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James Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: 00026
Scope and Contents of the Papers
The James Taylor papers include correspondence, receipts, and other materials dealing with his business and personal activities. Throughout the correspondence there are numerous letters concerning education, particularly at the college level. One letter, dated February 26, 1865 gives a good account of academic life at the University of Michigan. The collection also contains personal correspondence about life in general. Most of the receipts pertain to Taylor's agricultural implement business...
Dates:
1855 - 1900
Jenison family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.446
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Frederick C. Jenison's papers for the period 1907-1939. Included are personal and business records, primarily expenditure reports. The personal correspondence includes copies of letters that Jenison sent. The papers are most complete for the 1930s, less complete for the 1920s, and rather incomplete for the period 1910-1920. One significant portion of the collection consists of check stubs, both personal and business, for most of the period 1907-1939....
Dates:
1877 - 1939
John Brattin family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.429
Scope and Content
The John Brattin family papers consist of mainly John Brattin’s papers and correspondence, but it does contain materials and correspondence from his first wife, Alice Jane, and his mother-in-law, Kate Baker Knight. This collection covers John’s life from high school graduation until his death. Included in the collection are correspondence, work documents, photographs related to the Bowlby, Baker, and Knight families, certificates, family newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a...
Dates:
1849 - 1995
John L. Whitelaw papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00379
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two folders of correspondence (1945) from Brigadier General John L. Whitelaw to relatives in East Lansing, Michigan, when he was stationed in Germany during World War II. In his letters, Whitelaw describes the Ruhr Valley area and Berlin after the German surrender, and comments on the Russian soldiers, trains and the civilian food situation.The collection also contains two scrapbooks. One (1883-1900) contains nineteenth-century pictorial advertisements,...
Dates:
1883 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1900
John M. Gram papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00585
Scope and Contents
The John M. Gram papers contain one copy of the typescript, “Historical Development of the Grand River Road, East Lansing, Michigan.” Grand River Road was originally formed from Indian trails. The first roads were made in the corduroy fashion; commonly built by beds of branches covered with soil. The next roads were plank roads; with the Howell Plank Road Company constructing the plank road to the Capitol in 1850-1853. After the failure of plank roads, gravel was placed down as a road in...
Dates:
1996
Justin Kestenbaum collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.323
Scope and Content
The Justin Kestenbaum collection contains photographic materials such as photographs, negatives, and transparencies that Kestenbaum used for his books, "Out of the Wilderness: An Illustrated History of Greater Lansing" and "At the Campus Gate: A History of East Lansing." Some of the photographs came from the University Archives and Historical Collections; others were taken by Kestenbaum himself. The photographs show people and places from the Lansing area.
Dates:
undated
Kiwanis Club of East Lansing records
Collection
Identifier: 00117
Scope and Content
The East Lansing Kiwanis Club records consist of general correspondence (1957-1971), weekly news bulletins (1955-1987), financial records (1956-1964; 1967-1970), and materials relating to the club's 20th Anniversary (1970) and to the projects listed above. Other materials include booklets and printed material on Kiwanis international, reports and convention programs of the Michigan district, and a scrapbook.
Dates:
1915 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1987
Lansing and MSU Campus photographs
Collection
Identifier: c-00693
Scope and Contents
The photograph collection contains two images of the Michigan State University Intramural West pool, one image possibly of a building in MSU Brody Complex, two images of an Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Lansing Police Car, two images of a river with ducks probably the Red Cedar river on MSU Campus, six images showing a house in winter and street scenes with snow probably Lansing or East Lansing, and an image of another house in summer.
Dates:
1961-1962, undated
Lansing Automobile Club Records
Collection
Identifier: c-00297
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the membership list for the Lansing Automobile Club circa 1919. The list includes such prominent Lansing, Michigan citizens as Edwin A. Bowd, William H. Newbrough, and Roy C. Vandercook.
Dates:
circa 1919
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