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Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 345
Summary
The Haas Oral History Interviews Project comprises interview tapes and transcribed interviews of interviews conducted by Chancellor Leonard C. Haas and University Archivist Richard Pifer between 1985 to 1988 about the history and development of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Haas’s tenure at the university ranged from 1931 into the 1980s, starting as a student, then faculty member/administrative staff, and President and Chancellor from 1959-1971 and 1973-1980. With Haas planning to...
Dates:
1985-1991
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
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 315
Summary
Henneman family records for Frank Henneman and Mollie Loew in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, during the early 20th Century. Collection documents what everyday life was like on a Wisconsin farm and in a logging camp. Also includes a hot dish recipe, birth certificates, genealogical information, blueprints for an addition to the Henneman farm, and land records dating back to 1858.
Dates:
1858-1941
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 256
Summary
The 1858 diary of Henry William Barber covers the time of Henry and Cecelia Barber’s journey from Westfield, New York to Dead Lake Prairie in Pepin County, Wisconsin, where the Barber’s built one of the first frame houses of the prairie. The 1867-1870 diary is filled with accounts of daily activity, mainly related to farming.
Dates:
1858, 1867-1870
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 343
Summary
The Hoeppner-Bartlett Construction Company was a family-owned business in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, that was founded in 1896 by Frederick Julius Hoeppner and William W. Bartlett, and in business from 1896 to 2001. The majority of the materials include blueprints, specification reports, cash books, payroll ledgers, and jobs ordered ledgers that date from approximately 1897 to 1981.
Dates:
1897-1981, bulk 1900-1969
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 387
Summary
Correspondence, photographs, and biographical materials from the Hoff family, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and their time in World War I and World War II. The material ranges from 1917-2002, with the bulk of the material from 1917 and 1941-1945, and details the service of Edwin Peterson (WWI), Olaf Hoff (WWI), and Glenn Sauer (WWII).
Dates:
1917-2002 (bulk 1917, 1941-1945)
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CO-PH Eau Claire Mss CO
Summary
Papers of Howard L. Hayden, a Vietnam veteran from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who was drafted in February 1967 and served with a U.S. Army mechanized reconnaissance unit (25th Infantry Division, 4th Battalion) based in Cư Chi and Tây Ninh from August 1967 to August 1968. Hayden, a dyslexic, began writing about his combat experiences as part of his work with a literacy tutor in 1993. The collection includes manuscript drafts of stories, typescripts (prepared by Susan Anderson, his literacy...
Dates:
1967-1968, 1993-1999
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 278
Summary
Professional papers of UW-Eau Claire History Department faculty member Howard Lutz, 1957-1989. Lutz helped develop the Scandinavian Studies program and was a conscientious objector in World War II. During the Vietnam era, he opposed the creation of a ROTC program at UW--Eau Claire and counseled students seeking conscientious objector status. Papers include information about Lutz’s pacifistic and protest activities on campus during the Vietnam War and his involvement in university committees...
Dates:
circa 1951-1988
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss DF
Summary
Indianhead Federated Library Services' (IFLS) was established in 1977 as a Wisconsin library system of ten county libraries to work together to provide the member libraries access to a wide variety of services and programming. The IFLS records detail their administrative services.
Dates:
1935-1987
