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Collection
Identifier: 00221
Scope and Content
The Edward G. Read papers contain materials related to Read, his wife, children, and relatives. Included are personal and business correspondence, recipe books, pamphlets, cards, and publications. The family papers series has a four volume set titled The Peak - Peake Family History by Cyrus Peak.
The photographs include the Barber, Shepard, Read, and Peak families, as well as unidentified people and an aerial view of a farm.
Dates:
1859-1982
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.40
Scope and Contents
The Edward H. Ryder collection contains correspondence, travel information from his trip around the world in 1923 and personal remembrances, including memorials and programs. Also found in the collection are materials pertaining to his wife, Georgia Smyth Ryder. The collection also contains correspondence to and from both Edward and Georgia Ryder. It includes copies of their original birth certificates as well as their obituaries. The bulk of the material relates to Edward Ryder and his...
Dates:
1854 - 1955
Collection
Identifier: c-00626
Scope and Contents
The Edward Hutchings papers contain correspondence of Hutchings, primarily letters to his mother that were mostly written in October and November of 1945, although there is also one letter from 1937. The collection also contains photographs of Hutchings, his friends, and Nina Dudley’s relatives, some dated mid-1943, but most undated.
Dates:
1937 - 1945
Collection
Identifier: c-00109
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Edwin Holmes' Civil War letters to family and friends. His letters deal primarily with his health and with family matters. There are frequent references to his brother Augustus and stepbrother Alvah Marsh (see c.108, c.110).Also included in this collection are several letters from Holmes' stepbrother Frank Marsh, describing his work in an army hospital in Detroit.These materials have been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates:
1862 - 1864
Collection
Identifier: 00016
Scope and Contents
The Edwin Havens papers consist of letters and diaries written by Havens while serving in the Seventh Michigan Cavalry during the Civil War. The letters of 1862 concern the training period of the regiment at Camp Kellogg, Grand Rapids, Michigan. In February of 1863, the regiment was sent to Washington, D.C., and was later involved in campaigns at Gettysburg, Richmond, Petersburg, and the Shenandoah Valley. Havens' letters contain details of important battles, as well as the...
Dates:
1838 - 1926
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.4
Scope and Content
The Edwin Willits papers consist of correspondence, financial records, Willits' inaugural address at Michigan Agricultural College, and various education-related materials, primarily concerning natural science.
Dates:
1884 - 1889
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.108
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers related to Winburne’s ultimately successful fight to receive pension benefits from Michigan State University. It includes correspondence from the MSU Equal Opportunity Program as well as correspondence from the Board of Trustees.
Dates:
1970 - 1971
Collection
Identifier: 00147
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 35 letters and 2 homemade account journals. Eight letters (1849-1899) were written by relatives of Mrs. Kellogg. The other letters, written to or by Mrs. Kellogg (nee Rogers) or her relatives (1923-1938) relate rural life during the Great Depression. The letters are from Springfield; Ganges, Michigan; Alaedon; Burlington, Iowa; Mason, Michigan; Goshen, Indiana; Orchards, Washington; Andrews, Indiana; Detroit, Michigan; Elkhart, Indiana; Clinton, Oklahoma; Oklahoma...
Dates:
1838 - 1978
Collection
Identifier: MSS 502 small
Scope and Contents
Most documents are about anti-apartheid organizations in Portland, Oregon. Also included are several items from the American Friends Service Committee national office in Philadelphia and a teaching guide written by Bill Bigelow to the film "Witness to Apartheid" by Sharon Sopher.
Dates:
1981 - 1989
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.67
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection contains material relating to the issues that interested Hill most as a teacher and researcher. He taught a number of courses on farm appraisal and agricultural finance, and his reference material appears here. Land tenure, especially the legal and moral implications of father-son partnerships and farm ownership transfers, were of special interest to him.In addition to this, there is also a scrapbook and some memorabilia from his college days at...
Dates:
1862 - 1972
