Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Adolph Maassen Agrarian Reformers and Farmers Union Collection, 1935-1973
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 298
Summary
Papers and reel-to-reel audio tapes related to Adolph Maassen’s Oral History interview project, interviewing leaders in Wisconsin and Minnesota from farm organizations, cooperatives, labor unions, and who had a hand in with pieces of new legislation, that played key roles in changes for rural communities during the 20th century. Contains a list of and biographical information about interviewees, interview questions, correspondence, transcripts for some of the interviews, and notes pertaining...
Dates:
1935-1973
Arnold Gilberts Papers, 1930-1934
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss C
Summary
Papers of Gilberts, president of the Wisconsin chapter of the Farmers' Holiday Association, which was started in Iowa during the Depression by Milo Reno as an “organized refusal to deliver the products of the farm at less than production costs.” Correspondence and minutes of meetings and conferences, 1932-1933, are mainly concerned with the farmers' strike in October and November of 1933 and with Gilberts' 1932 primary campaign on the Progressive ticket as candidate for the U.S. House of...
Dates:
1930-1934