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Manuscript Collections
Manuscript collections include a wide variety of materials including, but not limited to, diaries, personal papers, business records, organizational records, journals, correspondence and photographs. UW-Parkside’s Manuscript collections include materials owned and maintained by the university as well as materials owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, but housed and maintained by the university. The easiest way to define these materials may be to describe what they are not: they are not university records, nor are they state, regional or local public records. As with all of UW-Parkside Archive holdings, the manuscript collections are all either from Racine or Kenosha or within a short distance of those communities.
UW-Parkside Manuscript Collections
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside manuscript collections contain personal papers and other documents of individuals and families, as well as records of several national associations, local clubs and businesses from the Southeastern Wisconsin region. Included in the manuscript holdings are the records of the American Association of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the Irving Wallace Collection, the Vincent F. Ruffolo Collection of Nash Motors and AMC records, and a variety of smaller collections:
| MC 1 | Irving Wallace Papers |
| MC 2 | National College Learning Center Association |
| MC 3 | Della Wendt Papers |
| MC 4 | Racine County Home and Community Association |
| MC 5 | American College or Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) |
| MC 6 | Racine Labor Paper Pictures |
| MC 7 | George P. Connolly Papers |
| MC 8 | Parkside University League |
| MC 9 | American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) |
| MC 10 | David Kherdian Collection |
| MC 11 | John Sullivan Collection |
| MC 12 | Daughters of the American Revolution, Kenosha Branch |
| MC 13 | Vincent F. Ruffolo Collection |
| MC 14 | Racine Armenian-American 50 Year Club |
| MC 15 | Twin Disc, Inc. |
Wisconsin Historical Society Manuscripts
The Wisconsin Historical Society manuscript collections contain personal papers and other documents of individuals and families, churches, schools and colleges, associations, clubs, unions, and businesses from Kenosha and Racine counties. Among them are papers of Racine historian Eugene Leach, archives of the College of Racine, records of 15 labor organizations, business records of Albert and Flora Ellinger, records of the Kenosha and Racine Chambers of Commerce, and an impressive collection of political papers from local and state politicians.
The WHS manuscript collections are searchable at: http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/
or at: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/wiarchives/
Additional Resources for Genealogists & Historians:
WorldCat for Genealogists
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/genealogy/
WorldCat is a cooperatively-created catalog of materials held in more than 7,600 libraries in the United States and the rest of the world, including public, academic, state and national libraries; archives; and historical societies. These libraries have cataloged their regular collections as well as many special collections—including digitized materials—devoted to local history.
OAIster Union Catalog of Digital Resources
http://www.oaister.org/
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources with about 1000 contributors including the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. It includes the Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of business and professional men and of many of the early settled families (1906), the Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford and many other full-text manuscripts relating to Racine and Kenosha.
Family History Archive Collection
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/
Pdf versions of many family histories, collected and made available by BYU and other participating libraries. In the future the site hopes to accept electronic versions of family histories from any contributors. The site does not indicate how many histories are currently viewable, but there are at least several hundred texts.
If you are unable to visit our facility, we will be happy to provide you with copies of records located in our office: Please contact us with your request. It is helpful if you list your subject's name, location and dates of milestones.
