation established by Edgar and Edith Stern in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1936. In its early years, the Fund mainly supported New Orleans organizations, especially those related to the arts and the education of African Americans. Later, the Fund touched a wide variety of groups and projects, particularly fledgling organizations working for social change. The bulk of the collection consists of grant files and documents applicants to the foundation's funding programs. |
| Stern, Erich C. (Erich Cramer), 1879-1969 | Title: Erich Cramer Stern Papers, 1868-1967 Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (18 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss EM Abstract: Papers of Stern, a Milwaukee lawyer who served as an alderman, 1908-1910, state assemblyman, 1910-1912, and a major apologist for Germany's cause during World War I. Included are primarily personal and family correspondence, much of which is in German, clippings and comments on the war, brief aldermanic papers with information on a nation-wide survey on street maintenance and financing, legislative papers pertaining to a law establishing non-partisan municipal elections, financial papers of Stern's father's wholesale drygoods business, and other documents. Prominent correspondents include Benjamin Harrison, Werner Hegemann, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Theodore Roosevelt, and Carl Schurz (concerning the Schurz Memorial Association). |
| Stetin, Sol, 1910- | Title: Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project: Sol Stetin Interview, 1977-1978 Quantity: 13 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 648A Abstract: One of a series of tape-recorded oral interviews conducted with Textile Workers Union of America leaders by James A. Cavanaugh of the Historical Society staff, documenting the origins, growth, and decline of the TWUA, internal disputes, relations with other unions, and organizing drives. The interviews document textile unionism prior to the formation of the TWUA, as well as discussing major strikes and gains made through collective bargaining. Specific references are made to organizing activities in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The Sol Stetin interview is part of the Textile Workers Union of America Oral History Project. |
| Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949 | Title: Edward R. Stettinius Clippings, 1944-1945 Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 353 Abstract: Microfilm copy of newspaper clippings scrapbooks in the Edward R. Stettinius Papers at the University of Virginia Library. They document participation by Stettinius, Franklin Roosevelt's Undersecretary of State, in the affairs of state following World War II, specifically the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, the Yalta Conference, the Inter-American Conference in Mexico City, 1945, and the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945. |
| Steuber, Milton C., 1889-1978 | Title: Milton C. Steuber Papers, 1900-1976 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 685 Abstract: Papers of Milton C. Steuber, a civil engineer, who was a native of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. The collection illustrates Steuber's high school and college years, and his career as a rural school teacher, inventor, and professional engineer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisconsin. Included are school papers and notes, employment applications and personnel records, personal and a few professional papers from Steuber's work for the Defense Plant Corporation and the Wisconsin Bureau of Public Roads, and patent records and technical drawings for an automobile automatic transmission developed by Steuber. |
| Steven, James D.R., 1872-1951 | Title: James D.R. Steven Papers, 1897-1921 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Eau Claire Mss AO Abstract: Correspondence of Steven, an Eau Claire, Wis., businessman involved in lumbering and retail selling. Letterbooks detail Steven's lumbering enterprises, land and lumber transactions, and deeds of sales. In May 1890, Steven began work in the office of Davis and Starr Lumber Company. In 1907, Steven organized the Steven and Jarvis Lumber Company, with Arthur Jarvis, to deal in wholesale lumber. Steven was also involved with the Eau Claire Book and Stationery Company, and became vice-president in 1917 and president in 1921, succeeding William J. Starr. |
| Stevens Point (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Stevens Point (Wis.). Clerk: Clerk's and Treasurer's Financial Records, 1858-1899 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (4 volumes in 1 archives box) Call Number: Portage Series 73 Abstract: These records document the financial transactions of the City of Stevens Point. They consist of account books, 1858-1882; a cash book and journal, 1878-1896; and a journal and account book, 1880-1899. |
| Stevenson, Philip E., 1896-1965 | Title: Philip E. Stevenson Papers, 1912-1965 Quantity: 18.0 c.f. (13 record center cartons, 12 archives boxes, and 1 flat box), 1 tape recording, and photographs Call Number: U.S. Mss 69AN; Audio 424A; PH 3673; PH 3674(2); PH 3675 Abstract: Papers of Philip E. Stevenson, a writer and editor on social justice and labor, who was blacklisted for his refusal to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951. The collection best illustrates Stevenson's career as a writer and his interests in the American Southwest, the labor struggles of the New Mexican coal miners, culture and aesthetic theories, and the House Un-American Activities Committee. There is little directly concerning the Hollywood Ten. The largest portion of the collection consists of drafts of five volumes comprising The Seed, which were Morning Noon and Night, Out of the Dust, Old Father Antic, The Hoax, and The Sowing. Other major works documented in the collection are the novels The Edge of the Nest, The Gospel According to St. Luke's, and “The Pig-Iron Venus” (unpublished). A small administrative file of letters, subscriptions, and draft articles submitted for publication reflects Stevenson's work as co-founder and editor of the California Quarterly. On tape is a memorial service for Stevenson. The photographs include family snapshots; albums of photos from a 1912 family European trip and from Stevenson's World War I service; and photos of Paris (1919), Saranac Lake, New York (1920), the Southwest (1930s-1950s), and the Zuni Indian Reservation (1933). |
| Steward, John F. (John Fletcher), 1841-1915 | Title: John F. Steward Papers, 1833-1913 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: McCormick Mss BJ Abstract: Papers of John F. Steward, superintendent and supervisor of patents for the Deering Harvester Company and the International Harvester Company, chiefly concerning the history of the agricultural machinery industry. The collection documents the development of the twine binder; the accomplishments of several inventors in the agricultural machinery industry; and the efforts of Steward and others to dispute the importance of Cyrus Hall McCormick as an inventor. |
| Stewart, Francis Edward, 1853-1941 | Title: Francis Edward Stewart Papers, 1866-1938 Quantity: 7.6 c.f. (19 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 606 Abstract: Papers of a physician, pharmacist, and author who worked to establish standards for pharmaceutical preparations, change existing patent and trademark laws, and increase the level of cooperation between physicians and pharmacists. Stewart founded scientific departments at Parke, Davis and Company, Frederick Sterns and Company, and H.K. Mulford Company, and was active in numerous professional associations. The collection includes a large correspondence file and records pertaining to Stewart's employment, both as a physician and with pharmaceutical firms. It also contains correspondence, committee reports, articles, and research materials relating to Stewart's work with the American Medical Editors Association, the American Pharmaceutical Association, and the American Pharmacologic Society. There is a large amount of autobiographical material as well as many articles written by Stewart. Collection includes correspondence from Robert P. Fischelis, Henry T. Helmbold, Harold Lyons Hunt, William Williams Keen, James K. Stewart, and Theodore Weicker. |
| Stewart, Frank M. | Title: Frank M. Stewart Civil Rights Recordings, circa 1966-1967 Quantity: 26 audio recordings and 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: M67-453; M2008-109; Audio 1376A; Audio 1459A Abstract: Recorded interviews, meetings, and Headstart programs, documenting Mississippi civil rights activities, circa 1966-1967. Interviews with faculty and students at Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi; recorded activities at Headstart Centers in Pace and Cleveland, Mississippi; meetings in Grenada and Gunnison; and interviews with Amzie Moore, Cleveland; Mrs. Annie Rankin, Jefferson County; Gentle Jackson, Tougaloo; and others. On paper are notes by Frank Stewart on the interviews. |
|
Stewart, Isaac Newton, 1838-1915; Stewart, Mary E., 1841-1931 |
Title: Isaac N. Stewart and Mary E. Stewart Papers, 1828-1928 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Wis Mss CS; Micro 73 Abstract: Papers of Isaac Stewart, an educator of Waukesha County and Appleton, Wisconsin, and of his sister Mary, both of whom were at times editorial writers for the Milwaukee Journal. The correspondence includes family letters, letters describing life at the University of Wisconsin about 1860, some Civil War correspondence and diaries; letters from May Wright Sewall before her marriage; and letters received by Miss Stewart from journalists and publishers. There are a few articles mostly reminiscent of early life in the region of Pewaukee, Wisconsin; Miss Stewart's records of her visits to expositions; and a volume of records of Christ Church, Pompey, New York, 1828-1842, containing minutes of meetings and a register of births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths. The diaries describe Isaac Stewart's work as an army recruiter in Chicago, Ill. in 1862 and discuss his camp duties and efforts to be assigned to the front while at Camp Randall (Madison, Wis.), 1864. |
| Stewart, Michael, 1929- | Title: Michael Stewart Papers, 1960-1969 Quantity: 4.4 c.f. (4 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 18 tape recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 197AN; Tape 1038A Abstract: Scripts and tape recordings of several popular Broadway stage plays, including Bye Bye Birdie, Carnival, George M!, and Hello, Dolly!, all of which were written by playwright Stewart. The papers include a few conductor's scores and lyrics, and some notes and miscellany, but the largest portion is composed of scripts in various drafts, most of which are annotated. Also present are taped performances of Hello, Dolly!, with Carol Channing (1964), Ginger Rogers (1965?), Martha Raye (1967, undated), and Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway (1967), and a tape of George M! at the Fisher Theatre, 1968, with tapes of piano and vocal auditions, George M. Cohan songs, and sound effects and sound ballet. |
| Stiles (Oconto County, Wis.: Town). Clerk and Assessor | Title: Stiles (Oconto County, Wis.: Town). Clerk and Assessor: Records, 1860-1977 Quantity: 3.7 c.f. (5 archives boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 folders, and 8 volumes) Call Number: Oconto Series 8-15; Oconto Small Series 5-6 Abstract: Records of the Town of Stiles including election results, naturalization records, clerk's records, property assessments, poll taxes, chattel mortgages, highway records, and school records. |
| Stirratt, Pearl | Title: Pearl Stirratt Scrapbooks, 1903-1964 Quantity: 3 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: River Falls Micro 133; Micro 1076 Abstract: Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled by Pearl Stirratt and her brother Frank concerning Prescott, Wisconsin and nearby areas of Pierce County; including information on births, deaths, weddings, anniversaries, high school graduations, accidents, entertainment, fires, Masonic Lodges, and other area news; miscellaneous prose and poems; and a subject index. Most of the clippings are from the Prescott Journal,Pierce County Herald, and River Falls Journal. |
| Stockton (Portage County, Wis. : Town). Clerk | Title: Stockton (Portage County, Wis. : Town). Clerk: Town Records, 1855-1920 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (6 volumes in 2 archives boxes) Call Number: Portage Series 27 Abstract: Record books including proceedings of the annual town meetings and meetings of the town board, 1855-1878, 1883-1915; register of officers, 1870-1915; oaths, 1870-1918; order register, 1867-1915; chattel mortgage record, 1869-1897; record of school tax and apportionment, 1870-1920; and a treasurer's journal, 1869-1915. Each volume contains several types of records. |
| Stoddard Hotel (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Stoddard Hotel (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Physical Description: 8.5 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 099 Abstract: Stoddard Hotel operated as the most upscale hotel in La Crosse for nearly 80 years, but also served as a center for entertainment, weddings, conferences, meetings and the like. Records include guest registers (with the guest’s signature) from 1904-1927; 1929-1930; financial volumes, 1903-1939, and a scrapbook, 1932-1934 highlighting events which took place at the Stoddard Hotel. |
| Stoler, Mark A. | Title: Mark A. Stoler Oral History Interview, 1974, 1976 Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) and 1 tape recording Call Number: Tape 984A; SC 637 Abstract: Interview conducted June 11, 1974, by Dale Treleven of the State Historical Society staff with Mark Stoler who, while a University of Wisconsin graduate student, helped found “Up Against the Wall,” Madison's first serious attempt to present alternative radio music progamming. Also present are related clippings from the Capital Times and Spread the WORT newsletter, 1976. |
| Stone, James A., 1856-1946 | Title: James A. Stone Papers, 1886-1945 Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (35 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss OR Abstract: Personal, business, and political papers of James A. Stone, a Reedsburg, Wis. attorney who was active in the Wisconsin progressive movement, particularly in Sauk County. Throughout his active political career Stone maintained an correspondence with Wisconsin congressmen, notably John J. Esch, Merlin Hull, Paul O. Husting, A. W. Kopp, and Irvine L. Lenroot; members of the La Follette family; and national political figures. Stone was an active supporter of Robert La Follette and served as assistant secretary of state during his governorship, 1901-1903. Much of the business correspondence, 1892-1907, relates to Stone's law practice. It affords a view of the small town lawyer's activities, with emphasis on debt collection and land cases. Stone was also secretary of the Reedsburg Canning Company, member of the board of directors of the Harley-Davidson Company, and an investor in the Milwaukee Lead and Zinc Mining Company. Some correspondence relating to these business interests is included in the collection. Other letters document Stone's numerous educational and other civic activities in Reedsburg and his real estate investments. |
| Stone, Veda W., 1906-1996 | Title: Veda W. Stone American Indian Reference Collection, 1940-1995 Quantity: 30.8 c.f. (69 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 7 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and 4 tape recordings; plus additions of 333 photographs and 7 tape recordings Call Number: Eau Claire Mss AP; Eau Claire Micro 11; Eau Claire Tape 1; Micro 723; Audio 735A; River Falls Mss BL; M95-296; M95-316; M96-062 Abstract: A reference collection of Veda Stone, a social worker long active in American Indian affairs, education, and family health and children's services in Wisconsin, documenting Stone's work with government agencies, organizations, and conferences concerning Indians. Also present are records, including individual student files, dealing with Indian education in Wisconsin and other states. Microfilmed newsletters, periodicals, and near-print documents published in the U.S. and Canada by or about Indian groups and organizations are also present, together with a major reference file with emphasis on Menominee and Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin and tribal groups in Minnesota. The tapes record speeches and panel discussions from a 1966 Indian leadership conference. |
| Stone, Walker, 1904-1973 | Title: Walker Stone Papers, 1918-1969 Quantity: 9.2 c.f. (23 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 120AF Abstract: Papers of the editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance organized as correspondence and subject files. The correspondence includes letters to and from prominent individuals and journalists such as Bernard Baruch, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Raymond Clapper, Everett M. Dirksen, Paul H. Douglas, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, Roy W. and Jack R. Howard, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., James G. Lucas, Charles T. Lucey, Douglas MacArthur, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Richard M. Nixon, Ernest T. Pyle, Sam Rayburn, Donald R. Richberg, Syngman Rhee, Carlos P. Romulo, Dean Rusk, Charles E. and Robert Scripps, Harlow Shapley, R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., William Philip Simms, Arthur E. Summerfield, W. Stuart Symington, John Troan, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Harry S. Truman, and Woodrow Wilson. In the subject files are articles, clippings, editorials, speeches, financial information, and other material pertaining to Stone and to various members of the SHNA staff. |
| Storer, George L., 1831-1905 | Title: George L. Storer Family Financial Papers, 1858-1945 (bulk 1865-1907) Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 887 Abstract: Twenty-seven leather bound volumes and numerous memoranda booklets kept by George L. Storer, Madison, Wisconsin, his wife Mary, and three of their children, John, Anna, and Mary Frankenburger. They document family financial affairs and financial transactions of the First Unitarian Society which George apparently served as treasurer. Included are records of real estate investments which include mortgages in Wisconsin and the Dakota Territory, rent received, and personal and household expenses. There are also two diaries kept by Mary Storer, 1906-1907, and the family bible, 1858-1945. George Storer retired to Madison after running a dry goods wholesale business in Sanford, Maine. |
| Story, Harold Willis, 1890- | Title: Harold W. Story Papers, 1941-1947 Quantity: 0.5 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 separate volume) Call Number: Mss 69 Abstract: Papers used by Story, a vice-president of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, in 1947 in testifying on 1941 and 1946 strikes by United Auto Workers (CIO), Local 248, West Allis, Wis., before Congressional committee investigations of communism in organized labor; and a copy of the union bargaining proposals for the 1943 contract. |
|
Stotts, Stuart; Matson, Elizabeth |
Title: Legends of the Supernatural in Southwestern Wisconsin Project Collection, 1991-1992 Contents: UW-Madison Folklore Program: 2 folders, 6 audiocassettes; James P. Leary: 1 folder Unique Identifier: CSUMC0002-CG Summary: Two storytellers recorded supernatural stories from 6 individual tellers and a middle school group of 10-15 in Wisconsin's Iowa County during 1991-1992. They obtained over 50 stories and story segments including legends, urban legends, memorates, personal experience narratives, and superstitions featuring the Ridgeway ghost, ghostly animals, gamblers, vanishing hitchhikers, poltergeists, haunted houses, troubled deaths, and more. The interviewers transcribed the recorded stories and used them as the basis for versions they published in The Bookcase Ghost and tell to public audiences. |
| Stovall, Janice D., 1917- | Title: Janice D. Stovall Papers, 1938-1984 Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes), 39 photographs, 674 transparencies, 118 tape recordings and 18 films Call Number: M88-304; DD 666; DD 667; DD 668; DD 669; DD 670; DD 671; DD 672; DD 673; DD 674; DD 675; DD 676 Abstract: Papers of Janice D. Stovall, a hearing and speech consultant who was also an administrator with the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services and executive director of HEAR (Hearing, Education and Rehabilitation), a non-profit service agency for the deaf in Madison, Wisconsin. The collection documents Stovall's professional career working with the deaf and hearing impaired, including children and the elderly. |
| Stow, Alexander Wolcott, 1804-1854 | Title: Alexander Wolcott Stow Papers, 1811-1849 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 305 Abstract: Papers of Alexander Wolcott Stow, Wisconsin's first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, primarily containing information on his personal activities while living in New York and travelling in Europe, prior to his arrival in Wisconsin. Included are fragmentary correspondence, diaries, poetry and other writings, and financial and miscellaneous materials. |
| Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej w Ameryce. Post No. 94 (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej w Ameryce. Post No. 94: Records, 1942-1977 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 51 Abstract: Records of one of two Milwaukee chapters of the Polish Army Veterans Association of America (Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej w Ameryce), consisting of minutes of meetings, all in Polish, 1945-1966, and jubilee albums of the Post and its Ladies Auxiliary. The organization is composed of veterans of the Polish army from World Wars I and II, and Americans of Polish descent who served with the American armed forces during World War II. |
| Stowe, Leland, 1899- | Title: Leland Stowe Papers, 1925-1969 Quantity: 15.0 c.f. (26 archives boxes, 4 card boxes, 11 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder), 462 photographs, and 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AF; PH U.S. Mss 99AF; Micro 2035 Abstract: Papers of Stowe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II correspondent, radio broadcaster, lecturer, and educator, including personal papers as well as documents related to his articles, books, lectures, news stories, and broadcasts. Personal papers include biographical and genealogical information, interviews, correspondence with friends and family, photographs, and a copy of his FBI file and lengthy refutation of its allegations. There are also many love letters to and from his second wife. Other correspondence include letters from Max Ascoli, Carroll Binder, Alois Dersoe, Ralph Edwards, A.R. Holcombe, Wesley Maurer, Helen Rogers Reid, Dinah and Vincent Sheean, and DeWitt Wallace, as well as many other individuals of interest for their autograph value. The photographs include formal and informal portraits, as well as documentation of his career activities, particularly his coverage of the Greek-Albanian front during World War II. Pertaining to Stowe's career as a newspaperman are scrapbooks of clippings from the New York Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Daily News and loose clippings, copies of his post-war column for the New York Post Syndicate, and some draft stories. Records of freelance magazine work include draft and printed articles submitted to Argosy, The Reporter, and Reader's Digest. Radio scripts include wartime commentaries for ABC and post-war analyses sponsored by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union that were broadcast on MBS. The collection includes limited drafts of published books, but there are reviews and reader correspondence for all titles. Supplementing the writings are unpublished memoirs and an autobiographical novel and many notebooks and journals about his coverage of the Spanish Civil War; the Russo-Finnish War; the Greek-Albanian front, 1939-1940; post-war Europe; and his travels as a writer for Reader's Digest. This section includes interviews with Aristide Briand, Gamal Abdel Nasser, John Pershing, Raymond Poincaré, the Shah of Iran, and Walter Ulbrich. Other documented aspects of his career include course outlines and teaching materials from his tenure at the Journalism School of the University of Michigan, transcripts and outlines for public lectures, and reports (1950 to 1954) prepared as a director of Radio Free Europe. Of special note is a group of four photographs of Charles Lindbergh, with Stowe and other individuals, taken in Paris in 1928. One of these images showing Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis has been autographed. |
| Strahl, Osborn, 1818-1902 | Title: Osborn Strahl Papers, 1824-1909 Quantity: 0.5 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 folder) Call Number: River Falls Mss A; River Falls SC 415 Abstract: Papers of Strahl, a Clifton, Pierce County, Wisconsin, lumberman, consisting mainly of family correspondence, 1860-1909, containing much information on Strahl and McDonald family genealogy. Included are letters which describe agricultural life in the Los Angeles area in 1892, early twentieth-century life in the state of Washington, the Seattle harbor, and the Oregon and Washington Indian wars. There is also material relating to school experiences of the Strahl family, including essays, speeches, and class notes, circa 1845-49; three land certificates, 1854 and 1855; and reminiscences by Strahl of early Pierce County settlers. |
| Strange, John, 1852-1923 | Title: John Strange Papers, 1892-1935 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Oshkosh Micro 7; Micro 70 Abstract: Papers of John Strange, the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, 1909-1911; including correspondence, 1909-1923, with Progressive and Republican party leaders; miscellaneous notes and articles relating to politics, labor, water power controversies, and temperance; an autobiography, circa 1922; and a minute book, 1902-1925, of the John Strange Paper Company, Menasha, Wisconsin. |
| Stratman-Thomas, Helene, 1896-1973 | Title:
Helene Stratman-Thomas collection,
1823-1979
, bulk 1940-1960
Quantity: 31.5 linear feet (35 archives boxes, 1 volume of sound discs, 1 box of blank sound recording discs, 1 sound recording machine) Call Number: MML 001 Abstract: The Helene Stratman-Thomas collection includes materials that document her professional activities as a scholar, teacher and folklorist. Series have been designated for personal papers relating to Stratman-Thomas’ family history and correspondence, papers principally from her work as a music teacher, and materials relating to her work as a collector of Wisconsin and Cornish folk music. The bulk of the collection is comprised of material from her work with Wisconsin and Cornish folk music. The collection forms part of the Wisconsin Music Archives. |
| Straubel, Frederick L.G., 1861-1938 | Title: Frederick L.G. Straubel Papers, 1897-1969 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 flat box), 3 reels of microfilm (35mm), 48 photographs, and 134 negatives Call Number: Green Bay Mss 109; Green Bay Micro 46; Micro 1101; PH 2667; PH 2791; WHi(S85); WHi(S86); WHi(S87) Abstract: Papers, mainly 1916-1956, of an inventor, business executive, and amateur photographer from Green Bay, Wisconsin, chiefly regarding the sale of the Automatic File and Index Company, the office equipment firm which he established in 1901; the patenting and licensing of several of the many patents which he held on filing devices; and the legally complex disposition of his estate by his son. Included are correspondence, which is available only on microfilm, and unfilmed financial records pertaining to the Automatic File and Index Company and the Straubel estate, patent sketches and information, several Automatic Index Company catalogues (also on film) and loose advertising materials, and information pertaining to an interest in the Weise-Hollman Co. of Green Bay. Few papers pertain directly to the Automatic File and Index Company except for correspondence, 1914-1921, between the Straubel firm and its Chicago retailer; annual operating statements, 1921-1935, and other miscellaneous financial records; and advertising material. Straubel's work as an accomplished financial records; and advertising material. Straubel's work as an accomplished amateur photographer is documented by Green Bay area views and original negatives. |
| Strauss, Friedrich L., (Fred), 1842-1916 | Title: Friedrich L. Strauss Papers Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 089 Abstract: Friedrich “Fred” L. Strauss lived in La Crosse from 1881 until his death in 1916. He was employed for many years at the Voight and Ritter wagon works. Papers include orders, receipts, and correspondence between Strauss and others. All are related to his personal business dealings. A collection of family photographs is also found in the collection. Most of the photographs are unidentified other than coming from Friedrich Strauss. |
| Street, Joseph Montfort, 1782-1840 | Title: Joseph Montfort Street Papers, 1806-1898 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Wis Mss AD Abstract: Transcripts and original papers of Joseph Montfort Street, a United States Indian agent at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Rock Island, Illinois, and on the Des Moines River, 1827-1840. Letters received and drafts of letters sent deal with controversies with traders and the Indian Office; with establishment of the Winnebago school at MacGregor, Iowa, by the Reverend David Lowry; with claims presented at the Treaty of Rock Island in 1832 for expenses of the Black Hawk War; and with family affairs. Included are letters from missionary Cutting Marsh and Judge Charles Dunn. |
| Strickon, Arnold | Title: Arnold Strickon Papers, 1883-1987 Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes), 35 tape recordings, and 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) of slides, negatives, and contact prints Call Number: La Crosse Mss CR; Tape 1363A; PH La Crosse Mss CR Abstract: Research papers created and compiled by Arnold Strickon, an anthropology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, while conducting field work in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The bulk of the papers are from 1974 and 1975 and consist of research notes, subject files, genealogies, oral history recordings, color slides, and black and white contact prints. Also included in the collection are survey forms which were completed by residents of Vernon County documenting such topics as tobacco farming, social life and customs, churches and ethnicity. |
| Strickon, Arnold | Title: Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in Rural Wisconsin Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 076 Abstract: "Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in Rural Wisconsin," written by Arnold Strickland in 1975, including a description of Norwegian life and heritage in Vernon County. |
| Strittmater, Sylvester E., 1912-2000 | Title: Sylvester E. Strittmater Papers Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 052 Abstract: Papers of a former La Crosse, Wis. city business owner Sylvester E. Strittmater. Strittmater, along with Frank E. Eustice, owned Gateway Die & Tool Co. from 1944 to approximately 1949. The papers include personal membership cards to various organizations and sportsmen's licenses, and two financial volumes of his Gateway Die & Tool Co. The collection does not contain any more biographical or personal material. |
| Stroeh family; , Unnasch family |
Title: Stroeh Family and Unnasch Family Papers Physical Description: 1.6 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 102 Abstract: Personal papers and photographs of La Crosse, Wis., residents, Fern (Stroeh) Unnasch (1917-1981) and her husband Ernest Unnasch (1918-1996). The bulk of the collection consists of black and white family photographs related to the Stroeh and Unnasch families which connects with the Heberlein, Krause, Ready, Schumacher, Schieche, Secor, and Smolek families. Beside family images, other photographs include pictures of the Shelby Dairy truck, the Stroeh farm in the town of Shelby, a Shelby fire truck, the La Crosse Garment Workers (1938), Hamilton Homemakers, and Shelby Homemakers. Photographs of La Crosse, Wis., residences include 1020 So. 4th St., 1220 So. 4th St., and 223 No. 23rd St. Additional materials include brief family trees; newspaper clippings (1918-2006); a scrapbook (1941-1942); photographs of friends; two milk/cream caps marked “Shelby Dairy” and “Joe Stroeh;” and an 1877 marriage certificate which appears to be written in the German language for Franz Dobbratz and Auguste Behnke. |
| Stromquist, Shelton, 1943- | Title: Shelton Stromquist Papers, 1963-1978 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 641 Abstract: Papers of Shelton Stromquist, an historian and social activist who was involved with a number of political and social action organizations, including: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1961-1966; the Honeywell Project and the Committee of Returned Volunteers while he was program director for the American Friends Service Committee in Milwaukee, 1968-1970; Indochina Peace Campaign and the New American Movement while at the University of Pittsburgh, 1971-1975; and the Coolee Community Action Program in southwestern Wisconsin, 1975-1978. The collection includes personal notes, writings, and correspondence, as well as printed literature, and is most complete in its documentation of the printed informational materials produced for national distribution. There are also extensive materials relating to the local and regional groups in which Stromquist took an active part, in particular: Pitt Professional Union, American Federation of Teachers; Milwaukee Independent School, Free University, and Independent Learning Center; Citizens for Safe Energy, Gays Mills, Wisconsin; and the Rural Politics Discussion Group, formed by Stromquist to discuss political and social issues of interest to the rural community of southwestern Wisconsin. Stromquist's personal papers include information and working papers for a proposed book on Cuba; notes for talks on imperialism, civil rights, and war and economics; articles written about Cuba; experiences working with the Mississippi Freedom Summer project; and notes organizing a protest of Joseph H. Blatchford's policies as director of the Peace Corps. |
| Strong, Elwin A., d. 1963 | Title: Elwin A. Strong Papers, circa 1920-circa 1941 Quantity: 9.2 c.f. (9 record center cartons and 1 archives box) Call Number: MCHC64-088 Abstract: Scripts and theatrical materials collected by Elwin A. Strong, a theatrical manager associated with various local troups and touring companies in the Midwest including the Madison Civic Theatre, the Elwin Strong Select Players, and various Federal Theatre Project groups in Nebraska. Included are printed and mimeographed scripts distributed by play services and some scripts in handwritten form thought to be by Strong. Some include scripts for individual parts and property lists. Also included are scripts, advertising material, and sheet music distributed by the T.S. Denison Company for minstrel shows. |
|
Strong, Moses McCure, 1810-1894
[Digitized content] |
Title: Moses McCure Strong Papers, 1774-1894 Quantity: 15.0 c.f. (28 archives boxes, 2 card boxes, 1 flat box, and 27 volumes) Call Number: Wis Mss H Abstract: Papers of Moses M. Strong, a resident of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, who came to Wisconsin in 1836; served as territorial surveyor and member of the territorial council, the first constitutional convention, and the state assembly in 1850 and 1856; and engaged in numerous and widespread business enterprises. His papers document his major business interests: land, railroads, lumbering, and mining. Political letters run throughout the collection, covering both Strong's participation in and his consultation with colleagues on sectional and party affairs, and legislation affecting business interests. Also present are personal and family letters. |
| Stucki, Benjamin F., 1893-1961 | Title: Benjamin F. Stucki Papers, 1902-1958 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Eau Claire Mss G Abstract: Papers of the Reverend Benjamin F. Stucki, long-time director of the Winnebago Indian School, Neillsville, Wisconsin. Included is general correspondence; articles and sermons related to Winnebago Indians; correspondence and reports of the National Fellowship of Indian Workers, 1935-1958; and correspondence with the American Bible Society, 1902-1909, regarding publication of the Winnebago Bible. Also present is a manuscript version in Winnebago of a portion of the Bible, written by the Reverends John Stacy and Jacob Stucki in 1906. |
| Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam | Title: Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records, 1966-1973 Quantity: 6.5 c.f. (17 archives boxes), 15 photographs, and 22 negatives Call Number: Mss 339; PH Mss 339 Abstract: Records of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (SMC), a national coalition (1966-1973) formed to coordinate opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam among college and high school students. Best represented is the early period (1966-1968) when the national office was headquartered in New York City. Most complete are the files on anti-war groups in California (some correspondence from Bettina Aptheker is included here), Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York. Most extensive international contacts involved Australia, Canada, France, and Vietnam. Other files concern the G.I. Press Service, an arm of SMC which organized anti-war sentiment in the military. |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Arkansas Project | Title: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Arkansas Project: Records, 1960-1971 Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (8 archives boxes), 3 tape recordings, and 422 images on 83 contact strips and 9 photographs in 1 archives box; plus additions of 0.4 c.f. Call Number: Mss 488; Audio 805A; PH 2917; M2004-217 Abstract: Records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Arkansas Project initiated in 1962 and of the Arkansas Summer Project begun in 1965, which were designed to combat segregation in public facilities and schools, to assist voter registration, and to raise the consciousness of black citizens. Included in the collection are records of the state headquarters in Little Rock, as well as the records of three local SNCC-sponsored citizens' groups: the Gould Citizens for Progress, the Pine Bluff Movement, and the St. Francis County Achievement Committee. Accessions of personal papers of Arkansas SNCC workers, including Laura Foner, William W. Hansen, Collin Minert, Vincent O'Connor, and Mitchell Zimmerman, have also been added to this collection. The records of all these allied groups and individuals consist of correspondence, reports, notes, affidavits and legal papers, and reference files, recorded interviews, and photographs. |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Vine City Project (Atlanta, Ga.) | Title: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Vine City Project (Atlanta, Ga.): Records, 1960-1967 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 347 Abstract: Records, mainly 1965-1967, of a SNCC experiment in local political organizing among Blacks in Atlanta, Georgia. Organizational records include correspondence, a notebook kept by project head William Ware, position papers, miscellaneous financial records, and publications. Subject files relate to social, economic, and political activities of the project and variously contain petitions, reports, press releases, clippings, and leaflets. |
| Student Peace Center (Madison, Wis.) | Title: Student Peace Center Records, 1955-1962 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 128 Abstract: Records of the Student Peace Center, an organization of pacifist students that was active on the campus of the University of Wisconsin from the mid-1950's to the mid-1960's. Included are correspondence, posters, clippings, minutes, and organizational material concerning its anti-military balls and its agitation against the draft. |
| Student Peace Union (U.S.) | Title: Student Peace Union Records, 1958-1964 Quantity: 3.8 c.f. (9 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 514 Abstract: Records of the Student Peace Union, a national organization of students and youth (1959-1964) opposed to the nuclear arms race that bridged the gap between the “old peace movement” and the opposition to the war in Vietnam. Included are minutes, convention papers, correspondence, publications, miscellaneous local records, and miscellany. Both the collection as a whole, and the correspondence which comprises two-thirds of the collection, are most complete for the period 1961 through 1963. Subjects treated range from routine communications with local chapters to exchanges over policy with many of the individuals and organizations then most important in the peace movement. |
| Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) | Title: Students for a Democratic Society Records, 1958-1970 Quantity: 22.1 c.f. (56 archives boxes), 24 tape recordings, and 41 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 177; Tape 517A Abstract: Records of SDS, a national organization of students founded in 1960 that provided much of the force and direction for the New Left during the 1960's. Three boxes relate to SDS during its initial growth, 1958-1962, and contain national convention papers (including the Port Huron Statement); files on the League for Industrial Democracy and the Student League for Industrial Democracy from which SDS developed, projects, and related organizations; and correspondence of early leaders Al Haber and Tom Hayden. Thirty boxes date from the fall of 1962 to August 1965, the period when SDS still considered reform possible and when it maintained four separate national offices: the administrative national office and the offices of the Economic Research and Action Project, the Peace Research and Education Project, and the Political Education Project. National office records include voluminous correspondence of leaders such as Todd Gitlin, Paul Potter, and Clark Kissinger, reports, minutes, membership lists, pamphlets, registration forms, newsletters, clippings, and check stubs. These records relate to conventions and meetings, projects involving the anti-war movement and South Africa, publications, and intra-organization matters and relations with local chapters and other organizations. ERAP, which was headed by Rennie Davis, sought to organize a radical political movement among the poor. This section includes files on meetings, publications, and projects such as its extensive work among the poor in Chicago. PREP, which served as a clearinghouse and publisher for research on peace, disarmament, and foreign policy, is documented by correspondence, leaflets, manuscripts, newsletters, prospectuses, reports, and files on Boston PREP. One-half box of correspondence, memos, minutes, leaflets, prospectuses, and reports document PEP's efforts to push national electoral politics leftward in 1964. The third series consists of 23 boxes regarding the operations of the national office from late 1964 to 1970 when SDS became increasingly action-oriented, violent, and fractious, ultimately dividing into Progressive Labor, Weathermen, and Revolutionary Youth Movement. Included are correspondence (containing many references to Paul Booth and Bernadine Dohrn); minutes, notes, resolutions, and further correspondence of the national conventions and meetings; office files; project and subject files; reference files; and material concerning local chapters and related groups. Also part of the manuscript collection, but not available with the microfilm edition, are 24 tape recordings of SDS conferences, conventions, meetings, and speeches; the April 17, 1965, March on Washington; and the 1966 National Conference for New Politics Electoral Campaign Institute. |
| Students for a Libertarian Society | Title: Students for a Libertarian Society Records, 1978-1984 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes), 14 photographs, and 1 poster Call Number: Mss 739; PH 3775; PH 3775 (3) Abstract: Records of the Students for a Libertarian Society (SLS) and of its local chapters in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1979-1980), Madison, Wisconsin (1981-1984), and Evanston, Illinois (1983-1984) created and collected by an active member, David Beito. SLS is a group formed in April, 1979, to move college students toward the Libertarian Party movement, with which it is associated. Included are local and national SLS administrative records, correspondence, convention records, flyers, opinion papers, literature, and clippings primarily relating to anti-draft and anti-tax activities and to a proposed anti-pornography ordinance in Madison. Also present is some material on related anti-draft organizations in Minnesota with whom the SLS collaborated and some personal papers of Beito including campaign literature from his unsuccessful 1982 congressional campaign. |
| Students for Peace and Justice in the Middle East (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Students for Peace and Justice in the Middle East Records, 1969-1973 Quantity: 1.8 cubic ft. (4 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 4 Abstract: Most of the collection is background materials, especially published literature, concerning Israel and Palestine, compiled by Joseph McCarty, a former officer of the SPJME, a UWM student organization. The only material dealing exclusively with the organization is a scrapbook containing a constitution, correspondence, flyers, letters, and memorabilia. The collection also contains audio reel recordings of a December 6, 1970 edition of a Milwaukee radio talk show, Milwaukee Talkie, hosted by Bob Schuster with guest Uri Davis, an Israeli pacifist and war resister. |
| Studies on the Left | Title: Studies on the Left Records, 1959-1967 Quantity: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 74; Micro 997 Abstract: Records of a socialist journal whose editorial focus included the social and natural sciences, literature, and the arts. Over half of the collection is comprised of correspondence concerning content, advertising, exchanges, circulation, and other business and financial matters. The correspondence, which deals with content and which spans the journal's existence (1959-1967), relates to editorial policy in general and to the publication of individual articles. Included are extensive exchanges with authors such as Herbert Aptheker, Noam Chomsky, David Dellinger, W. E. B. DuBois, Philip Foner, Eugene Genovese, Thomas Hayden, Langston Hughes, Corliss Lamont, Staughton Lynd, Herbert Marcuse, C. Wright Mills, Sidney Peck, Howard Selsam, William A. Williams, C. Vann Woodward, and Maurice Zeitlin. For the period 1965-1967, there are manuscripts of articles and reviews. The remainder of the collection is comprised of fragmentary business and financial records. |
| Study Club of La Crosse (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: Study Club of La Crosse Records Physical Description: 1.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS T Abstract: The Study Club of La Crosse (Wisconsin) was organized in 1928, under the name Thursday Study Club. In 1929, the group became affiliated with the Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs. At biweekly meetings, club members took turns presenting programs of intellectual interest or inviting guest speakers to lecture. The name of the club was changed to Study Club of La Crosse in 1950, and the group was disbanded in 1983 due to the advanced age of its members and a lack of interest. Records of the Club, 1928-1983, include study club program announcements (1928-1983 with gaps), minutes (1962-1980) and several scrapbooks (1928-1978). |
| Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (Sturgeon Bay, Wis.) | Title: Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Records, 1916-1941 Quantity: 15.6 c.f. (33 archives boxes and 8 volumes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 8 Abstract: Records of the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, whose main purpose was to build new ships, to repair damaged ships, and to erect, maintain, and operate dry docks and other equipment necessary to the shipbuilding business. Materials include business correspondence and records (1922-1941), inventories, annual reports, tax records, employee records, and time books. Also included are records of a predecessor firm, Rubolt and Wolter Co. |
| Sturgis, Samuel D., 1822-1889 | Title: Samuel D. Sturgis Papers, 1845-1879 Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 356; Micro 357 Abstract: A small group of military and family correspondence and military reports and orders of General Samuel Sturgis, Civil War commander and Indian fighter, including letters from General George A. Custer, John Hay, and William H. Seward. One letter by Sturgis, June 12, 1870, recalls a conversation with Abraham Lincoln. Also contains biographical sketches of General Sturgis written by his wife, Jerusha Wilcox Sturgis, and of his daughter and his son-in-law, Ella Maria Sturgis and John Dinan Lawler, written by their daughter, Eleanor (Juty) Lawler Pillsbury. References are also made to John and Mary Sturgis, prominent Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, residents. |