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...

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Annual statistical reports on crime in Eau Claire as compiled by the Eau Claire Police Department. They include a detailed breakdown of citations, accidents, arrests, and city ordinance violations. The reports also document major changes in departmental structure, personnel, and operating procedure.

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Police blotters, 1906-1951, outlining each service call, name of person being arrested, arresting officers, victims, witnesses, and location. Reel 10 contains scrapbooks of news clippings regarding traffic accidents, 1949-1988, and police manuals, circa 1921-1927.

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Record of taxable real estate and personal property in the City of Eau Claire and the taxes levied on it, showing owner, location, valuation, and date of payment. Tax rolls for 1875-1877, 1884-1885, 1895, 1907-1909, and every fifth year, 1945-2005. Real estate assessment rolls for 1934, 1939.

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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.

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Record of land sold for delinquent taxes showing land description, location, date of sale, year for which tax was delinquent, amount sold for, and explanation (i.e., redeemed, deeded, cancelled, illegal, etc.). The series also includes city and village plats and volumes for tax sales within cities and villages, 1914-1937.

Summary Record of lands sold for delinquent taxes showing certificate number, land description, location, date of sales, year for which tax was delinquent, certificate purchaser, and amount of delinquent tax. Also shown, when applicable, is the person or firm to which the land was deeded, or record of redemption with dates and costs for such actions. Volume 10 (1922-1924) also includes delinquent drainage tax sales. Volumes 12-14 (1927-1931) include delinquent property tax and drainage tax returns....

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Microfilmed warranty, quit claim, and other deeds and government land patents for land located in Taylor County. Includes Homestead Patents and federal government patents from the United States General Land Offices at Eau Claire and Wausau.

Summary Records consisting of clerk's record books including school district and school board meeting minutes, 1902-1959; financial records, 1876-1959; and teacher's registers, 1874-1957. Clerk records generally include meeting minutes, teachers' contracts, registers of school officers, register of orders drawn, annual reports and censuses which give student names and ages. Financial record books typically contain yearly financial statements, and cash receipts/disbursements. Teachers' registers and...

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Records of naturalization proceedings in the Circuit Court of Buffalo County. Records include indexes to Petitions (1858-1950) and Citizenship (1858-1943), Declarations of Intention (1853-1950), Petitions and Naturalization Records (1858-1950), and Certificate Stub Books (1907-1929), Oaths of Allegiance (1941), and Petitions Granted and Denied (1930-1950).