Newspaper clippings
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Eau Claire Normal School/State Teachers' College Clippings, 1913-1950
Newspaper clippings and a pamphlet regarding the establishment and growth of the Eau Claire State Normal School and the Eau Claire State Teachers College. A 1913 pamphlet entitled “WHY the Normal School at Eau Claire Should Be Constructed NOW” outlines the “urgent need” for the school in the Chippewa Valley. Newspaper clippings document the growth and development of the Eau Claire Normal School, which evolved into the Eau Claire State Teachers College in 1927.
Eleanor Jones Papers, 1921-2023
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.
Friends of Olin and Emma Swenson (Eau Claire, Wis.) Collection, 1965-1982
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.
George Bradford Thompson Spanish American War Scrapbook, 1898-1987 (bulk 1898-1899)
This scrapbook documents the Spanish-American War service of George Bradford Thompson. Thompson served in Company E of the Third Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. The scrapbook contains mostly newspaper and magazine clippings which detail Wisconsin soldiers throughout the war.
Grace Walsh Papers, 1931-1994
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.