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Collection
Identifier: c-00066
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a mimeographed copy of a history of Galien, Berrien County, Michigan, compiled by Frank D. Noggle. The history describes early industries, education, railroading, land use and development in the period 1828-1879. It also includes biographical sketches of some early settlers. In addition, Noggle discusses the local Pottawatomi Indians, who reluctantly gave up their land rights in 1833 and were finally expelled from the area in 1838.
Dates:
1959
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.115
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the report, An Analysis of University Policy Statements Dealing on Instructional Recordings and their Re-Use by Fredrick Siebert. It was written for the State University of New York. Also included is an autobiography by Siebert covering the years 1901 to 1979. The autobiography includes his time at Michigan State University.
Dates:
circa 1972, 1979
Collection
Identifier: 00030
Scope and Contents
The collection consists largely of personal correspondence of the French and Cady families, related through the marriage of Sarah Jane Cady to Newell Andrew French. The families were originally from New York and Pennsylvania. Although most letters contain family news, there are those discussing land, crops, and conditions of the times.The letters of Myron French and Charles Cady from June 9, 1861 through June 29, 1864 describe the Civil War. A letter of August 12, 1861 tells of...
Dates:
1856 - 1931
Record Group
Identifier: UA-7.16
Scope and Contents
The records of the LBGT Resource Center consist of background materials and final reports for the University-Wide Task Force for Lesbian and Gay Issues. Other materials include Michigan State University Gay and Lesbian Faculty Staff Association materials, faculty development seminar packets, and curriculum material from MSU and other institutions.Recently added to the collection are more brochures and flyers, materials from bulletin boards, Pride Week materials, other final...
Dates:
1980 - 2008
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.225
Scope and Content
The George Axinn papers contain correspondence from his time with the University of Nigeria (Nsukka) project and an end of tour report. There are also “running notes” detailing his day to day activities, observations, and duties while on the project. Other materials include subject files about the Nigerian Civil War (1968-1970), and the Nsukka Igbo people. Materials about the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and MSU’s involvement in its development include reports, curriculum information,...
Dates:
1960 - 1973
Collection
Identifier: c-00482
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several essays and speeches written by Professor George Sanford during the 1850s and 1860s. Also included are University of Michigan Commencement Exercise Programs from 1860 and 1861, a Michigan Female College Commencement Program (1862), and Lansing Journal stationery from the 1870s.
Dates:
1856 - 1867
Collection
Identifier: 00082
Scope and Contents
This collection contains twenty-seven volumes of class notes from the school years of George R. Pray, a medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School, class of 1900. Included are one volume of class notes from grade eight in 1891, three volumes of class notes from Ann Arbor High School (1892-1893), and twenty-two volumes of class notes from the University of Michigan Medical School. Also included is one miscellaneous volume.
Dates:
1891 - 1908
Collection
Identifier: c-00154
Scope and Contents
This collection contains scattered correspondence from members of the Wickim, Briggs, Sanford, and Mudgett families. A letter from H. G. Wickim to his family (1854) describes preparations for an overland trip to California. Two letters from H. F. Briggs (1857, 1860) discuss land prices and agriculture in Illinois. In two letters to his father (1860, 1861), E. P. Sanford describes life in the California mines. Another California pioneer, C. N. Mudgett, writing to her sister, declares that she...
Dates:
1854 - 1900
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 606
Collection
Identifier: c-00235
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Grace Bradley's teaching certificate (1869-1879) from Berrien County, Michigan, and LaPorte County, Indiana, a letter from Senator J. C. Burrows regarding her application for the position as Matron on the "Indian Service" (1898), and a school roll book from Three Oaks, Berrien County, Michigan (1875).
Dates:
1869 - 1898
