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Manuscript collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Alden R. Carter Papers, 1959-1997

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CJ
Summary

Papers of Alden R. Carter, a Wisconsin writer of young adult fiction and non-fiction, including book proposals, drafts, notes, galley proofs, publicity materials, high school and college term papers, and correspondence with publishers, editors, and agents. Non-fiction topics cover Native American Indian tribes, supercomputers, China, and United States military battles. Videotaped interviews and talks by Carter are also present.

Dates: 1959-1997

Episcopal Church. Diocese of Eau Claire (Wis.): Records, 1877-1949

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss V
Summary

Scattered records of the Diocese; including a parish register and miscellaneous reports and letters from St. Luke's Mission, Neillsville, Wis.; and service record books indicating the type of liturgy, the minister, attendance, sermon topics, and other details from churches in Owen, Medford, Westboro, Mellen, Park Falls, Lugerville, and Prentice, Wisconsin.

Dates: 1877-1949

Farmer's Union Cooperative Shipping Association (Greenwood, Wis.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AW
Summary

Records of a non-profit association which bought, sold, and transported livestock for its members, and which affiliated with the Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association in 1931. Included are minutes, correspondence, annual reports, auction sales records, tax returns, and other records.

Dates: 1929-1971

Register of the Peter J. Smith Papers, 1920-1928

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss U
Summary

Papers of Smith, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Republican Party leader, consisting almost entirely of correspondence with Wisconsin progressives and with members of the Scandinavian-American Fraternity. Correspondents include Robert M. La Follette, John J. Blaine, James A. Frear, and C.N. Saugen.

Dates: 1920-1928

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

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad. Eau Claire Depot: Records

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BI; Eau Claire Micro 27; Micro 1167
Summary Records documenting the railroad's facilities, operations, and personnel in the Eau Claire region including extensive information on agriculture, businesses, and communities in west central Wisconsin. The Eau Claire Depot served as a regional headquarters. Its records contain correspondence of the depot agent with local community agents and with the head office in St. Paul; reports on community business conditions, needs, and the role of the railroad in local industry; blueprints of railroad...
Dates: 1880-1969

Register of the 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

Roy E. Mitchell Physician Business Records, 1913-1948

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CG
Summary Business records of an Eau Claire, Wis. physician providing a fairly complete view of the business operations and workload of a medical doctor. The records consist mainly of patient visit and payment daybooks (1919-1948) with date, head of household, brief notes, and charges. Also included is a financial record book of income received from other than professional services (1919- 1940); physician expense account books (1913-1939); a general ledger (1931-1940); a record book of opium and coca...
Dates: 1913-1948

Uniroyal, Inc. Records, 1917-1990

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CB
Summary Records of Uniroyal Inc., a rubber tire manufacturing plant in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, documenting the plant's general operations and expansion from its founding in 1917 as the Gillette Safety Tire Company to its reincarnation as an ammunition factory during World War II to the plant closing in 1991. The bulk of the records consist of labor contract negotiation and grievance case files, minutes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, photographs, blueprints, and films. The collection documents...
Dates: 1917-1990

Wisconsin Colonization Company Records, 1916-1938

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss K
Summary Papers collected by Benjamin Faast, president of the Wisconsin Colonization Company, relating to the organization's sale of “ready-made” farms in southern Sawyer County and the development of the village of Ojibwa. Included are letters to stockholders and settlers; a small amount of correspondence received by Faast; historical data on the upper Chippewa River area, the local Indian tribes, fur trade, and lumber industry; biographical data on settlers; a general ledger, 1923-1925; and two...
Dates: 1916-1938