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Fond du Lac (Wis.). City Manager	Title: Fond du Lac (Wis.). City Manager: Correspondence with City Officials and Agencies, 1958-1959 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) Call Number: Fond du Lac Series 29 Abstract: Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of Acting City Manager Elmer Bray and City Manager Robert McManus. Includes some correspondence with City residents and some agency reports.
Fond du Lac (Wis.). City Manager	Title: Fond du Lac (Wis.). City Manager: General Subject and Correspondence File, 1958-1959 Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes) Call Number: Fond du Lac Series 30 Abstract: Correspondence and information on all areas of municipal government. Included are applications for employment, appreciation letters, budgets, city attorney agenda, city financial statements, claims against the city, Common Council proceedings, invitations, legal opinions, ordinances, proclamations, and files on industrial development, safety, snow removal, and trailer courts. Correspondence with state agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses, and private citizens is present as are publications concerning public administration.
Fond du Lac (Wis.). Mayor	Title: Fond du Lac (Wis.). Mayor: Mayor's Subject and Correspondence File, 1925-1958 Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (8 archives boxes) Call Number: Fond du Lac Series 4 Abstract: Files of Mayors Edwin F. Weis (1944-1957) and Victor P. Capelle (1957-1958) including correspondence, minutes and proceedings of various city boards, reports, and other materials, some dating back to 1925.. Much material deals with routine city functions such as police and fire protection, recreation, and planning. Other material deals with post-World War II housing problems, communicable diseases, and civil defense. As a developing industrial city with a limited underground water supply the city also had a serious pollution problem. After 1958, Fond du Lac adopted a city manager form of government.
Fond du Lac County (Wis.). Treasurer	Title: Fond du Lac County (Wis.). Treasurer: Tax Rolls, 1850-1955, 1970-1990 Quantity: 108.0 c.f (1,416 volumes) and 8 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Fond du Lac Series 25 Abstract: Record of taxes levied and collected on real estate and personal property. The rolls include a description of the property, its assessed valuation, and amount of taxes paid. Holdings are incomplete. They include all records for the years 1850-1900, except for a few missing volumes, and the records for every fifth year thereafter beginning with 1905. No records are present for 1960, 1965, or 1985.
Fond du Lac County Conservation Alliance (Wis.)	Title: Fond du Lac County Conservation Alliance Records, 1961-1968 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 42 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss BE; PH 3586 Abstract: Records of the Alliance, a group of organizations concerned with conservation and wildlife management; including minutes and materials on goose hunting at Horicon Marsh, water pollution, a tour by Stewart Udall and a banquet for Owen Gromme, and the Sixth District Advisory Committee to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, chaired by John L. Franson, a leader of the Alliance. Photographs are of the Supple Marsh wildlife preserve, ca. 1963, originally a refuse dump on Lake Winnebago and the Fond du Lac River. Included are images of the dump, the surrounding shoreline, migratory ducks and geese, observation buildings, and an on-site inspection by Senator Gaylord Nelson. Also included is a photographic reproduction of the Supple Marsh proposal.
Fondy Area Bus Cooperative (Fond du Lac, Wis.)	Title: Fondy Area Bus Cooperative Records, 1968-1978 Quantity: 0.9 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 1 oversize box) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss CJ Abstract: Records of the first cooperatively owned bus company in the United States, which provided public transportation in Fond du Lac, Wis. and surrounding areas from 1968 to 1973. The non-profit business restored bus service to the area following the demise of the privately-owned Fond du Lac Bus Company, and was a pioneering attempt to solve through a cooperative model the financial difficulties typical of urban transportation systems. Included are articles of incorporation and bylaws, minutes of annual and board of directors' meetings, correspondence, annual and monthly reports to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, information about buses and bus schedules, financial records, promotional materials, shareholder records, materials concerning its 1973 sale to the City of Fond du Lac, and records of final dissolution and shareholder monetary distributions.
Foote, Cone & Belding	Title: Foote, Cone & Belding Records, 1906-1996 Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (5 archives boxes), 201 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 7 videorecordings, and 42 photographs; plus additions of 228.4 c.f. Call Number: Mss 882; PH Mss 882; VBB 324; VHA 363-368; Micro 2080; M92-296; M93-090 Abstract: Records, mainly 1917-1982, of Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB), an international advertising agency headquartered in Chicago that was founded in 1873. The firm operated from 1882 to 1942 as Lord & Thomas, from 1942 to 1994 as Foote, Cone & Belding, and as True North Communications from 1994 to 2001, when the Foote, Cone & Belding name was restored. The collection consists almost entirely of microfilmed copies of the print advertising produced for clients between 1917 and 1982. Also included are a small number of television commercials considered the best produced by the firm from 1950 to 1979, books produced by Lord & Thomas on the early theory and practice of advertising, and miscellaneous internal publications, including an internal video magazine, 1994-1996. There are no general administrative records and no papers about the creative development of any advertising campaigns.
Foreign Policy Association	Title: Foreign Policy Association Records, 1918-1996 Quantity: 36.4 c.f. (91 archives boxes), 7 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and 2 films; plus additions of 261.3 c.f., 2.9 c.f. of photographs, 29 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 3 films, 13 videotapes, and 216 audio tapes Call Number: Mss 2; M2011-044; Audio 1589A; Micro 48; AC 547; AD 582; DC 774-775; DD 120; VBA 940-952 Abstract: Records of the Foreign Policy Association (FPA), a national, non-partisan adult educational organization dedicated to promoting interest in international relations and an understanding of foreign affairs; including correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, minutes, speeches, news releases, newsletters, brochures, photographs, moving images, audio recordings, and printed materials. Formed in 1918 as the League of Free Nations and reorganized in 1923, the FPA supplies publications, speakers, and counsel for community-based discussion programs and other events, and also sponsors events for a national audience. The records document the activities, administration, public relations, education efforts, community relations, and finances of the organization, as well as foreign policy and world affairs in all facets throughout the 20th century. Topics include human rights, war, trade, government, defense, world hunger, education, anti-communist activities, and foreign relations.
Foreign Type Cheesemakers' Association of Wisconsin	Title: Foreign Type Cheesemakers' Association of Wisconsin Records, 1937, 1942-1949 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Wis Mss JG Abstract: Records of a cheesemakers association, with headquarters in Monroe, Wisconsin, formed for the purpose of advancing the latest methods for producing quality cheese, mainly Swiss and limburger. Correspondence, 1942-1948, concerns state and federal regulations affecting cheese standards, grading, and price differentials. Also included are by-laws and the constitution, contracts, minutes, reports, and financial accounts, 1944-1949.
Forest County (Wis.). Treasurer	Title: Forest County (Wis.). Treasurer: Tax Rolls, 1885-1970 Quantity: 27.5 c.f. (153 volumes) Call Number: Forest Series 13 Abstract: Real estate and personal property tax rolls showing dtes, town, owner's name, land description, acreage, valuation of real and personal property, amount of taxes, total taxes, and payments. Records for 1885-1900 are generally complete. From 1900-1940 only every tenth year has been retained, and beginning in 1955 only every fifth year has been retained. Rolls for 1950 are missing and may have been destroyed.
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.
Former Members of the Wisconsin Progressive Party Oral History Project	Title: Former Members of the Wisconsin Progressive Party Oral History Project Interviews, 1980-1981 Quantity: 9 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 881A; Tape 890A; Tape 901A; Tape 902A; Tape 903A; Tape 993A Abstract: Tape-recorded interviews conducted by Mark F. Smith concerning the Wisconsin Progressive Party which was formed in the 1930s and dissolved in 1946. Interviewees are party members and leaders Paul R. Alfonsi, Roland E. H. Kannenberg, Clifford W. Krueger, Gordon Sinykin, and Carl W. Thompson. They discuss their own backgrounds and involvement in the party, Progressive leaders, other third party movements, Governor Phil La Follette, the National Progressives of America, and related topics.
Fort Winnebago and Duck Creek Plank Road Company (Portage, Wis.)	Title: Fort Winnebago and Duck Creek Plank Road Company Records, 1851-1874 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 462 Abstract: Records of the Fort Winnebago and Duck Creek Plank Road Company which built and operated the 3.5 mile road between Fort Winnebago (Portage, Wis.) and Duck Creek. Included are minutes of the board of directors, an 1874 map of the road, and miscellaneous business papers.
Foundation for Rural Housing, Inc.	Title: Foundation for Rural Housing, Inc. Records, 1969-2005 Quantity: 14.4 c.f. (14 record center cartons and 1 video box), 238 photographs, 84 negatives, and 4 tape recordings Call Number: M2010-068; Audio 1489A Abstract: The Foundation for Rural Housing, Inc. (named the Wisconsin Rural Housing Cooperative from 1969-1983) assists low-income families of rural Wisconsin in acquiring and maintaining adequate, safe, and sanitary housing. The bulk of the collection documents programs and projects including the Community Housing Alternatives Program (CHAP), the Housing Initiative Program (HIP), the National Demonstration Water Project (NDWP), the Wisconsin Fund (Private Sewage System Grant), and the Volunteer Senior Home Repair Program. Administrative files documenting Board of Directors meetings and grant reports as well as photographs documenting the early years of the home building and repair program are also present.
Founding Industries of Wisconsin (Survey Project)	Title: Founding Industries of Wisconsin (Survey Project) Records, 1987-[ongoing] Quantity: 20 cubic ft. (50 boxes); 1 database Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 41 Abstract: The collection contains files on over 5,000 Wisconsin businesses, each of which employed more than 100 employees. The information was solicited, collated and organized between 1987 and the present, but information dates from 1880 to the present. The contents in each file varies, but most include survey forms, newspaper clippings, and information reproduced from other published sources. The collection also includes a database that can be searched on 32 different fields and includes references to the repositories throughout the state where company records can be found. The database includes the company name, location (city and county), incorporation date, names of founders, Standard Industrial Classification codes (as determined by the initial study coordinators), and any other names or the names of parent/subsidiary companies associated with the company.
Fountain Lutheran Church (Juneau County, Wis.)	Title: Fountain Lutheran Church (Juneau County, Wis.) Records, 1878-1982 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) and 4 photographs Call Number: Micro 524; Stevens Point Micro 20; PH Stevens Point Micro 20 Abstract: Records of a church founded as a Norwegian Evangelical congregation in 1878 which at various dates shared a circuit with churches in the Town of Plymouth, Town of Greenwood, Mauston, and Hustler. Included are sacramental record books, and a photograph album and book of historical essays on the church Ladies Aid. Early records are in Norwegian. Photographs include images of the churches and parsonages, 1912-1937.
McCormick, Fowler, 1898-1972	Title: Fowler McCormick Papers, 1878-1972 Quantity: 5.2 c.f. (14 archives boxes) Call Number: McCormick Mss K Abstract: Papers of McCormick, a third-generation executive of the International Harvester Company; consisting mainly of materials relating to the company and to McCormick's personal business interests, plus a few personal papers. Included are correspondence, committee reports, Executive Council minutes, financial statements, magazine and newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other printed materials, speeches, and other papers. The majority of the papers cover the years 1941-1958. Included among the International Harvester materials is information on the 1946 reorganization of the company, on their 1947 lowering of prices to help balance the national economy, on McCormick's business philosophy and influences upon its development, and on many other topics. Other files concern McCormick's involvement in various national governmental economic agencies and committees. Miscellaneous personal papers contain a Rockefeller family genealogy, and earlier family correspondence.
Chew, Carol; Chew, Daniel	Title: Fox Point Video Archives Project Records, 1989-1990 Quantity: .2 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 209 Abstract: A collection of six videocassettes containing footage taken in Fox Point, Wisconsin. Produced by Carol and Daniel Chew for the Fox Point Foundation, the tapes contain footage of events that took place in Fox Point in 1989 and 1990, as well as interviews with Fox Point residents. The tapes also include footage of various homes, businesses, schools, and houses of worship in Fox Point, as well as recordings of older photographs relating to Fox Point and its residents. An accompanying guide lists the contents of each tape.
Fox Valley Council of Governments	Title: Fox Valley Council of Governments: Records, 1955-1972 Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes) Call Number: Series 2369 Abstract: Proceedings, correspondence, publications, and files of individual officers, committees, organizations, and workshops of the Fox Valley Council of Governments and its predecessor, the Fox Valley Regional Planning Commission, the planning agency for Wisconsin's Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago counties. The bulk of the records consist of proceedings and publications.
Fox Valley Livestock Cooperative	Title: Fox Valley Livestock Cooperative Records, 1948-1969 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Oshkosh Mss BS Abstract: Records of a livestock purchasing cooperative organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, among other area cooperatives, under the auspices of the Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association. Included are minutes, financial and audit reports, and scattered financial and stock records.
Fox Valley Water Quality Planning Agency	Title: Fox Valley Water Quality Planning Agency Records, 1976-1984 Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (3 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) Call Number: M90-083 Abstract: Records compiled by William Nelson and Jack Jaynes, employees of Green Bay Packaging Corporation (Wisconsin) and industrial members of the Fox Valley Water Quality Planning Agency’s Industry Rivers Study Committee (IRSC). The Agency, funded by the federal government and five counties along the Fox River, was established in response to the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act. Industrial members of the Agency included most of the major paper companies in Wisconsin. The IRSC collected a variety of data on the river and developed models concerning wasteload allocation and pollution control. Included are minutes of committee meetings, notes taken at meetings, correspondence, memos, newsletters, reports, technical data, presentations to the Natural Resources Board, clippings, and proposals.