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Manuscript collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Farmer's Union Cooperative Shipping Association (Greenwood, Wis.) Records, 1929-1971

 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

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

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

Howard L. Hayden Papers, 1967-1968, 1993-1999

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CO-PH Eau Claire Mss CO
Summary Papers of Howard L. Hayden, a Vietnam veteran from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who was drafted in February 1967 and served with a U.S. Army mechanized reconnaissance unit (25th Infantry Division, 4th Battalion) based in Cư Chi and Tây Ninh from August 1967 to August 1968. Hayden, a dyslexic, began writing about his combat experiences as part of his work with a literacy tutor in 1993. The collection includes manuscript drafts of stories, typescripts (prepared by Susan Anderson, his literacy...
Dates: 1967-1968, 1993-1999

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 953: Records, 1935-1943

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AC
Summary

Correspondence, bills, receipts, and employment agreements of Local 953. Included is information on negotiations with the Northern States Power Company, relationships with the parent union and other locals, efforts to organize non-union workers, and other topics. The files are those of the Business Manager, Sherman (Shorty) Preston.

Dates: 1935-1943

International Order of Odd Fellows, Augusta Lodge No. 142: Records, 1868-1984 (bulk 1868-1940)

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss DC
Summary Records of Lodge 142, of Augusta, Wisconsin, mainly 1868-1940, of the fraternal organization, the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), and its associated women's group, the Rebekah Assembly Lodge 225, comprising officers' rolls; minutes; membership accounts; pamphlets; guide and rulebooks; meeting programs; ephemera including IOOF-produced postcards and stamps; and similar material from lodges in Illinois. Correspondence is lightly represented. A lithograph depicting the symbolic...
Dates: 1868-1984 (bulk 1868-1940)

James D. R. Steven Papers, 1897-1921

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Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AO
Summary Correspondence of James Steven, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin, businessman involved in lumbering and retail selling. Letterbooks detail Steven's lumbering enterprises, land and lumber transactions, and deeds of sales. In May 1890, Steven began work in the office of Davis and Starr Lumber Company. In 1907, Steven organized the Steven and Jarvis Lumber Company, with Arthur Jarvis, to deal in wholesale lumber. Steven was also involved with the Eau Claire Book and Stationery Company, and became...
Dates: 1897-1921

John DeRosier Papers, 1990-1993

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CH
Summary

Papers of John DeRosier concerning his service in the U.S. Naval Reserve on active duty at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, during the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Included is correspondence, an oral history, a memoir, newsclippings, and other items.

Dates: 1990-1993

John H. Kaiser Lumber Company Records, 1905-1957

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss L
Summary

Records of an Eau Claire, Wisconsin lumber company consisting of business correspondence; miscellaneous legal business papers; biographical material; and minutes, proxies, and announcements of board of directors' meetings. There are income tax returns of the John H. Kaiser Lumber Company, of W. A. Kaiser, and of the Eau Claire Box and Crating Company. Also included are journals, ledgers, cash books, and records of stock issues.

Dates: 1905-1957