Manuscript collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
John M. Lavine Papers, 1937-1993 (bulk 1960s-1980s)
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss DD-PH Eau Claire Mss DD
Summary
Papers, 1937-1993 (mainly from the 1960s through the 1980s), of John M. Lavine, a journalism educator and the publisher-owner of the Wisconsin-based Lavine Newspaper Group (LNG). The collection documents operations of four newspapers (the Chippewa Herald-Telegram of Chippewa Falls, Portage Daily Register, Baraboo News Republic, and the Shawano Evening Leader), as well as his service as a member...
Dates:
1937-1993 (bulk 1960s-1980s)
John S. Owen Lumber Company Records, 1875-1955
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss E
Summary
Business records covering not only lumbering and logging operations in northwestern Wisconsin by the Owen Lumber Company, but also related enterprises in lumber, real estate, railroads, and cotton in the Pacific Northwest, South Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Subsidiary or related companies included the Owen-Oregon Lumber Company, California & Oregon Lumber Company, Del Norte Company, Three States Lumber Company, Gilbert Lumber Company, Owen Box and Crating Company, Pierre...
Dates:
1875-1955
Kim Rosholt Papers, 1885-1909
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AT
Summary
Papers of Rosholt concerning his involvement in land and timber sales and the colonization by immigrants of northern Wisconsin's cut-over regions. Rosholt acquired options from Knapp, Stout, and Company and other lumber and railroad interests for large tracts of northern Wisconsin land and sold the land primarily for farm purposes. The collection contains correspondence with individual land purchasers and with land dealers and lumbering firms including George B. Burrows of Madison, Gale and...
Dates:
1885-1909
Kiwanis Club (Eau Claire, Wis.) Records, 1919-1984
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CA
Summary
Administrative records, photographs, and a film of the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, chapter of Kiwanis International, a voluntary service organization. The collection includes weekly program announcements, which were printed on members' business letterhead, minutes of Board of Directors meetings, correspondence, member information, and papers generated by the new member approval process. Kiwanis youth-oriented and social activities are documented by photographs, programs, committee papers, and a...
Dates:
1919-1984
Louis Hill Papers, 1914-1978
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Micro 12-Eau Claire Tape 2
Summary
Papers of Hill, a Hawkins, Wisconsin educator and local historian, including essays by Hill on the history of Lawrence, Wisconsin (1887-1914), the Hawkins, Wisconsin schools (1889-1959), the Bethel Lutheran Church (1904-1978), the Hawkins American Legion (1922-1968), the Union Free High School (1912-1967), the Northern Sash and Door Company, and Hawkins fire protection (1914-1970); minutes and dues records of the Hawkins Businessmen's Club (1914-1948) which promoted area commerce; a tape...
Dates:
1914-1978
Margo House Papers, 1973-1980
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BU
Summary
Papers of Wisconsin feminist Margo House pertaining to the founding of the Eau Claire chapter of NOW; her service on the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, circa 1975-1979; the Wisconsin Feminists Project Fund, circa 1974-1977, a group which funded historical research projects and employment workshops related to women (House served as its president); and several educational programs aimed at sexism. The video is from the Governor's Commission convention of 1976.
Dates:
1973-1980
Medford Cooperative Creamery Co. Records, 1915-1965
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BC
Summary
Records of a Medford, Wisconsin, cooperative incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing butter, powdered dried milk, and other milk products, which merged with Consolidated Badger Cooperative, Shawano, in 1962. The collection includes annual reports to the Secretary of State, annual financial reports, articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, tax records, a few land and legal records, and daybooks recording amounts paid for milk and cream to individual members. There are very few...
Dates:
1915-1965
Northwestern Wisconsin Education Association Records, 1926-1974
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AN
Summary
Records, 1926-1974, of an organization founded as the Northwestern Wisconsin Teachers Association in 1890. Includes minutes from meetings of the Association's sectionals and 32 of its roundtables held at annual conventions, circa 1940-1966, and printed convention programs, 1952-1973.
Dates:
1926-1974
Orrin H. Ingram Papers, 1857-1904
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss R
Summary
Business papers of Ingram, a leading Wisconsin lumberman, relating to operations in the Chippewa Valley, with headquarters at Eau Claire, and the sale of manufactured lumber through subsidiary wholesale companies located along the Mississippi River. Correspondence emphasizes the selling end of the business, consisting of letters of report from branch managers, agents, and salesmen, and between members of the company and pertains to business plans, policies, and practices. A group of letters,...
Dates:
1857-1904
Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Records, 1935-1983
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CV
Summary
Records of a tourist destination in Carson Park (Eau Claire, Wis.) established by the Kiwanis Club in 1934 depicting a logging camp such as would have existed in the Eau Claire area in the late 1800's. The records primarily document the move and reconstruction of the camp between 1981 and 1983 at which time it was moved to the other side of Carson Park so that it was closer to the Chippewa Valley Museum. Included are plans and correspondence for the reconstruction, primarily dealing with...
Dates:
1935-1983