Emerson Ela papers, 1892-1987
Papers, 1898-1958, of Emerson Ela, a Madison, Wisconsin attorney and advocate of marketing cooperatives who was also associated with many civic organizations, and the personal papers of his wife, Florence White Ela. Included are biographical and autobiographical materials, personal and business correspondence, diaries and journals (chiefly of Florence Ela), household accounts, records of his early law practice, and subject files about the Madison Dry League, the Madison Planning Trust, the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association, and other organizations. Most extensive are the files on Ela's chairmanship of the United War Work Campaign during World War I which include correspondence; a scrapbook documenting the work of Lee C.H. Orbach, state publicity director; additional clipping scrapbooks; and lantern slides issued by the national campaign to support its fundraising work. Records of the law practice include correspondence with clients such as Richard Lloyd Jones, Amos P. Wilder, and the Wisconsin State Journal, and speeches delivered in behalf of the Northern Wisconsin Cooperative Tobacco Pool. Other correspondents include Charles N. Gregory, Irvine Lenroot, and Verne Kaub
Materiale d’archivio, English, 1892