Summary Information
Title: Eau Claire (Wis.). Mayor: Correspondence
Inclusive Dates: 1940-1949
Creator: Eau Claire (Wis.). Mayor
Call Number: Eau Claire Series 20
Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes)
Repository: Housed at the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division
Archival Locations: UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr.
Abstract: Correspondence of three Eau Claire mayors: G. Donald Barnes, Orville Christianson, and W. J. Mills. Routine matters include “fixing” of parking tickets, job recommendations, petitions, the Wisconsin Retirement Fund, promotion of Eau Claire as both a convention site and an industrial site, and the furtherance of highway construction. Problems specifically related to World War II include unemployment, purchase of war bonds, attempts to get needed city employees out of the service early, and the rationing caused by the war. Many of the letters are to and from prominent Wisconsin politicians such as Congressman Merlin Hull, Senators Alexander Wiley and R. M. La Follette, Jr., and Governors Julius Heil and Walter Goodland.
Language: English
Search Terms/Subject Terms
- Municipal government—Wisconsin—Eau Claire o Eau Claire (Wis.)—Politics and government
- Barnes, G. Donald
- Christianson, Orville
- Mills, W.J.
Contents List
| Box 1 | Airport |
| Box 1 | Ambulance |
| Box 1 | Application |
| Box 1 | A-Misc. |
| Box 1 | Badger Bomber Campaign |
| Box 1 | Baseball |
| Box 1 | Bids |
| Box 1 | Board of Education |
| Box 1 | Bonds |
| Box 1 | B-Misc. |
| Box 1 | Mr. Christianson |
| Box 1 | Christmas Basket Fund |
| Box 1 | C.M.St.P. 8 P. Ry. Company |
| Box 1 | Citizens Solicitations Committee |
| Box 1 | City-County Health Department |
| Box 1 | Coal |
| Box 1 | Committees |
| Box 1 | Community Welfare Fund |
| Box 1 | Conventions |
| Box 2 | County Council of Defense |
| Box 2 | C-Misc. |
| Box 2 | Department of Commerce |
| Box 2 | Distressed Area |
| Box 2 | Drummond Packing Company |
| Box 2 | D-Misc. |
| Box 2 | Election Board |
| Box 2 | Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company |
| Box 2 | Equipment |
| Box 2 | E-Misc. |
| Box 2 | Fire Department |
| Box 2 | Forest Fire Fighting Auxiliary |
| Box 2 | Flood Control |
| Box 2 | Franking Privilege |
| Box 2 | F-Misc. |
| Box 2 | Garbage Disposal |
| Box 2 | Going-Away-Dance: “Mess Fund” |
| Box 2 | G-Misc. |
| Box 3 | Hardware Mutual Casualty Company |
| Box 3 | Heil, Julius P. Governor |
| Box 3 | Hipke, George H. |
| Box 3 | Housekeeping Aide |
| Box 3 | Hull, Merlin, Congressman |
| Box 3 | H-Misc. |
| Box 3 | Industrial Union Council |
| Box 3 | Insurance (Fleet) |
| Box 3 | I-Misc. |
| Box 3 | J-Misc. |
| Box 3 | K-Misc. |
| Box 3 | Lights |
| Box 3 | L-Misc. |
| Box 3 | Milk Crisis, 1945-46 |
| Box 3 | M-Misc. |
| Box 3 | New Industries |
| Box 3 | N-Misc. |
| Box 3 | O-Misc. |
| Box 3 | Personal |
| Box 3 | Pritchard, John, Assemblyman |
| Box 3 | Public Service Commission |
| Box 3 | P-Misc. |
| Box 3 | Recommendations |
| Box 3 | Red Cross |
| Box 3 | Road Oil |
| Box 3 | R-Misc. |
| Box 3 | Selective Service |
| Box 3 | Sherman Creek |
| Box 3 | Signal Tower |
| Box 3 | State Highway Commission |
| Box 3 | State Sanitary Engineer |
| Box 3 | Street Signs and Signals |
| Box 3 | Street Sweeper |
| Box 3 | S-Misc. |
| Box 4 | T-Misc. |
| Box 4 | U.S. Rubber Company |
| Box 4 | U-Misc. |
| Box 4 | Veterans Hospital |
| Box 4 | V-Misc. |
| Box 4 | War Plant Road Rehabilitation |
| Box 4 | Western Electric Company |
| Box 4 | Wisconsin Retirement Fund |
| Box 4 | Wisconsin State Planning Board |
| Box 4 | Works Progress Administration |
| Box 4 | W-Misc. |
| Box 4 | Young Men's Christian Association |
| Box 4 | Z-Misc. |