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Receipts : autographed manuscript recipe book for horses and humans
Collection
Identifier: MSS 83 small
Dates:
1840
Recipes for cookery, baking, preserving, wine-making, etc. : with a few miscellaneous household and medical recipes
Item
Identifier: MSS 200 XX codex
Dates:
approximately 1700-1799
Richard Adams Fennell papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.125
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of correspondence, university-related materials, and laboratory notebooks and manuscripts. The correspondence ranges in dates from 1936 to 1970, with the greatest concentration being in the forties and fifties. The correspondence is business-related, and written to colleagues and associates.Several manuscripts written by Fennell are also in the collection, written between the mid-forties and mid-sixties. There are also numerous published articles, some...
Dates:
1936 - 1983
Richard Henry Harms papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.159
Scope and Contents
The first item is a sixteen page paper entitled “Farmers Versus Scientist: The Samuel Johnson Episode,” which was written by the donor in 1983. It was subsequently published in Michigan History ( vol. 67, no. 4 (July/August 1983): 26-32.) It examines the controversy surrounding Samuel Johnson, who was Professor of Practical Agriculture at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) 1879-1889. At issue was Johnson’s competency to teach the...
Dates:
1983 - 1984
Richard M. Dorson papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.305
Scope and Content
This collection contains galley proofs and drafts of two of Richard M. Dorson's books: Davy Crockett: American Comic Legend (1939) and Negro Folktales of Michigan (1956).
Dates:
undated, circa 1939-1956, 1966
Richard O. Niehoff papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.110
Scope and Contents
The collection documents Niehoff’s work in the field of personnel and staff training in large national and international programs. The collection has papers from his experiences with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the United Nations, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Michigan State University. The collection also contains three significant manuscripts by Niehoff: a biography of Floyd Reeves, a biography of John Hannah, and an autobiography. With the exception of the autobiography,...
Dates:
1934 - 1984