Copy of a letter, March 29, 1862, written by Dieffenbach from Fort Scott, Kansas, to John W. Barrett (1837-1907) describing his past military service and experiences and giving his views on slavery.

[1] School District Records (1925-1958) containing minutes of school board meetings, register of school officers, accounts of receipts and expenditures, teachers' contracts, treasurers' bonds, and school tax certificates; [2] Clerk's Papers (1941-1958) including school censuses, annual reports of clerks and teachers, official bonds, and other miscellaneous papers and forms; [3] Treasurer's Book (1952-1958) showing receipts and disbursements; and [4] School Registers (1935-1953) containing each pupil's name, standing, and attendance record, daily programs, visitors record, and state reading circle record.

Mimeographed history by Saden of Oak Grove School, 1906-1950, District 4, Town of Garfield, Polk County, Wisconsin.

[1] School District Record (1925-1942) includes minutes of annual meetings, school board proceedings, financial records, school censuses, treasurers bonds, and teachers' contracts; [2] Clerk's Papers (1909-1941) includes correspondence, annual reports, teachers' contracts and reports, treasurer's bonds, and school censuses; and [3] School Registers (1933-1941) showing pupils' names and attendance records, daily programs, visitors' record, and state reading circle record.

Correspondence (1942-1954), annual reports (1943-1952), school censuses (1942-1950), teachers' contracts (1945-1952), reports (1944-1945), treasurer's bonds (1944-1947), insurance policies (1942-1949), and financial papers (1942-1953).

Bulletins and broadsides, April-May, 1972, concerning a student strike of classes and other anti-Vietnam War activities on the University of Wisconsin-River Falls campus, including several items produced by the Oak Street Eagles.

Treasurer's journal record of receipts and disbursements showing date, source or payee, purpose and order number, and amount received or disbursed. Also contains minutes of annual meeting in 1865.

Records of Old Academy Girls, a social club whose members had attended the River Falls Academy, River Falls, Wisconsin, between 1856 and 1878. Included is an account of the club's founding, minutes, membership lists, and newspaper accounts of club events.

Reminiscences of Myran, a Wisconsin farmer, in which he describes his father's immigration from Norway in 1841, settlement in Sand Creek, Dunn County, Wisconsin, in 1865, and subsequent events in the area.

A photocopied typewritten description of the conditions at Andersonville Prison, written by a son of Ole Steensland (1843?-1905?), 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, a prisoner there from 1863 to 1865.

Minutes of stockholders' and board of directors' meetings and a list of the original stockholders.
The hospital, renamed the Holmes Sanitarium in 1892, was founded in 1887 by Dr. Irving D. Wiltrout. The original corporation was dissolved in 1894.

Register including attendance, pupil standings, and record of work.

Scrapbook of news clippings concerning Halls, Pierce County, Wis., sheriff, and his leadership of the successful efforts to close the saloons and the brothel located on the island between Pierce County and Red Wing, Minnesota.

Opera Hotel register (1887-1901, 1941) includes names, addresses (generally limited to city if any), date/time, rooms rented, and a notes field. Since many of the guests were in the entertainment industry, many entries include creatively devised advertisements for the performances or other additional information on the group and type of entertainment provided. A note, dated 1941, appears to have been added by a later owner of the register. According to the River Falls Journal, the register was in the possession of W. A. Freeman when the fire that burned the building formerly housing the Opera Hotel, burned in 1921.

Photocopy of an unfinished manuscript by Helweg, handwritten and in Danish, with the translated title "Manuscript on the Establishment of the Danish Settlement of West Denmark, Polk County, Wisconsin, U.S.A." West Denmark was on the west shore of Little Butternut Lake in Luck Township. The manuscript is bound, and was not finished due to Pastor Helweg's death.

Papers of Osborn Strahl, a Clifton, Pierce County, Wisconsin, lumberman, consisting mainly of family correspondence (1860-1909), containing information on Strahl and MacDonald family genealogy. Included are letters which describe agricultural life in the Los Angeles area in 1892, early twentieth-century life in the state of Washington, the Seattle harbor, and the Oregon and Washington Indian wars. There is also material relating to school experiences of the Strahl family, including essays, speeches, and class notes (circa 1845-1858); three land certificates (1854-1855); and reminiscences by Strahl of Pierce County settlers.

Muster rolls of the Osceola Home Guards, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment, Wisconsin State Militia, Osceola, Wisconsin.

Brief history, 1910-1945, of the Osceola, Wisconsin, club, describing activities and accomplishments; and a 1945 memorandum, "Plans for Post War Travel," with advice to club members on how to travel cross country in post-war America.

Essay by Christensen, a descendant of settlers in Nasonville, Wis., describing living conditions, farming, lumbering, and Indians, and including biographical sketches of some of the early settlers.

Papers relating to the estate of River Falls, Wisconsin, businessman P. W. Ramer; including his will, legal documents, and correspondence between his descendants.

Articles and notes on the early history of Pierce County, Wis., some written by Paul B. Bjerkeng, some by unidentified authors; accompanied by papers relating to the Pierce County Historical Society, photographs, clippings (all in SC 8); and additional articles, several letters in Norwegian, a speech by Marion Neprud, and letters to the editor, 1941-1942, by Bjerkeng (all in SC 85).

Recollections by Kirkendall of logging activities for the Knapp, Stout Company in Polk, St. Croix, Barron, and Washburn counties, Wisconsin, in the 1890's; with an introduction and related newspaper articles about Birchwood, Wisconsin, by Ethel Elliot Chappelle.

Genealogy of the Hickerson family, circa 1700-1981, compiled by Perry John Hickerson of Marshall, Minn. The genealogy traces the descendants of John and Anne Higginson of Baltimore County, Maryland.
Other surnames treated in the account include Wood, Frost, Blizzard, Farrell, Cayler, Mitchell, Moline, Wallace, and Pingle.

Records of the negotiations between St. Croix County and the various government employee unions, including correspondence, notes, benefit cost estimates, research materials, collective bargaining and mediation requests, proposed and final offers, grievances, and agreements. Represented units include Courthouse, General Government Support Services (GGSS), Highway, Health Center, Human Services-Non Professional/Professional, Land and Water Conservation, Law Enforcement, and Social Services.

An autobiography by Peter Dicke, a Lutheran minister who established and served many congregations in Michigan and in Dodge, Shawano, and Oconto counties, Wisconsin.

History of the "Hudson Star Observer," 1850-circa 1972, by Peter Jauquet, apparently prepared for a college course in which Jauquet was enrolled.

Reminiscences of Father Peter Minwegen, O.M.I., concerning his service as a missionary in Canada, 1908-1915; his flight to the U.S. during World War I to escape internment because of his German citizenship; his experiences, 1915-ca. 1925, as a priest in Jim Falls and in Cornell, Wisconsin, where the Ku Klux Klan was active; his successful use of Sebastian Kneipp's water cure in various illnesses; and the efforts of the Oblate fathers to establish their own Midwest province.

Photocopies of letters, 1893-1901, written in Norwegian by Peter R. Jacobson of Lake Park, Minnesota to his brother-in-law, Nels J. Jenson of Hudson, Wisconsin; and translated into English by Else Bigton. The letters discuss economics, politics, religion, harvests and planting, and other family and agricultural news.

Miscellaneous letters and ephemera relating to the family of Phineas C. Flint, River Falls, Wisconsin, including four Civil War letters from Lt. Jerry E. Flint, Co. G, 4th Wisconsin Infantry, written from Louisiana, 1862.

Photographic postcards mainly related to the 4-county geographic area covered by the Area Research Center, that is, Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties but also include nearby regions, including some in Minnesota. This collection is particularly strong in areas of the region directly surrounding River Falls, Wisconsin. Also includes some photographs of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls campus, sports, and related miscellany.

Miscellaneous photographs and postcards, mainly duplicates and photocopies of originals, displaying places, people, businesses, buildings, and scenery in the four county region (Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties) of Wisconsin.

Records, 1947-1965, of a national debating and public speaking organization's Midwest branch and records of the River Falls Chapter, 1948-1981, associated with the University of Wisconsin--River Falls. ?b Branch records include correspondence, constitutions, scattered minutes and financial records, tournament and correction plans, and photographs.

Essay written by University of Wisconsin-River Falls geography student James L. Newman.

Annual premium lists detailing scheduled events at the Pierce County Fair. Lists are present for the years 1884-1889, 1902-1904, 1906, 1911-1912, 1914, 1922-1926, 1928, 1930-1932, 1942-1960, 1966-1977, 1979-1983, 2007-2008, and 2013-2014.

Account book kept by an unidentified Pierce County, Wis., farm family; noting expenses such as labor, supplies, breeding fees, equipment repairs, veterinarian's services, taxes, and improvements, and income from sale of livestock, crops, and dairy products. Animal breeding records also are included.

Constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the board of directors and stockholders of the company, formed to operate a general mercantile business in behalf of farmers.

Daybook and ledger of the Pierce County Lumber Company, Ellsworth, Wisconsin (later the Consolidated Lumber Company).

Proceedings of the County Board of Supervisors, published annually in pamphlet form under the provisions of Wisconsin Laws of 1901, Ch. 298, Sec. 3; including the County Clerk's minutes of each meeting of the County Board, and documents considered by the Board at each meeting. Documents include: petitions, memorials, communications, and claims addressed to the Board; reports of county officers and of Board committees; resolutions and ordinances; and other papers relating to operations, services, finances, planning, and policy of county government.
Included are proceedings for these years: 1900-1949, 1951-1967/8, 1969/70-1978/79, 1980/81, 1982/83-1998/99.

Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors including minutes of board meetings, committee reports, reports of county officers and commissioners, financial reports, and communications to the board.

Statistical summaries and statements from town assessors showing the amount of principal crops grown during the preceding year, acreages growing during the reporting year, the number and value of dairy products and livestock, and lists of creameries, cheese factories, and milk condenseries.

Reports of the county fair, the county rescue service, the district attorney's office, the zoning administration, the civil defense director, the county surveyor, the veterans service, the county job service, the circuit court, the county extension office, the public health nursing service, the county council on aging, and others.
Included are reports for the following years: 1974-1978, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992-1998.

Audit reports for the county, 1939-1964, submitted to the board of supervisors by the Wisconsin Department of Taxation and the Wisconsin Department of State Audit. ?b Each report has summary financial statements of the county's financial situation and balances of various accounts including highway, towns, courts, and the sheriff. There are separate special audits of the highway department between 1933 and 1940.

Clerk's records concerning sale of county bonds, including certified typescript and printed copies of County Board of Supervisors proceedings relative to bond issuance; printed notices of bond sale; and related correspondence, principally with bond brokers and banks.

Annual reports of the county judge to the County Board of Supervisors listing fees paid to hospitals and doctors for examination of individuals involved in proceedings before the court.
Entries contain the name of the case, the date it was heard, and the case's outcome. Most cases are guardianships for incompetents or insanity commitments.

Records filed with the county clerk dealing with the operation of various welfare and relief programs which the county administered, including the county poor farm, outdoor relief, aid to the disabled, and aid to dependent children.
Included are reports of the Superintendent of the Poor and of the county commissions; lists of persons receiving aid; and legal documents such as the commitment of persons to the poor house.

Reports including analysis of highway funds; administration, shop, machinery, and equipment operations; stockpiling and incidental labor costs; and inventories of building and fixtures, machinery and equipment, materials, and supplies.

Records indicating total taxable income, tax rate, total tax, and amount apportioned to the county for corporations and individuals residing in Pierce County.
There is also some correspondence regarding changes in assessments, appeals, and other matters related to the income tax.

Names of county clerks, treasurers, sheriffs, registers of deeds, district attorneys, county judges, superintendents of schools, coroners, and surveyors.