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Mrs. C. M. Burdick collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00487

Scope and Contents Included in the collection are Mrs. C. M. Burdick's diaries (1925-1937), correspondence and a biographical sketch of R. E. Olds entitled "That Boy Ranny". Among the most interesting items in the correspondence is a letter from R. Shettler explaining his unhappiness with R. E. Olds over the affairs of the Reo Motor Car Company. There is also some material on Olds' interest in music. A few photographs of women who worked in the Reo Motor Car Company office are also in Mrs. Burdick's...

Dates: 1904 - 1957

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Carl Wolff collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00249

Scope and Contents

This collection contains five letters to Alexander Brown in Jackson County, Michigan, from relatives in New York. The letters discuss family news, agriculture prospects, and the possibility of moving to Michigan as Brown had done (1836). Also included is a diary kept by Belle Voorheis of Mungerville (now Burton), Michigan. Her entries record life in rural Michigan in 1872. The collection also contains a recipe for brewing beer.

Dates: 1836, 1872

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Cross Shipman collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00435

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a booklet printed by W. H. Bennett, a professional photographer, to promote his photographic studio and camera business in Sunfield, Eaton County, Michigan. The booklet includes photographs of people, buildings, scenes, and the studio in Sunfield.

Dates: circa 1900

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Earl Tooker collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00332

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one letter, dated July 14, 1863, written by a Confederate soldier, John Flood, Company H, 47th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, to his mother in Woodstock, Georgia. He discusses the fall of Vicksburg and Grant's siege of Jackson, Mississippi. A photocopy of the letter is also included.The letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...

Dates: 1863

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Edward C. Waldron collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00191

Scope and Contents

This collection contains an advertising circular (1865) announcing the opening of a general surveying office in Detroit, Michigan. The proprietor, Francis L. Thomas, great-grandfather of the donor, did surveying work in the Saginaw Bay area (circa 1845-1880).

Also included is an invitation to a masquerade ball in Chesaning, Michigan (1874).

Dates: 1865 - 1874

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. H. H. Moore collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00348

Scope and Contents

The collection contains an account book listing household expenses (1890-1908) and inventories and rents on property (1906-1912) of a Detroit, Michigan resident.

Dates: 1890 - 1912

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs [?] Lewis receipt book : rcts 1831-[1875?]

Item

Identifier: MSS 161 codex

Dates: 1831-[1875?]

Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Mrs. Mary Ockold, her receipt booke

Item

Identifier: MSS 194 XX codex

Dates: 1722

Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Mrs. Maurice Green collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00333

Scope and Contents This collection contains an account book (1829-1851) of William Whiteley containing entries made in Toledo (1837), Cillicothe (1838), Zanesville (1840), Washington (1848) and Lansing (1848). From 1829 to 1836 Whiteley may have been a shoe dealer, since all entries in the period are for shoes. Other commodities, including food, wine, hardware, clothing, room and board, and labor wages, are entered in the ledger beginning in 1836. In 1848 most of the entries are for household items, livestock,...

Dates: 1829-1851, 1905, undated

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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Mrs. C. M. Burdick collection

Mrs. Carl Wolff collection

Mrs. Cross Shipman collection

Mrs. Earl Tooker collection

Mrs. Edward C. Waldron collection

Mrs. Francis McDonald reminiscence

Mrs. H. H. Moore collection

Mrs [?] Lewis receipt book : rcts 1831-[1875?]

Mrs. Mary Ockold, her receipt booke

Mrs. Maurice Green collection

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