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Chamberlain family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.12
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of family correspondence, documents, and business records, particularly relating to Henry Chamberlain. Included are genealogies of the Chamberlain, Langdon, Woodward and Wheelock families.The letters in the early years of the collection relate to the migration of the family westward to Ohio, and then to Michigan. There is an 1830 agreement in which certain New Hampshire citizens sponsor William Chamberlain to go and scout the area above the Ohio River for...
Dates:
1795 - 1931
Chamberlain Warren Samaritan Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 287 large
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a variety of religious and liturgical materials used by the Samaritans that were collected by E.K. Warren, a wealthy businessman of Three Oaks, Michigan, in the early 20th century. A majority of the collection consists of eighteen Pentateuchs, the earliest dating back to the 15th century. Other texts include Passover Prayers, prayers and hymns for the Day of Atonement, parts of the Defter, and liturgy and instructions for the Festival of Booths. Most of these...
Dates:
1470-1918
Chancey G. Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: 00162
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the C. G. Robinson papers consists of the originals plus photocopies of Robinson's diaries, 1884-1890 and 1892-1895. Robinson recorded the weather daily, and he described his daily chores and seasonal activities, such as cider pressing in autumn and "sugaring off" in spring. William Rayner apparently raised prize-winning swine, which Robinson took to state fairs throughout the Midwest. Robinson's papers include letters from other area swine-farmers and a copy of the constitution...
Dates:
1884 - 1896
Changing Men vertical files
Collection
Identifier: MSS 677
Scope and Contents
Artificial collection collected over a span of 3 decades by Special Collections staff.
Dates:
1921 - 2018
Charles A. Flowers Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.406
Content Description
The Charles A. Flowers Collection consists of State News negatives and prints that Flowers took during his time as a student at Michigan State University. The photographs include a range of topics such as sports, campus life, People’s Park, campus and community buildings, people, animals, and feature photographs. Also included in the collection is a folder of State News Clippings, a majority written by Flowers. Finally, the collection further consists of negatives and prints taken by Flowers...
Dates:
1969-1971, Undated
Charles Adolphus Jewell papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.5
Scope and Contents
The Charles A. Jewell papers consist of original correspondence and a manuscript compilation of transcribed letters and family history.The first group of correspondence (1860-1862) consists of original letters written by Charles to his family while he was attending Michigan Agricultural College, and a letter to Jewell's parents from Theophilus C. Abbot, Professor of English during this period discuss the courses he was taking, his instructors and their teaching methods, dormitory...
Dates:
1860 - 1979
Charles Anderson collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00497
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three biographies of Anderson by three of his descendants relating his Swedish boyhood, life as a sailor and adulthood in Kent County, Michigan.
Dates:
1815 - 1901
Charles (Brig) logbook
Collection
Identifier: c-00089
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a logbook for the brig Charles of Boston, kept from May 5-July 7, 1828. The logbook records the ship's movement, weather conditions, and sighting of other ships.
Dates:
1828
Charles C. Killingsworth papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.439
Scope and Contents
The Charles C. Killingsworth papers provide an invaluable source of material to the researcher interested in the development of American labor law, and its application to the collective bargaining process. With the exception of some material from World War I, the collection is composed of labor materials. Killingsworth served as a member of several federal agencies, as a consultant to state and private organizations and as an arbitrator and permanent umpire for many large corporations....
Dates:
1918 - 1968