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Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BH
Summary
Papers of a former state Republican senator from Eau Claire who served in the legislature from 1967 to 1975. Included are general correspondence with constituents, colleagues, and other individuals on a wide range of topics such as aid to parochial schools, trucks and highway safety, the Sparta Child Care Center, and the 1974 budget proposed by Governor Patrick Lucey; and subject files concerning legislation introduced in 1973 to reorganize the Wisconsin court system, his work on the...
Dates:
1967-1974
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 089
Summary
Gamma Delta Chapter of the Kappa Pi Fraternity was installed as a charter member of the National Honorary Art Fraternity in April 1957. Membership required ten semester art credits with a 3.0 grade point average, an overall scholastic average of 2.4, and one-year membership in the college art club. Kappa Pi published two national magazines and one newsletter annually.
Dates:
1930-1964 (bulk 1957-1964)
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CN
Summary
Letters written by Robert W. Dirks of Jackson County, Wis. to his future wife, Leatrice Sonenberg, during World War II and a reminiscence based on the letters written by Mr. Dirks in 1990. Dirks served from 1942 to 1945 with the 178th Signal Repair Company. He describes his training at Camp Shelby, Miss., the Midland Radio School in Athens, Ga., radio school in Lexington, Ky., and Camp Polk, La. After being shipped overseas, much of his duty time was spent installing radios in vehicles in...
Dates:
1942-1945, 1990
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 263
Summary
Ross Hastings (1915-1991) was a composer, arranger and music editor during the mid-twentieth century from Southern California. He credits much of his musical training to his father, Dr. Ray Hastings. He ushered at the Philharmonic Auditorium for many years and won composition contests. He composed, orchestrated, edited, and published for music groups and companies in California and New York, such as the Hollywood Bowl Pops concerts, Warner Bros., Alfred Music Co., and Bourne Co. In 1981,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1917-2003
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CG
Summary
Business records of an Eau Claire, Wis. physician providing a fairly complete view of the business operations and workload of a medical doctor. The records consist mainly of patient visit and payment daybooks (1919-1948) with date, head of household, brief notes, and charges. Also included is a financial record book of income received from other than professional services (1919- 1940); physician expense account books (1913-1939); a general ledger (1931-1940); a record book of opium and coca...
Dates:
1913-1948
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AV
Summary
Papers of Roy P. Wilcox, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, attorney, Republican state senator from 1917 to 1920, and unsuccessful primary candidate for governor in 1918 and 1920 and for senator in 1925. The papers consist of materials from his political campaigns and his State Senate term, speeches, and a small subject file concerning the city commission form of government and workmen's compensation legislation. The political materials include lists of supporters, campaign literature, a few financial...
Dates:
1890-1925
Collection
Identifier: Rusk Series 9
Summary
Record of land sold for delinquent taxes showing land description, location, date of sale, year for which tax was delinquent, amount sold for, and explanation (i.e., redeemed, deeded, cancelled, illegal, etc.). The series also includes city and village plats and volumes for tax sales within cities and villages, 1914-1937.
Dates:
1856-1937
Collection
Identifier: Rusk Series 8
Summary
Record of lands sold for delinquent taxes showing certificate number, land description, location, date of sales, year for which tax was delinquent, certificate purchaser, and amount of delinquent tax. Also shown, when applicable, is the person or firm to which the land was deeded, or record of redemption with dates and costs for such actions. Volume 10 (1922-1924) also includes delinquent drainage tax sales. Volumes 12-14 (1927-1931) include delinquent property tax and drainage tax returns....
Dates:
1860-1931
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BZ
Summary
Papers of a family that emigrated from Switzerland to a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin about 1923. Included is correspondence to Bertha Amacher Ryser from friends and family in Oberried, Switzerland (all in German and mainly 1970s and 1980s) and elsewhere; many letters written by her son Werner H. Ryser during his service with the 120th Engineers Combat Battalion during the Korean War; and personal expense books, diaries, and a farm account book, 1943-1944.
Dates:
1923-1983
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 586
Summary
Sarah Harder was a professor of English and an administrator from 1970 to 2000 at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. She served on various committees concerning Affirmative Action, Title IX, the status of women, and underrepresented students, and helped establish the Women’s Studies program at UW-Eau Claire. The collection includes biographical and administrative files, publications, women’s issues in higher education, and records of women’s programs and events.
Dates:
1970-2000
