Farm life -- Wisconsin.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Barland Family Papers, 1825-2008
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AG; Eau Claire Micro 35;-Eau Claire Micro 19; Micro 34; Micro 956;-PH 4963; M2004-230; M2005-055;-M2010-112; M2013-153
Summary
Personal and business papers of three generations of the Barlands, a family with strong ties to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, together with papers of several related families, the Newlands, the Reads, the Schlegelmilchs, and the Wilsons. Included are personal letters, diaries, photographs, financial records, and genealogical materials. The papers document the life of Thomas Barland, a minister and inventor who emigrated from Scotland to Illinois and then to Eau Claire (1853). Barland's...
Dates:
1825-2008
Wood Family Papers, 1865-1928, 1979, 1992
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BQ
Summary
Financial records, correspondence, family photographs, and diaries kept by David Wood, and by his sons, James Lincoln Wood and Ralph Winthrop Wood, residents of Trempealeau County, Wis., near Whitehall. The diaries, which span 62 years, are a daily record of farm chores, family events, accounts, weather, and community life in western Wisconsin during the settlement period. Ralph and James began keeping their diaries during childhood, with Ralph continuing his into adulthood. Also included...
Dates:
1865-1928; 1979; 1992