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| GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee | Title: GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee Records, 1968-1971 Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 6 photographs Call Number: Mss 486; PH Mss 486 Abstract: Records of the GI Civil Liberties Committee, an organization (1968-1971?) which defended the constitutional liberties of members of the military who opposed U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. Included are correspondence, press materials, and research files on the legal cases with which GICLDC was involved. The legal files consist of military forms, statements and affidavits, clippings, letters of support and other correspondence (including two letters from Bella S. Abzug and George S. McGovern). They best represent the case of the members of GIs United Against the War in Vietnam known as the “Fort Jackson 8.” Also present are good records of the litigation concerning Edmund Jurenas, Joseph D. Miles, and Allen Myers. Internal correspondence is generally routine, though it includes interesting exchanges between the national staff and lawyer Leonard B. Boudin, numerous individual soldiers, and committee sponsor Ruth Gage-Colby. |
| Gibbs Family | Title: Gibbs Family Papers, 1762-1918 Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 3 reels of microfilm (35mm), 11 photographs, and 50 drawings Call Number: U.S. Mss Y; Micro 1117; PH 3696; PH 3697 Abstract: Papers of the Gibbs family of Rhode Island and Connecticut, consisting of chronological family and business correspondence for several members of the family, including George Gibbs (II, III, IV, V), Laura Wolcott Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott (her father), and Oliver Wolcott Gibbs. For George Gibbs III there is correspondence and business papers concerning his trip to China in 1796, a collection of minerals sold to Yale University, and family affairs. For George IV, ethnologist and geologist, there is correspondence on scientific concerns, social and economic conditions of Oregon and Washington Territory at the time of the gold rush; political letters discussing important men and events of the day and the Mexican and Civil wars, photographs and drawings, and various reports to George B. McClellan on the geological and ethnographic character of Washington Territory. From scientist Oliver Wolcott Gibbs there are letters to his family and friend William H. Channing concerning European scientists of the period and the political unrest which led to the Revolution of 1848. For George Gibbs V there is a 1918 diary concerning his work in Russia with the Railroad Commission. |
| Allen, Gideon Winan, 1825-1912 | Title: Gideon Winan Allen Papers, 1862-1867, 1872 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 15 Abstract: Correspondence of Gideon Winan Allen, who during the Civil War years was a student at the universities of Wisconsin and Michigan and was later a lawyer in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The letters, primarily between Allen and his wife, Annie M. Cox, reflect the viewpoint of a northern Democrat, a Copperhead, concerning politics, military events, Negroes, and the draft. The 1872 letters were written during a trip to the South and are an appraisal of post-war conditions in rural and urban areas and describe an unfavorable reception for a northern lawyer. |
| Cates, Gilbert, 1934- | Title: Gilbert Cates Papers, 1954-1982 Quantity: 34.4 c.f. (76 archives boxes), 2 reels of microfilm (35mm), 85 tape recordings, 28 reels of film, and 1 videotape Call Number: U.S. Mss 86AN; Tape 473A; Tape 1085A; Micro 429; Micro 1005 Abstract: Papers of Gilbert Cates, a producer-director who works in motion pictures, theater, and television. Present in varying quantities are diverse materials on production, distribution, promotion, and financing such as scripts, correspondence, fan mail, set designs, financial reports, and films. Motion picture files include material on an award-winning short subject, and on the feature-length films I Never Sang for My Father (Columbia, 1970), Oh God, Book II (Warner Bros., 1980), Rings Around the World (Columbia, 1966), and others. Television files include material on quiz shows, pilots, specials, and series. Most notable are the holdings on After the Fall (NBC), Camouflage (ABC), Electric Showcase (ABC), Picture This (CBS), and To All My Friends on Shore (CBS). Other files of scripts and correspondence pertain to Broadway productions including I Never Sang for My Father (1968), You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1967), and other less successful productions. |
| Doane, Gilbert Harry, 1897- | Title: Gilbert H. Doane Papers, 1804-1968 Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (8 archives boxes and 3 index card boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and 32 photographs (2 folders) Call Number: Mss 936; Micro 2072; PH 2681; PH 2962 Abstract: Papers of Gilbert H. Doane, an Episcopal priest, director of the University of Wisconsin Libraries, University archivist, and genealogist, primarily documenting his unpublished biography of Jackson Kemper, the first Episcopal bishop of Wisconsin. Included are original sermons by Kemper; calendars, a card index, and other access tools to the Kemper Papers held by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; and research notes and correspondence with members of the Kemper family and others such as Leslie H. Fishel and Clifford Lord of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. There are a few talks and articles about Kemper, but no draft of the full-length biography. Doane's clerical status is represented by general mailings from the Diocese of Milwaukee, mainly 1952-1968, and clippings and information about individual Episcopal congregations and Episcopal clergy in Wisconsin. There is also correspondence with the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society and photographs related to Grafton Hall and Nashotah House. |
| Hemsley, Gilbert, 1936- | Title: Gilbert Hemsley Papers, 1948-1980 Quantity: 36.6 c.f. (89 archives boxes, 12 oversize files) Call Number: U.S. Mss 178AN Abstract: Papers of Gilbert Hemsley, a lighting designer, production manager, and University of Wisconsin theater and drama professor. The collection consists primarily of production files and includes technical materials for a variety of ballet, dance, opera, theater, and special productions. Some were the result of cultural exchanges with countries such as China, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. Personal, academic, and professional files comprise the remainder of the papers. The collection includes materials from Hemsley's work with the American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba, Stuttgart Ballet, Wisconsin Ballet Company, Boston Opera Company, Houston Grand Opera, Metropolitan Opera Company, New York City Opera, The Performing Arts Company of the People's Republic of China, and many other performing companies. Theater files are primarily from productions in Madison, Wisconsin, and in numerous regional theaters across the country. Among the special productions are Jimmy Carter's 1976 inaugural ball and an industrial show by Oldsmobile. |
| Miller, Gilbert, 1884-1969 | Title: Gilbert Miller Scripts, 1929-1958 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: U.S. Mss 16AN Abstract: Scripts for nine plays, including The Rope Dancers (1957), Under Milk Wood (1957), and Witness for the Prosecution (1954), which were produced or considered for production by Miller, a noted Broadway producer-director. |
| Smith, Gilbert P. | Title: Gilbert P. Smith Papers, 1938-1986 Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (1 record center carton and 1 archives box) and 1 photograph Call Number: M88-243 Abstract: Papers, 1938-1986, documenting Gilbert P. Smith's work as an editor and assistant publisher of the Utica, New York Observer-Dispatch, and his activities in journalism associations, including the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, the American Press Institute and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. |
| Gilman Relief Workers | Title: Gilman Relief Workers Records, 1932-1964 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 flat box) Call Number: River Falls Mss EN Abstract: Records of the Gilman Relief Workers, a women's charitable organization based in Spring Valley (Wis.), consisting of minute books documenting the group's membership and activities, and a scrapbook containing notes of thanks from beneficiaries of the group's work. |
| Girl Scouts of the United States of America. River Falls Council (Wis.) | Title: Girl Scouts of the United States of America. River Falls Council: Records, 1929-1950, 1965-1976 Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 1 flat box) Call Number: River Falls Mss BU Abstract: Records concerning girl scouting in River Falls, Wisconsin, including scrapbooks, printed materials, individual members' records, and materials documenting merit badge projects and other activities. |
| - - - | Title: Gisholt: The Death of a Factory, 1973 Quantity: 6 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 590A Abstract: Recordings of Gisholt: The Death of a Factory, eleven radio programs broadcast by WHA Radio, Madison, Wisconsin, January 21-April 1, 1973, concerning the 1971 closing of the Gisholt Machine Company, Madison, by its parent corporation and the aftermath for its employees. |