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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:

Donald O. Peterson Papers, 1947-1980

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BB - Eau Claire Micro 23
Summary Papers, mainly 1967-1972, of Donald O. Peterson, a liberal leader of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. The papers document Peterson's work in state and national Democratic party politics and reform initiatives. Major subjects include Peterson's leadership of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign in Wisconsin (available only on microfilm); his participation in the New Democratic Coalition (1968-1973), the Commission on Rules of the Democratic National Committee (1969-1972), and the...
Dates: 1947-1980; Majority of material found within 1967-1972

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 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 Daughters of the American Revolution Records, 1919-2019

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 371
Summary

Founded in 1918, the Eau Claire chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is a group of women with ancestry connecting to the American Revolution. Records contain information relating to chapter meetings, member and chapter histories, State and National Society DAR information, and historical endeavors in the community from 1919-2019.

Dates: 1919-2019

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

Eleanor Jones Papers, 1921-2023

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 378
Summary

Materials collected by Eleanor Jones in her time as a musician in the Marine Corps Women Reserve Band in World War II, in the group known as the “Hormel Girls,” and her life afterwards. Collection consists of photographs, correspondence, documents, scrapbooks, and ephemera collected primarily between 1943-1952, but which also extend as late as 2017.

Dates: 1921-2023

First Baptist Church Records, 1861-2018

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 369
Summary

Membership records, meeting minutes, financial data, church constitutions and miscellaneous programs, church directories, and photographs from the First Baptist Church of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, from 1861-2018.

Dates: 1861-2018

Friends of Olin and Emma Swenson (Eau Claire, Wis.) Collection, 1965-1982

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 313
Summary

The collection contains materials relating to Olin and Emma Swenson, prominent activists in the fight for socialist causes in the Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, area. Materials include newspaper clippings, letters from friends and family sharing their recollections of the Swensons, correspondence, photographs, a family history, and interviews. The material was gathered by a committee, the Friends of Olin and Emma Swenson, in an effort to write a book on the couple and their activities.

Dates: 1965-1982

George Storrs and Raymond Gillette Papers, 1917-1930

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 308
Summary Letters from Eau Claire native George Dwight “Dite” Storrs to his mother, Mrs. R. B. Gillette, written while he was stationed in Europe during World War I. Other correspondence includes letters from Storrs’s stepfather, Raymond Gillette, founder of the Gillette Safety Tire Co., a brief biography of Raymond Gillette, an unidentified photograph of nurses with servicemen, a certificate issued to Jeannette Isabella Gillette for services rendered to the Great War, a bill for “Hard Earned...
Dates: 1917-1930, bulk 1917-1919