Summary Information

Title: Joseph C. Schafer Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1862-1941

Creator:

• Schafer, Joseph, 1867-1941

Call Number: Mss 746; GA 094; GA 095; VBA 890

Quantity: 3.8 c.f. (8 archives boxes and 3 card boxes), 2 films, and 1 videorecording

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers, mainly 1920-1941, of Joseph C. Schafer, a historian and superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Correspondence, which is both personal and professional in character, includes letters to his wife (1891-1894) and exchanges with publishers, members of the Conference of Historical Societies and the Agricultural History Society, prominent historians such as Solon J. Buck, Avery Craven, Bernard deVoto, William Dunning, Max Farrand, Waldo G. Leland, Frederick Merk, Frederic L. Paxson, and Frederick J. Turner, and former colleagues on the University of Oregon faculty. Also included are working papers for the “Wisconsin Domesday” project; writings and addresses on a variety of historical subjects; an incomplete autobiography and other personal and family material; and research notes primarily concerning agricultural and Civil War history.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00746

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