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Clerk's record book, 1927-1953, which contains school board minutes, financial records, and school census information; and two school registers, 1907-1914 and 1943-1947, which list pupils, work accomplished, and visitors to the school.

[1] School District Records (1924-1957) containing minutes of school board meetings, accounts of receipts and expenditures, resolutions, school censuses, financial statements, and teachers' contracts; [2] Treasurer's Book (1929-1957) showing receipts and expenditures; and [3] School Registers (1892-1943) including attendance records, reports of pupils' standing and work accomplished, daily programs, record of visitors, and state reading circle records.

[1] School District Records (1914-1958) containing minutes of school board meetings and accounts of receipts and expenditures; [2] Clerk's Papers (1934, 1956-1958) including directives from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, teacher's annual reports, and other miscellaneous forms and papers; [3] Treasurer's Book (circa 1955-1958) showing receipts and disbursements; [4] Treasurer's Papers (1938-1958) containing bank book, statements, and canceled checks; and [5] School Registers (1924-1940, 1949-1953) including pupil attendance and work records, daily programs, visitor record, and state reading circle record.

[1] School District Record (1927-1948) containing minutes of school board meetings, records of receipts and disbursements, reports of district board auditing committee, orders drawn on treasurer, notices of budget hearings, and teachers' contracts; [2] Teachers' Reports to Superintendent (1937-1938, 1948-1949) including a copy of a program showing recitation and study periods, six weeks or monthly reports, term averages, and textbook record; and [3] School Registers (1925-1957) containing attendance record, and monthly and term summaries showing pupil's classification number, sex, age, name, and record of standing and report of work accomplished, daily programs, visitors' record, and state reading circle record.

Volume 1: School register (1907-1913), containing the Daily Program including teacher's comments and reports, Record of Attendance, incomplete list of graduates, and Visitor's Record. Loose papers consist of teacher's yearly reports (1911 and 1913), teacher's contract (1904) and a letter from the superintendent (1917). Volume 2: School District Record (1910-1957) containing minutes of school board meetings, register of orders drawn on treasurer, annual reports of the district board, annual school censuses, teachers' contracts, and account of current expense memoranda. Volume 3: Treasurer's Book (1920-1957) including receipts and expenditures register of clerk's orders paid by treasurer.

Excerpt from a letter written by Kahl in which he describes how his brother was cured of eczema about 1929 by "Dr." Topp of Cameron, Wisconsin.

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.

Four volumes of minutes and related records of the Kinnickinnic Community Ladies Aid of River Falls, Wis. for the years 1951 to the organization's dissolution in 1974.
Apparently not affiliated with a church, the group conducted monthly meetings which included hymn singing, prayers, inspirational programs, and social activities.

Minute books of a local telephone company organized in the Town of Kinnickinnic, St. Croix County, Wis., in 1904, to connect with the Pierce County Telephone Company; dissolved November 23, 1965.

Papers of a history professor and president of Wisconsin State University, River Falls from 1946 to 1967. Included is correspondence, speeches, a reminiscence, manuscripts of his dissertation and his book "In the Shadow : Reflections of a State College President," clippings, academic records, and memorabilia.

Historical sketch of the Hudson, Wisconsin, Public Library, 1902-1929, written by Lamb, a student at the University of Minnesota.

Photocopied records regarding the Civil War service of Private Edward LaMere of Somerset, Wis., in Company F, Wisconsin 25th Infantry Regiment. LaMere was taken prisoner at Decatur, Georgia, in 1864.
Also includes a 1982 cover letter regarding the documents from Richard P. Rivard, Glenwood City, Wisconsin.

Typewritten copy of Record Book Number Two of the Land and Flour Gold Mining Company, primarily recording payments and disbursements of stock, mineral rights, and timber.

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.

Family history written by Larson, a student at Wisconsin State University, River Falls, including information on the Holstrom and Bischoff families who settled in Stillwater and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Records of a River Falls area civic group involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision making, and encouraging voter participation. Included is correspondence (1970-1973); press releases (1967-1973); news clippings (1967-1974); candidate questionnaires; a membership list, a copy of a 1967 league study of city government; copies of the chapter's newsletter, "The River Falls Voter" (1967-1978); bulletins (1978-1995); and other records.

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.

Correspondence of Lord, who operated an abstract office at Ellsworth, Wisconsin, and with County Surveyor S.A. Carpenter prepared and published plat maps of Pierce County. Letters concern titles of land in Pierce County, publication and sale of his maps, a dispute with Carpenter, and local political matters.

Minute book, 1885-1890, of the Luck Creamery Company, a cooperation; also including some financial materials; written in English and Norwegian.

Reports submitted in 1972 by teacher Mary MacLeod's ninth grade speech students, River Falls, Wisconsin, on various aspects of local history. Included are interviews with local farmers and other area residents, epitaphs copied from local cemeteries, descriptions of old houses, biographies, and information on social life, schools, and other aspects of life between 1910 and 1930.

Record of town elections, 1869-1883 and 1900-1917, including poll lists and results of voting at township annual meetings; general election registers, 1868-1916 and 1932-1936, including poll lists and results of general elections; and unbound poll lists, 1918, 1920, 1924-1926, 1928, and 1932-1936.

Records including articles of association, by-laws, minutes of annual and directors' meetings, policies issued and cancelled, and treasurer's accounts. Also included is one volume (1908-1945) containing bylaws, minutes, lists of subscribers, and expenditures and settlements with policy holders.
The mutual insurance company was organized in 1878 primarily to serve farmers in Pierce County's towns of Martell, Gilman, and Ellsworth.

Reminiscences of Henry McCann recalling his experiences as a lumberjack in Wisconsin and Minnesota, the rivers on which he was a driver, names of the men with whom he worked, and brief sketches of the life of a river man.

Two inventory books kept by general store owner T.J. McCollum, Ellsworth, Wisconsin; listing quantities and value of stock on hand.

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

Recollections written in 1974 by Evalyn (Mrs. Richard) Meents of her teaching experiences at Herum School (District No. 4, Town of Martell), 1953-1957, and at Fargo School (Joint District No. 3, Towns of Martell and River Falls), 1957-1962, and a letter recommending people who might give information on other Pierce County, Wisconsin, schools.

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).

Papers of a northwestern Wisconsin editor-publisher, local historian, and genealogist. Included are correspondence, diaries, memoranda, genealogical materials, minutes, newsclippings, and scrapbooks. Financial records for the "Hudson Star-Observer," the "Hammond News," and the Publishers Printing Service; family papers of Miller's parents and grandparents; and material relating to the Hudson, Wisconsin, area also are present.
Most prominent among the materials on Hudson history are papers concerning the Hudson Toll Bridge, 1909-1917, documents on the Hudson Housing Authority, 1967-1979, and records of the St. Croix County Historical Society, 1945-1971.
The correspondence contains exchanges with friends and relatives, business acquaintances, persons sharing genealogical information, people writing letters to the editor, and people encountered in Miller's world travels. Included are letters on St. Olaf College, letters from people in military service and from Europeans and Americans abroad during World War II, and an extensive series of letters from prison inmates, 1960-1980.
Also included are diaries written by Miller and his father Theodeus Kane Miller depicting brief descriptions of weather, friend visits and daily life, 1925-1926, 1981-1994.
The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1860-1981, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date circa 1930-1959 and are described below.
Postcard correspondence, 1930s-1950s, photographs, and miscellaneous ephemera.

Memoir, circa 1966, by Amelia Hrdina Motl describing her childhood, school and college years, all spent in the River Falls, Wis., area, and her experiences while teaching in Grantsburg and Danbury, Wis.; plus a copy of a March 1918 letter from Harold S. Johnson, a former student, in which he describes his daily routines aboard the battleship Mississippi during World War I.

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.

Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted in 1973 for the Fridlay Memorial Library with several New Richmond, Wisconsinarea residents including C.S. Arnquist, John Boor, Esther Cox, Lillian Drake, Dr. O. Hoyt Epley, Mrs. Carleton A. Friday, Wilson Greaton, Dr. W.W. Irle, Joye Johnson, Belle Lundy, Margaret McNamara, Catherine McNamara, Grace and Al Shern, and Henning Soderberg.

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.

Letter from O'Connell, H. and S. Co., 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st U.S. Marine Division, describing a Korean War battle in which he fought, near the 17th Parallel.

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.

A paper by student Diana Ostness including fire company members' names, information on equipment changes, and anecdotes on interesting experiences.

Letter from Pearson, St. Paul, Minnesota, to members of the Hudson High School Class of 1911. Pearson gives brief biographies of himself and his brother Fritz, mentions details regarding the lives of classmates, and attaches copies of two letters by another classmate, Donna (Mrs. James T.) Geddes of Battle Creek, Michigan.

Autobiographical recollections written by Pearson, a farmer in Mann Valley, Town of Troy, Pierce County, Wisconsin.

Papers of Peet, a Burnett County, Wisconsin, journalist, land developer, and promoter of immigration to the cutover lands of northern Wisconsin; including records relating to the Kohler-Peet Company, Minneapolis, a firm dealing in land along the St. Croix and Clam rivers, and to Peet's other business and personal activities.
Included is a plat map of 1913 additions to Danbury, Wisconsin.

Papers of Carl Pemble of River Falls, Wisconsin, president of Save the St. Croix, Incorporated, a citizens' group opposed to construction of a Northern States Power Company generating plant on the St. Croix River at Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, because of its potential for ecological and recreational damage.
Also present are papers on the River Falls Committee for Human Survival, a group seeking nuclear disarmament and an end to nuclear testing.

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

Letter to Phipps of Hudson, Wisconsin, from his uncle containing recollections of Clement Clarke Moore, author of "The Night Before Christmas."
The letter writer says he lived in the Chelsea area on New York City, circa 1847, and his family leased land from Moore.

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

Clerk's record of tax certificates cancelled, showing date, name of certificate holder, number of certificate, year of tax sale, face value of certificate, accrued interest on certificate at time of payment, and total amount paid.

Supervisor of Assessments' annual reports to the County Board, printed by the County Clerk under Wis. Laws of 1905, Ch. 523, Sect. 4. Each report contains a table of amount of state, county, school, and local tax revenue, classified by type of tax; a table of total assessed valuation of each county; tables for each town of acreage and assessed valuation of lands and improvements, classified by use; tables showing assessed and recommended full value of real estate (classified by use) and personal property (classified by type) in each assessment district; and general advisory remarks.

Reports from the County Extension Agents to the County Board of Supervisors, including agricultural agents' reports, 4-H club leaders' reports, and demonstration agents' reports; and material concerning a tree planting project accompanying the George Washington bicentennial.

Index to deed and mortgage record books indicating the mortgagor or granter, mortgagee or grantee, date of contractual instrument, amount of consideration, description of the real estate involved, date when recorded, volume and page number in which the mortgage was recorded, date of satisfaction, and remarks concerning the satisfaction.

Record of reports by physicians of accidents they treated as specified in Laws of Wisconsin, 1905, chapter 416. Each report includes the name, age, race, sex, residence, marital status, occupation, and place of employment of the injured person and the cause and severity of the injury.

Poem written in honor of Johnston's 1952 retirement as principal of the River Falls, Wis., campus elementary school.

Organizational records of the Aid Society Norden, a mutual aid society constituted by Scandinavian immigrants in 1886 and devoted to providing sickness and death benefits to members. The records consist of articles of incorporation and dissolution, constitution and bylaws, financial records, membership books, and meeting minutes.