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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

Phi Kappa Phi (University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire) Records, 1955-2010

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 371
Summary

Records of Phi Kappa Phi, a national scholastic honor society, 1955 through 2010. Records and artifacts detail the history of the local chapter on campus (formed in April 1969), committees, correspondence, public relations, initiation programs, meeting minutes, activities, membership lists, and national society handbooks. UW-Eau Claire is not listed in the national Phi Kappa Phi current directory (in April 2022) for Wisconsin chapters.

Dates: 1955-2010

Phillips and Cohen Family Papers, 1936-2009

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 344
Summary L.E. Phillips (1899-1978) and Melvin Cohen (1918-2008) were two prominent Eau Claire industrialists and philanthropists. The collection includes a variety of newspaper clippings related to their community involvement and reports on their company, National Presto Industries. Company booklets and photographs are mixed with photographs of philanthropist work, as well as materials on Phillips’ Boy Scouts involvement and speeches. Other photographs depict the Phillips’ and Cohen’s community...
Dates: 1936-2009

Phoenix Manufacturing Company Records, 1901-1903, 1906-1907

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BM
Summary

Brief records of the Phoenix Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of lumbering machinery in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Included is business correspondence, miscellaneous materials, and letterheads of numerous companies from Wisconsin and other states.

Dates: 1901-1903, 1906-1907

Pinter Hunting Camp Records, 1939-2016

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 360
Summary

This collection contains materials that pertain to the Pinter Hunting Camp that has been around the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, area since 1939. The materials date from 1939-2016. The contents include photographs (digital copies), a log book, a few yearly camp newsletters, maps, hunting gear, a newspaper article, signs and flyers from the camp, and a letter from the donor, John Pinter.

Dates: 1939-2016, bulk 1990-2005

Putnam Park Records, 1896-2022

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 117
Summary Principally minutes of the Putnam Park Commission and its predecessors which advise University officials on the use of Putnam Park, a local nature preserve. Originally the property of lumberman Henry C. Putnam, Putnam Park was donated to the City of Eau Claire in 1909, and to the University in 1957. Shortly thereafter William R. Davies established the Putnam Park Management Committee to advise the President and the Long-Range Planning Committee on the use of the nature preserve. It has...
Dates: 1896-2022

Ration Board Cards, 1941-1945

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 243
Summary

The majority of the collection features correspondence and forms related to Certificates of War Necessity and gas rationing for the university vehicles mainly during WWII. A small amount of correspondence and forms related to the purchase of a Ford pickup truck and obtainment of a certificate of title for it by the university in 1943 and 1944.

Dates: 1941-1945

Raymond Johnson Papers, 1967-1974

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BH
Summary Papers of a former state Republican senator from Eau Claire who served in the legislature from 1967 to 1975. Included are general correspondence with constituents, colleagues, and other individuals on a wide range of topics such as aid to parochial schools, trucks and highway safety, the Sparta Child Care Center, and the 1974 budget proposed by Governor Patrick Lucey; and subject files concerning legislation introduced in 1973 to reorganize the Wisconsin court system, his work on the...
Dates: 1967-1974

Robert W. Dirks Papers, 1942-1945, 1990

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CN
Summary Letters written by Robert W. Dirks of Jackson County, Wis. to his future wife, Leatrice Sonenberg, during World War II and a reminiscence based on the letters written by Mr. Dirks in 1990. Dirks served from 1942 to 1945 with the 178th Signal Repair Company. He describes his training at Camp Shelby, Miss., the Midland Radio School in Athens, Ga., radio school in Lexington, Ky., and Camp Polk, La. After being shipped overseas, much of his duty time was spent installing radios in vehicles in...
Dates: 1942-1945, 1990

Ross Hastings Collection, 1917-2003

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 263
Summary Ross Hastings (1915-1991) was a composer, arranger and music editor during the mid-twentieth century from Southern California. He credits much of his musical training to his father, Dr. Ray Hastings. He ushered at the Philharmonic Auditorium for many years and won composition contests. He composed, orchestrated, edited, and published for music groups and companies in California and New York, such as the Hollywood Bowl Pops concerts, Warner Bros., Alfred Music Co., and Bourne Co. In 1981,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1917-2003

Roy P. Wilcox Papers, 1890-1925

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AV
Summary Papers of Roy P. Wilcox, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, attorney, Republican state senator from 1917 to 1920, and unsuccessful primary candidate for governor in 1918 and 1920 and for senator in 1925. The papers consist of materials from his political campaigns and his State Senate term, speeches, and a small subject file concerning the city commission form of government and workmen's compensation legislation. The political materials include lists of supporters, campaign literature, a few financial...
Dates: 1890-1925