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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:

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

Ellen Spaulding Miller Papers, 1863, 1870-1887

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BF
Summary Papers of a woman who lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the 1870s. The collection consists largely of letters, written principally by Ellen Spaulding Miller to family members who probably lived in New York. The letters reflect domestic life, family relationships, economic conditions, lumbering, religious revivals, and health conditions in the lumbering capital of northwestern Wisconsin. The Spaulding papers also include the booklet The Christian Minister's...
Dates: 1863; 1870-1887

Fire Department, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Records, 1886-1987 (bulk 1903-1987)

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Series 132
Summary

Primarily scrapbooks of the Fire Auxiliary Local 21, 1936-1972; and news clipping scrapbooks regarding department activities, 1903-1987. Also included are articles on local history and the history of the department, 1886-1987, and annual reports, 1928-1967 and 1976. Original photographs are included in some of the Auxiliary scrapbooks.

Dates: 1886-1987 (bulk 1903-1987)

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

Florence M. Larkin Papers, circa 1883-1974

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CL
Summary Extensive correspondence and personal papers of Florence Larkin of Eau Claire, Wis., together with smaller quantities of correspondence and papers of her husband and relatives in the Sullivan and Robertson families. The papers document Larkin's student years at Vassar College, teaching school in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan, work for the YMCA Women's Service in Europe during World War I, marriage to Edwin Larkin in her late forties, and active membership in the Eau Claire civic and...
Dates: circa 1883-1974

Frank Meinen Papers, 1926-1989

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BJ
Summary Papers of a Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, farmer, electric fence manufacturer, and political conservative, including correspondence, financial records of the farm and a fence business, detailed agricultural production records from circa 1920 through circa 1975, family and other photographs, and subject files relating to Meinen's involvement with agricultural organizations such as the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation and the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America, St. Peter's...
Dates: 1926-1989

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 F. Shepherd Papers, 1857-1901

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Micro 6
Summary

Papers, 1857-1901, of George F. Shepherd, an Eau Claire County, Wisconsin immigrant farmer from Guernsey, England, who served in Co. F of the 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Included are Civil War letters to his wife Martha concerning camp life, his stays in hospitals, and his concerns for his family, farm, and finances; letters from Martha's family in Guernsey, 1858-1866; legal and biographical data, including Martha's obituary; and photographs.

Dates: 1857-1901

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

Grace Walsh Papers, 1931-1994

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 551
Summary

The collection contains financial records, programs, reel-to-reel audio tapes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, awards, some correspondence, and other general files related to the forensics and debate programs at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. Includes files created by and pertaining personally to Grace Walsh, a professor and director of speech and forensics from 1944-1980.

Dates: 1931-1994