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Gosh & Rockwell collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00138
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the account books of the Gosh & Rockwell blacksmith shop located in Hickory Corners, Barry County, Michigan. The books record transactions with customers and taxes received.
Dates:
1863 - 1883
Hall family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00408
Scope and Contents
The collection contains diaries, account books for the household and farm, tax receipts, and miscellaneous papers of the Ernest Hall family. Included are three diaries (1932-1946) of Susannah Lindsey Hall, wife of Ernest Hall.
Dates:
1893 - 1950
Hardenbergh family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00527
Scope and Contents
The Hardenbergh family papers is a collection of letters written by various members of Catharine's family between 1858-1866. The letters written by James and Solomon Hardenbergh (b. 1835; d. 7-7-1864), (an older and her youngest brother, respectively) and Charles Stanton, one of Catherine's sons-in-law, reflect on various aspects of military life and the campaigns in which they participated. They also make frequent reference to the diseases which took the lives of many Union soldiers. The...
Dates:
1858 - 1866
Michigan State Grange records
Collection
Identifier: 00187
Scope and Contents
The records of the Michigan State Grange are held by the MSU Archives and the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The MSU Archives holds the Grange records from the following counties: Allegan, Barry, Benzie, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clare, Clinton, Eaton, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Isabella, Kalamazoo, Kalkaska, Kent, Leelanau, Manistee, Mason, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, Osceola, Otsego, Ottawa, Shiawassee, St. Joseph, Van Buren,...
Dates:
1873 - 2009
Michigan tax receipts collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00464
Scope and Contents
The collection contains tax receipts from four Michigan counties: Barry County, dated 1902 and 1904; Cass County, dated 1859; Gogebic County, dated 1915; and Eaton County, dated 1879.
Dates:
1859 - 1915
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