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Independent Order of Good Templars	Title: Independent Order of Good Templars: Madison Lodge Records, 1864-1923 Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss JU Abstract: Records of three Madison, Wisconsin, lodges of the Independent Order of Good Templars, an international temperance society. These consist of minutes of meetings and a treasurer's book of Capital District Lodge No. 3; minutes of meetings, membership rolls, financial records, and miscellaneous volumes of Capital Lodge No. 1; and minutes of meetings and miscellaneous records of Capital District Lodge No. 4.
Independent Order of Good Templars. Grand Lodge of Wisconsin	Title: Independent Order of Good Templars. Grand Lodge of Wisconsin: Records, 1856-1931 Quantity: 21.0 c.f. (21 archives boxes and 38 volumes) Call Number: Wis Mss JT Abstract: Records of the Wisconsin state affiliate of the Independent Order of Good Templars, an international temperance society, established in Wisconsin in 1856. The unbound material consists of letters received by secretary H. A. Larson of Waupaca, 1894-1902, miscellaneous correspondence, and institution returns giving statistics on membership and organization of Wisconsin lodges, 1868-1903.
Independent Order of Good Templars, Lodge No. 27 (Bangor, Wis.)	Title: Independent Order of Good Templars. Lodge No. 27 Records, 1864-1926 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: La Crosse Mss AQ Abstract: Records of Lodge No. 27 consisting of constitutions, rituals, membership records, minutes, financial records, papers from an 1880 appeal by the Reverend H. M. Pugh who was accused of violating the pledge of abstinence, and reports and other papers. Also included are records from several related Bangor organizations: the Independent Order of Good Templars, Lodge No. 208, 1864-1866; the Good Templars Mutual Benefit Association, 1892-1913; and the Bangor Trust Company, 1887-1890.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Oconto Lodge No. 190 (Wis.)	Title: Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Oconto Lodge No. 190 Records, 1853-1933 Quantity: 1.5 c.f. (1 record center carton, 1 archives box, and 1 volume) Call Number: M88-355 Abstract: Minute books of Oconto Lodge No. 190 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (1897-1933) and records of predecessor lodges originating in Green County, Wisconsin, including membership records, treasurers' account books, and minutes dating back to the founding of the Sugar River Encampment No. 10 in 1853 at Attica, Wisconsin. This lodge became known as the Green County Encampment No. 10 in 1867, and as the Oconto Encampment No. 10 in 1903 when it moved from Monroe to Oconto.
Indian Summer Festivals, Inc.	Title: Indian Summer Festivals, Inc. Records, 1985-2007 Quantity: 1.6 cubic ft. (2 boxes); 1 oversize folder; 17 safety film negatives Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 250 Abstract: Collection consists of administrative records of Indian Summer Festivals, Inc. (ISF), including meeting minutes, correspondence, publicity materials, and photographs. ISF is best known for organizing the yearly American Indian ethnic festival, Indian Summer, at the Summerfest grounds at Milwaukee's lakefront.
Indochina Peace Campaign (Organization: U.S.)	Title: Indochina Peace Campaign Records, 1940-1976 (bulk 1972-1975) Quantity: 3.5 c.f. (9 archives boxes), 150 tape recordings, and 2 disc recordings Call Number: Mss 451; Audio 800A; Disc 150A; Audio 911A Abstract: Records, mainly 1972-1975, of the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC), a national organization that was formed late in the anti-Vietnam war movement (1972) and which emphasized public education and legislative lobbying. Included are correspondence from IPC affiliates in California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and other states in which the group was well organized; agenda, minutes, reports, and position papers relating to meetings and conferences of the national steering committee; and subject files. Of special note within the last section are speeches and writings by activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, the best known of IPC's leaders; notes on an organizers' school; files on an encounter with Nixon security officials at the dedication of the Dirksen Library in Pekin, Illinois; and material on IPC's participation in the United Campaign including committee minutes and extensive notes about a 1974 visit to Saigon. Sound and video material in the collection is extensive and provides better documentation of Hayden and Fonda's activities than the manuscript collection.
Industrial Commission of Wisconsin	Title: Industrial Commission of Wisconsin: H. Herman Rauch Labor Stabilization and Arbitration File, 1940-1948 Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 1021 Abstract: Correspondence, studies, agreement reports, hearing reports, complaints, and notes relating to the activities of H. Herman Rauch, Industrial Commission analyst, who took part in the arbitration of labor grievances and disputes as a representative of the Commission before the National Labor Relations Board and the National War Labor Board.
Industrial Cooperative Association	Title: Industrial Cooperative Association Records, 1970-1992 Quantity: 9.0 c.f. (23 archives boxes) and 1 tape recording Call Number: Mss 828; Tape 1267A Abstract: Records, mainly 1980-1992, of the Industrial Cooperative Association, a national nonprofit cooperative founded in 1978 to provide educational, legal, financial and technical assistance to worker-owned businesses. Included are by-laws, board of directors and staff meeting minutes; financial statements, and other administrative records; correspondence and internal memoranda; and information (including one tape recording) on cooperatives with which ICA worked. The client files variously consist of agreements, contracts, correspondence, research files, business plans, loans, financial statements, and articles. Well documented are the Colonial Cooperative Press, International Poultry, Moose Creek Restoration, 0&0 Market, Our Market, Seymour Specialty Wire Company, and Workers Owned Sewing Company.
INFACT (Firm)	Title: INFACT Records, 1971-1993 Quantity: 72.7 c.f., 110 tape recordings, 29 videorecordings, and 3 filmstrips Call Number: M93-263; M94-322; M95-019; M95-051; M96-084; M97-182; Audio 1521A; VBB 636-656; VCA 254-255; VTA 026 Abstract: Records of the Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT), a citizen action group formed in the United States in 1976, documenting the organization's activities related to addressing social problems by altering the behavior of corporations. Their first campaign (1977-1984) was aimed at changing the corporate marketing practices of infant formula in the United States and in Third World countries which led to the boycott of the Swiss-giant Nestlé Corporation. The second major campaign (1984-1993) was aimed at exposing corporate connections to nuclear weapons build-up which led to a boycott against the General Electric Company (GE). Also documented are the activities of other support organizations and the grassroots efforts of regional INFACT campaign centers; infant formula marketing, infant nutrition, and breastfeeding in various developing countries; the lawsuit filed by the Sisters of the Precious Blood against Bristol-Myers; nuclear weaponry; and environmental health issues.
Information and Referral Service for Pierce and St. Croix Counties (River Falls, Wis.)	Title: Information and Referral Service for Pierce and St. Croix Counties Records, 1972-1978 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss DO Abstract: Records of a River Falls, Wisconsin organization in existence from 1973 to 1978 which provided information, referral, and follow-up services to individuals in order that they more easily located social service agencies able to serve their needs. The materials include annual reports, correspondence, publicity, information on work procedures including sample questions, some financial records, and fragmentary records of related agencies. Absent from the records are the agency logs of incoming questions which were destroyed when the organization dissolved in 1978. Other materials at that time were transferred to the Elders' Area Resources Service, River Falls, Wisconsin.
Ingram, Orrin H. (Orrin Henry), 1830-1918	Title: Register of the Orrin H. Ingram Papers, 1857-1904 Quantity: 21.6 c.f. (63 archives boxes and 4 volumes) Call Number: Eau Claire Mss R Abstract: Business papers of Ingram, a leading Wisconsin lumberman, relating to operations in the Chippewa Valley, with headquarters at Eau Claire, and the sale of manufactured lumber through subsidiary wholesale companies located along the Mississippi River. Correspondence emphasizes the selling end of the business, consisting of letters of report from branch managers, agents, and salesmen, and between members of the company and pertains to business plans, policies, and practices. A group of letters, 1893-1901, relates to Ripon College, its finances, endowment, the building of Ingram Hall, and the resignation of President Rufus C. Flagg. Other letters have to do with events in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, including the economic effect of the Civil War, the coming of railroads, the depression of 1893, and relief of the cyclone victims at New Richmond in 1899.
Inner City Library Service Institute (Milwaukee, Wis.). Office of the Director	Title: Inner City Library Service Institute Records, 1971-1974 Quantity: .8 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: UWM Archival Collection 56 Abstract: Records of a federally-funded program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) which provided inner city minorities with professional training in librarianship. Institute Director Laurence L. Sherrill created or compiled the records, which include his general files containing correspondence, memos, and newsletters concerning curriculum development, funding, staffing, and workshops. The collection also contains numerous evaluation, funding, and planning reports, and some information on the lawsuit filed by five participants against the institute and SLIS concerning their ineligibility for taking regular SLIS courses.
Institute for Public Service (New York, N.Y.)	Title: Institute for Public Service Records, 1914-1962 Quantity: 26.0 c.f. (65 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss AX Abstract: Papers of William H. Allen, director of the Institute for Public Service (New York, N.Y.) from its chartering in October 1915 to 1962. The institute was designed to carry on training and publication programs, to promote efficiency in education, efficiency in government, and other forms of civic-improvement functions begun by the earlier Bureau of Municipal Research organized by a group of reformers in New York City in 1907. The collection includes Allen's correspondece, many newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, and replies to questionnaires on currrent events used by the institute in connection with various research problems. Much of the material refers to work done in New York City, but reports on surveys conducted at the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere are also included. The collection is arranged by subject, and includes Allen's correspondence with such educators and political figures as Lewis W. Alderman, school administrator of Portland, Oregon, Fiorello La Guardia, mayor of New York City, William McAndrew, superintendent of schools in Chicago, Illinois, A. E. Winship, editor of the Journal of Education, and William J. O'Dwyer, mayor of New York City.
Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities	Title: Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities Records, 1905-1933 Quantity: 10.2 cubic feet (23 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: Mss 210 Abstract: Records of a research organization founded in 1920 by Richard T. Ely as the Institute for Research on Land Economics. The Institute was headquartered at the University of Wisconsin until 1925, and at Northwestern University from 1925 until about 1935. The Institute performed basic research in fields such as land valuation, conservation, urbanization, and public utilities. Records include a subject file containing correspondence, reports, research papers, and other administrative and research material; a public utilities research file; financial records; and scrapbooks.
Interlake Pulp and Paper Company (Appleton, Wis.)	Title: Interlake Pulp and Paper Company Records, 1890-1939 Quantity: 3.2 c.f. Call Number: M89-299; M93-085 Abstract: Records documenting the development and technical operation of the Interlake Pulp and Paper Company, an Appleton, Wisconsin, paper mill owned by the Manufacturing Investment Company, and later, the Interlake Pulp and Paper Company, both of New York.
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada. Local 18 (Milwaukee, Wis.)	Title: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada. Local 18: Records, 1893-1945, 1994 Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss DQ Abstract: Records of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, local which represented theatrical workers and motion picture projectionists. Included are correspondence, reports, and agreements, 1894-1945; proceedings of national conventions, 1893-1926; minutes, 1903-1933; a constitution; minutes of the wage scale committee, 1927-1933, and the executive board, 1913-1933; receipts; a history of theater in Milwaukee, 1994; and allied papers.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers	Title: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Records, 1901-1974 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box), 747 reels of microfilm (16mm), and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 444; Micro 550; Micro 1019 Abstract: Records, primarily from 1920-1974, of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Primarily on microfilm produced by the union, the records include files from the international president's office, mostly concerning relations with employers (organizing drives, contracts, and strikes), other unions and labor organizations, and local and district lodges, especially regarding the railroad, automobile, aircraft, and firefighting equipment industries; collective bargaining agreements, 1961-1975, from the research department; and a script for the 1950 radio play “Boomer Jones,” and miscellaneous publications from the organizing department. Included in these extensive files is correspondence, minutes, statistics, reports, and other documents, though no convention proceedings are present. Concentrations of material concern jurisdictional disputes with other unions, the Railway Labor Executives' Association, the American Federation of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, cases of security risk charges against union members, the National Urban League, international labor groups, and other organizations.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. District 10	Title: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. District 10: Records, 1903-1989 Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 82.1 c.f. and 3 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 1040; M81-291; M81-647; M82-161; M91-275; M92-124; M93-011; M93-148 Abstract: Records of District 10 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), a union district office covering Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin, documenting organizing efforts, wage surveys, administrative and financial activities, arbitration and negotiation with area businesses, and public relations. Included are meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, membership information, contracts and arbitration materials, newsletters and press releases, convention materials, research and reports, information on apprenticeships, publications, and background on legislative issues.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Wisconsin State Council	Title: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Wisconsin State Council: Records, 1901-1927, 1941-1964 Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 693 Abstract: Records of the Wisconsin state organization of affiliates of the International Association of Machinists, including minutes with related correspondence and reports, organizing literature, education committee files, minutes of local lodge financial secretaries, and contracts, 1901-1927, from locals in District 10, Milwaukee.
International Association of Machinists. Local 251 (Sheboygan, Wis.)	Title: International Association of Machinists. Local 251: Records, 1922-1994 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 201 Abstract: Records of Local 251 (Sheboygan, Wis.) consisting of eighteen minute books (1922-1994), two roll books (1926-1942), and four treasurer's cash books (1947-1950, 1954-1966). The minutes document the local's monthly and bimonthly meetings and include lists of officers, treasurer's reports, and reports on activities. The roll books contain member lists and records of attendance at meetings. Cash books list receipts and disbursements.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 1169 (Milwaukee, Wis.)	Title: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 1169: Records, 1934-1987 Quantity: 4.8 c.f. (11 archives boxes and 2 card boxes) and 5 tape recordings Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 175; Tape 1345A Abstract: Records, mainly 1955-1981, of a Milwaukee local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) established in 1939 to represent workers at two Milwaukee areas plants of the Square D Company. In 1991 the local was amalgamated into Local 2336; Local 2336 in turn became defunct in 1998. Included are bylaws and charter documents; minutes, 1934-1939, of the local's predecessor, the Federal Labor Union Local 19926; minutes of general membership, executive board, and other administrative meetings, 1939-1981; membership and election information; correspondence of leaders such as Arthur Jaraczewski and Walter Scanlan; newsletters; and other administrative records. Several special meetings are documented only by tape recordings. Incomplete files of printed contracts, letters of agreement, background information and detailed minutes of bargaining sessions document collective bargaining dating from 1939 to 1985, and transcripts, correspondence, briefs, and background information partially represent grievances from 1960 to 1981. Subject files document social gatherings, charitable support, union solidarity, the construction of the union hall, and the Square D company. Financial records consist only of check stubs, 1972-1983.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 953 (Eau Claire, Wis.)	Title: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 953: Records, 1935-1943 Quantity: 4.8 c.f. (12 archives boxes) Call Number: Eau Claire Mss AC Abstract: Correspondence, bills, receipts, and employment agreements of Local 953. Included is information on negotiations with the Northern States Power Company, relationships with the parent union and other locals, efforts to organize non-union workers, and other topics. The files are those of the Business Manager, Sherman (Shorty) Preston.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local Union 135 (La Crosse, Wisconsin).	Title: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 135 (La Crosse, Wisconsin) Records Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 067 Abstract: Bylaws and a labor agreement between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Local Union 135 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Materials range in date from 1936 to 1968.
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers	Title: International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers Records, 1906-1957 Quantity: 284 reels of microfilm (16mm) Call Number: Micro 43 Abstract: Records of the International Union of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers containing primarily correspondence with its locals, its organizers, the AFL-CIO and other unions, companies, government agencies, and other organizations (1906-1908, 1911-1957), and scattered financial records and speeches.
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers	Title: International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers Miscellaneous Papers, 1956-1966 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 27 Abstract: Miscellaneous papers of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers concerning the West Coast Uniform Labor Agreement, the withdrawal of west coast locals from the International Brotherhood, and subsequent litigation. The Uniform Labor Agreement was negotiated in 1934 by the Pacific Coast Association of Pulp and Paper Manufacturers and the Pacific Coast Pulp and Paper Mill Employees Association which combined locals of both the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers, and the United Papermakers and Paperworkers. Within the IBPS&PMW, the Rank and File Movement for Democratic Action achieved momentum and in 1964, dissident locals withdrew from the Pacific Coast Association and formed the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers. They claimed heirship to the Uniform Labor Agreement and succeeded in taking over bargaining responsibilities after a 1964 strike. The collection documents with reports, memoranda, and minutes the operation of the Uniform Labor Agreement, 1956-1966. Briefs and other legal papers concern the suit of the two Internationals against the Western Association over ownership of funds. Also present is a “Handbook for Constitutional Reform,” issued by the Rank and File Movement in 1962, and a folder of correspondence concerning University Local #845, Cambridge, Mass.
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers. Local 482 (Neenah, Wis.)	Title: International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers. Local 482: Records, 1943-1962 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss CW Abstract: Records of the union local at the Lakeview Paper Mill in Neenah, Wisconsin, a mill that later became part of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Included is a 1962 constitution and by-laws, minutes (1945-1948 only), correspondence, detailed job analyses describing the employment of women and veterans during and after World War II, check stubs, and receipt and expenditure books. Dues records pertain only to 1943-1944, a period of high female employment. The 1945 minutes incorporate some union-management meetings and meetings of the Neenah-Menasha Trades and Labor Council.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America	Title: International Brotherhood of Teamsters Contracts, 1953-1971 Quantity: 22.4 c.f. (56 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 131A; Mss 178; Mss 178a Abstract: Agreements between local labor unions affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and local businesses and industries, primarily in Wisconsin. A few contracts come from locals in California, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Canada.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America	Title: International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America Records, 1904-1952 Quantity: 92.6 c.f. (234 archives boxes) and 87 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 9; Micro 435 Abstract: Correspondence files of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters executive office covering the years 1904-1952, with the major portion of the material originating in the 1940s. Correspondence is with general executive board members, general organizers, local unions, joint councils, conferences, and trade divisions; the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations; other international unions and labor organizations; government agencies; and the general public. Included with the correspondence are reports, minutes, clippings, transcripts of government hearing and decisions, legal briefs, and copies of local union by-laws. The material details the union's initial struggles for existence and unity, its jurisdictional disputes, strikes, its growth in membership and influence, changes in organizing and bargaining techniques and in the trucking and transportation industries, and the increasing strength and political involvement of the labor movement in general. Major correspondents for the IBT are union president Daniel J. Tobin, Thomas Hughes, Thomas Flynn, John Gillespie, and Albert Evans. Correspondents include Matthew Woll, William English Walling, Chester Bowles, James A. Farley, Westbrook Pegler, Edward V. Rickenbacker, and Victor Riesel.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Local 695	Title: International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers. Local 695 Records, 1932-1989 Quantity: 49.6 c.f. (124 archives boxes); plus additions of 91.0 c.f. Call Number: Mss 434; M86-484; M99-099 Abstract: Records of Local 695 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chaffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, and created through the merger of several southern Wisconsin locals in 1962, representing truck drivers as well as workers in warehouses, canneries, bakeries, laundries, dairies, and stone quarries. Relations with employers is particularly well-documented and information on the employment of women and migrant workers in canneries and dairies is present. The records contain information on a lengthy strike at Wisco Hardware Company during the 1950s, conflicts in the stone quarries at Lannon, Wisconsin in the 1960s, jurisdictional conflicts with Local 200 in Milwaukee, interactions with other Teamster bodies such as the Central Conference and various Joint Councils, and the leadership of longtime secretary-treasurer Al Mueller.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Local 75 (Green Bay, Wis.)	Title: International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Local 75: Records, 1933-1949 Quantity: 4.4 c.f. (11 archives boxes including 22 volumes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 34 Abstract: Records of Local 75, Green Bay, Wisconsin, including correspondence, minute books, an assessment and dues ledger, and daybooks; plus similar records of groups later amalgamated with Local 75: Dairy and Creamery Employees Local 507, Green Bay; Wisconsin Conference of Cheese, Butter, and Condenser Employees; an unidentified federal dairy creamery local, Green Bay; Brown County Highway Teamsters; and Cheese and Dairy Workers Federal Union No. 20428.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions	Title: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Records, 1961-1968 Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 519 Abstract: Records of the New York office of an international association of labor unions. The organization, formed in 1949, is concerned with the influence of communist unions in economically underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and has consultative status to the United Nations and its specialized agencies. The records reflect the New York office's activities of informing and influencing the United Nations on worldwide issues such as racism, unionism, workers' rights, economic development, and trade. The materials in the collection include correspondence, telegrams, reports, texts of statements, United Nations documents, and newspaper clippings.
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Film Collection, circa 1930s-circa 1980s Quantity: 291 film reels (circa 135,500 ft.) Call Number: McCormick Mss 16Z Abstract: The International Harvester Company Film Collection consists mainly of short promotional films, made by or for the International Harvester company from the 1930s through the 1980s, advertising or otherwise demonstrating the company's product line. Also included are sponsored educational films concerning agriculture, industry, or trucking–related subjects, and internal training and industrial films concerning manufacturing, sales, and engineering. The films are both sound and silent, color and black & white. Almost all are 16 mm prints.
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Young and Rubicam Motor Truck Advertising Proof Books, 1938-1970 Quantity: 6.5 c.f. (13 flat boxes and 2 oversize folders) Call Number: McCormick Mss 14Z Abstract: Color and black-and-white advertising proofs for motor trucks manufactured by International Harvester Company. The advertisements were created by the ad agency Young and Rubicam and ran in vocational, trade, and farm publications, popular magazines, and newspapers.
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Business Records, 1883-1885, 1893, 1902-1967 Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: McCormick Mss 1Z Abstract: Business records of the International Harvester Company consisting of charter and by-laws, 1902, 1904, 1918; minutes, 1902; incorporation documents, 1907; annual reports for 1907 through 1966; a history of the company, 1902-1913, by the U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor, and its anti-trust committee reports for 1913; a confidential statement of the company for the 1920 season; sales and collection organization charts, 1926-1929; an accountants' report, 1927; arbitration decisions on labor relations, 1943-1955; telegraphic code, 1947; quarterly reports, 1965-1967; and for varying years, reports of the president, meetings of shareholders, and employee pension benefits. Included also are miscellaneous papers of D.M. Osborne & Company, 1883-1885, and its sale agreement, 1902; and miscellaneous papers of the Deering Harvester Company, 1893, and a Deering appraisal, 1903.
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Print Advertising Proof Books, 1904-1945 Quantity: 26.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons, 1 archives box, and 35 flat boxes) Call Number: M2001-121 Abstract: Bound volumes containing advertising proofs for the company's agricultural equipment and motor truck lines. The advertisements were published in trade journals, farm papers, county weekly newspapers, national magazines, and the international farm press. Also included are some display advertising and draft advertising copy.
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Advertising Literature, 1832-1984 Quantity: 29.0 c.f. (60 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 4 record center cartons) and 2,566 oversize items; plus additions of 4.8 c.f. Call Number: McCormick Mss 4Z; PH 6421; M2001-131; M2001-146 Abstract: Advertising literature produced by International Harvester Company for its farm equipment, trucks, refrigerators, and lawn and garden equipment. The vast majority of the advertising is for the company's agricultural equipment line, including tractors. Includes dealer advertising flyers and catalogs, general line catalogs, distributor's catalogs, and export general catalogs.
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Branch House Albums, circa 1910-1970 Quantity: 6.0 c.f. (8 oversize boxes) Call Number: McCormick Mss 18Z Abstract: Pages from oversize albums containing maps, plats and photographs of International Harvester Company's branch house locations in the United States. The pages are arranged alphabetically by city. There may have originally been five volumes to the set of albums. The Wisconsin Historical Society received only four volumes, which end with “Rosemead, California.”
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Financial Records, 1881-1938 Quantity: 15.0 c.f. (138 volumes) and 72 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: McCormick Mss 2Z; Micro 701; Micro 705-713 Abstract: Financial records of the International Harvester Company, formed in August, 1902, by a consolidation of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, the Deering Harvester Company, and the Plano Manufacturing Company, all in the Chicago area; the Milwaukee Harvester Company in Wisconsin; and the Warder, Bushnell, & Glessner Company (Champion) at Springfield, Ohio. International Harvester thus came into control of the country's harvesting equipment, with about 90 per cent of its grain-binder production and 80 percent of its mowers, the two chief harvesting machines. The financial records are chiefly those of the predecessor Deering, Milwaukee, and Plano companies before they consolidated in 1902, primarily time and payroll records.
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Glass Negative Series, circa 1900-1939 Quantity: 40 reels of microfilm (35 mm), approximately 4,000 photoprints, 3,200 copy negatives, and 5,000 glass plate negatives Call Number: Micro 2029; PH 3702; PH 3703; PH 3704; PH 3705; PH 3706; PH 3707; PH 3708; PH 3709; PH 3710; PH 3711; PH 3712; PH 3713; PH 3714; PH 3715; PH 3716; PH 3717; PH 3718; PH 3727; PH 3728; PH 4285 Abstract: Microfilmed copies, prints, and some originals of over 12,000 glass plate and nitrate negatives from the Advertising, Extension, Consumer Relations, and Engineering Departments of the International Harvester Company, a Chicago, Illinois based manufacturer of trucks, engines, farm machinery and implements, and construction equipment formed in 1902. Images include depictions, from approximately 1900 to 1939, of the company's product line, factories (McCormick, Deering, Plano, Champion, Osborn and Weber Wagon Works), dealerships and showrooms, employees, expositions and county fairs, agricultural methods and practices, field testing of equipment, foreign subsidiaries, manufacturing equipment and processes, product development and servicing, promotional activities, rural landscapes and small towns, road construction, railroads, binder twine mills and plantations. Among the subjects documented are the activities of a large-scale, diversified, multinational manufacturing corporation, the mechanization of agriculture, the growth of the modern transportation industry, and the transition of the United States to an urbanized industrial nation.
International Harvester Company	Title: International Harvester Company Advertising Sample Books (Bluebooks), 1913-1957 Quantity: 131.0 c.f. (328 archives boxes) Call Number: McCormick Mss 5Z Abstract: Record copies of International Harvester Company Advertising and Consumer Relations Department printed materials. Included are internal and external company publications, brochures, advertising proofs, catalogs, posters, broadsides, direct mailers, postcards, calendars, greeting cards, novelties, customer response cards, blank forms, circulars, advance notices for marketing campaigns, and blank customer data sheets. Each item is attached to a card that was formerly a page in a blue bound volume. The cards often include information on the geographical and numerical distribution of the attached items. The series documents the marketing of International Harvester's foreign and domestic agricultural equipment, motor truck, industrial equipment and refrigeration product lines. The advertisements feature illustrations (often in color) and text describing the company's tractors, engines, wagons, cream separators, farm implements, construction equipment, refrigerators and trucks.