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Abel G. Peck papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00107
Scope and Contents This collection consists of letters from Abel G. Peck to his family during the Civil War. His letters describe Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the aftermath of the battle of Antietam, as well as as his part in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Also included in the collection is a letter from a newly appointed woman faculty member at Hillsdale, Michigan. The letter (1859) describes the college and her experiences as the first women hired by a previously all-male...
Dates: 1859 - 1863
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Addie E. Milks diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00548
Scope and Contents This collection contains excerpts from Addie E. Milks' diary detailing the history and genealogy of the Sloan and McCormick families, as well as early pioneer life in Michigan territory.A majority of the excerpts pertain to Addie's mother, Ann McCormick Malone, and her dramatic experiences during the Revolutionary War as well as her family's subsequent move to Taymouth Township, near the Flint River, Michigan.Also included in the excerpts are comments about relations...
Dates: 1922
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Capital Area Women's Lifestyle Magazine collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00218
Scope and Content

The collection contains issues of Capital Area Women's Lifestyle magazine.

Dates: 2012 - 2019
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Carrie Usewick Harvey reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: c-00174
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the typewritten reminiscences of Carrie Usewick Harvey, of Wexford County, Michigan, as told to her daughter.

The reminiscences gave an account of the family's migration and settlement in Wexford County, and Carrie's recollections of her youth. They also describe early lumbering operations and homemade remedies for illness.

Dates: undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Darlene Clark Hine papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.298
Scope and Content

The collection contains the lecture "Black women in the Middle West: the Michigan experience," that Hine delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of Michigan on October 14, 1988 and the Historical Society published in 1990.

Dates: 1988, 1990
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Elizabeth Chandler papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00098
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of newspaper reprints of nine letters written by Elizabeth Chandler of Lenawee County, Michigan, describing her pioneer experiences in the period 1830 to 1834. The letters were published by the Yale Publishing Association in 1926.

Dates: 1926
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Focus: Michigan Women publication

 Collection
Identifier: c-00340
Scope and Contents

The publication presents brief biographical sketches (and photographic reproductions) of women considered by the committee to be influential in the history of Michigan from 1701-1977.

Dates: 1977
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Louisa Tupper letter

 Collection
Identifier: c-00124
Scope and Contents

A letter from Louisa Tupper in Clinton County, Michigan, to her son in Genesee County describes personal matters, a outbreak of diphtheria, and a "logging bee" are discussed.

Dates: 1881
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mariette C. Crittenden reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: c-00163
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a typed copy of the reminiscences of Mariette C. Crittenden, written in 1907 when she was eighty-two years old. Her parents migrated from Vermont to Saline, Michigan, in 1831, when she was 6. After a rudimentary education, Mrs. Crittenden began teaching school at age 16. She married in 1851, and raised a large family. In the reminiscences, written as a letter to one of her daughters, Mrs. Crittenden describes her family's trip from Vermont by canal, steam boat,...
Dates: 1959
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mary E. Bennett papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00126
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two teacher certificates (1861) and one teacher contract (1861) issued to Mary E. Bennett of Williamstown Township, Ingham County, Michigan.

Dates: 1861
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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African American women -- Michigan 1
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American Association for State and Local History 1
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Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret, 1807-1834 1
Faling, Charles 1
Fyan, Loleta D. (Loleta Dawson), 1894-1990 1
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General Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Harris, Fran 1
Hine, Darlene Clark 1
Historical Society of Michigan (1874- ) 1
Malone, Ann McCormick 1
McCormick family 1
Michigan Humanities Council 1
Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Michigan State University. Employees 1
Michigan State University. Faculty 1
Michigan State University. Students 1
Michigan State University. Women's Resource Center 1
Milks, Addie E. 1
National Endowment for the Humanities 1
Rorich, Robert 1
Sloan family (Addie E. Milks, 1863-1940) 1
United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century 1
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 24th (1862-1865) 1
United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Michigan Coordinating Committee 1
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