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Collection
Identifier: MSS 415 large
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Wachholz collection on the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Africa Project includes extensive material related to the case American Committee on Africa v. The New York Times which for Wachholz served as the lead lawyer for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and other plaintiffs, a position he continued after leaving the staff of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL).
Dates:
1970 - 1977
Collection
Identifier: c-00197
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an advertisement and a newspaper article about the Cardiff Giant Hoax (1869). George Hull of Binghamton, New York, carved a stone giant and buried it in a field near Syracuse, New York. When it was dug up, it was proclaimed to be a petrified prehistoric man even by scientists of the day. Hull and his partners profited from exhibiting the giant before their hoax was discovered.
The collection also contains a biographical sketch on Abraham Lincoln.
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: 00055
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of approximately 100 letters, most of which concern three generations of the Dowd family: Horace Dowd, his son, Jefferson Dowd, and Jefferson Dowd's sons and daughterMost of the letters were written by the Dowds, their relatives, and friends and are concerned with family affairs and agricultural life. Of special interest, however, are the letters written by Joseph Barrows to his sister, Mary Barrows Dowd. Joseph Barrows, originally of Mansfield,...
Dates:
1828 - 1944
Collection
Identifier: c-00653
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal papers and memorabilia of Doyle K. Otto, who served with the U.S. Army in Japan following World War II from 1948 to 1951. There are a variety of photographs of different people and some negatives. Weekly schedules for his basic enlisted stenographic course over the course of several weeks are included. There are several greeting cards and letters to his parents from when Doyle was stationed in Japan. In the correspondence, Doyle writes about food,...
Dates:
1948 - 1951
Collection
Identifier: MSS 406 large
Scope and Contents
The Ducks Unlimited Artwork Collection contains six pieces of companion artists' artwork from the Ducks Unlimited 1987 art series.
Dates:
1987
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.233
Scope and Contents
The Dudley P. Hall papers contain a senior thesis written in 1915 and a scrapbook regarding life at MSU. The thesis is entitled, "Investigation on Boulevards and the Design of a Boulevard to be Constructed between Saginaw and Bay City, Mich." and was written by J.P. Vincent and Dudley P. Hall. The thesis contains text regarding the purpose of the boulevard as well as maps of the area and photographs from different survey points. The scrapbook contains photographs of people and campus...
Dates:
1910 - 1915
Collection
Identifier: c-00246
Scope and Contents
The collection contains one volume of records of the Dunbar School of Agriculture, 1909-1921. Also included are a letter requesting verification of attendance (October 1959) and two certificates verifying attendance (July 12, 1935 and undated).
Dates:
1909 - 1959; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1921
Collection
Identifier: c-00450
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records relating to a cherry-pitting machine manufactured by the Dunkley Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Dates:
1938, Undated
Collection
Identifier: c-00123
Scope and Contents
The Dunks family papers consist primarily of correspondence addressed to Oliver Dunks of Detroit and Coldwater, Michigan, the bulk of which is dated in the 1860s. The letters discuss business, agriculture, and social activities in Southern Michigan. Several also deal with important aspects of the Civil War period, such as "Copperhead" feeling in the North, the election of 1864, and Lincoln's assassination.Of particular interest are letters from Julius Dunks discussing the...
Dates:
1836 - 1877
Collection
Identifier: 00108
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the records of the Duplex Power Car Company and the Duplex Truck Company. Included in these records are articles of association, correspondence, patent certificates, reports of audits from 1917 to 1955, as well as profit and loss statements for the same years. Also found in the collection are stock certificates from 1916 to 1955, stockholders records and minute books of meetings, records of agreements regarding labor conditions and land purchase, circuit court...
Dates:
1909 - 1955
