Walters, Warren
• “Final Chapter in the History of a Pepin County Family” by Mary Ellen Brue, about the Walters family
• Copy of Walters family photo, 1953
• Short bio of Warren Walters
• Photo of Pepin Cty. Co-op in Porcupine
• “Durand 1934-Building the Street Along the Chippewa River” by Warren Walters
• Note from Vera Slabey to Warren Walters thanking him for his “delightful program” the previous night, on Walters’ 87th birthday, 1997
• Possible photo of Warren
• Invitation for Warren’s 90th birthday, 2000
War – Korean
• Announcement of Korean War stamp, sent to Dale Bauer
Ward, Nathaniel
• Copy of naturalization certificate, 1860
• Copy of marriage certificate to Winifred Plummer, 1911
Warren, Adeline
• “Life of a Truck Driving Lady,” about Warren’s time driving for a company out of Bloomer for no pay.
• Information on the Howard School, near Bear Creek, which Adeline made into her home
Washburn, Cadwallader
• Biography of Washburn from the Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin For the Years 1880, 1881, and 1882.
• News article: “Washburn’s ‘Folly’ Set Pace For Mill Industry” about Washburn’s flour mill in Minneapolis
• Copies of photos of Washburn
• Article from Wisconsin Magazine of History about Washburn
• “Waubeek Is Only a Memory” article on Washburn
• Map of Waubeek
Waterville Township
• “Waterville” manuscript
• Executive Report, Town of Waterville – Pepin County, Land Use Planning Survey
Waubeek
• “Waubeek Township” manuscript
• “Elizabeth Stebbins Tells of Pioneer Days in Waubeek” article, 1942
• Map of Waubeek Settlement location
• “Erosion Chokes River Recreation” article with photos at Waubeek
• “Farmland Used To Be Thriving Town” about Waubeek
• Waubeek Story on CD
Weisenbeck
• Agnes Weisenbeck’s bank book, bank receipts, account statements
• Obituary for Fr. Jude Weisenbeck
Weiss
• “Fourth Generation Farm” by local resident Irene Weiss
Weitz, Chauncey
• “Wisconsin’s Oldest Retired Conservation Warden Dies at Age 98” – born in Pepin
Wheeler Case
• “A March Murder,” about the 1866 killing of Brad Wheeler at Five Mile Bluff, south of Durand
• “The Wheeler Care – 1866” – copies from the 1800s about the case – news articles and court documents
• Copy of Currents Magazine with “A March Murder” story about the Wheeler case
White Cross Violet-Ray Generator
• 1975 letter to Glen Gibson from The Museum of Electricity in Life at Medtronic about the lack of monetary value of the violet ray generator
Wideman, William
• Naturalization document from 1858 in which Wideman renounces citizenship of Prussia
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
• Biography of Wilder
• Laura Ingalls Society newsletter with Terry on the cover for his talk there in 2008
• Brochure for the Little House Wayside
• Copy of warranty deed for Charles Ingalls
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Chronology of Her Family
• The Pepin Story of the Ingalls Family
• Society Newsletters about board member Fern Marcks
• Copy of 1952 letter from Laura
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Days brochure, 1994
• “Laura’s Teacher, Anna Berry and a Century Farm”
• “‘Little House’ author’s halo loses glow” article
• 2015 Wilder Homesites Calendar
Wilson, Isabel ne: Hurtley
• Photo of Isabel
• Copy of Isabel’s report card
Womanless Wedding
• Copy of the play
• Copy of Wedge articles about staging of play in Durand, 1928
• Copy of news photo of the cast
Women’s History
• Woman’s Work on the Farm exhibit poster, 1990
• Copies of text for irons, dish towels and flour sack clothing displays in the museum
World War I
• Enlistment Record for Levernie Wild, 1918
• Program for Thanksgiving Dinner for 38th Company, Group Four – Machine Gun Training Order, Camp Hancock, GA, 1918, originally owned by Vivian Van Norman
• Van Norman’s Soldier’s Dispatch card
• Battery “B” 4th Field Artillery for Aaron Heath of Durand
• 1993 article on WWI vet Otto Buccholtz of Durand.
• “The Forgotten War” article about WWI veteran Archie Richardson, 1993
World War II
• Copies of documents related to the death of Kenneth Pomasl in action
• Materials for “The War: Fifty Years Ago” exhibit in the museum, 1991
• Winona Republican-Herald newspaper found under the portico of the museum from 1944, with FDR’s third re-election as the headline
• Copy of photo of Pat Carlisle Rhiel, Seaman 1st Class
• Copy of photo of Caturia brothers (four) from Arkansaw who served in the war
• Print advertisement for White Army Type steel helmets
• Copy of photo of Clyde Schwellenbach
• Copy of V-Mail message to Harvey King of Arkansaw from Robert Eegenberger
• Copy of photo of Richard Slabey from his service in the USAAF and of his Badge of Excellence awarded to him and other employees of Northern Pump Co., Minneapolis
• War Ration Books
• Rationing newspaper clips
• Overseas correspondences to Matt Krings, Arkansaw from Roy Gilles and Harold Poeschl
• V Mail Envo-Letters
• Invaders: The Story of the 50th Troop Carrier Wing
• USO pamphlet
• Copy of press release on posthumous awarding of purple hearts, written by Major General Edward Witsell, Adjutant General.
