Michigan
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Chauncey H. Brooks papers
Collection — Folder S169
Identifier: S0169
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed letters from Chauncey H. Brooks in Alabama and Tennessee ranging from 1863/07/18 to 1863/10/07 regarding war and home life.
Dates:
1863/07/18-1863/10/07
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Chauncey H. Brooks papers
Connersville, Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S415
Identifier: S0415
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed letters; telegrams; advertising; and business forms from various sources in Indiana, Minnesota, and Ohio ranging from 1833 to 1935 regarding personal and business matters.
Dates:
1833-1935
Crosier family papers
Collection
Identifier: L018
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters from Edward Crosier to Adam Crosier, family letters from Battle Creek, Michigan; Knoxville, Iowa; Seneca and Geneva, New York; Ford County, Illinois; Jacksonville, Oregon; and Harrison County, Indiana, ranging from 1840 to 1901. Also included are letters to Adam Crosier about his surveying work, letters to Lafe Crosier about family and farming, an 1866 campaign circular for Walter Q. Gresham, and comments on a speech by Joseph Albert Wright.
Dates:
1840-1901
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Crosier family papers
David C. Turnbull collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3508
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, business and legal documents relating to Kosciusko County (1836–1849), St. Joseph County (1847–1916), and other counties, and photocopies of Civil War letters (1861–1865) from David C. Turnbull in Indiana and the United States. The correspondence of Alexander Grant of Cass County, Michigan (1871–1875); the Bidwell family of Niles, Michigan and Brownsville, Texas (1937–1940); and the Ackerman family of Niles (1940–1947) are also cinluded. There are also...
Dates:
1836-1966
Donald D. Howard collection
Collection
Identifier: L076
Scope and Contents
The collection contains World War II letters of Donald D. Howard to his parents, Louise and George Howard (Evansville, Indiana), written from the South Pacific, Okinawa, China, Korea, the Philippines, California, and Ft. Benjamin Harrison during 1945-1946. The collection also includes correspondence from the Howard’s daughters Marilyn, a student at Indiana University, and Mrs. R.C. Datzman, a medical technician and wife of a physician in Detroit and Carlysle, Pennsylvania, during the same time...
Dates:
1944-1946
Dorothy Vesper Cook collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-080
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, and genealogical and local history research from Vesper Cook in Miami County, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio ranging from c1870 to 1977 regarding the Wilkinson, Sebring, Stickel and other related families.
Dates:
circa 1870 - 1977
Found in:
Genealogy
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Dorothy Vesper Cook collection
Hotel advertising cards
Collection — Folder S1548
Identifier: S1548
Scope and Contents
Three hotel advertising cards are mounted on cardboard, three-hole-punched page, of which there are eleven. All of the cards have drawings of the hotel which is advertised. Most of the cards are 2 1/2" high and 6" wide. The oldest one is 1894 (St. Nicholas Hotel, Decatur, Ill.) and the newest are 1917 (The Samer, Salina, Kansas, and The Lee-Huckins Hotel, Oklahoma City, Okla.). The three cards on the first page are: Union Hotel, Port Huron, Mich., November 19, 1903; Hotel Conner, Harpers...
Dates:
1894-1917
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hotel advertising cards
J. Adam Clark travel journal
Collection — Folder S1103
Identifier: S1103
Scope and Contents
This collection is a copy of the small travel journal used by J. Adam Clark in 1854. Most of the penmanship is too faint to read, perhaps because it was in pencil. On page 30, the writing appears to be in ink and therefore easy to read. He traveled to several places in Michigan. In Chicago, he visited cousin George and "took tea with him." He went to Detroit, Buffalo, and Lancaster. On page 34, he wrote: "I have been gone something over 2 months, have travelled over Michigan, part of Indiana,...
Dates:
1854
Joseph Bailly collection
Collection
Identifier: L005
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of Joseph Bailly's accounts, financial journals, and record books of his fur trade business in Indiana and Michigan ranging from 1789 to 1847. Also included are business correspondence (1800-1801), letters and other papers relating to the settlement of his estate (1836), as well as account books from the Chicago and Lake Superior Mining Company (1846-1847). The collection also contains various photographs and post cards of the family other locations.
Dates:
1789-1847
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joseph Bailly collection
Mary Elizabeth Moody collection
Collection
Identifier: L713
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 6 photograph albums and 3 scrapbooks, containing photographs, papers, pamphlets, postcards, souvenirs, currency, and ephemera, created by Betty Goodale Moody in Indiana, Florida, around the United States, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt, ranging from circa 1936 to 2015, regarding her personal and family life, friends, and travels within the United States and the Middle East. There are also miscellaneous photographs whose subjects were identified by Moody and her...
Dates:
circa 1936-2015
