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Easton W. Williams collection
Collection
Identifier: 00167
Scope and Contents
The Easton Williams scrapbook collection consists of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and pictures covering World War II. Several pictorial reviews of foreign countries and peoples are also included. Newspapers from around the United States were used, as well as several popular magazines. The bulk of the information is from 1929 to 1945, with greater coverage being given to the years 1941-1943. Williams also included a number of articles from 1918 about World War I.
Dates:
1929 - 1945
Edward K. and Marion M. Sales papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.445
Scope and Contents
The Edward K. and Marion M. Sales papers include photographs and postcards from their military training and service during World War I. There are also military-themed World War I era clippings, maps of France, souvenir photograph albums of Germany, and other souvenir publications.Also included in the collection are World War II era materials, such as military pocket guides, Overseas Editions for Armed Services of various publications, and issues of Stars...
Dates:
1917 - 1943
Gaylord Nelson letters
Collection
Identifier: 00081
Scope and Contents
This collection consists wholly of personal correspondence from Nelson to his wife, Hal Fraley Nelson. Much of it is of a highly personal nature but there is a substantial amount of more general interest. The bulk of the correspondence falls in the period July 1917 to December 1918. During this time the newlywed couple were separated while Nelson finished his term as Treasurer of Gratiot County, Michigan and his wife ran her insurance agency in Ardmore, Oklahoma.The...
Dates:
1917 - 1946
Joseph Druse papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.230
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers, photographs, slides, and oversized materials. The bulk of the materials in the collection relate to Druse’s experience in Nigeria. Included are lecture notes for different courses; 80 slides featuring pots, baskets, houses, dolls, and masks; photographs featuring buildings, students, and individuals working with Druse; and a two issues of a Nsukka newspaper.The collection also contains several historical newspapers, an 1860 voter guide, maps,...
Dates:
1800, 1860, 1865, 1917-1964
Mrs. Francis McDonald reminiscence
Collection
Identifier: c-00451
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a brief, personal account of life in and around Lansing, Michigan, during World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. Mrs. McDonald recounts her life as a child growing up in a rural community. She writes about life in general: the difficulty in finding a job, the hardships of the Depression, the relief offered by the New Deal, and a trip to the Chicago World's Fair of 1931. Throughout her writing, Mrs. McDonald shows how people were able to cope with the...
Dates:
1912 - 1979
Paul Honigsheim papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.150
Scope and Contents
The collection is organized into two series. Series 1, Publications, consists of articles and publications by Paul Honigsheim. Topics include Max Weber, sociology, religion, anthropology. The publications are in German, English and French. In addition, there is a publication about Paul Honigsheim called “From the Rhineland to Michigan the Sociologist and Pedagogue Paul Honigsheim (1885-1963) Migrant and Mediator Between Two Cultures,” by Martha Friedenthal-Haase.Series 2,...
Dates:
1915 - 1991
Stars and Stripes publications
Collection
Identifier: 00197
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Stars and Stripes newspapers published during World War I and World War II. The issues 1918-1919, 1944-1946 are arranged in chronological order. When two dates are listed together, it indicates two issues were attached together. The designation of European and Mediterranean after the dates indicates which theater of war the issue came from.The newspapers contain information on the wars, life as a soldier, as well as some non-war...
Dates:
1918 - 1946