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Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CE
Summary
Transcriptions completed by Cyrena Dierauer of her grandfather’s diary (1940-1945) and her father’s World War II letters home. Harry Van Gorden kept the diary while living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he operated a gasoline supply business and several gas stations. His diary entries reflect family life of the times, the gasoline business during World War II, and his interest in news events of the day. The letters are from his son, Archie “Red” Van Gorden, written while serving with the...
Dates:
1940-1945
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AP-Eau Claire Micro 11
Summary
A reference collection of Veda Stone, a social worker long active in American Indian affairs, education, and family health and children's services in Wisconsin, documenting Stone's work with government agencies, organizations, and conferences concerning Indians. Also present are records, including individual student files, dealing with Indian education in Wisconsin and other states. Microfilmed newsletters, periodicals, and near-print documents published in the U.S. and Canada by or about...
Dates:
1940-1995
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 374
Summary
Dr. Vicki Lord Larson was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and served as Interim Chancellor from 2005 to 2006. This collection includes a number of Larson’s academic papers, books, and various memorabilia from her time at UW-Eau Claire.
Dates:
1977-2007
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 304
Summary
The collection consists of a 21-page hand-written volume containing 81 poems by Violet Leigh, and vol. 1, no. 1 of the publication “The Eau Claire Monthly: Poetry and Prose” edited by Violet Leigh, ca. 1916. Violet Leigh was the pseudonym of Maud Phillips. Maud was born circa 1869 to Katheline Safford and grew up in Clark County, Wisconsin.
Dates:
Undated.
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 600
Summary
Includes visual communications graphics final book projects from the Communication and Journalism Department’s CJ 380 classes of 2011-2012. Also includes issues of Vision, a publication on twenty-five years of feminism at Eau Claire, Nine to Five, a publication about surviving the work force after graduation, and Fresh, a publication about eating local in the Chippewa Valley region.
Dates:
2008-2012
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BG-Eau Claire Micro 26
Summary
Papers of a journalism educator and editor/publisher (1954-1967) of the Cadott Sentinel, Cadott, Wisconsin, an award-winning weekly newspaper, including personal correspondence, photographs, and business and professional material. The business and professional papers consist of financial records and correspondence concerning his early career as a copywriter for the Arthur Towell advertising agency, his purchase of the ...
Dates:
1938-1990
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 273
Summary
Records of a consortium of University of Wisconsin campuses in the western half of the state. Materials include meeting minutes, grant proposals, event calendars, and long range planning documents.
Dates:
1973-1998
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 334
Summary
Records of the “Patches of Life” Committee of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The committee was created in 1994 on the UW-Eau Claire campus to sponsor “The NAMES Project”, also known as the AIDS Quilt. The committee hosted the three day event in the McPhee Physical Education building, March 24-26, 1995. The event included open viewing of the traveling memorial quilt and a reading of names of some of those lost in the AIDS pandemic. The records consist of promotional fliers and brochures, meeting...
Dates:
1994-1995
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BA
Summary
Printed Wisconsin Supreme Court cases and legal briefs prepared by the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, law firm of Wickham and Farr, and by opposing attorneys. The cases span the dates of James Wickham's law practice from 1888 until 1909, when he was appointed circuit court judge for Wisconsin's newly-created 19th circuit. In 1889 Wickham was joined in practice by Frank R. Farr. Wickham and Farr undertook cases from all of the counties surrounding Eau Claire. The cases represented in the collection...
Dates:
1888-1909
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 276
Summary
Personal and family papers, business papers, and photographs of William D. McIntyre (1897-1973), Eau Claire businessman and member of the Board of Regents of State Normal Schools and State Colleges from 1945 to 1965. McIntyre was involved in local, state, and national politics, local and national organizations, and was known as "Mr. Higher Education in Wisconsin." The UW-Eau Claire campus library is named after McIntyre.
Dates:
1897-2005
