Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin. Department of Administration: Records of the Board on the U.S.S. Wisconsin
Inclusive Dates: 1983-1994

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Department of Administration

Call Number: Series 2540; PH Series 2540; VBC 266; VHB 485

Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (1 record center carton and 2 archives boxes) and 165 photographs and 109 negatives in 1 archives box and 2 videorecordings

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

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

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Minutes, press releases, correspondence, programs, reports, publications, newsletters, contribution records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other records of a board created to promote the bond between state residents and the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin. The board was attached administratively to the Department of Administration. Its duties included communication with the battleship's home port officials, development of programs for the benefit of the ship's crew, distribution of public information about the ship's history and operations, development of a permanent exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum, and acceptance of gifts and bequests to support its mission.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser02540

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