Summary Information

Title: Racine County History Project Records
Inclusive Dates: 1838-1977

Creator:

• Racine County History Project (Wis.)

Call Number: Parkside Mss 94; Audio 1333A

Quantity: 2.3 cubic feet (5 archives boxes and 1 card file box) and 12 tape recordings

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Library/Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Parkside Library / Parkside 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:

Papers of editor Nicholas Burckel and research files of contributing authors for the book, Racine: Growth and Change in a Wisconsin County, a project of the Racine County Bicentennial Liaison Committee. Editor's files include correspondence with contributing authors and others, publicity and promotional materials, information concerning the authors and book's publication, news clippings and bibliographies, and some records of the sponsoring committee. Research files of contributing authors include correspondence, prepublication comments from outside readers, notes, newsclippings, and actual or photocopied documents. Of note are Lawrence Crumb's extensive notes on churches and their histories; N. Peter Ross's notes on township historic structures and on cemetery occupants; John Buenker's compilation of oral history interviews and transcripts, extensive notes, and collection of Racine labor documents including handbills (1951-1956) and local UAW-CIO unions.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pks0094

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