Manuscript collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
United Transportation Union. Lodge 1293: Records, 1916-1974
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AF
Summary
Records of a labor union representing employees of the eastern division of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad. Included are minutes, 1917-1923, 1932-1959; correspondence; membership and attendance records; monthly treasurer's reports and information on claims; and miscellaneous communications received from the Grand Lodge of the union. The union was organized in Altoona in 1917 as Local 888 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; when merger formed the United...
Dates:
1917-1974
Veda W. Stone American Indian Reference Collection, 1940-1995
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AP-Eau Claire Micro 11
Summary
A reference collection of Veda Stone, a social worker long active in American Indian affairs, education, and family health and children's services in Wisconsin, documenting Stone's work with government agencies, organizations, and conferences concerning Indians. Also present are records, including individual student files, dealing with Indian education in Wisconsin and other states. Microfilmed newsletters, periodicals, and near-print documents published in the U.S. and Canada by or about...
Dates:
1940-1995
Walter H. Brovald Papers, 1938-1990
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BG-Eau Claire Micro 26
Summary
Papers of a journalism educator and editor/publisher (1954-1967) of the Cadott Sentinel, Cadott, Wisconsin, an award-winning weekly newspaper, including personal correspondence, photographs, and business and professional material. The business and professional papers consist of financial records and correspondence concerning his early career as a copywriter for the Arthur Towell advertising agency, his purchase of the ...
Dates:
1938-1990
Wickham and Farr Law Firm Printed Cases and Briefs, 1888-1909
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BA
Summary
Printed Wisconsin Supreme Court cases and legal briefs prepared by the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, law firm of Wickham and Farr, and by opposing attorneys. The cases span the dates of James Wickham's law practice from 1888 until 1909, when he was appointed circuit court judge for Wisconsin's newly-created 19th circuit. In 1889 Wickham was joined in practice by Frank R. Farr. Wickham and Farr undertook cases from all of the counties surrounding Eau Claire. The cases represented in the collection...
Dates:
1888-1909
William J. Starr Papers, 1902-1938
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss N
Summary
Papers of Starr, a lumberman and real estate investor, relating to the timber and land holdings of the Davis and Starr Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; other business investments in Wisconsin, Louisiana, and California; and the management of his estate after his death. Also present are papers of companies with which Starr was closely affiliated: the Weston Heights Stock Farm and the Weston Orchard Company, both in Dunn County, Wis., 1919-1927; the California Forest Protective...
Dates:
1902-1938
William King Coffin Business and Family Papers, 1832-1929
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss F
Summary
Papers of William King Coffin, a prominent Eau Claire (Wis.) banker and businessman, and papers of his grandfather, Nathaniel Coffin; his father, William Coffin; and his father's father-in-law, Samuel D. Lockwood, a justice on the Illinois Supreme Court. William King Coffin founded the Eau Claire National Bank and was its president from 1905 to 1925. The collection includes an 1869 diary and both business and personal correspondence of William King Coffin including exchanges with Milo...
Dates:
1832-1929
William W. Bartlett Papers, 1821-1934, 1944-1962
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BY- Eau Claire Micro 34
Summary
Papers of Bartlett, a prominent local historian in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, consisting of personal papers and his historical writings. The personal papers contain biographical and family information; correspondence, 1896-1934, with considerable information on local history topics; and files on Eau Claire activities in which Bartlett was involved, including the Eau Claire County Old Settlers' Association (1890-1929), the Prohibition Club (1885-1894), the Chippewa-Eau Claire Memorial Highway,...
Dates:
1821-1934, 1944-1962
Willis Hutnik Papers, 1954-1970
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AS
Summary
Papers of a Republican from Ladysmith, Wisconsin, who served in the Assembly from 1953 to 1971. Included are correspondence from constituents, colleagues, state agencies, and advocacy groups; subject files on pending legislation; material concerning work on the Highway Safety Advisory Committee; press releases and other publicity; campaign files; and personal papers.
Dates:
1954-1970
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
Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council: The Impact of Her Spirit Oral History Project, 1983-1989
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BR
Summary
An oral history project undertaken by members of the Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council (WEHC) as a celebration of the organization's 50th anniversary, focusing on the life stories of Wisconsin homemakers and on the influence of the WEHC in their lives. Included are tape-recorded interviews, transcripts, a published guide to the project, a copy of Taste Wisconsin History (a cookbook derived from the project), photographs, a copy of a slide/tape show with...
Dates:
1983-1989