UW-Eau Claire

History of UW-Eau Claire

The History of UW-Eau Claire Collection includes resources that document the history and evolution of this campus. The collection includes published material as well as archival materials and may eventually include additional books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources deemed important to the study of our state’s university system and its campuses.

Jeanette Gaffney Miller Collection, 1925-1930

Memorabilia from Jeanette Gaffney’s attendance at the Eau Claire State Normal School as part of the class of 1928. Gaffney was heavily involved in campus and student life, including the Young Women’s Christian Association, Pep Club, the Women’s Athletic Association, Student Council, Declamation for public speaking contests and theater productions.

Ku Klux Klan in Northwestern Wisconsin 1915-1950

Records, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, ephemera and artifacts documenting a popular movement that most Americans would rather forget – a so-called “reform” movement driven by xenophobia and bigotry. Although largely gone from the state by the late 1920s, the Klan persisted in northwestern Wisconsin, including Chippewa, Clark, and Pierce counties, through the 1940s.

Listening to War

The Listening to War digital collection brings together first-person accounts of veterans and civilians in Wisconsin during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. These stories of everyday life during wartime come from men and women who served on the battlefront; nurses, journalists, shipbuilders, and others who contributed to wartime work at home and abroad; Holocaust survivors who immigrated from Europe to Wisconsin after World War II; and Hmong refugees from Laos who were resettled in the state following the Vietnam War.

UW-Eau Claire Historic Campus Photographs

Hundreds of images related to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and its predecessors from 1917 to the present, from the Special Collections and Archives Department, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire.

UW-Eau Claire Yearbooks: Periscope 1917-1995

The UW-Eau Claire campus yearbook, the Periscope, was published annually from 1917 to 1995, documenting the university and its predecessors, Eau Claire State Normal School, Eau Claire State Teacher’s College, Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire and Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire

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