Superior, Wisconsin, papers, 1831-1942.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Superior, Wisconsin, papers, 1831-1942.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122439514

A collection of papers, many of them copied from originals, relating to Superior and dealing with the area's history, including material on the fur trade, Indian trails, harbor, parks, schools, prisons, ethnic groups, aviation, housing, and churches. Additional similar papers, 1849-1942, available on microfilm, consist of material produced by several WPA Historic Records Survey projects which transcribed original local history materials, and reports and charts of a WPA project of the City Plan Commission which surveyed housing conditions. Included are papers by or concerning William George Cowell, the First Presbyterian Church, Harry Holder Grace, Mrs. Hiram Hayes (diaries from her Civil War visit to her husband serving with U.S. forces in Virginia), William Higgins, and August H. Zachau, and radio lectures (1935-36) by Superior State Teachers College faculty.

1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes including 22 volumes),5 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and32 reels of microfilm (16mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6713519

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Works Progress Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b4x1k (corporateBody)

Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Clark, Thomas.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64c3s49 (person)

Thomas Clark lived in Henderson County, Texas, and signed a loyalty oath and voter registration in 1869. From the description of Clark, Thomas, oath, 1869 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 775011270 Rev. Thomas Clark, M.D. came to New Perth, Charlotte County, New York (now Salem, Washington County, New York) in 1765 becoming the first pastor and founder of what became the United Presbyterian Congregation. He was also the first and only physician until 1773...

Hall, Sherman

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bz83j1 (person)

Cowell, William George.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b29s5s (person)

William George Cowell was born in England, circa 1828. Emigrating to Canada, he found work in the Mica Bay mines until 1853 when he was hired in Sault Ste. Marie to accompany a group of city planners to lay out a town site at Superior. Cowell's job was to explore the copper range south of Superior which had previously been explored for minerals in the 1840s by the Union Company and the American Mining Company. Cowell's various jobs included Superior's town supervisor, mine captain at the Fond du...

Higgins, William J. (William John), 1950-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qv70ff (person)

First Presbyterian Church (Superior, Wis.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v51gz (corporateBody)

Banks, Richmond.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6515w5m (person)

Dickey, Norris C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vb05c1 (person)

Grace, Harry Holder.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67s9kjj (person)

Superior (Wis.). City Plan Commission.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t65gk (corporateBody)

Historical Records Survey (Superior, Wis.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dr8cz8 (corporateBody)

Zachau, August H., 1825-1914.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6np3sh0 (person)

First Methodist Church (Superior, Wis.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p32gsx (corporateBody)

Hayes, Hiram, 1832-1918.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k95522 (person)

Darling, John Henry, 1847-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6612wxn (person)

Culkin, William E. (William Edgar), 1860-1949

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fb6kvt (person)

Ensign, J. D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k955f0 (person)

Felt, Charles Dwight.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz25p0 (person)