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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
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss N
Summary
Papers of Starr, a lumberman and real estate investor, relating to the timber and land holdings of the Davis and Starr Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; other business investments in Wisconsin, Louisiana, and California; and the management of his estate after his death. Also present are papers of companies with which Starr was closely affiliated: the Weston Heights Stock Farm and the Weston Orchard Company, both in Dunn County, Wis., 1919-1927; the California Forest Protective...
Dates:
1902-1938
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss F
Summary
Papers of William King Coffin, a prominent Eau Claire (Wis.) banker and businessman, and papers of his grandfather, Nathaniel Coffin; his father, William Coffin; and his father's father-in-law, Samuel D. Lockwood, a justice on the Illinois Supreme Court. William King Coffin founded the Eau Claire National Bank and was its president from 1905 to 1925. The collection includes an 1869 diary and both business and personal correspondence of William King Coffin including exchanges with Milo...
Dates:
1832-1929
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 238
Summary
High school yearbooks and Superior Public School newsletters relating to William R. Davies’s career as a school administrator in Marshfield, Shawano, Beaver Dam, and Superior, Wisconsin. Davies served as the second president of Eau Claire State Teachers College / Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire from 1940-1959. Also includes miscellaneous newspaper clippings and family papers.
Dates:
1920-1948
