Between 1991 and 2009, the Kansas City Chiefs called UWRF their summer home. For a few weeks during the summer, the Chief’s players and staff would convene in River Falls to hold their summer training camp. The team utilized services on the UWRF campus, including lodging in the campus dorma. During the programs 18-year period, the training camp had an immensely positive social and economic impact on the River Falls community. Special events were held throughout the camp for community members and visitors to interact with players. Events included a parade, Family Fun Night, scrimmage games, and other social events where fans could meet players on the field for autographs and pictures.

The Chiefs played scrimmage games against other teams, in what was called "The Cheese League," comprised of other National Football League teams that also spent the summer training in Wisconsin, teams included, the Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, and Chicago Bears. The promotion and recruitment of the teams were pursued by then Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson seeking to promote tourism in the state. Mary Halada, who served as the Camp Coordinator, and Mark Kinders, Director of the News Bureau, ran the program.

This collection contains program administrative files, promotional materials, newsletters, and newspaper articles. The materials document the camp’s activities, and events surrounding the program each year. There are also materials for the year preceding their arrival, concerning the decision to relocate to River Falls for summer training. In addition, there are materials that were gathered to put together a 15th-anniversary booklet in 2005.

Two-page letter, November 5, 1973, from Justin Williams containing his recollections of his years as chairman of the Department of Social Sciences at River Falls State Teachers College, 1928-1942.

Record of judgments in civil cases issued by the court. Entries include name of the parties involved, amount of judgment and against whom rendered, and time of docketing.

Correspondence between Ingram, president of the Woodville Lumber Co., St. Croix County, Wis., and his wife, Ella Moffat Ingram.
Included are courtship letters as well as exchanges regarding daily activities and family life when Mrs. Ingram was away from home and when she was hospitalized after the birth of their daughter. One letter, 1882 January 29, from Ella Moffat to Mary Moffat Hughes is also included.

The original collection box 1 is an artificial collection of records, consisting of a brief, early history of the Journalism Department as well as activities of the faculty, promotional material includes posters, brochures, and correspondence related to conferences and events hosted by the journalism department. Photographs are included in this collection. The 2010 additions contain administrative documents for the department, including department and committee meeting minutes, correspondence, academic audits, academic scholarships that include donation letters and correspondence, and award recipients. The annual department banquet files consist of correspondence and planning documents, scholarship award winners, banquet program, and speaker notes. The University Film Society records include correspondence, planning documents for the academic year’s film series, letters to members, member lists, series programs, and some film posters. The 2019 addition is also artificially gathered from the UWRF Vertical File and is in box 3 of this collection. These mainly included Department and Student Newsletters. Also included is a CD of digital images from the 50th-anniversary banquet of the department, donated by Michael Norman.

Diaries, 1846-1847 and 1855, of Josiah B. Chaney, giving details of his life in Massachusetts as an apprentice printer and his 1846 trips to Yarmouth and southwestern Nova Scotia and to Illinois from New Hampshire; an 1862 diary of Mrs. Chaney on her life as the wife of a Civil War soldier; and a genealogical chart of the Chaney family.

Miscellaneous papers concerning Joseph Stannard Baker, a prominent early resident of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and his family. Included are microfilmed memoirs of Baker, recounting his family's history from their arrival in America in the seventeenth century through his own experiences during the Civil War, first in the Secret Service and then in a regiment; obituaries and memorials for members of the Baker family, including a biographical sketch of his son, author Ray Stannard Baker, and a memorial booklet for son Clarence Dwight Baker; a chart and letters, 1893, about Baker's hydraulic ram which provided the first indoor plumbing in St. Croix Falls; letters, 1886-1912, from Baker to his family and three letters between Florence Baker and Ray Stannard Baker; a family history including many anecdotes about Baker's father and his involvement in the temperance and anti-Masonic movements in New York; photocopies of Ray Stannard Baker's family photographs; a folder of information about the James Stannard Baker family; a genealogy of the Ray Stannard Baker family compiled by Jessie Beal Baker; and family group chart.

Photocopied naturalization papers, 1860, of Lang, a native of Baden, Germany, plus his masonry journeyman's book, 1851-1852, noting the date of his immigration to the United States.

Attendance register, 1920-1932, showing pupil's number and name, daily attendance, tardiness, and monthly totals; records of standing and classification showing pupils' sex, age, year in course of study, subjects studied, and teachers remarks on class; Daily Program of Study and Recitation; record of studies completed; list of graduates; and visitors record. Miscellaneous papers include work done during the 1912 school year, teacher contracts, 1934-937, and a bulletin from the state superintendent of school, 1932.

Register recording pupils' attendance, grades, and progress; and visitors to the school.

Record book of the district treasurer showing receipts and disbursements, including two teachers' contracts, 1877 and 1894.

[1] School District Records (1916-1922, 1945-1958) containing minutes of school board meetings, register of school officers, treasurers' bonds, teachers contracts, financial records, and annual reports; [2] Treasurer's Books (1867-1958) showing receipts and expenditures; [3] pupil registers (1911-1914, 1916-1922); and [4] a librarian's book (1877-1921) recording books purchased.

Clerk's record books, 1931-1945 and 1949-1951; various papers including audit reports, school census reports, annual reports and correspondence, 1945-1951.

District records consisting of clerks books (1889-1959) containing annual meeting minutes, financial records, annual reports, and school census; pupil registers (1943-1959); scattered annual reports (1914-1942); and correspondence relative to dissolution of the district (1959-1961). The McKinley School was located in the Town of Lorain from 1889-1898 and known as School District No. 5. Although the location of the school remained the same, changes in the Township's boundaries resulted in the school being located in the Town of McKinley from 1898-1950. It remained School District No. 5. From 1950-1961 the school became Joint School District No. 1, Town of McKinley (Polk County) and Town of Maple Plain (Barron County).

Clerk's annual report includes information in the categories of general control, instruction, operation, maintenance, auxiliary agencies, transportation, capital outlay, and debt service. Treasurer's annual report includes previous years budget and expenditures, and proposals for next year. Superintendent's report includes statement on finances, students and staff, physical facilities, and buildings.

Partial records of family-run businesses, principally Johnson's Tavern of River Falls, Wisconsin.
Stanley and Emma Johnson opened the tavern with the repeal of prohibition in 1934. Previously, Mr. Johnson had hauled gasoline and, with his brother, operated a meat market. Mrs. Johnson retired in 1973 and in 1986, the business was known as Emma's Bar. The collection is composed almost entirely of financial records, primarily ledgers covering the operation of the tavern. Also present are a few family papers, 1936-1952.

Johnson family of St. Croix County, Wisconsin, history and copies of ancestors' records including birth and marriage certificates, obituaries, news articles, and notes compiled from archival sources. Also includes genealogies of the Poulsdatter and Rasmussen families and information on the Merriman, Johnston, Maynards and McClure families.

Genealogy of the John Webster family of Ipswich, Mass., 1634-1929, compiled by Helman in 1929, and a second Webster genealogy, 1667-1953, compiled in 1958 by Grace Webster. Webster was apparently the compiler of two related genealogies which are also included: "Descendants of Hugh and Martha Currie," 1832-1955; and information regarding the John Turnbull family, 1783-1956.

Several deeds and a will of John Watson, River Falls, Wisconsin.

Mainly letters (1943-1944) from mother, Karine, sent to John W. Stayberg, while serving in the military during World War II. Topics generally cover everyday activities happening around town and in life. Also includes correspondence from family and friends in the Hudson and Twin Cities metropolitan area and military colleagues, as well as any associated clippings sent with the correspondence. Also included is a short biography on Stayberg and reminiscences about how the archival collection came to be held by donor, Nancy Hawkinson (1999).

John "Bubbs" Winston Stayberg was born in Hudson, Wisconsin on May 8, 1923, the third and youngest child of Karine Marie (nee Jenson) and John Arnt Stayberg. John graduated from Hudson High School in 1941 and worked for Brown & Bigelow , a well-known printing company located in St. Paul, Minnesota, following high school. On June 30th, 1942, John W. Stayberg registered for the military draft, and was enlisted on February 4th, 1943. Stayberg served for 27 months, earning the rank of Corporal while serving with the 16th A. I. B. (Allied Intelligence Bureau), 13th Armored Division. He was reported missing in action April 30, 1945, and died from injuries sustained May 6, 1945 in Germany. Stayberg is buried at the Willow River Cemetery in Hudson, Wisconsin. [Biographical information taken from collection.]

Typewritten reminiscences of John Solon, mainly concerning his family's history in Ireland and events subsequent to their 1847 immigration to Dodge County, Wisconsin; written in 1911.

A history of Siren, Burnett County, Wisconsin, written by Dodson, a former resident, and including accounts of many town residents.

Photocopy of a diary and report of Pybus, an agent of the East India Company, kept during a mission to the Emperor of Ceylon who desired to ally with the English against the Dutch.

Photocopied McCray family genealogical charts and written descriptions, 1801-1949, compiled by Merriell in 1984. The charts trace the descendants of William McCray (1801-1873) and his son, Carlos McCray (1826-1912).

Biographical information on John M. Bartosh, mayor of River Falls, Wisconsin, farmer, and owner of the Park View Dairy; compiled from conversations with Mrs. Bartosh by Dr. and Mrs. E. N. Peterson; plus a 1922 photograph of Mr. Bartosh delivering milk.

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1841-1908, 1925, and financial records, 1861-1897, of John Hoffmann, Ellsworth, Wisconsin, who had emigrated from Germany in 1846 and first settled in Pennsylvania; with some ephemera.

Mimeographed copy of a speech presented November 12, 1959, by Senator John F. Kennedy to the students and faculty of Wisconsin State College at River Falls, concerning the importance of education.

Term papers written for Dr. John Lankford's American history course at Wisconsin State University-River Falls, all relating to the history of Hudson and River Falls, Wisconsin, 1850-1880, and covering such topics as local newspapers, assimilation of immigrants, churches, politics, government, education, culture, industry, and economics.

Chart of the descendants of John Cashman and Mary Catherine McCarthy, 1805-1930, compiled by Mrs. John Gowan, New Richmond, Wisconsin; also containing information on the Kinney Family.

Photocopied genealogical charts documenting the descendants of John Billington, 1620-1927, compiled by Florence S. Whelan in 1945.

Letters written by Bakmann to his sister, Ingeborg Rognass of St. Croix Falls, Wis. The letters, all in Norwegian, are postmarked from Deer Park and "Menomonie" (Dunn County), Wisconsin.

Clippings, correspondence, and court documents collected by Turcheneske in 1970 while a graduate student doing research on organizer Pat Malone and the Ku Klux Klan in northwestern Wisconsin.

Brief typewritten genealogical notes by John Addington, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, about his maternal Swedish ancestors in the Ahlstrom Family in Trade Lake, Wisconsin and his paternal Southern ancestors in "Alabama," Polk County, Wisconsin.

Two letters, November 21, 1855, and December 30, 18--, written to his brothers by Joel Foster, first settler (1848) in the Kinnickinnic River Valley and the city of River Falls, Wis., primarily concerning travels and family news; plus one clipping quoting Foster.

Fictionalized account of a trip down the St. Croix River with "Captain Joe Jolly"; containing much information on the history of that area of Wisconsin.

District records consisting of clerk's record books (1866-1932) containing meeting minutes, financial records, annual reports, and school census; treasurer's book (1867-1931); and a folder of miscellaneous records including annual reports (1915-1922). Also included are pupil registers (1890-1932) containing teacher and pupil names, attendance, grades, work accomplished, daily program, record of visitors, and various reports.

Papers of the managing editor of the "Amery Free Press," a local Wisconsin paper, documenting his work with the newspaper, his service with the Peace Corps in the Philippines (1962-1964), and his community involvement. Papers pertaining to his Peace Corps service include letters from friends in the United States and the Philippines, official memos, and training brochures. "Free Press" records consist of reader mail, other correspondence, and clippings. Activity in community work is revealed through the subject file, which contains material on local schools and hospitals, and organizations. Photographs include images of Sondreal and acquaintances in the Philippines and of the Cameron High School band and choir, and copies of invitations to weddings. Additions added in 2016 include leaflets dispersed by the Government of Vietnam (GVN) during the Vietnam War and papers relating to Martin Baligdia, a Filipino man attempting to obtain a veteran disability pension for his family following the death of his father in 1953.

Civil War letters from Lieutenant Jerry E. Flint, Company G, 4th Wisconsin Infantry and Cavalry, to his mother (Mrs. Phineas C. Flint) and brother in River Falls, Wisconsin; plus miscellaneous orders, stores lists, muster rolls, and rosters.

Class notes and papers prepared by Jacobson while a student in University of Wisconsin physics courses; Jacobson later was chairman of the Physics Department, Wisconsin State University, River Falls.

Typewritten copies of two letters, December 29, 1918, and February 28, 1919, from James P. Larson, Battery A, 6th Field Artillery, 1st Division, A.E.F., to Mable Foss, Exland, Wisconsin, later his wife, describing soldiers' activities in Germany after the Armistice.

Letters, April-May, 1883, to King, founder of Sterling, Colorado, from friends and relatives in Oxford, Mississippi; concerning domestic activities and community events including several murder trials.

Photocopied memoir written by Johnston, circa 1920, describing his childhood in Ontario, Wisconsin; work in a Stillwater, Minnesota, sawmill and St. Croix River valley logging camps; his and his brother William's farming efforts in the Town of Richmond, St. Croix County, Wisconsin; and experiences with Company D, 30th Wisconsin volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865; with his obituary from the New Richmond News.

In 1955, Dr. James J. McLaughlin, a Mathematics professor, was made Director of the newly formed Department of Arts and Sciences. In 1964 these divisions became colleges and McLaughlin became the first Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. This series contains McLaughlin's papers which include correspondence, news clippings, budget and promotion materials, and a variety of miscellaneous documents.

Brief biographical sketch of James A. Richards, River Falls, Wisconsin, businessman and a member of the Board of Regents of State Teachers Colleges, written in 1975 by his wife, Ruby Hamilton Richards.

Letters to James A. Andrews, Hudson, Wisconsin, from his wife Nellie Miriam Gibson, written from her family's home in Pontiac, Michigan, both before and after their marriage, and describing daily work and social and religious activities; plus a few letters from other relatives.

Papers of James A. Andrews, Hudson, Wis., and his uncle, John Comstock. Included are a few letters to Andrews during the Civil War when he served with Co. A, 44th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; correspondence and business records of Andrews and Comstock relating to railroads, politics, lumbering, and banking in northwestern Wisconsin; family correspondence; and a diary, 1896-1900, kept by Ellen Gibson Andrews.

Letter, September 16, 1968, from Amodt, serving with the United States Army in the Central Highlands, Vietnam, telling of his experiences and his observations

Papers primarily of two sisters, Judith Jacobs (1894-1982) and Mabel Jacobs (1890-1977), both of whom taught at Emporia College in Kansas then retired to their family home near Hudson, Wisconsin. Included is correspondence, clippings, memorabilia, and writings, with information on other family members, Kansas editor William Allen White, Judith's dramatic work and painting, Mabel's operatic training, and the educational and other activities of each woman.

Photocopied clippings and notes, circa 1895-circa 1935, providing genealogical information on the Jackson, McCardle, and related families, many of whose members lived in Pierce County, Wisconsin.