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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

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

George F. Shepherd Papers, 1857-1901

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Micro 6
Summary

Papers, 1857-1901, of George F. Shepherd, an Eau Claire County, Wisconsin immigrant farmer from Guernsey, England, who served in Co. F of the 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Included are Civil War letters to his wife Martha concerning camp life, his stays in hospitals, and his concerns for his family, farm, and finances; letters from Martha's family in Guernsey, 1858-1866; legal and biographical data, including Martha's obituary; and photographs.

Dates: 1857-1901

George L. Blum Papers, 1923-1937

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AM
Summary

Correspondence of Blum, Eau Claire, Wisconsin county judge, attorney, and businessman; including requests for Blum's legal advice or intervention as a judge and his replies, letters on local financial enterprises (including his directorship of the Union Mortgage Loan Company), and letters concerning Blum's involvement in the Boy Scouts.

Dates: 1923-1937

George Storrs and Raymond Gillette Papers, 1917-1930

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 308
Summary Letters from Eau Claire native George Dwight “Dite” Storrs to his mother, Mrs. R. B. Gillette, written while he was stationed in Europe during World War I. Other correspondence includes letters from Storrs’s stepfather, Raymond Gillette, founder of the Gillette Safety Tire Co., a brief biography of Raymond Gillette, an unidentified photograph of nurses with servicemen, a certificate issued to Jeannette Isabella Gillette for services rendered to the Great War, a bill for “Hard Earned...
Dates: 1917-1930, bulk 1917-1919

Goff Family Papers, 1871-1930

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 307
Summary

Papers of the family of Edgar Goff, who left Massachusetts and purchased land in the Township of Pleasant Valley in Eau Claire County in 1857. Edgar was a farmer until his death in 1894. Upon his death, Edgar’s son, Arthur W. Goff, inherited his property. Included are financial and land records, financial journals, grocery lists, genealogy, a brief history of the Goff family, a hand-drawn map of the farm, and correspondence.

Dates: Goff Family Papers, 1871-1930