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Papers of Folsom, an Indian trader, lumberman, land speculator, Minnesota politician, and steamboat owner, including correspondence, 1841, 1851-1900; an account book, 1841-1844, from his business dealings in Prairie du Chien, Wis.; and papers relating to Folsom's activities in the Mississippi-St. Croix Valley. Two additional volumes contain cargo records and passenger lists for his steamboat, the Wyman X, for 1870-1871. Among the correspondence are two letters describing bad conditions in the 1863 Army campaign in the Dakota War of 1862.

Papers, collected by Abbott, concerning involvement of the River Falls, Wisconsin community and Wisconsin State University, River Falls in Vietnam Moratorium Day, October 15, 1969.

Notebooks kept by William Sanford, a student and member of the football team at River Falls Normal School, River Falls, Wis., class of 1911, for classes in physics, physical geography, and chemistry.

A letter and a clipping concerning the 100th birthday of William N. Mackin, Madison, Wisconsin, an alumnus of River Falls Normal School.

The Dean of Students was responsible for overseeing all aspects of student life on campus. Actives and services include, but are not limited to Counseling, Faculty advising, Testing services, orientation, hosting workshops and clinics, Health and physical welfare, job placement after graduation, student employment, administering financial aid, Student Government, and other student organizations, Housing, Dining, and extra-curricular activities. (1962-64 catalog)
There are 24 subseries in this collection arranged alphabetically by title. Subseries are grouped by the function that the records serve under the administrative organization.

Two diaries of a physician and veterinarian from River Falls, Wisconsin. An 1857-58 volume describes his experiences in Calaveras County, California, prospecting for gold, and his return to Wisconsin. A handwritten copy of 1883-1888 entries describe his experiences working in South Dakota in the mid 1880s.

Papers of Blanding, a St. Croix Falls, Wis., businessman, land speculator, and local politician. Blanding's business and political correspondence, 1847-1901, financial papers, and land records comprise the bulk of the collection. Political letters relate mainly to local village and county offices held by Blanding and to his unsuccessful campaign for the state senate in 1894.

Among other materials in the collection are a few letters and records relating to transportation and logging on the St. Croix River; plat maps of surveyed lands around the St. Croix Valley; minutes of the St. Croix Literary Association, 1870-71; a few papers pertaining to the founding and development of the Polk County Agricultural Society, 1886-1901; manuscript articles on the temperance movement and on Indian and white traditions in the St. Croix region; genealogical data; and other family correspondence, 1901-1958.

Account books, 1868-1907, recording personal and farm income and expenditures of William Goodwin, Town of Trenton, Pierce County, Wisconsin.
Also included are some entries made by his father James and explanatory annotations made by his daughter, Mary Gwen Owen Swanson, in 1980. Accompanying the volumes is James Goodwin's 1865 declaration of intention to become a citizen.

Letter, March 3, 1969, from Phillips repeating stories about humorist E. W. "Bill" Nye and his brother Frank.

Mayor of Woodbury. Interviewed by Amber Jurer and Clayton Keller.

Reminiscences by Isler, a Swiss immigrant to the United States and a Methodist minister in the Midwest and in Newark, New Jersey.

Papers of William Banks, a physician in Hudson and later Baldwin, Wisconsin, in the early twentieth century, consisting primarily of letters from his mother and father in Windsor, Minnesota, and his brother, John Frazer in Milwaukee. The bulk of the letters document routine matters such as house cleaning and the weather. Subjects documented include hunting deer with his brother, the illness of his uncle in 1907 and the treatment he received from Dr. John Colvin in Minneapolis, and requests from his family to treat friends and relatives. Also included are two certificates of merit (1945) issued to Banks by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Washington Governor Monrad C. Wallgren in appreciation of his services given without compensation to the Selective Service System of the United States government during World War II.

Reminiscences by McLaughlin, La Crosse, Wisconsin, recounting his family's history in West Virginia; Jefferson County, Indiana; Kansas; and Scott County, Illinois.