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Collection
Identifier: c-00073
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one document, a copy of a petition (1870) filed by the Michigan Air Line Railroad Company with the Probate Court of Jackson County, Michigan. The petition calls for the condemnation of land needed by the railroad for right of way through Jackson County. The land in question was owned by Henry Tefft and others.
Dates:
1870
Collection
Identifier: 00005
Scope and Contents
The Henry Waldron papers include correspondence, financial statements and speeches covering the years 1832-1881.There is much material of general historical interest scattered throughout the collection. Most of it relates to Hillsdale County, Michigan. There are several items of particular historical interest. There are two letters dated May 1838 from Henry W. Johnson and Stephen Brophy, Patriot invaders, then in Toronto Prison. There is a letter dated October 24, 1871 from the...
Dates:
1832 - 1881
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.449
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the diaries of Fred T. Henson from 1907 to 1969. Henson was a farmer in Richland Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. The diary entries cover his daily activities, the weather, chemicals used on crops, his wife Gladys' activities, genealogical data on Kalamazoo County residents, obituaries, and wedding announcements. Henson also describes his service days in World War I, including a stay in East Lansing, Michigan where he was a member of the Michigan Agricultural...
Dates:
1907 - 1970
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.93
Scope and Content
This collections contains publications about the history of Michigan Agricultural College, the impact the U.S. Civil War had on agricultural extension in Michigan, the Morrill Land Grant College Act and life of Bela Hubbard, an Michigan pioneer. Also included in the Berg collection are the articles of incorporation and by-laws and some correspondence of the Michigan State University chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national honorary extension fraternity. There is a newspaper plate from the...
Dates:
1930 - 1969
Collection
Identifier: c-00640
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a photograph of an exhibition load of white pines in Otsego Lake which was prepared for the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Dates:
circa 1893
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.330
Scope and Contents
The Herbert Baer papers consist of letters Baer sent to his family during his freshman year at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University). In the letters he writes about his activities, events attended, his student job in the kitchen and a little bit about his classes. He also writes a little bit about World War II and mentions rationing.
Dates:
1941 - 1942
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.229
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The collection contains a J-Hop program for 1916 and two receipts for classes and fees. The photographs include a 1914 class rivalry photo postcard, image of Wells Hall, and another image of Wells Hall with an unlit bonfire in front. Other photographs include a group of men in front of a house labeled Campus Club and dated December 14, 1913 and a scene of the class rivalry tug of war across the Red Cedar river. Of note are two photograph postcards that refer to a "movie" being made in...
Dates:
1913 - 1916
Collection
Identifier: 00256
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of materials from Herbert W. Spendlove's time working in journalism. This includes his time as a reporter for the Saginaw News, city editor for the Saginaw News, editor for the Jackson Citizen Patriot, and editor of the Ann Arbor News. Of particular interest is correspondence between Spendlove and major figures such as J. Edgar Hoover, George Romney, and George Wallace. The collection also has several invitations to conferences and presidential inaugurations...
Dates:
1941 - 1995
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.82
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of one poem by Collingwood read at the Decennial Reunion of the Iota Chapter of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity at Michigan State University in 1882.
Dates:
1882
Collection
Identifier: MSS 614 large
Scope and Contents
The Herblock Prize collection consists of submissions for the 2016 competition featuring editorial cartoons from the previous year. Topics featured within the cartoons include the Charlie Hebdo attack of satyric journalists in Paris by gunmen affiliated with Al-Qaeda, the 2016 American presidential election, the hacking of the Ashley Madison infidelity dating site, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis refusing marriage licenses to gay couples, police brutality, the measles outbreak at Disneyworld in...
Dates:
2015 - 2016
