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Collection
Identifier: c-00393
Scope and Contents
The collection contains farm records and personal and household expense records kept by George A. True, Elisha D. True and A. A. True who operated a sheep and dairy farm in Armada, Macomb County, Michigan. Detailed records are given on farm animals, sheep shearing, milk production, and on animal and milk tests. Also included are household and personal expense accounts, a recipe book for cures of animal diseases and miscellaneous clippings and notes.
Dates:
1881 - 1923
Collection
Identifier: c-00424
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an account book from the office of W. O. Town, of Ithaca, Gratiot County, Michigan, containing itemized accounts of sales of building supplies and fuel.
Dates:
1893
Collection
Identifier: 00042
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal correspondence, notes, reports, and financial records. The majority of these relate to Mortimer Waldo's activities in Russia and Finland from 1916 to 1918.Letters to family and friends written from 1916 to 1917 describe life in Siberia and comment on the political situation in the United States and the entry of the U.S. into the First World War. Later letters (1918) concentrate on the Finnish Civil War. Those dating from after 1919 primarily...
Dates:
1904 - 1991
Collection
Identifier: c-00467
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an account book of agricultural and personal expenses and purchases from April 16, 1847 to April, 1871.
Dates:
1847 - 1871
Collection
Identifier: c-00205
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the papers of William Tobias, a farmer and school district official in Williamston, Michigan. Included are personal and business correspondence, legal documents, tax assessments, fraternal lodge papers, and a small personal account book. Also included are materials relating to the Williamston School.
Dates:
1858-1887, undated
Collection
Identifier: 00051
Scope and Contents
The majority of this collection is made up of 58 small volumes, all within the boxes. Volume 1 is farm accounts, 1863-1868, kept by George W. Wilson of Delhi Township, Ingham County. Volumes 2-53 are diaries kept by George W. Wilson, 1868-1922, telling of social events and life on his Aurelius, Ingham County farm. At the back of each diary is an account of the year's expenditures. Volumes 54-55 are diaries kept by Arthur G. Wilson, son of George W. Wilson, also an Aurelius farmer, containing...
Dates:
1863 - 1925
Collection
Identifier: c-00131
Scope and Contents
The Wixom family papers contain a number of land title transfers and other documents relating to Oakland, Genesee, Ionia, Montcalm, and Shiawassee Counties, Michigan. The collection includes a mandate to collect school taxes (1839), a federal income tax return for 1865, records of major family expenses for 1886-1888, and deposit certificates from the Milford State Bank dated 1887 and 1907. The collection also contains petitions (1871) from residents of Milford, Commerce, Novi, and Lyon,...
Dates:
1822 - 1907