Papers, 1903-1952.

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Papers, 1903-1952.

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Papers of Ziemet, Madison, Wis., an active member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT); including correspondence, minutes, legal papers, photographs, and other papers from his tenure as a BRT lobbyist in Wisconsin, records from the union's Wisconsin Legislative Board, circulars from its General Committee of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway, and personal papers on Zeimet's wages as a railroad employee. The papers are fragmentary and best document Zeimet's lobbying in 1925 as BRT Legislative Representative.

0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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