Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:
Eau Claire Area Ecology Action Records, 1966-1984
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 155
Summary
Organizational records of the Eau Claire Area Ecology Action (ECAEA), later renamed Northern Thunder, and the National Environmental Teach-in. The ECAEA grew out of a local teach-in to observe “Earth Day” on April 22, 1970. While their first project focused on the water quality of the Chippewa River, their focus quickly turned to the issue of solid waste, such as recycling and nuclear power. Records include newspaper clippings, newsletters, administrative material, letters, papers, speeches,...
Dates:
1966-1984
Eau Claire County Coordinating Committee Records, 1949-1987
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss DB
Summary
Records of the Eau Claire County Coordinating Committee (ECCC) consisting of minutes and newsletters, internal and external correspondence, committee reports, and administrative files. Included in the administrative files are membership and officer lists, numerous copies of their constitution with updates, and related correspondence. Also included are the records of the Civic Improvement and Recreation Committee, the Mental Health Committee, Health Committee, and the Social Services...
Dates:
1949-1987
Eau Claire (Wis.). City Manager: Subject Files, 1950-1970
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Series 98
Summary
Records from the city manager's office consisting primarily of correspondence with officials of other municipalities, state agencies, city council members and other city officers, and contractors and suppliers with which the city did business; reports of city departments and officials; research materials; near-print reports and bulletins; and budget preparation materials. The records cover a wide range of topics including the city budget, city services and public works, the administration...
Dates:
1950-1970
Ellen Spaulding Miller Papers, 1863, 1870-1887
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BF
Summary
Papers of a woman who lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the 1870s. The collection consists largely of letters, written principally by Ellen Spaulding Miller to family members who probably lived in New York. The letters reflect domestic life, family relationships, economic conditions, lumbering, religious revivals, and health conditions in the lumbering capital of northwestern Wisconsin. The Spaulding papers also include the booklet The Christian Minister's...
Dates:
1863; 1870-1887
Eugene R. McPhee Papers, 1923-1966, 2003-2004
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 249
Summary
After service in World War II, Eugene R. McPhee became director of teacher training at Eau Claire until leaving for Madison in 1948. Contains personal and professional papers of McPhee’s military career in the United States as well as while he was stationed in Italy. McPhee’s thesis and other documents from his educational career. There are early University of Wisconsin -- Eau Claire financial documents regarding scholarships, memorials and other aspects of the university.
Dates:
1923-1973, 2003-2004
Facilities Planning Records, 1981 - 2005
Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 595
Summary
Files relating to the remodeling, renovations and repairs of buildings and grounds on the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire campus.
Dates:
1981 - 2005 (Bulk 1990 - 2000)
Florence M. Larkin Papers, circa 1883-1974
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CL
Summary
Extensive correspondence and personal papers of Florence Larkin of Eau Claire, Wis., together with smaller quantities of correspondence and papers of her husband and relatives in the Sullivan and Robertson families. The papers document Larkin's student years at Vassar College, teaching school in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan, work for the YMCA Women's Service in Europe during World War I, marriage to Edwin Larkin in her late forties, and active membership in the Eau Claire civic and...
Dates:
circa 1883-1974
Frank L. Nikolay Papers, 1959-1978
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AZ
Summary
Papers of an assemblyman from Clark County (1958-1966; 1968-1970) who served in a leadership capacity both on the floor of the Legislature and within the Democratic Party. Alphabetical subject files contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, speeches, press releases, committee records, and printed matter. Best are the files on various committee memberships including the Building Commission, Interstate Cooperation Committee, Judiciary Committee, Special Committee on Town...
Dates:
1959-1978
Frank Meinen Papers, 1926-1989
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BJ
Summary
Papers of a Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, farmer, electric fence manufacturer, and political conservative, including correspondence, financial records of the farm and a fence business, detailed agricultural production records from circa 1920 through circa 1975, family and other photographs, and subject files relating to Meinen's involvement with agricultural organizations such as the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation and the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America, St. Peter's...
Dates:
1926-1989
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