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Organization Files

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Eau Claire Area Art League Records, 1944-2013

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 345
Summary The Eau Claire Area Art League was the first established art association in the Chippewa Valley in 1944, under the name Eau Claire Art Club. The name changed to Eau Claire Art League in 1946, and then Eau Claire Area Art League in 1993 to reflect the expanding membership from the surrounding communities of Altoona, Augusta, Cameron, Chippewa Falls, Colfax, Elk Mound, Fairchild, Menomonie, Mondovi and Osseo. The collection consists of financial records, activity records, meeting minutes,...
Dates: 1944-2013

Eau Claire Area Committee Records, 1946-1974

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 139
Summary Meeting minutes, correspondence, and organizational records of the Eau Claire Area Committee (1946-1973), a committee of citizens from Eau Claire and the surrounding communities, formed to help disseminate information about the university to the primary region from which the institution draws its students and form better relations. President William R. Davies created the Area Advisory Committee in 1945. After the creation of the University of Wisconsin System, the committee was replaced by...
Dates: 1946-1974

Eau Claire Area Ecology Action Records, 1966-1984

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 155
Summary Organizational records of the Eau Claire Area Ecology Action (ECAEA), later renamed Northern Thunder, and the National Environmental Teach-in. The ECAEA grew out of a local teach-in to observe “Earth Day” on April 22, 1970. While their first project focused on the water quality of the Chippewa River, their focus quickly turned to the issue of solid waste, such as recycling and nuclear power. Records include newspaper clippings, newsletters, administrative material, letters, papers, speeches,...
Dates: 1966-1984

Eau Claire Council of Church Women United (Eau Claire, Wis.) Records, 1948-2010, bulk 1970-2007

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 332
Summary

Administrative records of an ecumenical Christian women’s service and fellowship organization in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the Eau Claire Council of Church Women United. Materials include meeting minutes, membership lists and yearbooks, financial records, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1948-2010, bulk 1970-2007

Eau Claire Regional Arts Council Records, 1982-2018

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 373
Summary

The Eau Claire Regional Arts Council (ECRAC) was founded in 1982 and continued until 2018. ECRAC restored the State Theater and operated there, bringing touring shows to the area and providing a venue for local theater groups to perform. The organization advocated for the arts and helped establish the Eau Claire art scene. This collection includes board meeting minutes, State Theater remodeling documents, local show programming, and various promotional materials.

Dates: 1982-2018

Farmer's Union Cooperative Shipping Association (Greenwood, Wis.) Records, 1929-1971

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AW
Summary

Records of a non-profit association which bought, sold, and transported livestock for its members, and which affiliated with the Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association in 1931. Included are minutes, correspondence, annual reports, auction sales records, tax returns, and other records.

Dates: 1929-1971

Guide to the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra Records, 1976-2012

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 388
Summary Material collected by the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra after its founding in 1975 by a small group of musicians under the musical direction of Roy Bennet, assistant professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, along with Dale Young, a music instructor at Central Jr. High, as concertmaster. Collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, program brochures, grant applications, and documents about outreach programs, and various ephemera from the...
Dates: 1976-2012

Indianhead Federated Library System Records, 1935-1987

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss DF
Summary

Indianhead Federated Library Services' (IFLS) was established in 1977 as a Wisconsin library system of ten county libraries to work together to provide the member libraries access to a wide variety of services and programming. The IFLS records detail their administrative services.

Dates: 1935-1987

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

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