Papers, 1864, 1904-1946.

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Papers, 1864, 1904-1946.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701837

Papers of Fred L. Holmes, a Madison, Wis., writer and lawyer, founder of the Holmes News Service, and business manager or managing editor of the La Follette Weekly. As a newspaperman he wrote various authors for biographical material and photographs. Correspondence, 1904-1946, includes letters from Wisconsin political figures and well-known writers such as Zona Gale, Ray Stannard Baker, Hamlin Garland, and William Allen White. A large portion of the correspondence concerns the publication of Holmes' book "The Voice of Trappist Silence" (New York, 1941) and contains information on Trappist monasteries. Also present is correspondence, source materials, and manuscripts used by Holmes in writing "Old World Wisconsin"; radio speeches, mainly concerning his books; articles on local and state history written by Holmes; notes collected on Shaker communities; and clippings and congratulatory letters on Holmes' books. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and described in the register. Additional accessions are described below consisting of photographs concerning the making of maple syrup, the Shakertown colony, and the Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation.

3.2 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 6 volumes in 3 flat boxes); plusadditions of 1748 photographs,21 transparencies, and56 drawings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6926045

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Gale, Zona, 1874-1938

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Zona Gale was a prominent writer and political activist born in Portage, Wisconsin. Gale attended the University of Wisconsin and worked as a reporter in Milwaukee. Gale, a lifelong friend of Jane Addams, became involved in the fight for the women's vote and eventually went to work for the writer Edmund Clarence Stedman. Her novel, "Miss Lulu Bett" was successfully adapted for the theater. From the description of Correspondence, 1907-1929. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat reco...

Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946

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American journalist. From the description of Letter : to the Cosmos Club, 1910 Mar. 31. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122545959 American journalist and author who also wrote under the name David Grayson. From the description of [Notebooks] [microform]. 1880-1946. WorldCat record id: 36820111 American author and journalist. He is also known by the pseudonym David Grayson. Fr...

Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

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White, William Allen, 1868-1944

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American journalist known as the "Sage of Emporia"; owner and editor of the "Emporia Gazette." From the description of Papers of William Allen White, 1890-1940 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837106 Journalist. From the description of Letters, 1889-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644557 Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. From the description of William Allen White letter...

Holmes, Fred L., 1883-1946

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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940

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Hamlin Garland was the author of Son of the middle border, Daughter of the middle border, and other works. From the description of Papers of Hamlin Garland, 1757-1973 (bulk 1910-1941). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122369311 Novelist and writer. From the description of Hamlin Garland autograph letter signed, 1892. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 214329366 American novelist and d...