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| Federal Art Project (Wis.) | Title: Federal Art Project (Wisconsin) Records, 1931-1954 Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes and 1 card file) and 7 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Mss 1; Micro 1036 Abstract: The Federal Art Project (FAP) in Wisconsin was instituted in 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration. Employing artists, musicians, actors, and writers, the FAP focused upon nationalist and patriotic themes and successfully spread original art to many small American towns. In 1943 the Federal Art Project, like the rest of the WPA, was disbanded. The Project in Wisconsin was headed by Charlotte R. Partridge, director of the Layton Art Gallery in Milwaukee. She was succeeded in this position in 1941 by Margaret D. Clark. The records include correspondence, two separate series of biographical sketches of Wisconsin artists, clippings, records of works produced by the Project, and material relating to the Index of American Design. |
| Federal Art Project (Wis.) | Title: Federal Art Project Drawings, 1936-1942 Quantity: 58 drawings (3 flat boxes and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: PH 84 (5) Abstract: Drawings made by various artists as part of the Wisconsin Federal Art Project, 1936-1942. Included on the drawings are the title, location, and date. Subjects covered include farming, fishing, markets, animals, weather, and rural Wisconsin life. |
| Federal Writers' Project | Title: Federal Writers' Project: Oneida Culture Oral History Project Records, 1940-1942 Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (18 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 card box) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 164 Abstract: Records of a WPA project to document the history and culture of the Oneida in Wisconsin, conducted through the University of Wisconsin. The records consist primarily of a series of notebooks from oral history interviews that took place between 1941 and 1942 that were conducted by Oneida tribe members under the direction of UW anthropologists. The interviews concern such topics as Oneida history, family life, religion, economic conditions, education, medicine, hunting and fishing, recreation, traditional stories and jokes, the Workers' Alliance, the Six Nations Confederacy, and the Oneida Indian Cooperative Association. Also included are Employment Eligibility Surveys conducted by the interviewers, focusing on the education level and work experience of tribe members, maps of Oneida Village and the surrounding area, and an index card file of citations, principally from the Green Bay Gazette, of news articles relating to the Oneida tribe from 1898-1904 and 1931-1940. |
| Federated Trades Council (Green Bay, Wis.) | Title: Federated Trades Council (Green Bay, Wis.) Records, 1895-1944 Quantity: 2.2 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 1 package) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 40 Abstract: Minutes of the executive board, 1907-1940; correspondence, mainly 1938-1944, including letters from the American Federation of Labor, the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, and Wisconsin congressmen on labor legislation, information on wartime wage scales for the building trades, and letters concerning the council's community and charitable work; financial records, 1895-1926; and roll call and payment books that serve as membership records for individuals and organizations. Also included are minutes of the Building Crafts Council, 1933-1940. |
| Federated Trades Council of Milwaukee | Title: Federated Trades Council of Milwaukee Records, 1900-1950 Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) and 5 photographs Call Number: Milwaukee Mss DR; PH 408 Abstract: Correspondence, reports, and agreements, 1903-1940. Letters are written mainly by general secretaries Frank J. Weber and Herman Seide and include information on labor legislation, the National Recovery Administration's activities in Milwaukee, old age pensions, collective bargaining, and inter-union disputes. Also present is material on the laundry workers' strike of 1934, a minute book, 1900-1903, minutes of the executive board, 1915-1939, financial and other records, and photographs. |
| Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations of Milwaukee | Title: Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations of Milwaukee Records, 1929-1981 Quantity: 3 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Milwaukee Micro 52; Micro 1083 Abstract: Records, mainly 1950-1969, of an organization founded in 1925 that coordinated the activities of philanthropic and cultural Jewish women's organizations in Milwaukee. Included are constitutions, officers' correspondence, publications, directories of organizations and events, and an historical scrapbook. |
| Feinberg, Gordon, 1915-1990 | Title: Gordon Feinberg Papers Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet Call Number: MSS 026 Abstract: Records, 1949-1990, of a La Crosse County (Wisconsin) Board Supervisor that include subject files of county issues, mainly dating from 1954-1981. The materials include county board resolutions, incomplete committee minutes, and committee actions, organized by subject. The materials emphasize Feinberg's involvement particularly in the social services and administrative committees; law enforcement, financial and property and zoning issues in La Crosse County. He was particularly concerned with aging issues and the County's medical institutions. The collection does not contain biographical information concerning Feinberg. |
| Feinglass, Abe, 1910- | Title: United Food and Commercial Workers Union Retired Leaders Oral History Project: Abe Feinglass Interview, 1981 Extent: 4 tape recordings Call Number: Tape 904A Abstract: Oral history interview, June 9, 1981, with Abe Feinglass about his experiences as president of the International Fur and Leather Workers (1954-1955) then as a vice-president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America after merger. Interviewed by James Cavanaugh of the Historical Society staff, this interview is part of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Retired Leaders Oral History Project. |
| Feingold, Miriam | Title: Miriam Feingold Papers, 1960-1967 Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 oversize folder), 2 reels of microfilm (35mm), and 4 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 859; Micro 845; Tape 528A Abstract: Papers and tapes of civil rights activist Miriam Feingold describing demonstrations, prison experiences, treatment of local blacks, and other topics regarding her work which was primarily in Mississippi and Louisiana. Included are correspondence (with several letters written on toilet paper by imprisoned civil rights activists in Plaquemine, Louisiana), notebooks, voter registration material, reports, speeches, leaflets, and clippings. The tapes record Feingold's interviews with local blacks and civil rights workers in Bogalusa, Clinton, Tullulah, Jonesboro, Jackson, Lisbon, Church Point, and Greensburg, Louisiana, and Liberty, Mississippi; among those interviewed are Gayle Jenkins, E. W. Steptoe, and Annie Purnell Johnson. |
| Feinsinger, Nathan | Title: Nathan Feinsinger Papers, circa 1938-1966 Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (4 record center cartons) Call Number: M73-236 Abstract: Papers of Nathan Feinsinger, an arbitator, mediator, and government official in matters of wage determination and dispute settlements. The papers include a 1952 recommendation of the National Wage Stabilization Board (chaired by Feinsinger), and the ensuing steel strike; a 1946 steel strike in which Feinsinger chaired a presidential fact finding board; labor cases in which Feinsinger acted as an attorney for the Wisconsin Labor Relations Board; materials on General Motors-United Auto Workers grievances which he umpired; and a civil rights controversy involving the NAACP Youth Council of Milwaukee and the Fraternal Order of Eagles (1966) which he mediated. Also included are speeches, writings, and a small amount of correspondence. |
| Feldmeyer, Scott, 1953-2000 | Title: Scott Feldmeyer Papers, 1976-1999 Quantity: 1.2 cubic ft. (2 boxes); 22 videocassettes; 10 audio cassettes; 3 audio reels Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 195 Abstract: The collection consists of Scott Feldmeyer's papers documenting his work as a reporter in the Milwaukee area. The centerpiece of the collection is audio and videotaped interviews and broadcasts on issues pertaining to Milwaukee in the 1980's and early 1990's, including the trial of mob boss Frank Balistreri on charges of gambling and money laundering; Lawrencia Bembenek's escape from prison, flight to Canada, and extradition; the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killings and trial; and Michael McGee and corruption in Milwaukee City and County Government. In addition to the audio and videotapes, the collection contains correspondence, photographs, materials relating to a variety of honors and awards Feldmeyer received, copies of columns he wrote in the late 1990's for the City Edition and The Paper, and a wide selection of journalism memorabilia. |
| Fellner, Michael | Title: Michael Fellner Papers, 1959-1980 Quantity: 9.4 c.f. (24 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 29 tape recordings Call Number: Mss 840; Audio 1279A Abstract: Papers of Michael Fellner, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student, anti-Vietnam war activist, and editor of Take Over, an underground newspaper published in Madison from 1971 to 1979. Included are Take Over's administrative, financial, legal, and subject files, correspondence, photographs, print and near-print ephemera, posters, bumper stickers, and clippings. Also included are copies of FBI files mainly concerning individuals, organizations, and events in Madison, 1959-1977; similar materials from the Madison Police Department Affinity Files, 1968-1977; and tape recordings of speeches and interviews by Fellner, about 1973-1979, with Emile de Antonio, Harvey Goldberg, William Kunstler, Paul Soglin, members of the Weather Underground Organization, and former FBI agents and others. |
| Fellows, Will | Title: Gay Farm Boys Project Records, 1992-2002 Quantity: 3.2 cubic ft. (10 boxes); 2 videocassettes Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 264 Abstract: The collection consists of source material created and compiled by Will Fellows while researching his book, Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest. The oral histories consist of interview recordings, transcripts, as well as correspondence with, photographs of, and biographical information about interviewees. The collection also contains research materials used for writing the book, the interview protocol, early drafts of the manuscript, and publicity and promotional materials. |
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Fellows, Will; Pearcy, Jeff |
Title: Shall Not Be Recognized Exhibition Records, 2007 Quantity: .4 cubic ft. (2 boxes, including 31 audio cassettes); 1 digital video file Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 263 Abstract: Materials regarding the Shall Not Be Recognized: Portraits of Same-Sex Couples exhibit, which documents the experiences of thirty same-sex couples in long-term, committed relationships in the area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The traveling exhibit was a collaboration between author Will Fellows and photographer Jeff Pearcy. |
| Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 | Title: Edna Ferber Papers, 1910-1977 Quantity: 10.6 c.f. (26 archives boxes and 1 flat box), 1 disc recording and 1 tape recording; plus additions of 0.2 c.f. Call Number: U.S. Mss 98AN; Disc 104A; Audio 1028A; MCHC82-008; M2006-126 Abstract: Papers of Edna Ferber, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, manuscript drafts, research material, notes and reviews of some of her novels, short stories, and autobiographical writings. Of these, Cimarron (1929), Giant (1952), Great Son (1944), and Ice Palace (1958) are best represented. Also included are materials related to theatre scripts such as collaborations with George F. Kaufman and George V. Hobart, as well as adaptations (including many film adaptations) of her work by others. Prominent correspondents include Louis Bromfield, Noel Coward, Jay N. Darling, Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle Hart, Malcolm Johnson, Daniel Longwell, Kenneth D. McCormick, H.L. Mencken, William Lyon Phelps, Robert Sherwood, Louis Untermeyer, Alexander Woollcott, Rebecca West, and William Allen White. |
| Ferrall, R. Michael, 1936- | Title: R. Michael Ferrall Papers, 1970-1980 Quantity: 13 c.f.(12 record center cartons, 3 archives boxes), and 4 reels of microfilm (35 mm) Call Number: Parkside Mss 58; Parkside Micro 26; Micro 989 Abstract: Papers of a Democratic legislator from Racine, including research and subject files, administrative files pertaining to committee assignment and work as assistant floor leader, correspondence, floor debate files, and publicity. On microfilm are press releases and extensive biographical clippings. Especially well documented are his work on privacy, alternative energy technology, and product liability. |
| Ferriday Freedom Movement (Ferriday, La.) | Title: Ferriday Freedom Movement Records, 1964-1966 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Mss 376 Abstract: Records of a Ferriday, Louisiana, civil rights organization closely tied to the Congress of Racial Equality. The collection consists of general correspondence; an administrative file of minutes, field reports, articles and project proposals, press releases, and clippings; and a subject file of correspondence, reports, petitions, and lists collected by the FFM on such movement activities as voter registration and integration of public facilities. |
| Fetter, Bruce | Title: Bruce Fetter Papers, 1968-1990 Quantity: .4 cubic ft. (1 box) Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 269 Abstract: Miscellaneous papers of Bruce Fetter, a UW-Milwaukee History Department faculty member, largely documenting his activities within Milwaukee's Jewish community and refugee relief efforts. |