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Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties cemetery indexes

  • US ARC UWRF MSS 1999.005
  • collection
  • circa 1980s-2015

Index to county cemeteries located in Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties. The St. Croix Valley Genealogical Society (SCVGS) completed an extensive project in the 1980s to inventory tombstones in local cemeteries. Transcriptions were made from tombstones for most of the cemeteries in the counties of Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix by the SCVGS over the course of this project. Burnett County cemeteries were indexed by a number of volunteers.

St. Croix Valley Genealogical Society (SCVGS)

Reardon family. Papers. Blanche Reardon Cannon ; Nellyebelle Reardon Tolpo, circa 1929-1935, 2020: Biographical information, tour miscellany, and chronology of tours

  • US ARC UWRF MSS 2020.03.001
  • collection
  • 1929-1935, 2020

Blanche Alice Reardon (1901-1957) and Nellyebelle Reardon (1908-1989) were born on a 20-acre family farm in Kinnickinnic Township in St. Croix County Wisconsin. The youngest of eight children, the girls moved with two siblings and their mother into the Town of River Falls by 1920, where Blanche completed teacher training at the State Normal School at River Falls (now University of Wisconsin- River Falls). The sisters followed a brother to Chicago and utilized their musical and performance training to start the Reardon Sisters act. They toured Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan for a variety of audiences throughout the 1920's-early 1930s. Blanche Reardon married Charles Cannon, an intellectual property lawyer from Superior, Wisconsin in 1935 and the Reardon Sisters discontinued performances shortly thereafter. Nellyebelle married George D. Tolpo in 1942. (biographical information taken from collection)

Letters written to the future by ENG 361 students, 2014.

  • US ARC UWRF MSS 2014.023
  • collection
  • 2014

In the fall of 2014, English 361: Theories of Composition students visited the UWRF University Archives and Area Research Center for a class assignment. The instructor, Conan Kmiecik, asked the students to write a letter to posterity that would be added to the UWRF Archives collections.

This collection contains 22 letters from students on index cards, there is also a letter from Conan Kmiecik explain the assignment and his hopes for the future.

George Lincoln Rockwell recording, 1967.

  • UWRF 234_D1967-1180
  • collection
  • 1967

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.

Wisconsin State University - River Falls

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