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Boepple, J. F.	Title: An Account of the Establishment of the Industry of Pearl Button Manufacturers as Based on Fresh Water Mussels Quantity: 0.02 cubic feet (1 folder) Call Number: MISC MSS 064 Abstract: Photocopy of J. F. Boepple's "An Account of the Establishment of the Pearl Button Manufacturers," 1963.
Anderegg Family	Title: Anderegg Family Papers, 1852-1971 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 62 Abstract: Correspondence, financial and legal papers, property records, and miscellany of Joseph R. Anderegg, Sr., a Swiss immigrant to Algoma, Wis., and of his family. Included are papers of Floretta Seibt Anderegg Wodsedlak and of her father, Ferdinand Seibt. Most papers date prior to 1886.
Glaze, Andrew, 1920-	Title: Andrew Glaze Papers, 1948-1964 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 51AN Abstract: Papers of a poet-playwright, including drafts and revisions of plays and teleplays, a small amount of correspondence, drafts of a few poems, miscellaneous notes, and photographs.
Dahl, Andrew H., 1859-1928	Title: Andrew H. Dahl Correspondence, 1914 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 198 Abstract: Campaign correspondence of Andrew H. Dahl, a Progressive candidate in Wisconsin's 1914 gubernatorial primary. Although routine in nature, the correspondence reflects the split in Progressive support which resulted in five Progressive candidates in the primary being defeated by the Stalwart Republican candidate.
Johnson, Andrew N., 1890-1973	Title: Andrew N. Johnson Papers, 1915-1971 Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (7 archives boxes) Call Number: River Falls Mss DJ Abstract: Papers of Andrew N. Johnson, a dairy and animal husbandry professor at Wisconsin State College, River Falls, consisting of personal papers, course notes and lectures, papers from his local civic activities, family papers, and photographs including some of agricultural scenes.
Beckmann, Ann C., 1947-	Title: Ann C. Beckmann Papers, 1972-1978 Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: U.S. Mss 186AF Abstract: Papers of a former journalist for the Madison Capital Times, who specialized in coverage of women's issues. Included is a small file of bylined articles, notes, engagement calendars, and research for a series on women's right to maintain their maiden name after marriage. Two boxes contain agenda, minutes, reports, and internal communications of the Madison Affirmative Action Commission of which Beckmann was a charter member.
Holden, Anna	Title: Anna Holden Papers, 1946-1977 Quantity: 9.0 c.f. (22 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), 5 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 543; Micro 815; Tape 810A Abstract: Papers of Anna Holden, a research sociologist who was active in various civil rights organizations throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The collection reflects Holden's work with the Washington, D.C., and Ann Arbor, Michigan, chapters of the Congress of Racial Equality, and her interest in the fair housing projects sponsored by those organizations. In June 1968 she began a study of desegregation in small and medium-sized school districts for the United States Civil Rights Commission. The study was later taken over by the Center for Urban Education, and involved detailed case studies of the school districts of Charlottesville, Virginia, Providence, Rhode Island, and Sacramento, California. Records from this study and from a similar study made in Clinton, Tennessee, in 1956 are a major portion of this collection. A second portion of Holden's papers consists of records of the activities of the Washington chapter of CORE, primarily during the early 1960s, and of the direct action projects of its Housing Committee. The collection also includes a taped radio interview with Holden, made in 1964, and four tapes recording meetings of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission regarding school desegregation in Charlottesville, 1967-1968. There are very few personal papers in the collection.
Davis, Anna Mae, 1896-1991; Davis, Robert H. (Robert Hardin), 1889-1953	Title: Anna Mae and Robert H. Davis Papers, 1909-1977 Quantity: 46.0 c.f. (43 record center cartons, 4 archives boxes, 6 card boxes, and 2 oversize folders), 107 photographs (1 archives box), and 7 negatives (7 negative envelopes) Call Number: Mss 1077; PH 6662 Abstract: Papers, 1909-1977, of Anna Mae Davis, Wisconsin economist, attorney, and a frequent Socialist Party political candidate, together with papers of her husband Robert H. Davis, a state parole officer. Anna Mae Davis' papers include personal and business correspondence, legal cases, speeches and writings, and subject files documenting her interests in civil liberties; labor; and the cooperative, women's rights, and peace movements. Robert H. Davis's papers document his probation and parole work during the 1930s and 1940s, together with information about a few individual parolees.
Erickson, Anna Pratt, 1883-1959	Title: Anna Pratt Erickson Papers, 1898-1959 Quantity: 6 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Stevens Point Micro 12; Micro 738 Abstract: Papers of a Jo Daviess County, Illinois, and Marathon County, Wisconsin, farmer. Short entry diaries, 1898-1959, concern daily activities on her farm near Athens, Wis., housework and sewing, visits to church and neighbors, and the weather. Also includes a seamstress notebook, 1901-1902, and farm account book, 1945.
Donovan, Anne; Donovan, Laurence	Title: Anne and Laurence Donovan Papers, circa 1890-2002 Quantity: 2.6 cubic ft. (7 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 227 Abstract: This collection contains the papers of Anne and Laurence (Larry) Donovan, long-time residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, relating to their personal and professional activities, which included the founding of the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra and administration of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. The collection contains extensive correspondence from World War II, when Laurence served with the U.S. Army in Europe. Also included are files documenting the couples' family life as well as political and volunteer activities.
Porter, Anne Eliza Bacon, 1821-1890	Title: Anne Eliza Bacon Porter Papers, 1839-1890, 1963-1965 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Whitewater Mss M; Micro 615 Abstract: Papers of Porter, a farm wife who settled with her husband near Cooksville, Rock County, Wis., in 1848. Included are nine letters, diaries, farm and household expense books, and a manuscript for Lillian Russell Porter's book, Choice Seed in the Wilderness, based on the diaries of Anne Porter.
Farrar, Anne	Title: Anne Farrar Papers, 1960, 1967-1978 Quantity: 5.1 c.f. (5 record center cartons and 1 oversize folder) and 3 photographs Call Number: M2001-024 Abstract: Papers of Anne Farrar, a member of the San Francisco-based Socialist Revolution Collective during the 1970s, a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and a member of the National Interim Committee of the New American Movement (NAM) during the first half of the same decade. NAM was a mass-based democratic socialist movement organized in November 1971 following the splintering of the New Left at the last convention of SDS in July 1969. Included are papers and posters concerning NAM, the women’s movement, other social action organizations, events, demonstrations, and issues in California during this time period.
Moore, Annie Aubertine Woodward, 1841-	Title: Annie Aubertine Woodward Moore Papers, 1781-1928 Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (11 archives boxes) Call Number: Wis Mss GU Abstract: Papers of Annie Aubertine Woodward Moore, an author, musician, and translator, whose pen name was Auber Forestier, and who came to Madison, Wis., from Philadelphia in 1879. The letters are from family members, publishers, and musicians and writers interested in northern comparative literature and musical criticism. There are letters from Elizabeth P. Peabody concerning literary figures and educational schemes; Alexander Bull, written while on concert tours in the Northwest; Jane Cunningham Croly, editor of Demorest's and other publications; George W. Wickersham, United States Attorney General and Mrs. Moore's nephew; Elizabeth Jordan, writer and grandniece of Mr. Moore; and Mrs. Valborg Hovind Stub, Mrs. Moore's collaborator in the publication of a Scandinavian album, Songs from the North. Other correspondents are Mary M. Adams, Rasmus B. Anderson, Charles and Ellen Emerson, Carl Gaertner, James G. Huneker, Kristofer Janson, William Ellery Leonard, Jenny Lind, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ernest Skarstedt, and Carmen Sylva. Also present are articles on music, biographies, translations, poems and notes, and some genealogical information. There are reminiscences regarding Ole Bull by his son Alexander, and Mrs. moore's description of visits with Emerson and Walt Whitman.
Anshe Chesed Congregation (La Crosse, Wis.).	Title: Ansche Chesed Congregation Records Physical Description: 0.1 linear feet Call Number: MSS 071, Micro 26 Abstract: Records of a Reform Jewish congregation in La Crosse, Wis., called variously Ansche Chesed, Anshe Chesed and Ansche Cheset. Microfilmed records of the congregation include a constitution, bylaws, minutes, 1904-1921, and financial records, 1889-1920. Two related groups also have material represented here. The Hebrew Indigent, Sick & Burial Society (later called the Hebrew Benevolent Society) materials include a constitution and bylaws (in English), 1857, and meetings (in English and later in German), 1857-1904, as well as financial reports, 1889-1917. A later group, the Ansche Chesed Cemetery Association, is represented by a constitution and bylaws as well as extracts of minutes, 1899-1927.
Buttles, Anson W.	Title: Anson W. Buttles Papers, 1846-1906 Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes) and 8 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 186; Milwaukee Micro 75; Micro 161; Milwaukee Micro 76; Micro 2068 Abstract: Diaries and letters of Anson W. Buttles, a rural resident of the township of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the diaries, kept continuously from 1856 to 1906 on a farm near Fox Point, Buttles remarks on national elections and gives information on local political activity derived from his positions as town clerk, justice of the peace, school clerk, county surveyor, and county superintendent of schools. For the Civil War period, there are notations on the volunteer army, the draft, civilian privations, and the Indian war scare. The diaries also include references to farm operations and household economies; Dutch immigrant life; the Lady Elgin steamboat disaster in 1860; the Chicago fire of 1871; the Milwaukee strike of 1886; the panic and mob rule following bank closures of 1861 and 1893; rural entertainments; smallpox vaccinations; road building; books read; and family life. There are a few letters from Byron Kilbourn, Abram Vliet, Don J. Whittemore, and Paul Juneau from 1851-1857 containing information on surveying for the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad; genealogical material on the Buttles and Stoughton Families; and letters to his wife describing his work as engineer during the construction of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad and the Milwaukee & La Crosse Railroad.
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.
King, Anthony J., 1894-1965	Title: Anthony J. King Papers, 1892-1965 Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss BE Abstract: Papers of King, a Milwaukee labor leader, public servant, and socialist. Most of the collection deals with his activities as secretary-treasurer and business agent of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, Local 75. Also present are briefs concerning Wisconsin corporations presented during World War II to the War Labor Board Sixth Region of which King was a member; files concerning the Milwaukee Board of School Directors and Milwaukee Public Museum's Board of Directors, on which King served; and files on Milwaukee Mayor Frank Zeidler and on socialism in Milwaukee.
Lukaszewski, Anthony J., 1882-1956	Title: Anthony J. Lukaszewski Papers, 1923-1977 Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: Milwaukee SC 123 Abstract: Papers concerning Lukaszewski, a former editor of the Milwaukee Nowiny Polskie and a broadcaster, active in Milwaukee dramatic societies; including photographs of Lukaszewski, photos and programs from the Milwaukee Polish Opera Club's production of Halka, clippings, and writings.
Szymczak, Anthony J.	Title: Anthony J. Szymczak Papers, 1945-1974 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 30 Abstract: Papers of Szymczak, a prominent Milwaukee Polish radio announcer, primarily composed of scripts describing his visits to Poland. Other scripts in the collection include several written for holiday broadcasts, and to commemorate the deaths of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. and Robert Kennedy. Also included are a few of Szymczak's speeches, clippings of newspaper articles, certificates and awards, fragmentary correspondence, photographs, and biographical information.
Maggiore, Anthony	Title: Anthony Maggiore Papers, 1975-2004 Quantity: 2.2 cubic ft. (3 boxes) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 244 Abstract: Papers of a UWM faculty member in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare from 1990 to 2001. The collection documents Maggiore's involvement in local, regional, state, and national organizations dealing with energy use, particularly with the issue of energy assistance for low-income people. Upon becoming a faculty member at UWM in 1990, Maggiore served as the research director for the Milwaukee Homicide Project, an initiative undertaken by the UWM Department of Geography.
Wise, Anthony, 1921-1995	Title: Anthony Wise Papers, 1883-1995 Quantity: 17.5 c.f., 2 tape recordings, 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), photographs, 7 posters, 8 film reels, and 22 videorecordings Call Number: M97-051; M97-070; M97-140; Micro 2051; PH 488 Abstract: Papers, 1883-1995, of Anthony Wise, entrepreneur and developer of the Telemark Ski Area near Cable, Wisconsin and of the annual American Birkebeiner cross-country ski race. The papers document the development of Telemark and related businesses and events, and Wise's strong interest in history. Included are files on the Lumberjack World Championship, Historyland, the Sawyer County Historical Society, and Hayward, Wisconsin. Audio and visual materials, including extensive photographs, document Wise and other family members, tourism and development, and the American Birkebeiner and Lumberjack World Championships.
Anti-Saloon League of Wisconsin	Title: Anti-Saloon League of Wisconsin Records, 1916-1934 Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 604 Abstract: Records documenting the activities of the Anti-Saloon League of Wisconsin, covering the years roughly from 1916 to 1934. The records pertain to the League's stringent efforts to implement and enforce prohibition in the state of Wisconsin. Included are materials regarding investigative cases into “blind-pigging” activities and local option elections, speeches and personal notes, wet and dry propaganda pamphlets, clippings from prohibition journals and local newspapers, examples of liquor legislation, and license application forms, and other miscellany.
Rogozinski, Antoni, 1912-	Title: Antoni Rogozinski Papers, 1971-1981 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 67 Abstract: Papers of Rogozinski, a former Polish Army officer and immigrant to Milwaukee engaged in teaching English to new arrivals and organizing an association of Polish veterans, the Association of Veterans of the Second World War in the Polish Armed Forces. Included are several albums compiled by Rogozinski containing papers, copies of documents, photographs, and text, often in Polish, concerning himself, other Polish immigrants, and veterans' activities. Also included is a small newsclippings file about Rogozinski and the Association.