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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

Mrs. Robert E. Onweller collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00115
Scope and Contents This collection contains miscellaneous and unrelated materials found in a Hudson, Michigan drugstore when the donor's husband bought it. They include a ledger (1866-1878) of S.S. Johnson and Company, a furniture factory; a small ledger (1875) containing medicinal recipes belonging to Marvin M. Maxon, druggist and former owner of the store; a personal diary (January-May 1877) of Mrs. Laura O'Conor of Seneca Falls, New York; a ledger and cash book (1879-1887) of the Eaton Brothers Company,...
Dates: 1865 - 1930

Orson Ingalls diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00310
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a farm diary of Orson Ingalls of Almont, Lapeer County, Michigan, giving prices of stock and produce. The diary also contains personal notes about daily agricultural activities, weather conditions, health, church attendance, visits to friends and attendance at funerals.

Dates: 1856 - 1864

Parsons family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00020
Scope and Contents The papers consist mainly of correspondence, diaries and account books of the Edward Parsons family from 1824 to 1910. Most of the material is personal correspondence between the Edward Parsons family and relatives living in Livingston and Clinton Counties, New York. A great number of letters between Edward and his father, Reverend Levi Parsons (1779-1864) are included. The contents of these letters range from Levi's concern over Edward's problems at Hamilton College (Clinton, New York) in...
Dates: 1824 - 1910

Peter H. Felker papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.44
Scope and Contents The papers of Peter Felker consist of three diaries for 1868, 1869, and 1870, in which he details his life as a student at Michigan Agricultural College. The diaries include descriptions of course work, work done for the college, and leisure activities. He also describes travel and work in Jackson, Michigan. Also included is a receipt for his board, and labor at the college. It shows how much he owed for his board and washing and how much he was credited for the work he did at the...
Dates: 1868 - 1870

Ransom E. Olds papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00027
Scope and Content The Ransom E. Olds papers are divided into two sections. The first section consists of Olds' personal papers. Included in this section are Olds' love letters to Metta Woodward (June 6, 1864-September 2, 1950), whom Olds married in 1899, Olds' philanthropic activities, his daybooks and two journals of the Olds family trip to Europe. The second section deals with Olds' business activities from 1904 to 1947. Included are correspondence series of Olds Motor Works and REO and several...
Dates: 1884 - 1950

Raymond Lyon Bowers papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00193
Scope and Contents The bulk of the Raymond Lyon Bowers papers consist of his original sheet music. The sheet music covers early compositions in school to later unpublished works. The music is either on loose paper or in composition notebooks. Bowers had numbered all of his sheet music and created a numerical list. This order has been maintained in the collection, with the exception of the materials on his opera, Legends of Alhambra. The materials relating to the opera have been pulled from the sheet music and...
Dates: 1902 - 1970

Reverend Leonard Smith diaries collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00121
Scope and Contents This volume contains the typescript of the diaries of Reverend Leonard Smith (1838-1874) dating from 1859 to 1874 (diaries are missing for years 1861, 1864, 1868, 1870-1872). They were transcribed by his nephew's wife, Blanche Beal Lowe, who has also included photographs, legal documents, correspondence, maps, biographical information, genealogical charts, and an index of names. Reverend Smith's rich and interesting diaries begin with his youthful enthusiasm for the ministry and...
Dates: 1859 - 1874

Rollin Harold Baker papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.111
Scope and Contents

The collection contains diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, course notes, photographs, autobiographical information, both personal and professional, of Rollin H. Baker, Museum Director and Professor in the Department of Zoology and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University.

Dates: 1936 - 1991

Roy James Robb papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00067
Scope and Contents of the Papers The collection consists largely of survey field books, survey maps, and diaries of Roy James Robb. His diaries contain brief notes related to the surveys, which were done in Ingham, Clinton, Barry, Iosco, Mackinac, and other counties in Michigan. Also in the collection are nineteenth century survey papers and field books, which he purchased to use for reference. Among the papers of Ingham County Surveyors are surveys by Anson Jackson, the first County Surveyor (1838-1848),...
Dates: 1824 - 1957

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Lansing (Mich.) 6
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Jackson County (Mich.) 3
Kalamazoo County (Mich.) 3
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New York (State) 3
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Oakland County (Mich.) 3
Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae 3
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World War, 1914-1918 3
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Barry County (Mich.) 2
Berrien County (Mich.) 2
Certificates 2
Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 2
Clinton County (Mich.) 2
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States 2
Detroit (Mich.) 2
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Farmers -- Michigan 2
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Ingham County (Mich.) 2
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Iosco County (Mich.) 2
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Legal forms 2
Legislation -- Michigan 2
Lenawee County (Mich.) 2
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Lumbering -- Michigan 2
Mackinac Island (Mich.) 2
Macomb County (Mich.) 2
Michigan -- Religion 2
Military records 2
Newspapers 2
Ontario 2
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Periodicals 2
Railroads -- Michigan 2
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Michigan Agricultural College 14
Kuhn, Madison, 1910-1985 6
Michigan State University. Museum 5
United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century 4
Anonymous 3
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Michigan State University. Office of the President 3
Reo Motor Car Company 3
Baker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold), 1916-2007 2
Daughters of the American Revolution 2
Eastern Michigan University 2
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Michigan Farm Bureau 2
Michigan State University. Alumni and alumnae 2
Michigan State University. Class of 1911 2
Michigan State University. Class of 1935 2
Michigan State University. International Programs 2
Olds, Ransom Eli, 1864-1950 2
Republican Party (Mich.) 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
United States. Army 2
United States. Army -- Military life -- History 2
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865) 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
United States. Navy 2
University of Michigan 2
Abbot, Theophilus Capen, 1826-1892 1
Abbott, Samuel H., 1853-1903 1
Alpha Zeta. Kedzie Chapter (Michigan State University) 1
American Association of Social Workers 1
American Pomological Society 1
American Red Cross 1
American Veterinary Medical Association. National Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners 1
Amherst College 1
Andersonville Prison 1
Andrews family (Elisha Deming Andrews, 1783-1852) 1
Andrews, Anne Amelia (1812-1898) 1
Andrews, Betsey Lathrop (1788-1859) 1
Andrews, Elisha Deming (1783-1852) 1
Association for the Study of Community Organization 1
Association of Systematics Collections 1
Austin family (Hattie Foote Austin, 1859-1952) 1
Austin, Andrew V. 1
Austin, Hattie Foote 1
Avery, Gardner 1
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 1
Barney, Leila Craig 1
Bingham, Kinsley S. (Kinsley Scott), 1808-1861 1
Bliss, Josiah W. 1
Boy Scouts of America. Troop 1 (Brighton, Mich.) 1
Brattin, Alice Jane, 1914-1983 1
Brattin, John, 1915-1995 1
Bregger, John Taylor (1896-1981) 1
Bregger, Myra Potter 1
Brody family (Clark Louis Brody, 1879-1961) 1
Brody, Clark L., 1879-1961 1
Brody, Emma Seeley 1
Brody, James Polk 1
Brody, James Seeley 1
Brody, Lewis Kinney 1
Brody, Margaret York 1
Brown, Jean Hebert 1
Budd, Robert R. 1
Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 1
Burdick, C. M., Mrs. 1
Byram, Harold W. 1
Calkins, Edmund Albert 1
Campbell District School (Eaton County, Mich.) 1
Carpenter, Kate M. Coad, 1880-1974 1
Central Michigan University 1
Chalkley, Lyssa. 1
Cincinnatus Association 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Combs, William H. 1
Conference on Undergraduate Education for Social Work 1
Coppin, John S., 1904-1986 (Portraitist) 1
Cornell University. School of Agriculture 1
Council on Social Work Education 1
Craig, Frank 1
Craig, Mary Ann 1
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 1
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 1
Davis, Robert H. 1
Denison, James Henry, 1907-1975 1
Detroit Edison Company 1
Dewsbury, Donald A., 1939- 1
Dooley, Mary True 1
Dorr, Eben Pearson 1
Dorr, Mary Snyder, 1892-1966 1
Dressel, Paul L. (Paul Leroy), 1910-1989 1
Dye, Marie 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
East Lansing Woman's Club 1
Eastman National Business College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) 1
Eaton Brothers (Firm) 1
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation 1
Felker, Peter H. 1
Foote family (Hattie Foote Austin, 1859-1952) 1
Foote, Henry King 1
Foote, Minera Henderson 1
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