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Records of credits and debits of the town in account with various school districts, lists of library books delivered to various districts and the condition of the books, lists of services performed by the Town Clerk and fees assessed for services, and the Town Clerk's accounts with private individuals.

One volume of conditional sales records, primarily in 1930-1931, with a few entries for 1927 and 1929. The records state the name and address of buyer, name and address of seller, date of contract, description of goods, price named in contract, and date filed. Three volumes of chattel mortgage records include the name and address of mortgagor and mortgagee, date the mortgage was signed, description of property, amount of mortgage, date when mortgage was filed, and the due date.

Records showing date, amount of delinquent tax, and road district numbers in the credits column. The debits column includes date, to whom paid and for what purpose, amount paid, and the road district number.

Minutes of the town board of supervisors pertaining to the laying out, altering, or vacating of town roads, giving the location of the roads, awards of damages to owners of property, and arrangement made with landowners; and petitions of town residents requesting road changes.

Record showing owner's name, address, school district number, description of property (including section, township, and range), total acreage, acreage by categories (residential, mercantile, agricultural, forest), and total value of the land as fixed by the assessor.

Records including proceedings of town and board meetings, register of town and school officers and their terms in office, oaths of office, constables' bonds, records of chattel mortgages, apportionment of school funds, financial reports of the board, town treasurers' bonds, clerks' reports, school district maps and a record of the boundaries of school districts, registers of the superintendent of highways, register of orders drawn on the town treasurer, and election reports.

Statements that a pupil has completed a course of study for common schools and is entitled to privileges granted in sec. 496, School Code of 1915.

Statements by the town board establishing and altering district boundaries; showing section, township, and range.

Records containing cancelled orders, receipts, and disbursements. Information includes the date, from whom received and on what account, amount of order, number of order, to whom paid and for what purpose, and date of cancellation.

Records showing the date, order number, on whose favor drawn, for what purpose, amount of receipts, amount of disbursements, cancellation date, and distribution of disbursements by road district number.

[1] School District Records (1857-1941) including minutes of board meetings, treasurer's receipts and disbursements, proceedings of district board, teachers' contracts, visitors' record, and financial statements; [2] Treasurer's Book (1868-1935) showing receipts and expenditures; and [3] School Registers (1862-1953) containing pupils' names and attendance records, daily programs, visitor record, and state reading circle record.

Typewritten reminiscences by Campbell, once professor of agricultural education at River Falls State College, River Falls, Wisconsin; chiefly concerning his boyhood on a Minnesota farm at the turn of the century.

The UWRF Coaches Clinic began in June 1950, and continued every summer until June 1979 (the clinic was discontinued because of rising costs and competition from other clinics). It was directed by several faculty members: George K. Schlagenhauf, Philip Belfiori, Fran Polsfoot, Ben Bergsrud, and Judith Wilson. The three day clinic included Headliners such as basketball coaches Bobby Knight, Adolph Rupp, football coach Bud Wilkenson and hockey coach Bob Johnson. The university invited coaches and athletes from the area to come and take part in the sessions taught by the various coaches.

The Coaches Clinic Collection includes various kinds of documentation related to the coaches clinic. This includes contracts from various headliners, lists of participants, pamphlets introducing the clinic and the main speakers, biographies of some coaches, daily schedules of the clinics events, correspondence with prospective headliners and manufacturers of athletic goods, as well as other related material.

Three student papers written in 1970 and preserved by Mrs. Harry Hass, all concerning Kinnickinnic township, Pierce County, Wis.: "Kinnickinnic Township" by Sylvia Roeske, "The History of the Kinnickinnic Congregational Church" by Margaret Hammer, and an untitled paper dealing with the Kinnickinnic Monument by Barbara Vanda.

This series contains documents showing receipts and expenditures for goods and services used or provided by the University of Wisconsin-River Falls from the College Activities Fund.

This series contains materials about the program for gifted school children in the local geographic area. In 1982, the College for Kids program was started for later grade school children to take classes on campus for two weeks in the summer. In 1992, Teen University was started to offer the same opportunity to middle school children. The series includes catalogs, correspondence, participant lists, and photographs.

Senior Yearbooks of the College of Agriculture contain photographs, birthdates, height, major, credits earned, and other statistics regarding College of Agriculture graduates. Missing, 1980.

The College of Agriculture was established at River Falls as a two-year program in 1912. Since then it has expanded to a five-year program with majors offered by five departments: Agricultural Education; Agricultural Economics; Agricultural Engineering; Animal and Food Science; and Plant and Earth Science. This is an artificial series based mainly around the correspondence of Prof. J.M. May, Director of the Department of Agriculture, 1913-1959. Also included is a 1964 report entitled The School of Agriculture: Its last Ten Years and materials related to Farm Progress Days and the AgriBusiness Tour. The collection also includes photographs.

The materials include mission statements, planning guidelines and long-range plans, ten-year plans and projections, reorganizations, program statements, budget materials such as requests, summaries, and analyses, financial and equipment needs, feasibility studies, evaluations, facility, space, and safety assessments, general, final, and preliminary reports, correspondence, newsletters, memorandums, announcements, notices, letters, invitations, meeting and committee minutes, schedules and agendas, course descriptions, syllabi, handbooks, handouts, workshop and seminar materials, surveys and questionnaires, student applications and summaries, proposals for programs, majors, and graduate studies, program information, brochures, catalogs, posters, promotional materials, flyers, event schedules, exhibition and gallery materials, conference information, maps, blueprints, floor plans, project specifications, legal documents and contracts, studies on topics such as economics, minority representation, and the environment, special program materials including international and Indigenous education files, notes, and tickets.

The College of Business and Economics, or School of Business and Economics, covers three departments: Management and Marketing, Economics, and Accounting and Finance. In the fall of 2003, a new speaking event was established: the Executive-In-Residence program. Each semester, the college would bring in an executive from an institution to present first to a class and later to the college as a whole. It continued until 2014 under the guidence of Barb Nemecek.

The types of resources include PowerPoints (both on thumbdrives and printed), video footage of lectures on DVD and VHS, copies of emails, advertisements, addresses, scripts, newspaper articles, organizational papers, posters, newspapers, and various articles all related to the Executive-In-Residence Program. There is also a 1995 lateral review of the Business Program in the collection.

This series consists of mainly reports and newsletters detailing the activities of the College of Education. Also included are materials dealing with the education conference sponsored by the college for many years.

This series includes addresses to graduating classes, ca. 1889-1893; 1958; 1966; 1972; anniversary exercises; baccalaureate programs; class day exercises; alumni- faculty- senior banquet programs; senior class play programs (1914-1940); scholarship information, 1939; 1940; 1945; other miscellaneous items concerning graduation, i.e. invitations, grammar grade exercises, etc.

Records of a World War I veterans' organization composed of former members of Company C, 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division.
Included are address lists, correspondence, financial records, a record book containing minutes and other entries, reunion materials, photographs of members, and drawings.

[1] Treasurer's Book (1952-1957) containing a record of receipts and expenditures; and [2] Treasurer's Papers (1956-1958) including check stubs, bank book, cancelled checks, accounts of receipts and disbursements, and other similar material.

Invoice Logbook includes information includes details of Date, Destination, Contents, Account, Price, Due, Car Number, Terms, Freight, Dis. Amount, and Credit.

The Consolidated Lumber company was located in Stillwater MN, the ledger records destinations to locations including Ellsworth WI, White Bear MN, Roberts WI, Mahtomedi MN, Hugo MN, Newport MN.

This collection includes program details on Continuing Education and Extension. Also contains a scrapbook and program information on the Elder Hostel held at UWRF.

The Coordinating Committee for Higher Education is a statewide organization established for the purpose of coordinating the educational activities of Wisconsin's State Colleges and Universities. In 1968, the organization's name was changed to Coordinating Council for Higher Education (CCHE). This collection is mainly concerned with the reports produced by the Council concerning higher education in Wisconsin. Correspondence and minutes are also included.

Correspondence includes information concerning new legislation affecting education, accreditation, curriculum changes, proficiency examinations for and the licensing and certifying of teachers, and workshops and seminars.

Includes information concerning cooperative programs; discussion of items to be dealt with by the President & Council; exchange of information concerning new policies being implemented on various campuses; planning information for State Colleges; State College Athletic Conference minutes; basic studies requirements; physical plant growth; course offerings and duplicate offerings.

This series consists of correspondence concerning the controversy emergent from the Voice’s publication of abortion advertisements, ca. 1970. Also included are Board of Student Publications’ guidelines for the Student Voice and its editor (Jan. 1971), and controversy concerning rights the University and Board of Regents may exercise concerning student publications.

This series comprises the correspondence from the Student Senate to Interim President, Richard J. Delorit and Chancellor George Field.

A study prepared in 1976 by Brunner containing genealogical information and charts on the Cosgriff, Brunner, and O'Brien families, 1821-1976. The Daniel Cosgriff family located in Hudson, Wis., ca. 1867. Appended to Brunner's work are three pages of additions and corrections prepared by Florence Simon of Hudson.

The Council of Graduate Deans is a statewide organization formed to coordinate the activities of Wisconsin’s Graduate Schools.

This series contains directives from the Board of Regents and Reports and Newsletters to the Graduate Deans throughout the University System.

The Council of Presidents is an informal organization of the current Presidents of the old Wisconsin State Universities which although without formal policy-making powers, act as a group to influence the Board of Regents to adopt policies considered most appropriate for the welfare of the universities. In a sense, the organization has been in existence as long as the Normal School system, as communications between Presidents to effect agreements and strategy in order to influence the Board of Regents have been in existence as long as there have been presidents; the Council is still in existence today. An increased budget and building allocations, curriculum expansion, and salary increases have been among the Council’s goals over the years.

Documents filed in Polk County Court concerning the settlement of deceased individuals' estates; filing of wills; guardianships of minors, the insane, or incompetents; and several insanity cases. Includes petitions, orders, letters of administration, wills, inventories of estates, and additional legal documents.

Name index to cases files in probate court for St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Use this index to look up the case file number associated with an individual, then use case number to find case file in St. Croix Series 128.

Records relating to the settlement of deceased individuals' estates including inventories of real and personal property; reports and accounts of administrators or executors; statements of claims against estates; resale of real and/or personal property; warrants; contracts; sworn testimony; and similar records.

General indexes and court records of Burnett County, 1888-1945. General indexes list documents filed in court proceedings, dates of filings, and the record, volume, and page where they are located. Court records list the proceedings, including dates of hearings, documents filed, and the record, volume, and page where the documents are located. Volumes referred to include the administration record, criminal docket, guardianship record, miscellaneous record, and others, most are not held by the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Volume that records complaints in police justice court. Gives the charge, summary, fees, and court costs. It is likely that many of the cases were remanded to the County Court.

[1] School District Records (1896-1957) containing minutes of school board meetings, roster of school officials, records of orders on treasurer, annual financial reports of board and clerk, lists of text books, and teachers' contracts; [2] Clerk's Papers (1918-1957) including teachers annual reports, clerks annual reports, and school census; [3] Treasurer's Papers (1946-1957) including account books showing receipts and expenditures, bank statements, and canceled checks; and [4] School Registers (1938-1958) containing attendance records, monthly and term summaries, records of pupil standing and work accomplished, daily programs, record of visitors, and state reading circle record.

Papers of astronaut and former Wisconsin State University-River Falls student Daniel C. Brandenstein, containing biographical information, letters, portraits of Brandenstein and photographs taken during shuttle missions, newspaper clippings, and certificates concerning his various NASA space shuttle missions. The collection also includes some objects that he used in space, such as dehydrated food, a specially designed WSU-RF T-shirt, and a mission patch.

Typewritten history by Collins of the Daniel Collins family of River Falls, Wisconsin.

Family correspondence to Daniel H. Levings, River Falls, Wis., 1855-1880; and Levings-Leavens family genealogical charts with information for 1773-1899 on the Baldwin, Hart, Newell, Stanley, Powell, and Parmlu families.

Minute book of this River Falls, Wisconsin, women's organization including minutes, 1948-1954, documenting the group's administrative, financial, social, and community service activities; and a membership register, 1948-1960.

The Rebekah Lodge was nationally established in 1851 as The Daughters of Rebekah. Later, the name was changed to the International Association of Rebekah Assemblies. The Rebekahs are an auxiliary organization of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.). Membership is open to any woman, at least eighteen years of age, who is a relative of an Odd Fellow, believes in a supreme being, and is of good moral character. It is possible for a male to join the Rebekahs, but a female cannot become an Odd Fellow. The Rebekahs (and Odd Fellows) reached their height of popularity in 1915 and, since then, have been on the decline.

The local chapters are called Lodges. Rebekah Lodge No. 161 of Grantsburg, Wisconsin seems to have been established shortly before 1907 and seems to have folded shortly after 1957. They met every other week from 1907 to 1957. The Rebekahs created their own community service projects in addition to those created in conjunction with the Odd Fellows, such as collecting money for polio funds.

Minutes documenting the organizational and community service activities of this organization and of the Grantsburg lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.