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Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 308
Summary
Letters from Eau Claire native George Dwight “Dite” Storrs to his mother, Mrs. R. B. Gillette, written while he was stationed in Europe during World War I. Other correspondence includes letters from Storrs’s stepfather, Raymond Gillette, founder of the Gillette Safety Tire Co., a brief biography of Raymond Gillette, an unidentified photograph of nurses with servicemen, a certificate issued to Jeannette Isabella Gillette for services rendered to the Great War, a bill for “Hard Earned...
Dates:
1917-1930, bulk 1917-1919
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 307
Summary
Papers of the family of Edgar Goff, who left Massachusetts and purchased land in the Township of Pleasant Valley in Eau Claire County in 1857. Edgar was a farmer until his death in 1894. Upon his death, Edgar’s son, Arthur W. Goff, inherited his property. Included are financial and land records, financial journals, grocery lists, genealogy, a brief history of the Goff family, a hand-drawn map of the farm, and correspondence.
Dates:
Goff Family Papers, 1871-1930
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 375
Summary
Account books and federal/state income tax returns of a family farm run by Gordon Nielsen in Rice Lake, WI. The records provide a broad overview of the economics of a sample small-scale dairy farm in northern Wisconsin during the 20th century.
Dates:
1950-1986
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 551
Summary
The collection contains financial records, programs, reel-to-reel audio tapes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, awards, some correspondence, and other general files related to the forensics and debate programs at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. Includes files created by and pertaining personally to Grace Walsh, a professor and director of speech and forensics from 1944-1980.
Dates:
1931-1994
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 539
Summary
Course creation and deletion forms, syllabi, and other materials related to graduate level courses offered at the university. After being offered for various years between the 1960s and the early 1990s, all of the courses included in this collection were eventually discontinued.
Dates:
1960-2003
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 285
Summary
Membership records, encampment journals and programs, and photographs of the Eau Claire chapter of the nation’s largest Civil War veterans’ organization, The Grand Army of the Republic.
Dates:
1886-1944 (bulk 1920-1944)
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 330
Summary
Green Meadow School is a coed school located in Taylor County, Wis. It is of “Amish” affiliation. The lesson plan was created by Emma M. Ziemke, who taught grades one through eight. The lesson plan book lists what each class will study on each day and what work will be assigned. “The Children’s Morality Code for Elementary Schools,” dated 1926, was published in the back of the lesson plan
Dates:
1935-1936
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 388
Summary
Material collected by the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra after its founding in 1975 by a small group of musicians under the musical direction of Roy Bennet, assistant professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, along with Dale Young, a music instructor at Central Jr. High, as concertmaster. Collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, program brochures, grant applications, and documents about outreach programs, and various ephemera from the...
Dates:
1976-2012
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CC
Summary
Family histories and typed translations of letters from several Norwegian immigrants to the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, area. The correspondents are ancestors of the donor, Harold Hagen, and include Anders (Andrew) Pedersen Solem (Hagen's maternal grandfather); Elling Anderson Sende (Hagen's paternal great- grandfather); and Anders Lian (aka Andrew Lee), Hagen's maternal grandmother's cousin. Elling Anderson Sende arrived in Eau Claire in 1879 and assisted the others to immigrate. They all worked...
Dates:
1879 - 1899
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 284
Summary
Fragmentary personal and business papers of Harold E. House, a former Eau Claire city councilman and union and cooperative leader during the 1940s. He worked at the U.S. Rubber Company plant for 15 years and served as president of Local 19 of the United Rubber Workers for seven years. He spent two years organizing consumer cooperatives for the International Union of Rubber Workers, and later worked as a fieldman for the Eau Claire Consumers Cooperative. He also served on the city council...
Dates:
1938-1950, bulk 1945-1950
