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Towar family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.418
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials from both Jennie and James Towar. The correspondence of Jennie Towar Woodard is addressed to family members as well as correspondence from those family members. The bulk of this correspondence prior to the second World War came from her brother, James. The letters of the latter half of the collection are from nieces and nephews. In general, the letters are chatty and relate some of the social or economic condition of the times. One exception to this are the...
Dates: 1882 - 1956
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Tower Guard records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.2.45
Scope and Content The records of the Tower Guard consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, memos, agendas, and scrapbooks. The records have been created by the students in the organization and are rather informal and vary in their content. In addition, there are a large number of undated records. The minute book contains a brief history of the Tower Guard and minutes of the meetings from 1933 to 1944. The administrative folder contains the Articles of the Tower Guard and the Preamble. The agendas...
Dates: 1933 - 2012
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

True family papers

 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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

W. O. Town account book

 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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Waldo family papers and the Waldo Travel Agency records

 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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

William Moore account book

 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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

William Tobias papers

 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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Wilson family papers

 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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Wixom family papers

 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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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American Mythic Theater 1
Andersonville Prison 1
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Andrews, Anne Amelia (1812-1898) 1
Andrews, Betsey Lathrop (1788-1859) 1
Andrews, Elisha Deming (1783-1852) 1
Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, duchesse d', 1778-1851 1
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Austin, Andrew V. 1
Austin, Hattie Foote 1
Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 1
Bay Port Fish Company (Mich.) 1
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Benton, Frank, 1852-1919 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
Breslin, Jacweir 1
Brody family (Clark Louis Brody, 1879-1961) 1
Brody, Clark L., 1879-1961 1
Brody, Emma Seeley 1
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Brody, Lewis Kinney 1
Brody, Margaret York 1
Bunn, Sarajah 1
Chamberlain family (Henry Chamberlain, 1824-1907) 1
Chamberlain, Henry, 1824-1907 1
Chamberlain, Mellen, 1821-1900 1
Choate, Rodney W. 1
Clute, O. (Oscar) 1
Coggan, Blanche B. (Blanche Brown) 1
Coggan, Forrest Winston 1
Combs, William H. 1
Continental Insurance Company 1
Curry, John 1
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 1
Dartmouth College 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
Detroit Edison Company 1
Dike, George K. (George Kimball), 1918- 1
Douglas, Nancy 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
Farley Brothers Farm (Albion, Michigan) 1
Farley, Garfield 1
Farley, W. E. 1
Faul, Henry 1
First Baptist Church (Jackson, Mich.) 1
First Universalist Church (Lansing, Mich.) 1
Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad 1
Foo, Charles T. 1
Foote family (Hattie Foote Austin, 1859-1952) 1
Foote, Henry King 1
Foote, Minera Henderson 1
Francis, Charles 1
Francis, Simeon 1
Franklin County Immigration Society (Franklin County, Kan.) 1
Frederick C. Jenison Insurance Agency (Lansing, Mich.) 1
French, Jeremiah 1
Friday, David, 1876-1945 1
General Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Gilchrist, Maude 1
Gould, Lucius E. 1
Grand Army of the Republic 1
Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada 1