Eau Claire (Wis.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Adolph Maassen Agricultural Reformers and Farmers’ Union Collection, 1935-1937, 1963, 1966, 1968
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 298
Summary
Contains interviews with politicians that worked on the Rural Electrification Act (R.E.A.) during the Great Depression as well as notable members of the Farmers’ Union. Also contains notes for Adolph Ralph Maassen’s masters thesis in history, published in 1968, on the growth, development, and effect of the Rural Electrification Act Program in West Central Wisconsin.
Dates:
1935-1937, 1963, 1966, 1968
Centennial Celebration Planning Committee Records, 2014-2020
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 606
Summary
Planning files of the Centennial Celebration Planning Committee, event timelines, budgets, promotional material, publications, and memorabilia documenting UW-Eau Claire’s Centennial Celebration prior to and during the 2016-2017 school year. Includes digital materials.
Dates:
2014-2020
Confluence Project Records, 2008-2020
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 376
Summary
Documents pertaining to the development of the Confluence Project, a large-scale downtown Eau Claire cultural redevelopment program focused around the Pablo Center, a performing arts venue.
Dates:
2008-2020
Cornerstones and Time Capsules Collection, 1916, 1951, 1960
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 545
Summary
Collection of the contents found within time capsule containers buried in the cornerstones of buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus. Time capsule containers are included for Schofield Hall or “Old Main”, set on October 19, 1916; McIntyre Library, set on February 15, 1960; and The Zorn Arena Complex, set on September 19, 1951. Contents include Eau Claire, WI, and Spectator student newspapers, photographs, college bulletins, course...
Dates:
Time Capsule Dates: 1916, 1951, 1960; Materials Date: 1916-2024
Eau Queer Film Festival Collection, 2010-2022
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 611
Summary
The Eau Queer Film Festival was a festival held at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire from 2010-2018. The festival rebranded as freaQweek in 2019, and as Q-Fest in 2022. The festival highlights LGBTQ+ created films. Each year, students and faculty travel to San Francisco, California, on a Domestic Intercultural Immersion Program trip during the summer, for the Frameline International LGBTQ+ Film Festival to choose which films to bring back to UW-Eau Claire for the film festival held...
Dates:
2010-2022
Guide to the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra Records, 1976-2012
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 388
Summary
Material collected by the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra after its founding in 1975 by a small group of musicians under the musical direction of Roy Bennet, assistant professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, along with Dale Young, a music instructor at Central Jr. High, as concertmaster. Collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, program brochures, grant applications, and documents about outreach programs, and various ephemera from the...
Dates:
1976-2012
Haas Oral History Interviews Project, 1985-1991
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 345
Summary
The Haas Oral History Interviews Project comprises interview tapes and transcribed interviews of interviews conducted by Chancellor Leonard C. Haas and University Archivist Richard Pifer between 1985 to 1988 about the history and development of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Haas’s tenure at the university ranged from 1931 into the 1980s, starting as a student, then faculty member/administrative staff, and President and Chancellor from 1959-1971 and 1973-1980. With Haas planning to...
Dates:
1985-1991
Inter-Cultural Education Program Records, 1969-1972
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 125
Summary
The Inter-Cultural Education Program was a summer program at the WSU-EC Campus School for minority group and educationally disadvantaged youth from the Racine, Black River Falls, Hayward, and Eau Claire areas, to improve children’s skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing through various methods and to appreciate their own and other cultures. Includes reports, evaluations, staff and student lists, instruction materials, correspondence, host family information, budgets, proposals,...
Dates:
1969-1972
Media Development Center Negatives, 1916-2005 (bulk 1960-2005)
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 104
Summary
The Media Development Center provides photographic, audio, videotape, and graphic services to the University community. In 1955, a faculty member was appointed Director of Audio-Visual Aids to assist the faculty in preparing film orders and evaluating equipment. A full-fledged Audio-Visual Services department existed by the early 1960s and was responsible for audio-visual instruction, equipment purchase and distribution, offset duplicating, production of educational materials, and...
Dates:
1916-2005 (bulk 1960-2005)
Memorial Hall Materials, 1946-continuing
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 483
Summary
Records relating to Memorial Hall, first residence hall on the Eau Claire State Teachers College campus in 1947. It was originally the Dulany Mansion of lumber baron Daniel Dulany, located on the northwest corner of State Street and Garfield Avenue. It became a men’s dormitory in 1955 when a new women’s dormitory was built. When Memorial Hall was demolished, some of the stained-glass windows and wood trim were saved to decorate the Dulany Inn restaurant in the UW-Eau Claire Davies Student...
Dates:
1946-continuing