Manuscript collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
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
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Flambeau, Rusk County, Wis.) Records, 1866-1981
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Micro 22
Summary
Records of a parish which first served French-Canadian settlers and Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians; including a record book, 1866-1908, noting baptisms, first communions, confirmations, and marriages; financial records; and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1866-1981
Stacy Jalowitz: My Experience in the Gulf War, 1990-1992
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CI-PH Eau Claire Mss CI-Tape 1428A
Summary
Stacy Jalowitz, a UWEC freshman, recounts her experiences as a woman who participated in the Persian Gulf War, where she served in the 13th Evacuation Hospital with the Army National Guard during the Desert Storm operation in 1991. Included is her sixteen-page memoir in which she describes her experiences while stationed in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and in the desert, twenty miles south of the Iraq border. An oral interview on two audiocassette tapes, twenty photographs, and correspondence are...
Dates:
1990-1992
Terry A. Willkom Papers, 1971-1974
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AL
Summary
Legislative papers of Willkom, Chippewa Falls, Wis., Democratic representative of Wisconsin's 67th Assembly district (1970-1976). The collection contains primarily reference materials, with some correspondence, and reflects Willkom's special interests in health care and hospitals, and in the budget.
Dates:
1971-1974
Union Mortgage Loan Company Records, 1898-1942, 1949
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AR
Summary
Records of the Union Mortgage Loan Company, a financial institution located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, that did nearly all of its business in northern Wisconsin, North Dakota, and eastern Montana. The company made loans to farmers in return for first mortgages on the farm property and subsequently sold these mortgages to individual investors. It also bought and sold farm lands, acted as trustee for bond issues of local government units and private companies, and occasionally made loans on...
Dates:
1898-1942, 1949
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