Elsa Emile Ulbricht papers, 1905-1978.

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Ulbricht, Elsa Emile, 1885-1980. Elsa Emile Ulbricht papers, 1905-1978.

Elsa Emile Ulbricht papers, 1905-1978.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31681993

Miscellaneous personal papers of the former Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee, professor and chair of the Art Department, including audio cassette tapes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and slides. The majority of the papers document Ulbricht's involvement with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Handicraft Project in Milwaukee, which employed workers to make draperies, books, dolls, costumes, furniture, rugs, and prints. Most of the files concerning the Handicraft Project are Ulbricht's recollections of it, including a transcript of an extensive 1964 interview with Howard Erlich of the Archives of American Art; a WPA Handicraft Project Exhibition held at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Fine Arts Gallery in 1970, which contains a recording by Ulbricht conducted for the event; and recordings of other interviews in which she described the Project. Ulbricht's records of the Project include scrapbooks on the design and use of marionettes and puppets for Project staff and general adminstrative files. Ulbricht's correspondence files, dating from 1909-1978, contain letters to and from friends and colleagues on a variety of topics, including personal and professional activities and some discussion of the Handicraft Project. The collection also contains Ulbricht's notes, text, and drawings and plates for an unpublished book entitled "A Crafts Philosophy;" and a file on her activities at the Summer School of Painting in Saugatuck.

1.6 cubic ft.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries