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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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Bagg family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00251
Scope and Contents The Bagg family papers contain a letter of welcome from residents of Savannah, Georgia, to George Washington, during his visit to Savannah in 1791. Also included are letters to Dr. Joseph Bagg and his wife, Eliza, of Detroit, Michigan. Two letters from Eliza's sister, Abby Billings, send family news and complain about housework (1843, 1844). A letter from the Baggs' son-in-law, W.G. Austin, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, describes the presidential election of 1844. School compositions by the Baggs'...
Dates: 1791, 1839-1844, 1878
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Casa de Unidad Newsletters, Chapbooks, and Flyers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 716
Abstract This collection consist almost exclusively of Casa de Unidad publications, from monographs to it serial publications "El Barrio" and its newslettertype accompaniments "Notas del Barrio", "Herencia del Barrio", and "Calendario del Barrio". Also includes poetry chapbooks like the Coffee House Series all dated from the early 1980s to the 1990s. Other items include flyers and announcements for cultural events to cultivate and promote interests in Latino cultural heritage in the Detroit area....
Dates: 1981 - 2003
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Community Development Programs records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.1
Scope and Contents The records of the Institute of Community Development include papers and reports on Michigan police departments; studies on various topics of Michigan communities and community development agencies; and guides, handbooks, and reports pertaining to Michigan local government. Of particular interest: a study on the economic feasibility of the proposed Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore (1961), the preliminary report of the Upper Peninsula Authority for Regional Development (1962), a paper...
Dates: 1957 - 1973
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Democratic Party campaign materials

 Collection
Identifier: 00034
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Democratic Party campaign materials from 1874 to 1966 including handbills, pamphlets, posters, comic books and programs. Also included are voting tickets for several Lansing, Michigan, area communities, voting information and campaign instructions, and tickets, programs and statements from Democratic conventions, both in Michigan and on a national level. Biographical and political information on Michigan candidates for governor, legislature, and other offices,...
Dates: 1874 - 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Edward E. Kinney papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.29
Scope and Contents The Edward E. Kinney papers consist of five items, including letter of recommendation for E. E. Kinney to the Michigan State Board of Registration, a letter from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company, one letter to Kinney from a Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) graduate and one from a former colleague at M.A.C., and a 1948 magazine article about the school of Electrical Engineering at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) in which...
Dates: 1938 - 1975
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Elisha Cross papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00537
Scope and Contents

The Elisha Cross papers include an illustrated physics manual given to Cross in 1832 by John B. Calhoun ("President of the Moulders of the Howell Works Co."). Cross and his daughter, Susan, used the manual for a personal journal, scrapbook and botanical notebook (including plant specimens). The papers also contain a photographic copy of a drawing of the Hance farm and documents related to real estate Cross owned in the Detroit area.

Dates: 1832-1892, 1903
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Judson Grenell autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: c-00061
Scope and Contents

This typewritten autobiography contains discussions of numerous social, political, and economic issues connected with Grennell's newspaper, the Detroit News, and legislative activities. A microfilm copy of the collection is available.

Dates: 1930
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kathryn Packard collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00306
Scope and Contents

This collection includes grants of public lands in the District of Detroit, Michigan Territory, to Samuel W. Dexter of New York (1824-1825). The collection also contains deeds, pertaining to lands in Washtenaw and Shiawassee Counties, Michigan, purchased by Dexter. Also included are tax receipts for land in Shiawassee County belonging to Francis Prevost and Alvin Brown Lodge, Lodge No. 30 (1884), and a certificate of recommendation into the Masonic Order for Luther Boyden of Mississippi.

Dates: 1824 - 1869
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kennedy family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00068
Scope and Contents The Kennedy family papers consist of seven letters. The earliest (1817) was written by a young woman describing a mid-winter journey home through western New York by wagon sleigh. Five letters in the collection were written by Frederick A. Kennedy to this wife Caroline while he was serving in the Michigan State legislature in Detroit in 1846. Kennedy discusses current actions of the legislature, including the passage of a bill to pay legislators $3.00 per day; and the initial defeat and...
Dates: 1817 - 1862
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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Dies, Martin, 1900-1972 1
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Huck, Susan 1
Ingham County Democratic Committee (Mich.) 1
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) 1
Joesten, Joachim, 1907-1975 1
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Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963 1
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Mysels, Sammy, 1906-1974 1
National Citizens Political Action Committee 1
Nisbet, Stephen S., 1895-1986 1
Osborn, Alex F. (Alex Faickney) 1
Republican Party (Mich.) 1
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Romney, George W., 1907-1995 1
Sanford, Dick, 1896- 1
Scholle, August, 1904- 1
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Smith, Hermon Dunlap, 1900-1983 1
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United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) 1
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Washington, George, 1732-1799 1
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