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Urban Policy and Planning Library records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.15.6
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials received from the Urban Policy and Planning Library. The materials primarily relate to Native American education issues in Michigan. There are several reports from the Michigan Department of Education and the Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs. The collection contains two issues of Wassaja, a national newspaper of Indian America, from 1982; and two issues of Pointing the Way, a Native...
Dates:
1972 - 1982
Vector (MSU) UA 3.3
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00723
Verdun E. Leichty papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.57
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence about the development of a Workers Education program. Leichty worked as the assistant director of correspondence study in the extension department at the University of Michigan and later developed a similar program at Michigan State University.
Dates:
1944 - 1972
Vernon J. Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00022
Scope and Contents
The Vernon J. Brown papers consist of a typewritten manuscript, "70 years - 17 Governors" and a reprint of Brown's published reminiscences of pioneering history and farm life in the area of Ingham County, Michigan. The former document includes personal impressions of prominent men in Michigan government and education, including the seventeen governors with whom Brown worked and served, from Hazen Pingree to G. Mennen Williams. Brown, who was owner and editor of the ...
Dates:
1959
Veterans Information Program UA 7.1
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00724
Virginia Norfleet reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: c-00149
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a typed transcript of the reminiscences of Virginia Norfleet which was written for her grandchildren. Mrs. Norfleet gives a highly moralistic account of life in the Tidewater area of Virginia from 1812 to 1894, with emphasis on the Civil War and its effects on living conditions. She discusses slavery and the freeing of her father's slaves after General Lee's surrender; describes the school she attended after the Civil War; and gives a brief history of Franklin,...
Dates:
circa 1900
Vital Signs UA 16.79
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-01173
Voice of American Homemakers Oral History Project collection
Collection
Identifier: 00161
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 7 volumes and 172 cassette tapes. The tapes contain over 200 oral histories from individuals in 37 states. The volumes contain the transcripts of the interviews. Also included are a published book that organizes the collection around key themes and findings from the interviews and the proceedings of the Seminar of Humanists and Homemakers.
Dates:
1981 - 1986
Waters family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: c-00325
Scope and Contents
This collection contains five letters relating family matters, three of them from Achsa Waters of Independence and Union, Michigan, to her family (Otis) in Steuben County, New York. She mentions visits to Oberlin, Ohio; a trip through Memphis to Vicksburg, Mississippi (1864) to teach the "colored people" and to deliver clothing from Oberlin and Union. Another letter, form Otis B. Waters of Genessee County, New York to his uncle, talks of finances and an impending trip "West" to be married....
Dates:
1860 - 1865
Weekly, The UA 2.9 & UA 3.3 & UA 16.11
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00745