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Summary Information
Emerson Ela Papers
1892-1987
Mss 874; PH Mss 874; Micro 2053
4.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes, 1 card box, and 1 record center carton), 3 reels of microfilm (35mm), 38 photographs, and 199 transparencies
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers, 1898-1958, of Emerson Ela, a Madison, Wisconsin attorney and advocate of marketing cooperatives who was also associated with many civic organizations, and the personal papers of his wife, Florence White Ela. Included are biographical and autobiographical materials, personal and business correspondence, diaries and journals (chiefly of Florence Ela), household accounts, records of his early law practice, and subject files about the Madison Dry League, the Madison Planning Trust, the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association, and other organizations. Most extensive are the files on Ela's chairmanship of the United War Work Campaign during World War I which include correspondence; a scrapbook documenting the work of Lee C. H. Orbach, state publicity director; additional clipping scrapbooks; and lantern slides issued by the national campaign to support its fundraising work. Records of the law practice include correspondence with clients such as Richard Lloyd Jones, Amos P. Wilder, and the Wisconsin State Journal, and speeches delivered in behalf of the Northern Wisconsin Cooperative Tobacco Pool. Other correspondents include Charles N. Gregory, Irvine Lenroot, and Verne Kaub. Photographs include images of Emerson Ela and Florence White Ela documenting their lives before and after their marriage. Included are images of Emerson in school at Rochester Academy, Beloit Academy, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Images of Florence include photographs from Beloit College and a scrapbook kept by Florence.
English
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