Title: Diary, 1852
Summary: Diary, March-June, 1852, kept by Isabella McKinnon (later married to Francis Ritchie), describing her journey from Findhorn, Scotland to Otsego, Wisconsin; also brief McKinnon family records.
Call Number: File 1852 March 31
Title: Papers, 1947-1974
Summary: Eldon Murray's papers include correspondence, photographs, writings, and files that document his pioneering role in the national gay rights movement. Collection also includes extensive clippings files compiled by Murray dating from 1947 to 1974 on the topic of homosexuality.
Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 256
Title: Marion G. Ogden Papers, circa 1890-1970
Summary: Papers of Ogden, a Milwaukee reform activist for improving conditions for children and youth, concerning her involvement with various philanthropic and civic organizations and governmental institutions throughout the state. The bulk of the collection dates from 1900 to 1930, and consists of her correspondence, writings, diaries, and record books documenting her theories and ideas on child welfare; general materials on child welfare.
Call Number: Milwaukee Mss EF
Title: Diary, 1943-1944
Summary: Diary, dating April 3, 1943 to Sept. 4, 1944, written by Frances L. Otis, a native of Oshkosh, Wis. living in Florence, Italy during World War II. The diary is an almost daily account of the privations, fears, injuries, and deaths of a city under Axis occupation, as well as Allied bombardment. She describes the fall of Mussolini, and, in the face of liberation, German torture, murder, and rape of civilians; German destruction and looting of the city and surrounding countryside; and rumors of sabotage by peasants forced to surrender livestock. Included as well are her accounts of acts of courage and resistance by those close to her.
Call Number: M93-017
Title: Diary, 1868
Summary: Transcribed diary kept by Joseph O. Powless, clerk of the Oneida Nation, and continued by John Archiquette; recording deaths among the Oneidas, 1817-1880, births, 1868-1875, and occasional other items concerning life on the Oneida Reservation near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Call Number: Green Bay SC 54
Title: Pratt, Hadley, and Pierce family papers, 1847-1966, 2005
Summary: Papers documenting the Pratt, Hadley, and Pierce families of Rock and Walworth counties (Wisconsin) consisting of family trees, correspondence, journals, school papers, and photographs. The materials document family life, the teaching careers of Ella Josephine Hadley and Edith Hadley, the military service of H.L. "Leaver" Pierce during World War I, and that of Richard Pierce and Peter Pierce during World War II.
Call Number: M2006-048