Proceedings [of The] Annual Business Meeting, Томови 65-67State Historical Society of Wisconsin., 1917 |
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Advisory Committee Anderson Antiquarian Fund appointed appropriation archives balance Treasurer Baraboo Binding Fund Burr W Catalogue chairman Charles N ciety Coffin collection Conover County curators Draper Dudgeon Eau Claire Edward elected ending June 30 Executive Committee exhibits Father Knox Frederic FUND Treasurer gift including duplicates H. E. Cole Hanks Haugen Historical Library Historical Society increase Indian J. H. A. Lacher Judge Stevens July 1 Balance June 30 LAFAYETTE COUNTY Lawson M. M. Quaife Madison Manitowoc County Manuscript maps material membership Milwaukee Miss Morris motion Newspaper Division October 24 officers Pamphlets papers Paxson photostat photostat copies presented President printed Public Document purchase including exchanges RAY STEVENS received records Sauk County seconded and unanimously secretary Share of interest Siebecker SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN Society's staff Steensland Thwaites tion Total Trempealeau County unanimously carried vols volumes of newspapers waukee Waukesha Waukesha County William William K Wiscon Wisconsin War History
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Страница 16 - Upon suggestion by the President, it was moved and carried that the reading of the minutes of the last meeting be omitted and that they be approved as printed in the volume of Proceedings. The report of the Board of Trustees, having been printed and distributed among the members, was upon motion received and accepted by the Board of Directors, and recommended for adoption by the active members.
Страница 16 - ... purchase and enjoy books, papers and other articles forming its library and collections to any extent, and may acquire and hold, and at pleasure alienate, any other personal and real estate, and may acquire the same by devise, or bequest, or otherwise, not exceeding ten thousand dollars in value, but all its funds shall ever be faithfully appropriated to promote the objects of this formation.
Страница 17 - Cist, then corresponding secretary of the society, a resolution was adopted providing that a committee of five be appointed by the chair for the purpose of taking the necessary steps to inaugurate a movement for the purchase of the ground on which the battle of Chickamauga was fought, that monuments be placed thereon to mark the location of the troops that fought there, and that it be preserved similar to the plan of the battle field of Gettysburg.
Страница 54 - To loan, in its discretion, for such periods and under such rules and restrictions as it may adopt, to libraries, educational institutions and other organizations or to private individuals in good standing, such books, pamphlets or other materials that if lost or destroyed could easily and without much expense be replaced...
Страница 49 - ... archives under officials thoroughly trained, both in theory and in practice, for their work ". In the application of these principles to the situation in Wisconsin Mr. Blegen urges the erection of a special building to serve as an archive depot, and the organization of an archive administration under the State Historical Society, already the trustee of the state for all its historical interests. It is to be hoped that Mr. Blegen's recommendations will be adopted for they are clearly in accordance...
Страница 49 - ... Wisconsin), by Theodore C. Blegen (Madison). Of this report Mr. Waldo G. Leland, Secretary of the American Historical Association writes : "This well-considered and carefully- written pamphlet is one of the most encouraging signs of the times. It is a study, in the light of the best European and American practice and precept, of the problem of dealing with the public records of Wisconsin. It may occasion some surprise to learn that, in the matter of caring for its archives, Wisconsin is hardly...
Страница 25 - Society be and he is hereby directed to appoint a committee of five curators, of which he shall be a member, to nominate a superintendent to succeed the present incumbent.
Страница 51 - Waushara, and Green Lake. It is also probable that histories will be written by local historians in the counties of Kenosha, Green, Racine, Lafayette, Trempealeau, and Ozaukee. The historians, acting or prospective, are : Brown— Chicago publishers ; Door — HR Holand, Ephraim ; Columbia — JE Jones, former editor, Portage; Marquette — CH Barry, editor, Montello ; Waushara and Green Lake — RS Starks, editor, Berlin; Crawford — Lyman Howe, editor, Prairie du Chien; Polk — Editor, Luck Enterprise;...
Страница 52 - Your retiring director visited 50 of the 71 counties and met the chairman ot a number of others. The counties not visited were chiefly those in the far northern part of the State or such as seemed so well organized as to need less attention. Several hundred pictures have been received from a number of counties, including Washington, Sauk, Dane, Trempealeau, Milwaukee, Jefferson, Dunn, Eau Claire, and Green ; more are promised from other counties. These should be filed. Final reports from several...
Страница 19 - Co. of the sum of two dollars ($2) per acre, together with interest thereon at six per cent. (6%) per annum, from the date...