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Chamberlain family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.12
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of family correspondence, documents, and business records, particularly relating to Henry Chamberlain. Included are genealogies of the Chamberlain, Langdon, Woodward and Wheelock families.The letters in the early years of the collection relate to the migration of the family westward to Ohio, and then to Michigan. There is an 1830 agreement in which certain New Hampshire citizens sponsor William Chamberlain to go and scout the area above the Ohio River for...
Dates:
1795 - 1931
Charles Donald Palm papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.431
Scope and Contents
Don Palm's papers consist mostly of letters and postcards he wrote to his family while serving in the ambulance corps and in the army. He was stationed at Camp Allentown, Pennsylvania; Camp Hancock, Georgia; Camp Merritt, New Jersey; and Mehun, France. The letters detail camp life and describe wartime in France. Palm's assignment overseas consisted primarily of cleaning guns. His duties were apparently not very demanding, and one of his greatest concerns was gaining membership in...
Dates:
1910 - 1919
Charles W. Tews collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00662
Scope and Contents
The Charles W. Tews collection contains postcards from the Hatten Lumber Company mill in New London, Wisconsin and Hatten Lumber Company logging camps. The images include lumber camp scenes (one of which is labeled as near Eldron, Wisconsin), lumber mills, lumber yards, logs on railroad cards, and an image of the Embrass River with logs in it. There is also an image with men eating at a table with a sign "oleomargarine sold or used here," as well as an image of a store at Hazelhurst,...
Dates:
1911 - 1917
Clapp family papers
Collection
Identifier: 00086
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of various materials concerning stock breeding and related interests of the Clapp family in southeastern Michigan. Materials in the collection relating to the stock breeding activities of Nathan A. Clapp on his farm near Wixom in Oakland County reflect the early development in Michigan of an interest in purebred stock during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Of particular interest is a handwritten draft of a speech delivered by Mr. Clapp in 1886 or 1888...
Dates:
1857 - 1955
Clarence C. Case papers
Collection
Identifier: 00092
Scope and Content
The materials in these papers consist mainly of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and statements concerning Case's military career, his efforts to re-establish the CCC, the establishment of Citizens for Conservation, Inc., the 1958 Senate race, the Michigan Department of Economic Development, and the Youth Conservation Corps. Also included are poetry written by Case and a number of booklets on a variety of subjects which he collected.
Dates:
1934 - 1962, 1976; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1962
Clarence H. Suelter collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.227
Scope and Contents
The collection contains information about different science programs at Michigan State University compiled by Suelter. Some of the materials are photocopies. There is substantial information relating to Robert C. Kedzie, as well as historical overviews of many natural science programs.
Also included are an exhibit catalog for Sesquicentennial Celebration: The Natural Sciences at Michigan State University, 1855-2005 which Suelter created and ...
Dates:
1876 - 2014
Clarence L. Munn papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.75
Scope and Contents
(1) SUBJECT FILES. 1946-1972, undated. 29.5 cubic feetThis series is composed of the files Munn kept as football coach and athletic director at Michigan State. It is divided into sixteen sub-series, a list of which can be found on the container listing preceding the inventory. The first four sub-series (1946-1959) each include three or more years. Beginning with 1959-1960 each sub-series covers one fiscal year (July-June). The only gap in the records is for the entire...
Dates:
1946 - 1972
Clark L. Brody papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.4
Scope and Content
Copies of the first and second drafts of Brody's history of the Michigan Farm Bureau comprise the major part of the papers. Much of the information contained in these manuscripts did not appear in his book In the Service of the Farmer: My life in the Michigan Farm Bureau (Michigan State University Press, 1959), which is a much shorter history than he had originally intended. The book is autobiographical and describes the changes in farming and in the life of...
Dates:
1847 - 2007
Collection of Grande Ballroom Concert postcards and fliers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 436 small
Scope and Contents
This collection consists 21 postcards and fliers from concerts held at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan between 1967 and 1968. The majority of the postcards were designed by Gary Grimshaw or Carl Lundgren, with one by Bonnie Green, and one by Donnie Dope also included. Psycholdelic in nature, the graphics are very colorful and include images of band members.The bands represented are Air Speed Inidicator, Apostles, Ashmollyan Quintet, Beacon Street Union, Blue Cheer, Born...
Dates:
1967-1968, undated
Cross-dressing photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 492
Scope and Contents
One postcard showing a person identified as "Rex" in a dress and wig, next to them and sitting on a post is a person identified as Loren Nelson Omans. Both are posing in front of a house with trees in the background. On the verso is a canceled stamp dated "4 pm 1912 Detroit MI" and a note in pencil signed as "Love from Rex," the postcard is addressed to Mrs. J. O. Power of Addison, Mich. The postcard also contains an ink annotation: "Rex in dress, Nelson Omans on post." One black...
Dates:
approximately 1912-1920