Baldassaro, Lawrence.
Italians in Milwaukee oral history project, 1991-1992.
UWM Manuscript Collection 53
Collection constists of nineteen transcripts from an oral history project studying the first generation Italians who settled in Milwaukee's Third Ward. The interviews include information on life in Italy; immigrating to the United States; and work, social, family, and religious life in the Third Ward. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Chew, Carol and Daniel.
Fox Point video archives project, 1989-1990.
UWM Manuscript Collection 209
A collection of six videocassettes containing footage taken in Fox Point, Wisconsin.  Produced by Carol and Daniel Chew for the Fox Point Foundation, the tapes contain footage of events that took place in Fox Point in 1989 and 1990, as well as interviews with Fox Point residents.  The tapes also include footage of various homes, businesses, schools, and houses of worship in Fox Point, as well as recordings of older photographs relating to Fox Point and its residents.  An accompanying guide lists the contents of each tape. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Christoffel, Harold, 1912- .
Oral history interview, 1987.
UWM Manuscript Collection 40
An oral history interview by Stanley Mallach and Joseph Broderick with Harold Christoffel, president of the United Automobile Workers Union, Local 248 at the Allis-Chalmers Corporation (ACC) plant in West Allis, Wisconsin from the late 1930s until February 1945, when he entered military service, at Christoffel's home outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 23 June 1987. The interview deals with the founding and operations of the CIO News (Wisconsin) and West Allis plant newspapers and the role of these publications in labor relations at ACC and in the rise of the CIO in Wisconsin. Also contains information about conflicts between ACC and Local 248 and the rise and internal operations of the Milwaukee County Industrial Union Council (MCIUC) and the Wisconsin State Industrial Union Council (WSIUC). The interview deals with the founding, purposes, effectiveness, editorial policy, story sources, and distribution of the Allis-Chalmers Workers' Union News, the CNW, and the Local 248 page and Local 248 edition of the CNW. Notable in the interview are Christoffel's comments on the purposes of the publications as information and organizing arms of Local 248 and the MCIUC and WSIUC; on race relations at ACC and in Local 248; on aspects of labor relations at the West Allis plant and the CNW coverage of the 1939 and 1941 strikes; on friction between the labor movement in Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Journal; on the coverage of union elections and John L. Lewis by the CNW; and on the stand of Local 248 on American entry into World War II before 7 December 1941 and attitudes toward the war effort after December 7. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Dougherty, Jack.
More Than One Struggle oral history collection, 1995-1996.
UWM Manuscript Collection 217
Collection consists of sixty-three oral history interviews conducted by Jack Dougherty during the course of researching his book More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee. The oral histories consist of cassette tapes, transcripts, correspondence with interviewees, and post-interview notes. The collection also contains Dougherty's research files on related subjects. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Filzen, Sarah.
Papers, 1996-1997.
UWM Manuscript Collection 179
Materials from three oral history projects, relating to Cuca Records, Paramount Records, and the Park People, conducted by Sarah Filzen. The collection consists of taped interviews and transcripts for the Cuca Records and Paramount Records interviews and abstracts for the Park People interviews. The oral history projects relating to Cuca Records and Paramount Records, in which interviewees were asked about their background and their knowledge of the history of these local Wisconsin record labels, were conducted while Filzen was a graduate student in history at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Filzen’s history of Paramount Records is also included in the collection. The Park People project studied changes in public policy and recreational needs in the Milwaukee County Park System. Diane Buck co-conducted several of the Park People interviews. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Forgotten Champs: The 1944 Milwaukee Chicks Oral History Project.
Records, 1995.
UWM Manuscript Collection 106
Collection contains transcripts and audio recordings of former member of the Milwaukee Chicks baseball team, conducted as part of a 1995 Oral History course at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. The interviews include information on the player's personal history and background, joining the All-American Girls Baseball League, impressions of playing, contracts, uniforms, life on the road, social engagements, the role of women in World War II, and other members of the Chicks. Players interviewed were Thelma Eisen, Viola Griffin (Thompson), Dorothy Hunter, Vivian Sheriffs, Sylvia Straka (Wronski), and Alma Ziegler. The Milwaukee Chicks played only one season in the League (1944), won the championship, and then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Golda Meir collection, 1904-1987.
UWM Manuscript Collection 21
The collection consists largely of reproduced correspondence, press releases, photographs, and speeches pertaining to Golda Meir's political life, primarily from 1955-1974. The correspondence is usually with friends and admirers, thanking Meir and communicating their support for her. There are two folders of photocopied materials originally created by Ms. Lou Kadar, Meir's secretary, containing supportive letters to Meir, and recollections of her life. The collection also contains newsclippings, many in Hebrew, from the Jerusalem Post (1957-1983), and the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (1973-1974), student records (1916), and numerous other papers (1947-1984) about Meir. The photographs are of Meir throughout her life, historic Jewish individuals, and the Milwaukee Jewish community. Also contained in the collection are oral history interviews with persons who knew Meir, including Yitzhak Rabin and Lou Kadar. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Hirsch, Alfred, 1908- .
Oral history interview, 1982.
UWM Manuscript Collection 39
An oral history interview by Stanley Mallach with Alfred Hirsch, a labor newspaper journalist who was editor of the CIO News (Wisconsin) from August 1942 to March 1944, conducted on November 8 and 18 and December 13, 1982 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The interview covers Hirsch's early life and education; his work with the International Labor Defense, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, and the Sunday Worker; his affiliation with the Cafeteria Employees Union and his editorship of the Cafeteria Call; and his editorship of the CIO News. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Hitz family.
Papers, 1835-1993.
UWM Manuscript Collection 56
Papers of the Hitz family, compiled by John B. Hitz, with some information on other extended family, especially Frederick C. Winkler, mostly from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes family correspondence, mainly discussing their personal affairs, photographs, scrapbooks and artifacts that focus on the lives of these family members and other relatives; and genealogical histories for the Hitz and Winkler families. Of special interest is the typescript account of Carl Winkler's 1843 emigration from Bremen to New York; the letters and military records of Rudolph Hitz, who served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army in the Montana Territory from 1867-1870; and Henry Hitz's letters from the Army (where he was a surgeon) during World War I. The collection contains photographs of Frederick C. Winkler who served in the Civil War as a brevet brigadier general, but only a few of his wartime letters, which largely discuss family matters. The collection also contains news clippings, notes, and letters of Harold Hitz Burton, J. Edgar Hoover, Helen Keller, and Norman Mailer, usually about personal affairs, sent to members of the Hitz family. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Maier, Henry W., 1918-   .
Oral history interview, 1985.
Tape UC1030A
Collection contains audio recordings of an oral history interview with Henry Maier, conducted by Jim Cavanaugh on 25 April 1985 as part of the State Historical Society's Wisconsin Democratic Party Oral History Project. Maier, a former state legislator and Mayor of Milwaukee at the time of the interview, discussed his upbringing; service on a Navy destroyer in World War II; his efforts to build the Democratic Party in Milwaukee, including his work with Dan Hoan and Vi Lomoe to take control of the Democratic Organizing Committee; his unsuccessful 1948 bid for mayor; and his election to the State Senate in 1950. Also discussed were Maier's role in activities in the State Senate; struggles for control of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin; the political role of labor activists; population reapportionment in Wisconsin; his relationships with Dan Hoan, Gaylord Nelson, and Frank Zeidler; the creation of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Maier's successful 1960 mayoral campaign; and the political relationship between the city of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Milwaukee Humanities Program.
Records, 1977-1986.
UWM Archival Collection 67
Records of a federally funded project conducted by the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) to promote the humanities to the general public, largely compiled or created by Frederick I. Olson, last executive director of the Program. The collection contains accounting, budget, and other financial records; correspondence files; grant files concerning the National Endowments for the Humanities (NEH); and films made by the Program. The correspondence files contain letters to and from the executive director with NEH and UWM officials, and Milwaukee's historical community documenting program funding and activities. The community board's meeting files contain minutes documenting its focus on NEH funding, project development, bylaws, and budget reports. The minutes provide insight into the objectives of the Program and the role of board members. The Program's oral history and film projects, which focused on the history of Milwaukee's people, products, and geographic areas are well documented in publications and photographs, feature film, cassette tapes, and video tapes, and include out takes not seen by the general public. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Milwaukee LGBT History Project, Inc.
Oral history interviews, 2003
UWM Manuscript Collection 200
Collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by the Milwaukee LGBT History Project with members of Milwaukee's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community. The collection includes cassette tapes and interview transcripts.  Interviewees describe their coming out experiences, the gay liberation movement in Milwaukee, early LGBT organizations, the impact of feminism on LGBT politics, and LGBT social activities. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Mink, Robert.
Polish-Jewish Relations in Milwaukee Oral History Project, 1990.
UWM Manuscript Collection 118
Consists of seven oral history interviews conducted in 1990 with Jewish merchants and their descendants who were active on Milwaukee's Polish south. Interviews contain information on inter-ethnic relations, anti-semitism, the experience of Jewish immigrants, and conducting business with immigrant clientele. Transcripts, although not complete, exist for each interview. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Patrick Cudahy Strike and Plant Closing of 1987-1989 Oral History Project.
Records, 1994.
UWM Manuscript Collection 123
Collection consists of oral history interviews with administrators and workers at the Patrick Cudahy meatpacking plant in Cudahy, Wisconsin who were on strike from 1987-1989. Students in Dr. Michael Gordon's history class at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee conducted the interviews in 1994. For each interviewee there is a cassette recording and abstract of the interview. The topics discussed include family background; job history at Patrick Cudahy; working conditions; attitudes towards the company, the strike, and scab labor; and how the strike lasted for two years. Of particular interest for details about the financial and working conditions of the plant, and strike strategies are the interviews with Cudahy President Roger Kapella, Director of Human Resources Daniel Habighorst, and United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local P-40 President, Mark Rosenbaum. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Prince, John B.
John B. and Martha Prince Fairy Chasm collection, 1892-1995.
UWM Manuscript Collection 116
Miscellaneous records of the Fish Creek Park Company and the neighborhood of Fairy Chasm, Wisconsin, compiled by long-time residents Jack and Martha Prince. The collection contains numerous photographs of area homes and public events; oral history interviews with other residents; and minutes of the Fish Creek Park Company's Board of Directors. The Company, founded in 1892 and dissolved in 1971, bought and sold real estate in the private resort community of Fairy Chasm. The community evolved into two sections (North and South Fairy Chasm), and incorporated into the cities of Mequon (1957) and Bayside (1955). The collection documents the growth of the community, changes in home ownership, and local pride in the environmental beauty of the area. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Post World War II Danube Swabian Immigration to Milwaukee Oral History Project.
Records, 1993-1995.
UWM Manuscript Collection 112
Abstracts, transcripts, and audio recordings with Danube Swabian immigrants to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, conducted as part of an oral history course at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. The interviews provide insights on life in the Danube basin, service in the Hungarian and German armies during World War II, experiences in Russian prisoner-of-war camps, emigration and settlement in Milwaukee, and the German American community. The collection is especially useful for studying the removal of ethnic minorities from eastern Europe, and the life of refugees in Germany after the war. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Revels, Ruth.
Oral history interview with Ruth Revels, 1985.
Milwaukee Small Collection 207
Typed transcript of an interview with Ruth Revels, conducted by Zachary Cooper as the first of a proposed series on the experiences of rural Wisconsin blacks as they became more urbanized. The interview concerns Revel's life in Milwaukee, ca. 1935-1950, after moving there from Fort Dodge, Iowa for better opportunities; and includes information on her work experiences in Mayor Zeidler's office and the Milwaukee Public Library Marine Collection, living conditions, family life and recreation, and the black community and businesses.

Sherman Park Community Association 1992 Oral History Project.
Records, 1991-1996.
UWM Manuscript Collection 111
Transcripts and audio cassette tapes of interviews conducted as a class oral history project at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Sherman Park Community Association formed in 1967 to address concerns about conditions in the neighborhood. The interviews, conducted as part of the Association's 25th anniversary, deal with member's recollections of neighborhood activities and projects, race relations, redlining and real estate companies, home ownership, politics, and school desegregation. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Sinai Samaritan Medical Center.
Records, 1878-1997.
UWM Manuscript Collection 108
Records of Sinai Samaritan Medical Center and its predecessor institutions, Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Evangelical Deaconess School of Nursing, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse, Milwaukee Hospital, the Milwaukee Lutheran Hospital, the Milwaukee Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing. Most of the records are from the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital and the Milwaukee Hospital; each of these series include annual, department, and statistical reports, property records, news clippings, and staff newsletters. The collection contains an extensive number of visual materials (photographs and lantern slides) of buildings, staff, and facilities dating from the 1878 through the 1990s. The collection also contains records of the auxiliaries include minutes of meetings, newsletters, and photographs. The records of the schools of nursing include commencement programs, yearbooks, student records, photographs, class notes of students, and alumnae newsletters. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Tuchman, Isidore, 1888-  , interviewee.
Oral history interview with Isidore Tuchman, 1962.
Milwaukee Small Collection 46 and Milwaukee Tape 2.
Tape recorded and transcribed interview, February 21, 1962, with a Milwaukee Zionist concerning the emergency call for relief for Palestine in 1913-1914, subsequent fund raising drives in behalf of the Jews in Europe and Asia, and Milwaukee Zionist leaders.

University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Office of International Studies and Programs. Office of the Director.
Records, 1957-1993.
UWM Archival Collection 135
The Office of International Studies and Programs was formed at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) in 1957 to oversee, coordinate, and encourage all forms of international activity at UWM, and also coordinate numerous exchange programs for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. The bulk of the records document the years 1965-1970 and deal primarily with UWM connections to Brazil, Venezuela and other South American countries. Several conferences sponsored by the Office of International Studies and Programs are documented in the records, including the "Northbound" and "Southbound" Venezuelan Seminars and a Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities conference report. Sixteen audio tapes of a 1964 Peace Corps conference held at Wingspread in Racine, Wisconsin are also included. The collection contains numerous directories of faculty with international interests and connections, and a 39 tape lesson series from the Oral Brazilian Portuguese Language Project. The majority of the records for 1982-1993 consist of newsletters and brochures created by the Office of International Studies and Programs. Finding aid available in the Archives.

University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Oral History Project.
Records, 1981-1990.
UWM Archival Collection 16
Collection contains audio cassette tapes and some transcripts of the Project, in which interviewees described the origin, location, and development in the early years of the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM). The interviews, conducted by Frederick I. Olson, Frank Cassell, and J. Martin Klotsche, were part of UWM's 25th anniversary celebration. The interviewees were officials of UWM, the UW-System, and local and state government, and include Ralph Aderman, Joseph Baier, Ira Baldwin, Harry Franke, Fred Harrington, Klotsche, Henry Maier, Clifford Smith, Olson, and Frank Zeidler. Most of the interviews focus on efforts in the State legislature and UW Board of Regents to merge the Wisconsin State Teachers College, Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Extension Division. Other topics include the development of UWM's Colleges and Schools, UWM's independence from UW--Madison, and the 1970 student strike. Seven of the interviews were conducted in 1984 by students in an Applied History course. There are transcripts only for the Baier, Baldwin, Franke, Harrington, Klotsche, and Zeidler interviews. The tapes are physically arranged by a number assigned to them in 1984. They are intellectually arranged in the finding aid by the name of the interviewee. Finding aid available in the Archives.

University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Milwaukee Public Schools Oral History Project.
Records, 1989-1990.
UWM Archival Collection 82
Audio recordings of interviews with twelve former Milwaukee Public School administrators and teachers and seven former students, conducted as part of a University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee History Department research project examining the decline of Milwaukee public schools. The interviews provide information on various perspectives of changes, dating from the 1920s through the 1980s, on the administration of the schools; modernization of the curriculum; the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association; student attitudes, discipline, and social life; parental involvement; race relations, especially for African American teachers; and public support for education. The collection also contains written abstracts of the interviews, but no verbatim transcriptions were written. Use copies are available for most of interviews, and are housed in box 5. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Vanishing Art of Barbering Oral History Project.
Records, 1994.
UWM Manuscript Collection 105
Transcripts and audio records of interviews conducted as a 1994 class oral history project at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The collection documents the remembrances of six Milwaukee barbers about their personal background, apprenticeship, changings in barbering, role of female barbers, clientele, unionism, and the future of barbering. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council.
The impact of her spirit oral history project 1983-1989.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection 129
Oral history project undertaken by members of the Wisconsin Homemakers Council as a celebration of the organization’s fiftieth anniversary. The project focuses on the life stories of Wisconsin homemakers and on the influence of the Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council had on their lives. The collection consists of tape-recorded interviews, transcripts, a published guide to the project, a copy of a cookbook derived from the project, photographs, a slide/tape show with accompanying script, publicity materials, a discussion guide, and a script for a play based on the oral histories. Copies of everything in the collection are available in Madison in accession M90-325. A duplicate set of transcripts has been divided according to the counties of residence of the interviewees and is housed at the appropriate area research centers. Duplicate copies of the slide/tape show were sent to the River Falls, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Stevens Point, and Northland area research centers and a copy of the cookbook and the published guide was sent to each area research center. (The duplicate transcripts still are considered part of this collection; the slide/tape show copies and the publications are considered as given to the centers for integration into their campus resources as best suits each campus.) Finding aid available in the Archives.

Wisconsin Jewish Archives oral history interviews, 1954-1967.
Tapes UC263A, UC264A, UC352A, UC414, and UC568A
10 audio cassette tapes
Oral history interviews with Wisconsin Jews, concerning their lives in Europe, immigration to the United States, and family, political, religious, social, and work activities in Wisconsin. The interviews are part of the State Historical Society's Wisconsin Jewish Archives. The interviewees were Isaac Berland, Louis Bloom, Clara Brown, Solomon Elbaum, Robert Liebowitz, Harry Luck, Bertha Langer Raymond, Rae Ruscha, Benjamin Saltzstein, Jacob Urich, and David Wolf.Finding aid available in the Archives.

Wisconsin Native American Language Project.
Records, 1973-1976.
UWM Manuscript Collection 20
Collection contains records created by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) participants in the Wisconsin Native American Language Project (WNALP), an effort to teach Native-American children and adults the native language and traditions of the Menominee, Ojibwa, Oneida, Potawatomi, and Winnebago. The records include audio tapes, alphabet and syllable books, handouts, self-tests, songs, stories, student cards, and writing and reading lessons, and worksheets. For each language, there are lexicons or vocabularies. The vocabularies, which contain the English and Native American words, are on notecards. The largest group of materials can be found for the Menominee and Ojibwa languages. The Menominee and Winnebago records include the notebooks of Ken Miner, a Menominee linguistic specialist hired by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as part of a sub-contract made with the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council. The Menominee records include a complete copy of Leonard Bloomfield's lexicon, as well indexes to his work.
The collection contains 135 audio cassette and reel-to-reel tapes recorded as part of the Project. Most of the tapes are recordings of Menominee, Ojibwa, Oneida, and Winnebago words and phrases. Some tapes include complete stories or conversations of the speakers. English translations are provided on many, but not all, of the tapes. Finding aid available in the Archives.