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Two studies by Banta of the living standards in Rock Elm Center, an unincorporated village in Pierce County, Wis. The first study was done for the Sociology Department at the University of Minnesota and the second study was completed as part of Banta's work toward a master's degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Genealogy of the "Wisconsin branch" of the Proper family, 1709-1972, compiled by George E. Proper of Lake Villa, Illinois.

Typewritten diary, 1864, of George Edwin Pratt, Sixty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, who was with the Union army in Georgia; and five Pratt family photographs. Also included are eight pages of photocopied obituaries and similar information on the Pratt family.

Excerpts from the diary of George H. Bates of Star Prairie township, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, containing genealogical information on several of Bates' neighbors.

George "Buster" H. Brown (1888-1973) was born to Jane (nee Doyle) and Charles H. Brown in the Town of Warren, Wisconsin (St. Croix County) in June of 1888. He had one older brother, Charles Edward Brown (1885-1960). George's mother died in 1905 and George appears to have lived with his uncle, George D. Brown in Hudson for a short time around the time of her death.
By 1910, Brown was working as a clerk at the railroad office in Hudson, while living with his father. The 1940 census lists Brown's work as farmer, living in the Town of Richmond (St. Croix County), WI with his wife, Grace, and three children, Bernice, Edmund, and Elaine.

Typed transcriptions of diaries, 1867-1881, kept by George Henry Elliott, a farmer near River Falls, Wisconsin; plus later entries, 1881-1883, by his brother, William Nelson Elliott.
The diaries describe farming, schooling, social life, and other events.

On March 14, 1967, George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi party visited the Wisconsin State University – River Falls. The event was sponsored by the Free Spirit Forum committee. The Forums were sponsored by the Legislative Action Committee, a sub-committee of the Student Senate. The daylong event began with a morning convocation. Rockwell was introduced by Dr. Raymond Anderson a political science professor. Rockwell spoke to about 2500 attendees in the Karges Gym. In the afternoon, a debate was held between Rockwell and Dr. Edward Peterson of the History Department. Followed by a question-and-answer portion.
This collection includes audio recordings of Rockwell’s speech and debate with Dr. Peterson.

A typescript copy of papers of Wilkie, a carpenter, consisting of his journal, accounts, and letters, describing his daily activities and economic conditions in Prescott and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and in McGregor, Iowa.

Ledgers kept by George Smith & Co., a general merchandise store at Diamond Bluff, Pierce County, Wisconsin, showing prices charged for commodities and credit allowed for products brought to the store in trade.

Diaries of Thomas, 30th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and later a farmer in Kinnickinnic, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, giving details of camp life at Fort Tully[?] during the Civil War and of farm life after the war.

Diploma awarded for Rural School Teachers Course at the River Falls State Teachers College.

Diaries, 1876, 1882-83, 1893, 1899-1900, of Jennie P. Andrews and diaries, 1906-1909, of her daughter, Edna J. Gerrish, wives of Orlando J. Andrews and Samuel J. Gerrish, both farmers in the Ono area (Union township, Pierce County, Wis.), providing details on domestic and farm chores and family affairs; plus miscellaneous family documents including the baptismal certificate of Edna's son, Carrol Orlando Gerrish.

Family papers of Cairns, a resident of Ellsworth, Wisconsin. The bulk of the collection comprises Miss Cairns' diaries complete from 1903 through 1936, with fragments of a few earlier volumes; her precise records of weather conditions and her observations of birds, wild flowers, and garden plants; and the records, 1915-1956, of the Ellsworth Pioneer School Girls' Club, of which she served as secretary-treasurer and unofficial historian for many years. Her diaries chronicle not only her personal activities but also social and cultural life in Pierce County, Wis. Also present are notes taken by Cairns while a University of Wisconsin student enrolled in Frederick Jackson Turner's courses.
Papers of other members of the Cairns family are also in the collection. From 1845 to 1890 the correspondence is largely that of Miss Cairns' father, George W. Cairns, who came to Dane County, Wis., from New York State in 1849 and moved to Pierce County in 1853. Cairns had a variety of business and civic interests, serving at times as schoolteacher, clerk of the River Falls Academy, hotel keeper, and land agent. In county government he served as town clerk of Middleton in Dane County, and as justice of the peace, deputy clerk of the district court, and register of deeds in Pierce County. These activities are reflected in his correspondence, in fragmentary legal and governmental records relating to Middleton, 1852, and to Pierce County, 1855-1873, and in minutes of meetings he kept for the Middleton Lyceum in 1847, the River Falls Lyceum in 1855-56, and the River Falls Academy in 1858.
Among the family letters are several, 1850-52, written by George W.'s brother, A.W. Cairns, describing experiences in Panama and California as a participant in the California gold rush. From the mid-1880's to 1891 there are numerous letters to and from the Cairns children, William, Rollo, and Gertrude, while they attended high school at River Falls and the University at Madison. Diaries, 1855-1861, appear to have been written by Abbie S. Leavitt, who married George W. Cairns in 1866. A native of Maine, she came to Wisconsin in 1857, and in her diary she described her journey from New England, across northern Illinois, and up the Mississippi River to Prescott, where she resumed her teaching career begun in the East.

District records consisting of a pupil register (1914-1926) containing attendance records and pupils' grades and progress; a treasurer's book and a cash book (1952-1960) showing receipts and disbursements; and a savings account bank book (1938-1960).

newspaper print, gift/donor list, information request, handwritten lists, handwritten notes, information,

Photocopied pages bearing genealogical information from three family Bibles documenting the ancestry of Glen and Win Gillihan. Recorded are birth, marriage, and death dates for descendants of Thomas and Olive (Blodgett) Williams, Aron(?) and Irena Carpenter, and Freeman and Salinda (Carpenter) Emerson. Also included are birth dates for the descendants of Jack H. and Catharine Gillihan.