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Ada Hunt Whitehouse papers
Collection
Identifier: 00124
Scope and Contents
The Ada Hunt Whitehouse papers include her personal correspondence and papers. The bulk of the materials, however, deal with the financial records of Mrs. Whitehouse, her family and the Hunt Food Shop. These records include materials concerning family property holdings such as deeds, mortgages and title abstracts. Federal, state and local tax records are also present. The papers contain Ada Hunt Whitehouse's check ledgers and statements. In addition there are other financial records such as...
Dates:
1849 - 1972
Addie E. Milks diary
Collection
Identifier: c-00548
Scope and Contents
This collection contains excerpts from Addie E. Milks' diary detailing the history and genealogy of the Sloan and McCormick families, as well as early pioneer life in Michigan territory.A majority of the excerpts pertain to Addie's mother, Ann McCormick Malone, and her dramatic experiences during the Revolutionary War as well as her family's subsequent move to Taymouth Township, near the Flint River, Michigan.Also included in the excerpts are comments about relations...
Dates:
1922
Addy doll and related materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS 232 large
Scope and Contents
Addy Walker is an American Girl doll depicting an African-American enslaved girl who escaped to freedom in 1864. At the beginning of the accompanying book, Addy is a nine year old girl living on a plantation in North Carolina. After her brother and father are sold, Addy and her mother escape through the Underground Railroad to Philadelphia. In later books, Addy learns that freedom in the North does not mean equality and fairness. With a historically accurate wooden trunk, bed, and...
Dates:
1993
Adelaide Hart papers
Collection
Identifier: 00069
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection largely focus on Hart's involvement in the 1961-1962 Constitutional Convention for the State of Michigan.
Dates:
1951 - 1969
Advocates for Latino Students Advancement in Michigan Education records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 623
Scope and Contents
The Advocates for Latino Students Advancement in Michigan Education records consist of bylaws, meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, promotional materials, and ephemera from both the predecessor organization College Recruitment Association for Hispanics (CRAH) and Advocates for Latino Students Advancement in Michigan Education (ALSAME).
Dates:
1980 - 2006
Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker culinary ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 314 large
Scope and Contents
The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker culinary ephemera collection contains thousands of food and cookery related publications produced primarily by companies in the United States from the late nineteenth century up to the present. The collection provides a rich resource to study the evolution and history of advertising, food products, individual companies, technology, food preparation, and food production. It was organized, described, and donated in 2005 by Shirley Brocker Sliker, who...
Dates:
1850-2010
Alanson Royce papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00104
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of letters from Alanson Royce to his family, describing his farm in New Buffalo, Michigan, and his migration to Mornington, Missouri, where he also farmed. In his letters home Royce discusses Missouri's economy and agricultural prospects, as well as education and social conditions. There are very few references to slavery. Royce farmed in Missouri until 1862, when his pro-Union views angered local Confederate sympathizers and forced him to flee to Illinois....
Dates:
1855 - 1862
Albert H. Case papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.417
Scope and Contents
The papers of Albert Case consist primarily of materials gathered during the early part of his professional career. The bulk of these papers are correspondence and materials that Case gathered under various headings in what appears to have been a subject file. The materials in the subject file deal with personal purchases and non-professional organizations to which Case belonged in addition to papers concerning his profession and the papers have been arranged consecutively according to these...
Dates:
1892 - 1935
Albert W. Barber papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00282
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Civil War letters from Albert W. Barber to his family while serving with Company F, 18th Michigan Infantry, in Kentucky and Tennessee. In the letters, primarily written to his mother, he talks about camp life, his friends, officers of the regiment, and particularly about the weather.In addition, Albert talks about town life, particularly in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, and about the prices of perishable goods.The...
Dates:
1862 - 1863
Alianza Hispano-Americana collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 693
Scope and Contents
The Alianza Hispano-Americana (AHA) collection contains materials which appear to be associated with various ceremonies and activities of the AHA, including ritual books, ceremonial hats, robe, gavel, golden bird figure, and a pyramid plaque engraved with the organizations name and motto. Also included is a voting box and bag with white and black marbles, how many of the early Masonic orders conducted secret ballots, and a paper mache skull.
Dates:
1928 - 1979