UW-Milwaukee Dept. of German records, 1956-1988.

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UW-Milwaukee Dept. of German records, 1956-1988.

Miscellaneous records, including departmental correspondence, staff meeting minutes, and various materials relating to local on- and off-campus German cultural events. The correspondence files (1956-1969) largely consist of letters between the dean and associate dean of the College of Letters & Science and the chairman of the Dept. of German regarding budgets, staffing, events and curricula. The collection also contains more detailed material on various German organizations and events in the Milwaukee area, such as a Hermann Hesse photo exhibit. Minutes of various graduate program committees and documentation of study abroad programs also are included.

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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Dept. of German.

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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...

Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962

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Hermann Hesse was a German writer, popular but often politically out of step in his native country. His social criticism, and especially his focus on the individual and inner spirituality, contributed to extraordinary popularity in America in the 1960s. From the description of Hermann Hesse letter to D. Kilham Roberts, 1950 January 9. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49344033 German author. From the description of Zwölfe Gedichte vo...