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Audio recordings

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

1953 Amateur Talent Contest (Eau Claire, Wis.) Audio Tape, 1953

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 323
Summary Cassette tape recording of rebroadcast from WEAU of the Grand Finals of 1953 series of Amateur Talent shows, held at the Eau Claire State Theatre in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was sponsored by WEAU Broadcasting and Russell Dairy Company of Eau Claire, Menomonie, and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The Master of Ceremonies was Bob Peterson. First place was Peter Weinberg and Homer Mittelstad of Eau Claire. Second place was Dick Hob and the Natalie Jazz Band of Eau Claire. Third place was Alan...
Dates: 1953

At Work in Chippewa Falls Oral Histories, 1991

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 305
Summary This small collection includes transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with relatives and employees of key industries in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the county seat for Chippewa County. Conducted by Robert Gough between May and July 1991, the oral histories were the basis for the historical exhibit at the Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology. Businesses discussed include Amoco, Chippewa Plastics, Cray Research, Inc., Crane Lumber Company, Mason Shoe Manufacturing, and...
Dates: 1991

Bill Zorn Papers, 1916-1987

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 393
Summary

Willis Lawrence “Bill” Zorn was a Dean of Men, athletic director and a celebrated coach of the UW-Eau Claire basketball and football teams from 1928-1969 at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. The collection includes personal and administrative files, Eau Claire athletics and NAIA files, and records of the Air Force Training Program that was housed on the Eau Claire campus from 1943-44.

Dates: 1916-1987

Centennial Oral History Collection, 2012-2013

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 347
Summary

Oral history interviews conducted by students and staff, prior to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's Centennial in 2016. The interviews cover a wide range of topics related to the history of the school. Includes digital materials.

Dates: 2012-2013

Chippewa Falls Oral History Project, 1981-1982

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BK
Summary

Interviews conducted by Dolores Beaudette with eight elderly residents of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, concerning their recollections about the history and growth of the community, ca. 1900-1940s, with information on area lumber camps. Indexed transcripts in 2 volumes are included, titled The Flavor of the Times: A Series of Interviews. Tape recordings of the interviews are available at the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Dates: 1981-1982

Clarice Chase Dunn Papers, 1942-2004

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 268
Summary

Personal papers of Clarice Chase Dunn, a 1937 Eau Claire State Teachers College graduate. Records document her time as a teacher at the Heart Mountain (Wyoming) relocation camp school for Japanese Americans during World War II, and her efforts in the 1980s to establish redress payments to those who were interned in these camps. Includes an oral history interview with Dunn that was conducted around 2004.

Dates: 1942-2004

Eau Claire Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project, 1998

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 340
Summary

Collection of oral history interviews of Vietnam veterans living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, conducted in 1998. Interview materials contain release of rights forms, program procedures, transcripts, and cassette tapes of interviews. Also includes a thesis on psychosocial readjustment of Eau Claire Vietnam veterans by Mark Hintz.

Dates: 1998

Friends of Olin and Emma Swenson (Eau Claire, Wis.) Collection, 1965-1982

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 313
Summary

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.

Dates: 1965-1982

George King Trio Collection, circa 1939-1960, 2019

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 391
Summary Collection of the George King Trio, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin, based Big Band musical group from circa 1939-1950s. Original members were George King, Jack O’Farrell, Bob Giese, and vocalist Anita Berg. They performed at area night clubs and supper clubs such as Buck and Otto’s Supper Club and toured around Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The group took a hiatus during World War II but performed together again into the early 1950s. The members continued to perform together and...
Dates: circa 1939-1960, 2019

George Lincoln Rockwell on Campus, 1967

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 355
Summary

Newspaper articles, an introductory speech by Dr. Karl Andresen, poster advertisements, and a taped recording of the speech George Lincoln Rockwell gave on February 16, 1967, at Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire. Rockwell was invited to speak by the College Republicans and College Democrats organizations on campus.

Dates: 1967