Summary Information

Title: French Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1678-2000

Creator:

• French family

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 154; PH 7142; Audio 2037A

Quantity: 20.9 cubic feet (44 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, 3 records center cartons, and 1 oversize folder), 0.7 cubic feet of photographs, 63 glass plate negatives, and 3 audio recordings (discs); plus additions of 2607 photographs and 25 negatives (9 archives boxes and 8 flat boxes), and 9 drawings (1 oversize folder)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center and the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Personal and professional papers of various members of the French and Quarles families of Milwaukee, and the Thiers family of Kenosha, Wisconsin, successively collected by matriarch Louisa K. Thiers, daughter Emma Quarles, and granddaughter Ethel French. Correspondence, family memorabilia, and photographs comprise the collection's bulk and document the family life and activities of these socially prominent, well-educated Milwaukee and Kenosha families.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00154

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