Summary

Real and personal property assessment records showing name of town, date, name of owner, description of property, number of acres, valuation of property, and amount of taxes levied.

Summary Minutes of meetings, resolutions, ordinances, reports to the Council by city officials and Council committees, inaugural addresses of the mayor, record of accounts and orders paid, legal opinions of the city attorney, and annual financial reports of the City Treasurer and City Clerk. A record of licenses issued by the City Clerk for 1872-1873 is at the end of Volume 1. The series consists of scrapbooks of clippings of the published, official proceedings taken from city newspapers. Some of...

Summary Correspondence of three Eau Claire mayors: G. Donald Barnes, Orville Christianson, and W. J. Mills. Routine matters include “fixing” of parking tickets, job recommendations, petitions, the Wisconsin Retirement Fund, promotion of Eau Claire as both a convention site and an industrial site, and the furtherance of highway construction. Problems specifically related to World War II include unemployment, purchase of war bonds, attempts to get needed city employees out of the service early, and...