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| Aumann, Katherine | Title: McCarthy Family Papers, 1894-1987 Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) Call Number: M99-136 Abstract: Papers of Katherine Aumann, daughter of Charles McCarthy, of her parents, and of her husband, Francis Aumann. Materials include correspondence between Katherine and her mother Lucille, journals from Katherine’s travels in Europe and South America; papers relating to her service as an embassy librarian during World War II, correspondence between Charles McCarthy and his wife Lucille, and other family members documenting their home and family life, and the genealogy of both the McCarthy and Schreiber sides of the family. |
| McCarthy for President. Wisconsin | Title: McCarthy for President. Wisconsin: Records, 1967-1968 Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes), 3 tape recordings, and 5 photographs Call Number: Mss 246; Tape 563A; PH Mss 246 Abstract: Records of the Wisconsin campaign committee for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy's 1968 candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President. Included is correspondence, clippings, lists of supporters, biographical sketches of delegates, photographs, financial information, and recorded radio spot advertisements with endorsements by Lauren Bacall, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman, Tony Randall, Lee Remick, and Joanne Woodward. Photographs include images of McCarthy with students at the University of Wisconsin and campaign displays in Antigo and Deerbrook, Wis. |
| - - - | Title: McCormick Collection Special Reports File, 1893-1963 Quantity: 8.8 c.f. (22 archives boxes) Call Number: McCormick Mss AD Abstract: A collection of research reports, speeches, biographical essays, term papers, masters' theses, and doctoral dissertations compiled and written by students, historians, and independent researchers. These are all related to agricultural implement industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick, the McCormick family, and its companies; many of these are based on manuscripts in the McCormick Collection itself. Arranged alphabetically by author or title. |
| McCormick Estates | Title: McCormick Estates Records, 1841-1969 Quantity: 99.0 c.f. (124 archives boxes, 6 flat boxes, 187 volumes, and 1 oversize package) Call Number: McCormick Mss M Abstract: Records of the office which handled the interests of descendants of Chicago industrialist Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. The McCormick Estates office dealt with business and legal matters for the family; managed their many income-producing properties; reported on all financial transactions in behalf of the two incompetent children, Mary Virginia and Stanley; did the bookkeeping for a variety of trusts and syndicates set up by the McCormicks; handled securities in the form of stocks and bonds; gave accountings of notes and loans; and frequently rendered aid to family members regarding private matters. After the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's merger into the International Harvester Company in 1902, the McCormick Estates office took on further responsibilities. Although all manufacturing was taken over by International Harvester, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company under its own name continued to receive payments for products previously purchased on credit (until 1910) and to administer a pension system for employees (until 1922). McCormick Estates staff served as advisors and accountants for the Company in these interests as well as for individual members of the McCormick family. |
| - - - | Title: McCormick Family Architectural Drawings, 1874-1964 Quantity: 759 architectural drawings and blueprints Call Number: PH 6515 Abstract: Blueprints and drawings of buildings and properties owned by the family of Cyrus Hall McCormick, including Nettie Fowler McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Jr., Harold McCormick, Mary Virginia McCormick, and Stanley McCormick. Properties include Walden, Walnut Grove, Caravels, Clayton Lodge, Harbor Point, Oaklands, House in the Woods, and Kildare. These and other properties were located in Chicago, Illinois; Lake Forest, Illinois; Cohassett, Massachusetts; Huntsville, Alabama; Raphine, Virginia; Harbor Springs, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada. Also included are drawings for McCormick family investment properties and charities, including Assuit College (Egypt); Astral Apartments (Brooklyn, New York); Harrison Avenue Estate (Boston, Massachusetts); McCormick Hospital (Chiengmai, Siam); University of Nanking (China); Pyengyang Christian Academy (Korea); Pimlico Buildings (London, England); Riverside Buildings (Brooklyn, New York); Shantung Christian University (Tsinan, China); Soho Estate (London, England); Tusculum College (Greenville, Tennessee); Union Theological College at Paak Hak Tung (Canton, China); Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in Chosen (Pyengyang, Korea); and the Dr. C. O. Gray Residence (Greenville, Tennessee). Several genealogical charts are also present as well as drawings from Harold F. McCormick aviation experiments. |
| McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | Title: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Materials and Catalogs, 1847-1902 Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (9 archives boxes) and 124 posters Call Number: McCormick Mss 5X; PH 6419 Abstract: Advertising catalogs, leaflets, handbills, trade cards, brochures and posters produced by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and its predecessor companies, including: McCormick & Gray (1847); McCormick & Ogden (1849); C.H. McCormick & Company (1850-1859); C.H. McCormick & Bros. (1860-1866); C.H. McCormick & Bro. (1867-1874); C.H. and L.J. McCormick (1874-1879); and McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (1879-1902). The company manufactured horse-drawn reapers, mowers and grain binders. Also included are newspaper clippings (1867-1893), parts catalogs (1854-1897), and 124 oversize posters. |
| McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | Title: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Expositions and Exhibitions Records, 1851-1900 Quantity: 18.0 c.f. (17 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 86 volumes) Call Number: McCormick Mss 6X Abstract: Published guides, catalogs, directories, judges' decisions, and commissioners' reports relating to expositions at which the McCormick companies exhibited, both in the U.S. and abroad, chiefly in Europe. The importance the company attached to the need to exhibit its products and compete at international expositions is reflected in these materials. Also included is a manuscript volume that lists all exhibits by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company at the Paris International Exposition of 1900. |
| McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | Title: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Incoming Correspondence and Reports, 1849-1902 Quantity: 418 reels of microfilm (35mm) and 0.4 c.f. Call Number: McCormick Mss 2X; Micro 2021 Abstract: Domestic and foreign correspondence and reports received by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (1879-1902) and its predecessors, C.H. McCormick and Co. (1848-1859), C.H. McCormick & Bros. (1859-1866), C.H. McCormick & Bro. (1866-1874), and C.H. and L.J. McCormick (1874-1879). Included are letters from company agents, field experts, shippers, suppliers and customers regarding orders, sales, credit, shipments, price and performance of machines and repairs, field trials, improvements and inventions, competition in the implement business, crop yields and damage due to insects and weather, rural and foreign economic conditions, travel and branch office expenses, and employment opportunities. Letters, legal documents, drawings, and plans from patent experts and inventors concern cases of infringement, experimental machines, the design of new devices, and proposed improvements. Reports from agents are primarily contracts and financial accounts of machine sales, deliveries, and inventories, debt collection, and expenses. Among the subjects documented are the structure and activities of the company's domestic and foreign sales force, the market for farm machinery, the expansion of trade, customer relations, activities of the Grange and the company's response, and patent issues. While most of the correspondence is addressed to the company's home office in Chicago, Illinois, a small portion of the letters are directed to a particular manager or official. Copies of outgoing letters are sometimes found in this series, particularly in later years. A small amount (0.4 c.f.) of original correspondence, reports, and patent drawings has been retained for exhibit purposes. |
| McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | Title: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Legal and Patent Records, 1830-1896 Quantity: 18.0 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 79 volumes) Call Number: McCormick Mss 4X Abstract: Records from the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's early and continuing controversies with other inventors and implement manufacturers. Files from lawsuits are composed of briefs, records, arguments, exhibits, and specifications used in proceedings before civil courts and the U.S. Patent Office. Included also are descriptions of McCormick family patents; volumes showing the history of agricultural machinery patents, some dating back to seventeenth-century Britain; and a manuscript book of the McCormicks' own assignor-assignee patent records between 1860 and 1880. |
| McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | Title: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Letterpress Copy Books, 1856-1902 Quantity: 472 reels of microfilm (35mm), and 8.0 c.f. (8 record center cartons) Call Number: Micro 2016; McCormick Mss 1X Abstract: Copies of outgoing correspondence of company officials and secretaries to agents, suppliers, shippers, lawyers, inventors, and other manufacturers concerning both domestic operations and foreign trade. Topics include sales and production goals, field trials and machine performance, prices and contracts, agricultural conditions, arrangements for supplying parts, repairs, and twine, competitors and their practices, problems with unreliable agents, collection policies, agent expenses and commissions, freight routes and costs, and the expansion of the agricultural implement trade. Three letterbooks of R. B. Swift deal entirely with patent matters, the technical aspects of machine performance, new inventions, and improvements to McCormick implements. Three volumes contain the outgoing correspondence of field agents J.B. Heywood of Indianapolis, D.W. Pratt of St. Louis, and N.E. Barnes of San Francisco. One volume of circular letters to agents contains instructions on prices, sales and advertising stategy, assembly of machines, and similar matters. One letterbook of Harold F. McCormick reflects his activities as vice president of the company from 1899 to 1900. Letters of Cyrus H. McCormick, particularly concerning foreign markets, appear after he joined the company in 1879. |
| McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | Title: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Time and Payroll Books, 1858-1901 Quantity: 35 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: McCormick Mss 7X; Micro 700; Micro 1195 Abstract: Payroll books from a manufacturer of agricultural machinery. Information included generally is the payroll period, name of employee, number of days worked, rate per day or piece rate, amount of wages charged and credited to former balances, cash paid or charged or credited to a forwarded balance, and plant, department, or division where employee worked. |
| McCormick Harvesting Machine Company | Title: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company: Financial, Distribution, and Production Records, 1848-1903 Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (4 flat boxes), 117 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: McCormick Series 3X; Micro 2003 Abstract: Central business records of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company for the period before the formation of International Harvester. The series consists of general financial accounts, 1848-1902; agency records, 1849-1902; customer accounts, 1848-1903; factory shipments and stock, 1857-1902; twine accounts, 1888-1902; and records of real estate and records of rentals, 1862-1901. Among the most informative materials are those documenting the Company's pioneering use of franchised dealers backed by a regional network. These materials include agent's reaper sales records, reports on sub-agents, and the agent's settlements with the company. Of interest are records documenting the distribution of McCormick machines in a particular region: factory shipment records, reaper orders, and deliveries. Also of interest are records documenting the Company's credit system to customers: sales and bills Receivable and notes. Originally this series consisted of 311 volumes. In 1991, the series was microfilmed with the support of the Office of Preservation of the National Endowment for the Humanities. After filming all volumes were destroyed except those containing color maps. |
| McDonald Davis & Associates | Title: McDonald Davis & Associates Political Products, 1964-1983 Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder), 32 tape recordings, 64 films, and 7 videorecordings Call Number: SC 1251; Tape 1102A Abstract: Records of McDonald Davis & Associates, a Milwaukee advertising agency, concerning its work in behalf of Wisconsin Republican political candidates. Included are an incomplete file, 1965-1966, of Wisconsin on the Line, a newsletter published by the agency on state and national politics; and films and recordings of radio and television political advertisements, 1964-1983, produced for various national and Wisconsin Republican candidates including George Bush, Robert Kasten, Warren Knowles, Jerris Leonard, Richard Nixon, Jack Olson, Henry Schadeberg, William Steiger, Robert Warren, and others. |
| McGovern for President. Wisconsin | Title: McGovern for President. Wisconsin Records, 1968-1972 Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes); plus additions of 0.7 c.f. and 7 photographs Call Number: Mss 466; M72-133; M2001-114 Abstract: Records of the McGovern for President (Wisconsin) campaign offices for George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic Presidential nominee. The headquarters of the state office was located in Madison, Wisconsin. Also included are records of the Marathon County Committee of McGovern for President. The materials document primarily organizational activities related to the campaign effort in Wisconsin. Also included is information on the Democratic National Convention, candidate positions on issues, and primary elections in other states. |
| McGowan Family | Title: McGowan Family Papers, 1841-1906 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 3 photographs (1 folder) Call Number: Mss 583, PH 6631 Abstract: Papers of two generations of the McGowan Family, Irish immigrants to Waushara County, Wisconsin. Included is correspondence, 1843-1903, to and from relatives in Ireland and letters regarding the U.S. Civil War camp life of Robert J. O. McGowan, 5th, 33rd, and 47th Regiments, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; Robert's diary, 1862; a casebook from the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow, 1814; a book of sermons, 1837; and miscellaneous poetry, stories, newspaper clippings, music, and writings on religion and natural history. The photographs include images of Alexander Orr McGowan, Margaret McKittrick McGowan, and Charlie McGowan. |
| McLoone Metal Graphics (La Crosse, Wis.). | Title: McLoone Metal Graphics Records Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 079 Abstract: McLoone Metal Graphics, La Crosse, Wisconsin, formerly known as McLoone Advertising Service, was an advertising agency involved in screen printing and name plate design for industry. The business, started by James E. McLoone, began in 1954. Today, the company, a subsidiary of JSJ Corporation, is a custom screen print manufacturer of identification products and is also known simply as Mcloone. The bulk of the collection is made up of black and white photographs, some of which are undated, but most appear to have been taken between the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Photo negatives and advertising materials are included for some of McLoone's clients. Some personal photos of James E. McLoone and his wife, Helen McLoone, are also included. Clients included businesses and churches in Wisconsin and other states. |