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Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 580
Summary
Organizational records of the faculty organization American Association of University Professors (AAUP) UW-EC Chapter, founded in 1946, dedicated to promoting academic freedom and establishing standards for professional and institutional excellence in higher education. Collection includes meeting minutes, transcripts of some of the papers presented during the chapter’s early years, membership lists, correspondence, policy statements and press releases from the national organization, and...
Dates:
1946-1976
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 293
Summary
Organizational records of the Chippewa Valley branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), started in 1923. The current Eau Claire Branch of the AAUW was chartered in 1959. The organization encourages women’s career advancement and pursuit of higher education. Includes a record book (1920-1924), meeting minutes, by-laws, directories and calendars of events, membership records, annual reports, conference materials, financial reports, newsletters and the newsletter ...
Dates:
1920-1924, 1958-2020
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 282
Summary
Booklets of conference proceedings for the American Minority Student Leadership Conference, held at UW-Stout, UW-Eau Claire, and UW-La Crosse, from 1984-1986. Booklets consist of papers given by minority students in the University of Wisconsin system regarding their experiences as students, athletes, and participants in the University of Wisconsin community.
Dates:
1984-1986
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 294
Summary
Diaries, family bible, Sunbeam Society records, composition book of original poetry and prose works, and photograph album of Annie Marasic Liddell, a wife, mother, cook, shopkeeper, and Chippewa Herald correspondent in Anson, Wisconsin (Chippewa County), during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Dates:
1870-1955 (bulk 1900-1930)
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss C
Summary
Papers of Gilberts, president of the Wisconsin chapter of the Farmers' Holiday Association, which was started in Iowa during the Depression by Milo Reno as an “organized refusal to deliver the products of the farm at less than production costs.” Correspondence and minutes of meetings and conferences, 1932-1933, are mainly concerned with the farmers' strike in October and November of 1933 and with Gilberts' 1932 primary campaign on the Progressive ticket as candidate for the U.S. House of...
Dates:
1930-1934
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 181
Summary
Arthur Julius Fox, one of the original faculty members of the Eau Claire State Normal School, was a former registrar and dean of instruction at Eau Claire State Teachers College. He retired in 1948 after 32 years of service at the college. This collection includes the general correspondence of A.J. Fox from 1939 to 1948 as well as his Teacher’s Program and Service Reports, his transcript from the University of Chicago, and newspaper clippings of his death in 1958.
Dates:
1939-1948
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CS
Summary
Papers of Padrutt, a former Republican legislator (1941-1956) from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and member of the Public Service Commission (1956-1975), consisting primarily of chronologically arranged constituent correspondence. Some of the correspondence concerns legislation requiring that stray animals be turned over to medical laboratories for research. The speeches document both his legislative career and his tenure on the PSC.
Dates:
1941-1981
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 310
Summary
Local history essays about Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Washburn, Wisconsin, written by amateur local historian Arthur MacLeod, a professional salesman with a deep interest in Wisconsin history. He grew up in and retired to Washburn, and he delivered many speeches to the Washburn Historical Society.
Dates:
circa 1980-1997
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 025
Summary
This collection comprises records of a labor union for faculty and academic staff at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire, The Association of University of Wisconsin Faculties (TAUWF). Records include governing documents, newsletters, meeting minutes, membership lists, questionnaires, and subject files for both the local chapter and the state organization. The local chapter addressed faculty concerns about tenure and promotion, faculty and academic staff salaries, and representation in...
Dates:
1922-1986 (bulk 1964-1978)
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 305
Summary
This small collection includes transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with relatives and employees of key industries in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the county seat for Chippewa County. Conducted by Robert Gough between May and July 1991, the oral histories were the basis for the historical exhibit at the Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology. Businesses discussed include Amoco, Chippewa Plastics, Cray Research, Inc., Crane Lumber Company, Mason Shoe Manufacturing, and...
Dates:
1991
