Showing Collections: 1 - 8 of 8
Alexander B. Copley papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00320
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of miscellaneous notes and drawings of mill machinery and other papers of Alexander Copley, a flour and lumber mill operator of Champion, Jefferson County, New York. Included are three volumes (1825-1843) containing notes and drawings for the construction of mills and mill machinery, mill accounts (1837-1846) and family and farm accounts (1848-1879). Also included are a history of Alexander B. Copley and his family taken from the "Decatur Republican"...
Dates:
1822 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1822 - 1886
Buzzard family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00555
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three letters addressed to members of the Buzzard Family of Detroit, Michigan. The first letter (1844) discusses the sale of mills and mentions one mill that was destroyed by fire. A letter written in 1849 by three members of the Buzzard family reports their arrival in Chicago to pick up a load of wheat to be carried to St. Clair, milled, and then delivered to Buffalo. The third letter (undated) contains a poem "Indian Lament" about the mistreatment of Indians by...
Dates:
1844, 1849, Undated
Clifton Mill film
Collection
Identifier: c-00525
Scope and Contents
This motion picture (8mm) film, made at the old Clifton Mill near Romeo, Michigan, shows a man and young boy visiting the mill. The mill ceased operation in 1977 (Source: The Romeo Observer, July 28, 2010)
Dates:
undated
International Agriculture Institute Research Report UA 2.9.3.2
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: Serial-00378
Dates:
1968 - 1971
International Development Papers-Working Paper UA 16.5
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Serial-00380
Dates:
1982 - 2002
Michigan Bean Company records
Collection
Identifier: 00110
Scope and Contents of the Records
Efforts covering a sixty-year span to improve farm markets through the pooling of farm commodities, the organization of growers and shippers, promotional marketing and advertising, and bean research are documented in letters, newspaper clippings, articles and legal documents in the collection. In these records are correspondence, memoranda and articles on state and federal agricultural subsidy programs and restrictions. There also is the Wickes Corporation merger, documented through notes,...
Dates:
1906 - 1980
Michigan Pesticides Council records
Collection
Identifier: 00154
Scope and Contents
The records consist of research data covering a variety of conservation and environment-related subjects, information concerning various Michigan conservation/environmentalist groups, and the administrative records of the MPC itself. Some articles found in the collection date as far back as 1948, but the bulk of material is dated between 1960 and 1975.All files are organized according to subject matter. MPC administrative records include the original organizational materials,...
Dates:
1962 - 1979