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Ingram Family and Empire Lumber Company Papers, 1874-1953 (bulk 1906-1934)
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 350
Summary
Personal papers of the family of Orrin H. Ingram, a prominent lumberman and businessman in the Chippewa Valley, and his son Erskine B. Ingram, at the turn of the 20th Century. Also includes business records of the Empire Lumber Company, established in 1881.
Dates:
1874-1953, bulk 1906-1934
Inter-Cultural Education Program Records, 1969-1972
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 125
Summary
The Inter-Cultural Education Program was a summer program at the WSU-EC Campus School for minority group and educationally disadvantaged youth from the Racine, Black River Falls, Hayward, and Eau Claire areas, to improve children’s skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing through various methods and to appreciate their own and other cultures. Includes reports, evaluations, staff and student lists, instruction materials, correspondence, host family information, budgets, proposals,...
Dates:
1969-1972
International Association of Administrative Professionals Chippewa Valley Chapter (Eau Claire, Wis.) Records, 1964-2015
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 336
Summary
Records of the Eau Claire/Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin, area chapter of a professional organization for administrative assistants and secretaries, the International Association of Administrative Professionals. The chapter was established in 1971, and attempted to professionalize secretarial work through education, organization, and the creation of a sense of community. Collection includes organization files of meeting minutes, publications, scrapbooks, correspondence, annual and committee...
Dates:
1964-2015
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 953: Records, 1935-1943
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AC
Summary
Correspondence, bills, receipts, and employment agreements of Local 953. Included is information on negotiations with the Northern States Power Company, relationships with the parent union and other locals, efforts to organize non-union workers, and other topics. The files are those of the Business Manager, Sherman (Shorty) Preston.
Dates:
1935-1943
International Order of Odd Fellows, Augusta Lodge No. 142: Records, 1868-1984 (bulk 1868-1940)
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss DC
Summary
Records of Lodge 142, of Augusta, Wisconsin, mainly 1868-1940, of the fraternal organization, the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), and its associated women's group, the Rebekah Assembly Lodge 225, comprising officers' rolls; minutes; membership accounts; pamphlets; guide and rulebooks; meeting programs; ephemera including IOOF-produced postcards and stamps; and similar material from lodges in Illinois. Correspondence is lightly represented. A lithograph depicting the symbolic...
Dates:
1868-1984 (bulk 1868-1940)
Interview with Donald Peterson, 1993
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 321
Summary
An oral history with a liberal leader in the Wisconsin Democratic Party during the 1960s-1970s, opposed to U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Donald Oliver Peterson. Topics covered are the presidential candidacy of Eugene McCarthy in 1969 and Peterson’s role in the Wisconsin primary, the Democratic National Convention, and the election.
Dates:
1993
Jack O' Connell Hmong Collection, 1980-1990
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 283
Summary
Various records collected by Jack O’Connell, an Eau Claire area resident and English as a second language instructor at the Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and an active participant in several Eau Claire organizations that served the Hmong immigrant community. Records relate to vocational-technical education and social assistance available to Eau Claire area Hmong refugees in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Eau Claire Hmong Mutual Assistance Association, the...
Dates:
1980-1990
Jack Zais Uniroyal Collection, 1898-2013
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 358
Summary
Collection contains John (Jack) Zais’ research material regarding Uniroyal. John (Jack) Zais was employed at the Eau Claire Tire Plant for over 25 years. He was heavily involved in the union during his time as an employee, which allowed him a large breadth of inside information. These experiences, mixed with his love for history, helped him begin research on the Eau Claire Tire Plant Publications. Also contains artifacts of Union buttons and miscellaneous badges, stickers, pins, keychains,...
Dates:
1898-2013
James D. R. Steven Papers, 1897-1921
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AO
Summary
Correspondence of James Steven, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin, businessman involved in lumbering and retail selling. Letterbooks detail Steven's lumbering enterprises, land and lumber transactions, and deeds of sales. In May 1890, Steven began work in the office of Davis and Starr Lumber Company. In 1907, Steven organized the Steven and Jarvis Lumber Company, with Arthur Jarvis, to deal in wholesale lumber. Steven was also involved with the Eau Claire Book and Stationery Company, and became...
Dates:
1897-1921
James Newman Clark Collection, 1867-1972 (bulk 1867-1928)
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 249
Summary
Personal and business papers of James Newman Clark (1842-1928), a farmer, taxidermist, and ornithologist in Meridean, Wisconsin. Clark was an interested bird watcher and self-trained taxidermist, and he kept careful notes on correct identification of specimens. Clark’s ornithology collection was donated to the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire in 1959 where it was displayed in L.E. Phillips Science Hall. Papers also relate to the donation and display of Clark’s collection at the...
Dates:
1867-1972 (bulk 1867-1928)