UW-Milwaukee Center for Great Lakes Studies, Office of the Director records, 1963-1994.

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UW-Milwaukee Center for Great Lakes Studies, Office of the Director records, 1963-1994.

About half of the collection consists of publications issued by the Center, most dating from the 1970s. Collection consists of miscellaneous records of the Center, mostly dating from the 1970s. The correspondence files include letters to and from UWM administrators concerning the Center, including the Dean of the College of Letters & Science Joseph G. Baier and Director Clifford H. Mortimer. The correspondence files document concerns over funding; the purchase of a research facility for the Center; staffing, including the efforts to attract Mortimer to head the Center; and reasearch projects. Also contains some files on the Council for Marine Studies, which directed marine research at the UW campuses; the acquisition and conversion of the Research Vessel (R/V) Neeskay, including photographs of its launching; proposals and requests for additional support for the Sea Grant Program from the National Science Foundation; and the proceedings of the 1973 Conference on Port Planning and Development as Related to Problems of U.S. Ports and the U.S. Coastal Environment.

2 cubic ft.

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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The WPA + 35 Exhibition, January 4-30, 1970, presented by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee was a tribute to the crafts and quality of design which came of the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. The Project began in the Fall of 1935. It was one of the more unusual and diverse of the handicraft projects in its philosophy and its goals. Its "Project 1170" was a specially created project for women who needed work, interested in becoming self-supporting. Milwaukee County and...

University of Wisconsin. Council for Marine Studies.

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University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute

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Neeskay (Research vessel)

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Great Lakes Research Facility (Milwaukee, Wis.)

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Mortimer, Clifford Hiley

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Baier, Joseph G.

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Schenker, Eric, 1931-

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