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UWRF Series 195-D2013.023.226 · January 31, 2006.
Part of UWRF Video Collection

Video footage of the Spring 2006 Opening Meeting. Remarks by shared governance leaders including Barbara Wemer, Sarah Egerstrom, Gail Anderson, and Nick Cluppert. (00:25:00) Chancellor Don Betz, discusses happenings on campus, initiatives and accomplishments, and other campus news items. (01:15:48) END

US ARC River Falls SC 394 · collection · 1863, 1893-1926

Miscellaneous papers of the Chapman family of River Falls, Wisconsin, consisting of three letters written by Frank Chapman to his sister Ella while he was stationed in Georgia and Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War; one Civil War letter written by "Mr. George" at Bull Run, October 15, 1863 with ink made from berry juice (with a partial transcription); a 1908 marriage invitation and certificate; deeds; and newspaper clippings.

Chappelle, Mrs. H.H. (Edith)

Mrs. Chappelle was born in Kinnickirurl.c Township, St. Croix Cowity,
in 1888. She moved to Washburn County in 1913, and lived there until
the time of her death in 1972. She was the area historian and a correspondent for the Rice Lake (Wisconsin) Chronotype for 29 years. The interview deals mainly with the lumber industry am the men who brought it to Washburn County. She includes infomation on the Onaha Railroad, the Knapp-Stout Lumber Company, and local lumber companies am area sawmills in her discussion. Mrs. Chappelle is the author of The Why of Names in Washburn County, am the taped interview is followed by thirty minute program in which Mrs. Chappelle discusses the writing of the book. The Why of Names in
Washburn Cowity is om file at the Area Research Center located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

US ARC River Falls Mss EP · collection · 1917-1919

Letters written by Charles Corcoran to his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. P. (Pat) Corcoran of River Falls, Wisconsin, during his World War I military service in the U.S. Army. Stateside letters focus on daily life as well as off-base trips to such cities as Little Rock, New York, and Philadelphia. Overseas correspondence begins on September 18, 1918 while assigned to the American Expeditionary Force in Mehun, France. Letters focus on daily life and impressions of France and England, but recount no combat action.

US ARC River Falls Mss AC · collection · 1936-1944

Papers of Madsen, Progressive Party state senator from Polk County, Wisconsin, containing legislative correspondence, campaign speeches and platforms of Polk County Progressive candidates in the 1941 elections, and material relating to the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation of Polk County including a membership book.

US ARC River Falls SC 117 · collection · undated

Reminiscences by Parker of the town of Pleasant Valley, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, in the mid-1800's; and two clippings about Parker, an early settler there.

US ARC River Falls SC 302 · collection · 1860-1862, 1887

Letters of Charles F. and Rachael A. Blood, including an 1860 letter from Charles to his future wife Rachael A. Sturm of Elmira, Illinois, describing his life while traveling to Pike's Peak in search of gold; an 1862 letter to Charles and Rachael from Franklin A. Blood at Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin; a letter from Albert W. Harriman (Oct. 1861) in which he describes his experiences stationed with the Union Army near Washington, D.C.; and a letter (Sept. 8, 1887) from Nellie Beard to Rachael in which Beard describes conditions at the Hudson, Wisconsin school at which she was a teacher, and reports on the theft of $12,000 apparently from the school's building fund.

US ARC ARC 1999.006 · collection · 1887-1893

Photographs created by Charles Francis Smith of houses and families in the vicinity of Elmwood, Wisconsin, circa 1887-1893. Also included are index cards with detailed descriptions for many, but not all, of the included images.

Smith, Charles Francis
US ARC River Falls SC 17 · collection · 1958

Papers of Stratton, River Falls State Normal School, River Falls, Wisconsin, relating chiefly to his appointment as an assistant cartographer on the staff of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1918-1919; and a letter, August 19, 1925, concerning maps used by the Commission.

US ARC River Falls SC 278 · collection · undated

Memoir written after 1935 by Pearson, describing his early life in Sweden and Denmark, immigration to Boston in 1880, relocation to Minneapolis in 1883, and removal to the Mann Valley area of Pierce County, Wisconsin in 1899; as transcribed and translated from the Swedish original by Edith Pearson in 1966.

US ARC River Falls Mss BJ · collection · 1896-1915

Various household account books and insurance sales records kept by Hanson, an insurance agent probably located in Ellsworth, Wisconsin. Included are cash books, an insurance invoice register, and policy registers for Citizens Insurance of Missouri policies and Northwestern Fire and Marine Insurance Company policies.

US ARC River Falls SC 34 · collection · 1974-1976 and undated

Papers including genealogical information, photocopies of photographs, and biographical recollections of Charles N. Cox concerning his youth and family in the River Falls, Wisconsin, area.

US ARC River Falls SC 420 · collection · 1882-1915

Papers of Staples, an Osceola, Wisconsin, druggist and Grand Master of the State Independent Order of Odd Fellows, consisting of diary fragments, 1882-1906, speeches made before fraternal groups, clippings, and other materials.