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This collection contains forms nominating individual properties from the Chippewa Valley for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation administered by the National Park Service. Properties must meet certain criteria to be eligible for the register.

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Various research papers on the history of communities in the Chippewa Valley including Coon Fork, Eau Claire, Rice Lake, Progress, Washington, and Gates County. Also contains documents from the Eau Claire Main Street Association, fliers for local events and organizations, performance programs from the Grand Opera House, and city planning reports for Eau Claire and Chippewa County.

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Dave Duax was on the Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors from 1974-1983. The collection consists of his files from his time on the board documenting county government activities, including survey results, correspondence, committee reports and activities, employment, budget planning, department management and law enforcement.

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Five abstracts of assessment rolls containing property assessments, acreage planted, crop growth, farm products (production of milk and cheese at creameries, condensing factories), number and value of farm stock animals. Information is organized by town, city, and villages of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. Dates covered: 1906-1908, 1913-1914.

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Diaries and poetry of a woman from the Town of Brunswick, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, who later lived in the city of Eau Claire. The diaries, 1882-1920, relate in detail the daily activities of Miss Converse, her family (which included a brother, Royal William, 1829-?, and a sister, Clarissa, 1828-?), and friends. Two volumes of her poetry date 1896-1932. In 1939, Miss Converse married Thomas H. Rooke in Eau Claire.

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...

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Speeches prepared by Chancellor Emily Hannah at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire from January 1, 1981, to June 1, 1984, the first woman to head a UW-System institution. The speeches appear as prepared for delivery, rather than as transcripts of the record. The speeches reflect her preference for oral style over polished composition.

Summary Collection documents the progression of Thomas Barth’s life, schooling, and eventual career as a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. Collection contains information on his involvement in both the Democratic and Republican parties from the 1950s through the 1970s including information on local elections, county redistricting, and the Eau Claire County Democratic Party from 1962-1974. Collection also contains information on the Secondary and Continuing...

Summary Records of the regional organization of local affiliates of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in eleven north central Wisconsin counties (Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Pepin, Pierce, St. Croix, and Trempealeau). Included are club histories, yearbooks, annual reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, minutes of meetings, news clippings, treasurer's reports, and other records concerning the clubs' civic and cultural activities. Also included are photographs of...