Madison Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Photo Views & Pictures Found At U. Wisconsin Archives, and Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.  

~9:00 am MONDAY May 23, Arrive At University of Wisconsin Archives 550 Babcock Dr, Madison, WI 53706. ….By email, Dr David Null Director of the U Wis Archives, was expecting Henry Gurr to arrive. Already on a workroom table near Dr Null’s office, there were several folders of old documents, related to Sarah Jennings Vinke Biography. EXPLANATION => Sarah Jennings, was a Graduate from U Wis Masters (1921) & PhD (1923), new discoveries were expected, in The Archives! Ditto for Sarah’s => U Wis Thesis Advisor (And Sarah’s Major Professor of Latin), Moses Stephen (MS) Slaughter, Archived Materials Found Include => ..A) Campus Staff Telephone Directories for 1921 – 1923, which like current day Telephone Directories, in addition to the Archaic Phone #, also had ….1) Sarah’s Office Rm 267, in Bascom Hall, The UW Main Administration Building, ….2) Sarah’s Rooming House at 234 N Breese Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin. ………Both of these are shown in Forthcoming Photos. ..B) Dr Null was also very resourceful, in digging out Archived Photographs of Old Buildings & Houses, He even found an old photo of house, contemporary to Sarah’s .riving there. This confirmed that the same house (basically un-altered), is still there, and you will see in a Forthcoming Panorama Photo. ..C) Two successive, August 11, 1920, handwritten US Mail Letters => Both addressed to U Wis. Graduate School Dean Sellers, and signed “Sincerely yours, M. S. Slaughter”: ….These letters were written on hotel stationary printed at top “Casaltra, Hancock Point, Maine” , ARE HISTORY IN ACTION!! => ….An excerpt from the first letter: MSS says “I took up another candidate and have secured a very good woman, with five years high school teaching experience, a Sarah Jennings from Iowa. She comes highly recommended and it is probably better to have someone with a teaching experience for these elementary classes… She has had Greek - I don't find it easy to find people with Greek, but I hate to forgo that requirement… I have recommended her for one class, five hours weekly, with a salary of $500.” (( Due to inflation, $500 in 1920 is equivalent to $7800 in 2020.)) : ********* To See An Excerpt From Prof Slaughter’s 2nd Letter, AND For More Information About the Life & Times of “The Divine Sarah” of the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", Please Click&GoTo => ((After SVBRP Page comes up > At Top > Do > Edit Find > … 1920 handwritten … )) Our Sarah Vinke Biography Resource Page (SVBRP), which includes nearly all of Henry Gurr’s Sarah Vinke Field Research Findings, AND Includes Considerable Additional Extensive Information About Sarah Vinke’s Life & Times. It’s HUGE ! ….NOTE: Dr Null;s Email 120525 9:28 am, had Photo Copies of the above mentioned Setters, and papers. These will be added to this Gallery Photo Album as soon as possible. Next Photo => A TRIPLINE Map Illustrating TUESDAY’s Continued Sarah Vinke Field Research At U Wisconsin. Photo File = UWisconsinArchives In SteenbockMemorialLibrary Bldg&Garden 4thFloor.jpg … Posted 10 Sept 2020.


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