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McReynolds, David. David McReynolds papers, 1943-1978.

Title: David McReynolds papers, 1943-1978.

Papers document McReynolds' activities with the War Resisters League and as a Socialist. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, both professional and personal; most of the business correspondence relates to the War Resisters League, with a lesser amount about the Socialist Party. The personal correspondence is restricted during the lifetime of Dave McReynolds. Also includes minutes, releases, convention reports and publications, datebooks, articles by McReynolds, and newsclippings about him; also, pamphlets and reports from various organizations with which McReynolds was connected. Correspondents include: Steve Allen, Philip Altbach, Noam Chomsky, Richard L. Deats, Barbara Deming, Ralph DiGia, Peggy Duff, James H. Forest, Robert Gilmore, Paul Goodman, Edward P. Gottlieb, Sanford Gottlieb, Thich Nhat Hanh, Michael Harrington, Alfred Hassler, Nat Hentoff, Donald F. Keys, Bradford Lyttle, Stewart Meacham, Tracy D. Mygatt, James Peck, Robert Pickus, Devi Prasad, Igal Roodenko, Muriel Rukuyser, Allan Solomonow, John M. Swomley, Jr., Arlo D. Tatum, Norman Thomas, Arthur I. Waskow, George Willoughby, Frances Witherspoon, Beverly Woodward, Frank P. Zeidler, and Howard Zinn.

ArchivalResource: 30.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21396359 View

Hart, William Osborne. Papers, 1943-1989.

Title: Papers, 1943-1989.

Papers of Hart, a prominent Wisconsin socialist known for his numerous campaigns for elective office. Included are correspondence; biographical clippings (on microfilm); records of thirteen of his 25 unsuccessful election campaigns and the 1976 Presidential campaign of Frank Zeidler; subject files; photographs; transcripts of radio commentaries broadcast by WHA and WBOO and other speeches and writings; and records about Hart's leadership of the Socialist Party of Wisconsin and the Labor and Farm Party. Records of the LFP include minutes, platforms, and correspondence; Socialist records include correspondence and incidental administrative documents, with the majority dating from 1978, the year in which Hart resigned from the Socialist Party-USA. Prominent correspondents include Dennis Boyer, Virgil Vogel, and Frank Zeidler. Correspondence from Norman Thomas includes a recording of a 1964 greeting to Wisconsin socialists. Photographs include images of Hart, views of Badger Village where the Harts resided in the 1940s, views of a civil rights sit-in protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol in 1961-1962, and images of a press conference by Hart at the Capitol in 1976.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder),1 reel of microfilm (35mm),1 tape recording, and17 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701711 View

Norman Thomas papers, 1904-1967, 1933-1967

Title: Norman Thomas papers 1904-1967 1933-1967

Norman Matoon Thomas (1884-1968), the American Socialist leader, started his career as a Presbyterian minister in New York City. He became active in the peace movement during World War I and founded the National Civil Liberties Bureau (renamed American Civil Liberties Union in 1920) with Roger Baldwin. Thomas became an active member of the Socialist Party of America, was co-director of the League for Industrial Democracy, and edited the socialist magazine, The World Tomorrow. He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the U.S. six times on the Socialist ticket and was active in the civil rights, universal disarmament and anti-war movements throughout his life. Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, newspaper columns, press releases, and other papers relating to Thomas' career in national politics, his leadership of the Socialist Party and of the labor movement, and his association with various organizations. General correspondence, 1905-1967, accounts for the bulk of the collection and provides, particularly after 1932, an almost daily record of his activities and concerns. These papers document his relationship with leading politicians, government officials, trade union leaders, and major intellectual and political figures of his time. Organizational files, 1904-1967, consist of documents relating to the numerous organizations with which Thomas was involved. Speeches, 1911-1967, include drafts and final copies of his speeches, statements, interviews, publicity materials and many of his speaking schedules. Writings, 1917-1967, contain published and unpublished essays, books, newspaper columns, journals, diaries and unpublished autobiography. Subject files, 1905-1967, consist of reports, essays, clippings, and other printed matter concerning foreign and domestic affairs, civil liberties and discrimination, and war and peace. Also includes records and memorabilia, 1936-1964, from testimonial celebrations held in his honor; financial papers, 1933-1967, family papers, 1915-1969; biographical and publicity materials, 1903-1964; and photographs, ca. 1900-1966.

ArchivalResource: 97 linear feet (193 boxes, 2 packages and 7 v.); 85 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2975 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Zeidler family. Papers, 1935-1992.

Title: Papers, 1935-1992.

Description: Consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs, speeches and assorted writings from Carl and Frank Zeidler, two former mayors of the city of Milwaukee. This is not an official collection, and does not contain materials from the office of the mayor.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25899422 View

Democratic Socialist Conference Collection MS 325., 1984-1991

Title: Democratic Socialist Conference Collection 1984-1991

Includes transcripts of papers delivered at conferences (1985-1990) on democratic socialism, and correspondence (1984-1991) between Stephen Siteman, former Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, and Frank Zeidler, former Mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, and national chairperson of the Socialist Party USA.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes; (0.5 linear ft.)

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Wisconsin. Dept. of Natural Resources. Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Coordinating Committee records, 1944-1973.

Title: Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Coordinating Committee records, 1944-1973.

Records, mainly 1964-1973, of the Wisconsin representative to the Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Coordinating Committee, an intergovernmental committee chaired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and including five midwestern states that sought to coordinate economic and conservation planning for the northern Mississippi River watershed.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145779847 View

Graham, Chester, 1892- . Papers, 1929-1979.

Title: Papers, 1929-1979.

Papers of a cooperative leader and ardent social activist, primarily relating to his work as director of the Ashland Folk School, Grant, Michigan, 1928-1938, and to his interest in world affairs.

ArchivalResource: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122416470 View

Socialist Party (U.S.). Records of the Socialist Party (U.S.), 1897-1976.

Title: Records of the Socialist Party (U.S.), 1897-1976.

Correspondence, letterbooks, minutes, financial papers, court and convention records, press releases, serials, clippings, printed and near-print material, and other papers. Includes records of state organizations in California, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin and records of and relating to such allied organizations as the Young People's Socialist League, the International Solidarity Committee, the Veterans League of America, the National Education Committee for a New Party, the Socialist International, the Youth Committee for Peace and Democracy in the Middle East, and the International Council of Social Democratic Women. Individuals represented include Paul Feldman, Erich Fromm, Louis P. Goldberg, Michael Harrington, Morris Hillquit, Darlington Hoopes, Penn Kemble, Walter Lippmann, Ramsay MacDonald, Reinhold Niebuhr, James Oneal, Ernst Papanek, Richard Parrish, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, William F. Ryan, Clarence Senior, Upton Sinclair, Norman Thomas, and Frank P. Zeidler.

ArchivalResource: 180 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71070487 View

Wisconsin. Division of Economic Development. Community files, 1955-1968.

Title: Community files, 1955-1968.

Correspondence and memoranda of the division's industrial development specialists; maps and drawings of industrial sites; clippings; brochures; printed reports issued by local government and existing industries; and statistical data sheets about communities, transportation facilities, potential employees, and specific sites. Some data sheets are illustrated with original photographs of industrial sites and existing factories and warehouses.

ArchivalResource: 11.0 c.f. (11 record center cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145779638 View

Vogel, Virgil J. Papers, 1919-1982.

Title: Papers, 1919-1982.

Papers, mainly 1949-1979, of Vogel, an Illinois socialist and historian, about his involvement in various organizations in the left wing of the socialist movement in the United States. Included are convention records, policy papers, minutes, correspondence, and other papers on the Libertarian Socialist League and the Socialist Party USA (SP USA), which Vogel helped to found (1949 and 1973, respectively) and the Debs Caucus and Illinois chapter of the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation (SP-SDF), as well as miscellaneous papers on other organizations and committees such as the Citizens Party of Illinois, the Proletarian Party, the Independent Socialist League, and the Young Communist League.

ArchivalResource: 2.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145776443 View

Wileden, Arthur F. Oral history interview with Arthur F. Wilden, 1975.

Title: Oral history interview with Arthur F. Wilden, 1975.

Tape-recorded interviews conducted by Dale Treleven of the Wisconsin Historical Society staff with rural sociologist Arthur Wileden; concerning his youth and early teaching experiences in Waukesha County, Wis., his World War I disillusionment, his career at the University of Wisconsin and work on such projects as community leadership conferences and rural community development, rural civil defense during World War II, the development of French Island near La Crosse, the growth of several farm organizations, and the personalities and effectiveness of rural leaders he has known.

ArchivalResource: 11 tape recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701867 View

Vogel, Virgil J., 1918-. Correspondence with Tad Tekla, 1975-1983.

Title: Correspondence with Tad Tekla, 1975-1983.

The letters chiefly concern the Socialist Party, U.S.A., activities of and relationships among officers, events (such as campaigns and conventions), and publication of various journals, including the Socialist tribune, Hammer & tongs, and Vogel's own bulletin, The oar. The coverage is critical of the Party, containing frank remarks about individuals, e.g., Frank P. Zeidler, national chairperson, Rick Kissell, national secretary, and David McReynolds, 1980 candidate for President of the U.S.

ArchivalResource: 169 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34364387 View

Wisconsin Labor History Society. Records, 1982 and 1984.

Title: Records, 1982 and 1984.

ArchivalResource: 4 video cassettes and2 tape recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700393 View

Germer, Adolph. Papers, 1898-1966.

Title: Papers, 1898-1966.

Correspondence (1901-1958), diaries (1931-1958), speeches, reports and other union records, and printed matter of a labor organizer and leader and Socialist Party leader, concerning the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA); the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); and activity with the United Rubber Workers (URW), the United Auto Workers (UAW), and the International Woodworkers (IWA). Active in the Socialist Party from 1900 to 1932, Germer served as national secretary, 1916-1918. Correspondents include Harry Bridges, John Brophy, Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, William Green, Frank Hayes, Allan S. Haywood, William D. Haywood, Sidney Hillman, Morris Hillquit, Alexander Howat, John L. Lewis, Marx Lewis, Wayne Morse, Philip Murray, James O'Neal, Walter P. Reuther, Ernest Untermann, Frank P. Ziedler, and many others concerning labor and socialist concerns.

ArchivalResource: 10.4 c.f. (26 archives boxes and 1 package) and1 reel of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 22 photographs and8 pieces of ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701690 View

[Annette Jacobi Roberts memorial service]. [videorecording] / [production company unknown]

Title: [Annette Jacobi Roberts memorial service]. [videorecording] / [production company unknown] 1986-02-15.

The memorial service held for Milwaukee resident Annette Jacobi Roberts, noted internationally for efforts for peace, social justice, women's rights, and the poor. Remarks include those by former Milwaukee, Wisconsin mayor Frank Zeidler and former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chancellor J. Martin Klotsche.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette of 1 (Beta) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. viewing copy.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173696664 View

Bernard, Richard M., 1948-. Papers, 1979.

Title: Papers, 1979.

The collection includes videorecordings of 1979 interviews Bernard, a history professor at Marquette University, conducted with former Milwaukee mayor Frank Zeidler, who discusses Milwaukee politics and government. Also contains recording of interview of David Thelen, conducted by Harry Anderson, discussing the Consumer and Tax Payers Revolt in Milwaukee.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57735382 View

Democratic Socialist conference papers, 1984-1991.

Title: Democratic Socialist conference papers, 1984-1991.

Includes transcripts of papers delivered at conferences (1985-1990) on democratic socialism, and correspondence (1984-1991) between Stephen Siteman, former Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, and Frank Zeidler, former Mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, and national chairperson of the Socialist Party USA.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52941653 View

Olson, Frederick I. Papers, 1894-[ongoing].

Title: Papers, 1894-[ongoing].

Description: Miscellaneous correspondence and ephemera of Milwaukee (Wis.) historian and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee State Teachers College history professor, who has served on numerous boards and committees on state and local history, with the bulk relating to the Milwaukee Public Museum. Of special interest is 3 cubic feet of research material for his doctoral dissertation (unpub. Mss # 58 & 58A); "Milwaukee Socialists 1897-1941" (1952), including clippings, notes, correspondence, articles, a few photographs, bibliography and research material on prominent Milwaukee socialists such as Victor L. Berger; Frederic F. Heath; Daniel W. Hoan; Emil Seidel (George L.); Jake F. Friedrick; Carl F. Zeidler; and Frank P. Zeidler. On microfilm # 522 are numerous clippings and note cards on Milwaukee socialists.

ArchivalResource: 3.40 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25956435 View

Wiley, Alexander, 1884-1967. Papers, 1913-1967.

Title: Papers, 1913-1967.

Legislative and personal papers of a Republican Senator from Wisconsin (1938-1962) who served as chairman of the Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committees. Included is incoming and outgoing constituent correspondence which constitutes the vast bulk of the collection; correspondence with family, friends, government agencies, and prominent individuals; files on legislation sponsored by Wiley and on his work in the Foreign Relations Committee and on the Judiciary Committee, especially that relating to anti-trust legislation and the Bricker Amendment; extensive microfilmed biographical clippings; and a very complete record of Wiley's speeches, news releases, and other writings. Well documented in the collection are Wiley's support of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, the Chicago-Lake Michigan Water Diversion case, his advocacy of the Wisconsin dairy industry, his strong anti-communist beliefs and activities, and the censure of Joseph McCarthy by the Senate. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1913-1967, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1939-1962 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 164.2 c.f. (397 archives boxes, 2 card files, 1 flat box, and 4 record center cartons),5 reels of microfilm (35mm),12 tape recordings,22 disc recordings, and2 films; plusadditions of 0.1 c.f.,24 disc recordings,2483 photographs,35 negatives,1 cartoon, and17 film reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701092 View

Johannes, John R., 1943-. Wisconsin Politics Oral History Collection, 1993-1995.

Title: Wisconsin Politics Oral History Collection, 1993-1995.

Interviews of 21 former public officials and journalists concerning issues and personalities in Wisconsin state government and the government of the city and county of Milwaukee. Notable interviewees include Lee Sherman Dreyfus, John A. Gronouski, Patrick J. Lucey, Gaylord Nelson, William F. O'Donnell, John W. Reynolds, Martin J. Schreiber, and Frank P. Zeidler. Typed summary descriptions exist for most interviews.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39557302 View

Stephen Siteman Collection MS 503., 1976-2006

Title: Stephen Siteman Collection 1976-2006

A member of the Post War World Council, an ardent pacifist, and anti-imperialist, Stephen Siteman was a long-time member of the Socialist Party of America, serving for seventeen years as secretary to the party's leader Norman Thomas. In his late teens, Siteman was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II. Although he was later pardoned, his time as a prisoner led him into active involvement in prison reform and the peace movement. During his long involvement in the Socialist Party, Siteman collected a large quantity of material relating to important socialist issues, including Socialist Reform, the peace movement, conscientious objection, and prison reform. The collection also includes a small selection of Siteman's personal correspondence with Frank Zeidler, former Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, and the novelist Mark Harris.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes; (4 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/umass/mums503.html View

University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Oral History Project. UW-Milwaukee Oral History Project records, 1981-1990.

Title: UW-Milwaukee Oral History Project records, 1981-1990.

Collection contains audio cassettes and some transcripts of the Project, in which interviewees described the origin, location, and development in the early years of the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM). The interviews, conducted by Frederick I. Olson, Frank Cassell, and J. Martin Klotsche, were part of UWM's 25th anniversary celebration. The interviewees were officials of UWM, the UW-System, and local and state government, and include Ralph Aderman, Joseph Baier, Ira Baldwin, Harry Franke, Fred Harrington, Frank Horton, Klotsche, Henry Maier, Clifford Smith, Olson, and Frank Zeidler. Most of the interviews focus on efforts in the State legislature and UW Board of Regents to merge the Wisconsin State Teachers College, Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Extension Division. Other topics include the development of UWM's Colleges and Schools, UWM's independence from UW--Madison, and the 1970 student strike. Seven of the interviews were conducted in 1984 by students in an Applied History course. There are transcripts only for the Baier, Baldwin, Franke, Harrington, Klotsche, and Zeidler interviews.

ArchivalResource: .6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28448533 View

Zeidler, Frank P. Interview, 1972.

Title: Interview, 1972.

Typewritten transcript of an interview by John E. Miller with Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, socialist, about the Socialist Party in Wisconsin and Milwaukee in the 1930's, its joining in the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, and the effect of this on the Party.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145789724 View

Revell, Aldric, 1910-1965. Papers, 1933-1957.

Title: Papers, 1933-1957.

Papers of a reporter and editorial writer for the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times known for his coverage of political and labor matters.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145771313 View

Zeidler, Frank P. Carl F. and Frank P. Zeidler Papers 1918-1981 (bulk 1940-1942, 1948-1981).

Title: Carl F. and Frank P. Zeidler Papers 1918-1981 (bulk 1940-1942, 1948-1981).

Correspondence, minutes, reports, articles, speeches, manuscripts, photographs, recorded material, scrapbooks, notebooks, pamphlets, and other secondary material of Carl and Frank Zeidler, mayors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The material dates from 1918 to 1981 with most of the collection from the periods 1940-1942 and 1948-1981.

ArchivalResource: 164 linear ft. (354 hollinger boxes) ; 27 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28451869 View

Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968. Norman Thomas papers, 1904-1967, bulk (1933-1967).

Title: Norman Thomas papers, 1904-1967, bulk (1933-1967).

Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, newspaper columns, press releases, and other papers relating to Thomas' career in national politics, his leadership of the Socialist Party and of the labor movement, and his association with various organizations.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 97 linear feet (193 boxes, 2 packages and 7 v.)Copies: 85 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122576081 View

Nunn, Henry L., 1878-1972. Papers, 1852-1973.

Title: Papers, 1852-1973.

Papers, mainly correspondence, financial records, and writings of one of the founders of the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company, a pioneer in the development of good labor-management relations. Also included are genealogical materials, printed material, sound recordings, records of Nunn's participation in a mission in 1951 for the Economic Cooperation Administration, miscellaneous records of the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company, speech and lecture materials, scrapbooks relating to Nunn's vegetarian and religious philosophy, and a 16mm film with background footage of breadlines and labor riots.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 3 flat boxes),1 reel of microfilm (35mm),22 tape recordings,36 disc recordings, and1 film.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701658 View