Title: Papers
Summary: Papers of a Hispanic community activist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin research materials, 1971-79, including a clipping file on Wisconsin Hispanics, raw data for preparation of a Survey of the Puerto Rican Community on Milwaukee’s Northeast Side in 1976, and miscellany on Hispanics in Wisconsin.
Call Number: M79-578
Title: Papers, 1791, 1842-1864.
Summary: Papers consisting mainly of letters written by Bottomley to his father in Yorkshire, England, describing his journey with his family across the ocean and by the Great Lakes to Rochester, Racine County, Wisconsin, in 1842, the establishment of a pioneer home there, the erection of a chapel, family affairs, and general information on the growth of the “English Settlement” to the time of his death in 1850.
Call Number: Parkside Mss 16
Title: Letters, 1850-1860
Summary: Letters from Gerard and Catherine Brandt of Holland township in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, to relatives and friends, chiefly in Milwaukee and the Netherlands, about personal and religious matters, and life in Wisconsin.
Call Number: Milwaukee SC 47
Title: Records, 1946-1950
Summary: Correspondence, speeches, radio addresses, telegrams, resolutions, newspaper clippings, and other material concerning the activities of the committee to secure favorable legislation to admit World War II displaced persons to the United States. Photographs include images of the Volodymyr Holubiw family, displaced persons who relocated to Woodruff, Wis.
Call Number: Wis Mss PU
Title: Guide for emigrants, 1849-1935
Summary: Dames’ “The Outlook in Wisconsin-A Guide for Emigrants”, an advice guide for his fellow German immigrants to America, which doubles as an account of his own journey to Wisconsin from Germany. Includes notes from Joseph Schafer, Superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1935.
Call Number: SC 2227
Title: Papers, 1836-1897
Summary: Letters by Reverend Matthew Dinsdale written from Linden and other Wisconsin settlements to his relatives in Askrigg, Yorkshire, England, describing his trip to the United States in 1844 and giving minute advice to prospective immigrants; his pastoral services as a Methodist minister at Potosi, Wisconsin, and in the Lake Winnebago circuit; economic conditions as seen through his work as a clerk in stores at Linden and elsewhere; his 1849 experiences en route to California via New York and Panama; and his work for the United States Christian Commission in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1865. With these are 4 brief diaries and a record of personal religious experiences.
Call Number: Wis Mss DL
Title: Experiences of a Bohemian emigrant family, 1925
Summary: Essay by Ferdinand F. Doubrava, describing his family’s 1861 immigration to Texas then to Grant County, Wisconsin in 1866 and his later move to Nebraska, putting his experiences in the context of Bohemian immigration generally.
Call Number: SC 1820
Title: James and Margaret Douglas letters, 1840-1843
Summary: Letters describing conditions in America to family members in Scotland from immigrants James and Margaret Douglas, who lived first in Mt. Morris, New York, then settled near Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1844. The original letters are accompanied by typed transcripts.
Call Number: Milwaukee SC 162