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Audio recordings

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 27 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

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 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

Grace Walsh Papers, 1931-1994

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 551
Summary

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.

Dates: 1931-1994

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