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Maier, Henry W., 1918-1994; Milwaukee (Wis.). Mayor [Digitized content]	Title: Records of Mayor Henry W. Maier Administration, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1960-1988 Quantity: 199.4 c.f. (199 record center cartons and part of 1 flat box), 14 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 1370 tape recordings, 2 films (16 mm), 49 videorecordings, and 111 pieces of memorabilia Call Number: Milwaukee Series 44; Audio 1235A Abstract: The official records of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mayor Henry W. Maier's administration, including audio tapes, correspondence, memorabilia, memoranda, reports, and speeches. Most of the records were created by Maier's office staff, especially Richard J. Budelman, Bradley Carr, Bert Mulroy, and Robert J. Welch. A few records, mostly from city offices, dating 1959-1960, are also included. Subjects particularly well documented include: the city budget; civil rights, especially the 1967 civil disturbances; administrative and departmental operations; disputes with the local press, particularly the Milwaukee Journal; housing issues and the Model Cities program; interstate highway construction; licensing of cable television; the metropolitan sewer system; non-point pollution control; redevelopment of Milwaukee's downtown, including the Bradley Center, Grand Avenue Mall, and MECCA facility; state and federal aid programs; Summerfest; Maier's re-election campaigns, and his role as a national urban leader. Also included are records of various political organizations with which Maier was associated, including the National League of Cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the Wisconsin Alliance of Cities.
- - -	Title: Records of the 1798 Federal Tax Assessment of Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C., 1798-1800 Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 530 Abstract: Record of 1798 property tax assessments for Baltimore, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, including valuations of land, dwellings, and slaves, and tax assessed.
Red River (Kewaunee County, Wis. : Town). Clerk	Title: Red River (Kewaunee County, Wis. : Town). Clerk: Highway Records, 1869-1919 Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Kewaunee Series 7 Abstract: Records of meetings of the town board of supervisors pertaining to the laying out, altering, or vacating of town roads, and giving the location of the roads, awards of damages to the owners of the property, arrangements made with land owners, and a record of the boundaries of the road districts; and highway tax lists (1899-1919) giving the dates, road district numbers, names of persons assessed, description of real estate (including section, town, and range), number of acres, value of real estate, value of personal property, tax on real and personal property, poll tax, and total tax levied. Included in the tax lists are records of money coming to the superintendent of highways and how disbursed, in addition to unpaid highway taxes.
- - -	Title: Redgranite History Project Interviews, 1965-1966 Quantity: 15 tape recordings Call Number: Audio 1160A Abstract: Interviews by Robert W. Sherman of the Wisconsin Historical Society staff with Redgranite, Wisconsin, residents about their community's history and the quarries located there. These were part of a project conducted by Paul Vanderbilt, Historical Society curator of photographs, aimed at a slide-tape presentation. Also included are recorded quarry noises and a meeting.
Reedsburg Woolen Mill	Title: Reedsburg Woolen Mill Records, 1877-1878, 1902-1967 Quantity: 123.6 c.f. (213 archives boxes, 25 record center cartons, and 31 flat boxes) and 21 photographs Call Number: Mss 281; PH 4535 Abstract: Records of a mill which did its own designing, carding, spinning, weaving, and dyeing, and sold most of its cloth to ready-to-wear manufacturers such as Sears and Montgomery Ward. Correspondence is with the Appleton Woolen Mills, the Reedsburg Mill's owner from 1902-1954, regarding daily operations; with W.A. Landry Co., the mill's sales agent; and with others, regarding designs, finances, and marketing. The collection also includes payrolls, personnel records, general ledgers, journals, purchase journals, sales invoices, inventories, and other financial records; fabric specifications; and wool and fabric samples. The photographs include images of mill president Ralph Wirth, the exterior of the mill, and loom machinery, ca. 1941 to 1957.
Sobczak, Regina	Title: Regina Sobczak Family Papers, 1902-1948 Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) Call Number: Milwaukee SC 124 Abstract: Correspondence, post cards, photographs, and personal documents of Antoni Plichta, and Edward and Stanislaw Malkowski, father and maternal uncles of the donor, Regina Sobczak, Cudahy, Wisconsin. Included are official documents in Polish, English, and Russian; personal correspondence from Europe; photographs; and biographical notes written by the donor.
Rose, Reginald, 1920-	Title: Reginald Rose Papers, 1952-1979 Quantity: 27.2 c.f. (68 archives boxes), 3 tape recordings, and 260 films Call Number: U.S. Mss 94AN; Tape 484A Abstract: Papers of Reginald Rose, a noted writer for television, motion pictures, and the stage. Television files containing variant drafts of scripts, correspondence, clippings, and production information comprise the bulk of the collection. Of these, there are extensive files on Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre (NBC), Danger (CBS), Playhouse 90 (CBS), and Studio One (CBS). For The Defenders (CBS), which Rose created and wrote, there are scripts and a film for every episode of the program's five-year history. The remainder of the collection consists of motion picture scripts, including Twelve Angry Men (UA, 1957), which Rose adapted from a Studio One teleplay and then co-produced; unproduced ideas; plays; and sound recordings of eight of his early television plays.
Caledonia (Columbia County, Wis. : Town). Treasurer	Title: Register of the Caledonia (Columbia County, Wis. : Town). Treasurer: Assessment Rolls, 1860-1978 Quantity: 35 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Columbia Series 13 Abstract: An enumeration of the value of real and personal property in the township as assessed for the purpose of collecting property taxes. The assessment roll typically includes a legal description of the property (for real estate), name of the property owner, and assessed valuation. At different times, the assessment roll has provided a more detailed enumeration of the exact property being assessed, dividing real estate into several categories such as residential or agricultural and dividing personal property into categories such as livestock, carriages, or merchants and manufacturers stock.
Glass Valley Homemakers Club	Title: Register of the Glass Valley Homemakers Club Records, 1936-1995 Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 1 record center carton) Call Number: River Falls Mss BX Abstract: Records, 1936-1995, concerning activities of the club, an extension homemakers group in Pierce County, Wisconsin, as well as the personal activities of Dorothy Killian, club historian. Included are Secretary's minute books, 1938-1939, 1950-1952, 1963-1995; scrapbooks containing clippings, letters, programs, photographs and other documents, 1952-1988; home demonstration project leader books, 1936-1938; and miscellany.
Grand Army of the Republic. I.N. Nichols Post No. 177 (River Falls, Wis.)	Title: Register of the Grand Army of the Republic. I.N. Nichols Post No. 177 Records, 1871-1965 Quantity: 1.4 c.f. (3 archives boxes, 1 volume) Call Number: River Falls Mss V Abstract: Records consisting of membership rolls, minutes, financial records, records of the local Woman's Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans groups, and a record of examinations by the pension surgeon.
Hayward Lakes Resort Association (Wis.)	Title: Register of the Hayward Lakes Resort Association Records, 1952-1993 Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 3 photographs Call Number: Northland Mss 12; PH Northland Mss 12 Abstract: Records of a northern Wisconsin resort association active in the promotion of tourism, including minutes of meetings (1952-1988), promotional brochures (1954-1993), and photographs, which include a panorama of the International Sportsmen's Show in Chicago, 1939, and two views of the Hayward booth at a similar show, circa early 1930s.
Kiwanis Club (Eau Claire, Wis.)	Title: Register of the Kiwanis Club Records, 1919-1983 Quantity: 4.2 c.f. (11 archives boxes), 99 photographs (in 1 archives box and 1 flat box), 74 negatives, and 1 film Call Number: Eau Claire Mss CA; PH Eau Claire Mss CA; PH Eau Claire Mss CA (5); AD 042 Abstract: Administrative records, photographs, and a film of the Eau Claire, Wis. chapter of Kiwanis International, a voluntary service organization. The collection includes weekly program announcements, which were printed on members' business letterhead, minutes of Board of Directors meetings, correspondence, member information, and papers generated by the new member approval process. Kiwanis youth-oriented and social activities are documented by photographs, programs, committee papers, and a short 16 mm. black and white film about the 1967 Pancake Day fundraiser. There is also material from the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Kiwanis District, to which the Eau Claire club belongs, including the 1937-38 Manual for District Officers.
Hill, Louis, 1913-1998	Title: Register of the Louis Hill Papers, 1914-1978 Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), 4 tape recordings, and 38 photographs Call Number: Eau Claire Micro 12; Micro 776; Tape 783A; Eau Claire Micro 2; PH 6165 Abstract: Papers of Hill, a Hawkins, Wisconsin educator and local historian, including essays by Hill on the history of Lawrence, Wisconsin (1887-1914), the Hawkins, Wisconsin schools (1889-1959), the Bethel Lutheran Church (1904-1978), the Hawkins American Legion (1922-1968), the Union Free High School (1912-1967), the Northern Sash and Door Company, and Hawkins fire protection (1914-1970); minutes and dues records of the Hawkins Businessmen's Club (1914-1948) which promoted area commerce; a tape recorded history of Hawkins; and recorded interviews with retired logger Dell Harris and railroad worker Red Weldon. Photographs include stereograph views of Hawkins, Wis., Ellingson Lumber Company camps, and Flambeau Lake (Wis.).
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.
Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands	Title: Register of the Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands: Miscellaneous Indexes, 1855-1859 Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (1 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes) Call Number: Series 709 Abstract: Various indexes to land patents, university land, deeds of Racine City, and other unidentified records. These indexes give names, dates, land descriptions sometimes, and patent or page numbers.
Register of Wisconsin National Guard Field Artillery Regiment, 126th. Battalion, 1st ,	Title: Register of Wisconsin National Guard Field Artillery Regiment, 126th. Battalion, 1st Records, Quantity: 1.4 linear ft. (3 archives boxes and 5 oversized folders) of papers, 0.2 linear ft. (1 archives box and 1 oversized folder) of photographs. Call Number: WVM Mss 863 Abstract: The records of the 1st Battalion, 126th Field Artillery of the Wisconsin National Guard and its predecessor unit, Troop E, 105th Cavalry. Materials on the 105th Cavalry contain documents providing a look at the activities of a Wisconsin National Guard unit stationed in Kenosha between the World Wars. Personnel correspondence reveals that unit members needed to take time off from their civilian jobs to participate in training exercises. Enlistment records reveal details about the men enlisting in the Guard in the years leading up to World War II and focus largely on attendance at annual training. Military ball programs reveal a social aspect to this unit; they gathered annually with their families and friends for dancing and refreshment. The 126th Field Artillery documents relate to the unit following World War II. Less comprehensive than the 105th Cavalry materials, this series focuses on several events in the unit's history. Newspaper articles, programs, letters of support, and correspondence detail local resistance to a federal plan to remove the unit from the Wisconsin National Guard troop structure due to low enlistment rates. Other materials relate to the unit's armory, including its dedication, an attempted robbery, and controversy over a wall painting deemed objectionable by many veterans. The collection also contains documents regarding the unit's time spent at Fort Lewis, Washington during the Berlin Crisis, training activities, and two fairly complete unit histories. Photographs contain over forty shots of artillery vehicles and equipment that were taken at an unidentified event and shots of Wisconsin governor Walter Kohler's visit to the unit in 1951.
Morin, Relman, 1907-1973	Title: Relman Morin Scrapbooks, 1947-1969 Quantity: 3 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Micro 775 Abstract: Scrapbooks of Relman Morin, an Associated Press correspondent who twice won the Pulitzer Prize. Included are clippings, correspondence, and photographs. Clippings of many by-lined articles include his well-known reporting of the Korean War and the integration crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, as well as stories on the coronation of Elizabeth II and presidential elections in 1952, 1960, 1964, and 1968. Most correspondence is of a congratulatory nature, but there are letters of more substance from Kent Cooper, James C. Hagerty, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ann Landers, and Adlai E. Stevenson.
Harris, Renee, 1876-1969	Title: Renee Harris Papers, 1904-1970 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and 100 photographs and postcards Call Number: U.S. Mss 127AN; PH 4031 Abstract: Papers of New York's first female theatrical producer, including business correspondence, legal documents, files on her ownership of the Hudson Theatre, materials relating to the Titanic on which her husband lost his life, poetry, plays, articles, short stories and other writings by Mrs. Harris, biographical material, and photographs and postcards.
Reproductive Rights Coalition (Madison, Wis.)	Title: Reproductive Rights Coalition Records, 1981-1990 Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (2 record center cartons) and 1 tape recording Call Number: M91-215 Abstract: Records of the Reproductive Rights Coalition, a grassroots activist organization founded in 1981 by citizens concerned with protecting women's rights to reproductive freedom, and in educating people on a variety of related issues. Included are brochures, newsletters, minutes, leaflets, subject files, project files, handbooks, and a slide/tape program titled “Matters so fundamental.”
Republican Party (Wis.)	Title: Republican Party of Wisconsin Records, 1900-1974 Quantity: 6.6 c.f. (4 record center cartons and 9 archives boxes) Call Number: Mss 649 Abstract: Records of the Republican Party of Wisconsin consisting of printed constitutions, minutes of executive committee meetings, records of annual conventions, and executive directors' correspondence. The collection mainly documents the period 1946-1970. In addition to correspondence, lists, platforms, and resolutions, the convention records include full secretarial transcriptions of proceedings. For several conventions, speeches and remarks of John Byrnes, Thomas Coleman, Glenn Davis, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Charles Halleck, Warren Knowles, Melvin Laird, Joseph McCarthy, William Miller, Thruston Morton, Richard Nixon, Donald Nutter, Oscar Rennebohm, and Alexander Wiley are included. The executive directors' correspondence consists primarily of the correspondence of George Greeley (1960-1970), although a few scattered items pertain to other individuals who held that post. These files concern fund raising events and party finances, inaugural planning, and monitoring of Republican and Democratic politicians. Of the state chairmen of the period, only Ody J. Fish is extensively represented, although there are small files for the majority of the leading Republican office holders of the era. The national convention files include recollections of delegates to the 1960 and 1964 national conventions.
Residence Halls Student Labor Organization (University of Wisconsin-Madison)	Title: Residence Halls Student Labor Organization (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Records, 1971-1975 Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 799 Abstract: Records of a labor union that represented part-time food service and maintenance workers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison residence halls during the 1970s. Included are constitutions, contracts, correspondence, printouts of payroll deductions of members, information pertaining to strikes against the university in 1971 and 1972, and other alphabetically-arranged subject files. A newsletter, RHSLO News, is available in the Historical Society Library.
Retail Clerks International Union	Title: Retail Clerks International Union Records, 1890-1990 (bulk 1899-1982) Quantity: 75.6 c.f., 48 volumes, 931 reels of microfilm (16 mm), 7 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 3 tape recordings, 4 disc recordings, 5 dictabelts, and 1 film Call Number: M81-250; M81-490; M82-125; M82-482; M87-070; M89-181; M93-009; M94-220; M95-242; Micro 980; Audio 1536A Abstract: Records, 1890-1990 (bulk 1899-1982), of the Retail Clerks International Union (most of which are on microfilm produced by the RCIU) documenting various departments and levels of the organization, from the executive office to the union locals. The RCIU began as the Retail Clerks International Protective Association around 1891, and eventually merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America in 1979 to become the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). The collection spans the organization's history and includes organizing materials, financial records, collective bargaining files, correspondence, reports, memos, trusteeship files, convention proceedings, extensive administrative files, information on strikes and the Meat Cutters union, photographs, and sound recordings.
Retired Faculty Association of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Title: Retired Faculty Association of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Records, 1962-[ongoing] Quantity: .8 cubic ft. (2 boxes) Call Number: UWM Archival Collection 126 Abstract: Records documenting the activities of an association of retired UWM faculty and its members. The collection includes a history of the organization, correspondence, minutes, membership lists, and newsletters.
Lewis, Reuben B.	Title: Reuben B. Lewis Papers and Photographs, Quantity: 1.0 linear ft. (2 archives boxes, 1 card file box, 1 flat box and 2 oversize folders) of papers, 0.4 linear ft. (1 archives box) of photographs and 1 video cassette. Call Number: WVM Mss 26 Abstract: Papers and photographs of Reuben B. Lewis, a bugler and military policeman with the 32nd Division during World War I, a County Veterans Service Officer for Portage County, and an active participant in many veterans organizations, especially Company “C” from the 4th Wisconsin Infantry. A large portion of the papers relate to Lewis's involvement in the Company “C” organization, which held annual reunions through the 1980's. Membership files and rosters, reunion announcements and reports, and newspaper clippings document the activities of the group and the camaraderie that the men shared. Scattered personal papers give some details about his World War I service, and ephemeral items show his involvement in numerous other veterans organizations. Home appraisals document his work in helping veterans buy their own homes. Photographs include group shots from Company “C” reunions and a photograph album from Lewis's World War I service. The video shows the 1986 Company “C” reunion where the last five surviving members share a seventy-year old bottle of cognac.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913	Title: Reuben Gold Thwaites Papers, 1843-1960 Quantity: 8.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes, 3 flat boxes, and 3 card boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and 37 photographs Call Number: Wis Mss VJ; Micro 2025; PH 780; PH 810 Abstract: Papers of Reuben Gold Thwaites, a historian and superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1887-1913, together with papers of his son, geologist Frederick Turville Thwaites and Frederick's wife Amy Mueller Thwaites, his father-in-law Henry Turvil, and other relatives. Reuben Gold Thwaites' papers chiefly consist of correspondence and drafts and notes for speeches and articles on American and Wisconsin history. There are also notes for travel that became the subject of writings including a journey by boat down the Fox, Ohio, Rock, and Wisconsin Rivers; a trip by bicycle through Virginia; and notes about travel in Great Britain and Ireland. The correspondence is chiefly professional in nature, covering Thwaites' writing career and relations with other historians and professional organizations. Also included are notes taken during classes with William Graham Sumner, Francis A. Walker, and others; detailed household account books, 1882-1929; house plans and elevations drawn by William Schuchart; and photographs of Colorado scenes. The fragmentary papers of Reuben's wife Jessie Turvil Thwaites include diaries and records relating to a history study club organized by Anna Sheldon. The papers of Frederick T. Thwaites consist of diaries, account books, personal correspondence exchanged with his wife Amy Mueller Thwaites, and professional correspondence related to the Geology Department of the University of Wisconsin and the U.S. Geological Survey. Henry Turvil, Sr., a Madison area farmer, and several of his sons are represented by diaries and account books.
La Fave, Reuben, 1915-	Title: Reuben La Fave Papers, 1966-1976 Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (1 record center carton), 1 tape recording, and 37 photographs Call Number: Green Bay Mss 94; Tape 1056A; PH Green Bay Mss 94 Abstract: Legislative papers of a veteran Republican state legislator (Assembly, 1950-1955; Senate, 1956-1976) from Oconto. The files date largely from his latter years in office and include subject files of official correspondence, memoranda, summary minutes and a hearing tape, press releases and newsletters, photographs, and research material. The most substantial files concern his chairmanship of the Menominee Indian Study Committee, work on the Senate Transportation Committee to legalize double bottom trucks on Wisconsin highways, and efforts to reduce water levels in the Great Lakes.