The Western Association of Africanists provides a forum for scholars from the Western States professionally concerned with the continent of Africa and its peoples. The members have presented research papers at their Spring meeting sessions during the past decade. The collection includes typescript copies of numerous presentations on varied topics relevant to the concerns of Africanists. Preliminary inventory available in Special Collections and Archives.

The Western Colorado Congress, formerly called the Western Slope Public Interest Congress, is an organization of western Colorado environmental groups created to provide a voice for western Colorado interests and to conteract Club 20, which promotes business and economic development in the 20 counties on Colorado's western slope. The collection contains two tapes of a meeting held in Montrose, Colorado, on May 31, 1980, and some promotional material. Uprocessed.

Copy of a letter by an unidentified person from Engineers' Camp, Union Pacific Railroad, 10 miles west of the Continental Divide, describing a shooting and trial by fellow employees.

Blank forms: contracts for electric lighting service; electrical service for cooking and heating; service for combination lighting, cooking and heating.

Whitney Clark Huntington was a professor at the University of Colorado approximately from 1908-1915 and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne from 1926-1956. His collection consists of nitrate negatives and a few prints of his family, different landscape scenes of mountains and small towns, and portraits of people and groups in different mountain landscapes throughout Huntington’s time in Colorado.

The Willard Elsbree Collection contains the papers of Willard Elsbree, who graduated from the US Navy Japanese Language School, which was located at the University of Colorado in Boulder from 1942-1946. The collection contains materials related to his WWII service. Unprocessed.

The William A. Weber papers include a range of materials including mansucripts and drafts of his published books, research subject files for future projects, biographies and obituaries of his scholarly contemporaries, professional and personal correspondence, and botanical drawings.

An oral recreation written by Carolyn E. Balster as part of an NEH project sponsored by Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and completed during the Summer of 1981.

William C. Himmelman was a prominent Denver labor official and Denver City Councilman. His papers and other material relate to his years as a labor leader and Denver City Councilman.

“My Adventures As a Whistler.” Humorous account of the author’s adventure as a basketball referee in South Dakota. By William “Bud” Davis, former CU football coach. Empire Magazine, December 5, 1965.

William E. Wilson researched and published on the Wheeler Survey of 1877 in USGS Circular 1362 (2010). Included are his research materials, correspondence, maps, notes, reprints, reference cards.

89 reprints and writings of William Battig, Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado from 1965 to 1978.

William F. Bennett and his wife were early Colorado pioneers who farmed near Longmont. The family prospered until the 1890s when debts and the Panic of 1893 broke them. Subsequently they migrated from Colorado. The memoirs were written by their son and daughter. SMss.

CU representative to the NCAA and the Big 8. Minutes, correspondence, and memos related to CU’s admission to the Big 6, the Big 8, and the NCAA. Includes a mix of training materials, workshop notes, public speeches, information on Big 8 conferences such as financial records, regulations, and correspondences from 1966 to 1986. Preliminary inventory available in Special Collections and Archives.

William Nelson for many years was the associate editor of the Grand Junction Sentinel, for which he was formerly the sports, Western Slope, city, and managing editor. The collection contains articles written by Nelson for journalism classes and for various newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 40s advocating better local government and county consolidation. Guide available in Special Collections and Archives.

The William Handschin Papers include clippings, reports, publications, brochures, correspondence, and notes regarding the National Farmers Union.

Photographs of scenes in southwestern Colorado taken by photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942). Copied from negatives at the Colorado Historical Society.