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Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.272
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials related to Harry Begian’s career at Michigan State University. These consist of band performance information, clippings, and photographs. The photographs include groups, band formations, and people. Notable people in the photographs are Governor William Milliken, MSU President Clifford Wharton, Jack Breslin, Clarence "Biggie" Munn, Randall J. Spicer, and Harry Begian.
Dates:
1957 - 1984
Collection
Identifier: c-00611
Scope and Contents
The Harry Newnham collection contains photographs and postcards of Saugatuck, Michigan circa 1900, schooners, steamships, ferries, and boats.
Dates:
1868-1908
Collection
Identifier: c-00008
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two deeds for land in Michigan owned by the Hawley family. One is a certificate for register for public lands in Ionia, purchased by Don Hawley and David B. Webster. The second is a quitclaim deed for the transfer of property in Crystal Township, Montcalm County from Lucius Hawley to his wife, Elizabeth C. Hawley.
Dates:
1837, 1919, undated
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.165
Scope and Content
The scrapbook contains photographs of various recreational activities in southern Lower Michigan circa 1900-1910. Included are scenes of swimming, camping, fishing and boating. The volume also has photographs of unidentified people.
Dates:
1900 - 1910
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.449
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the diaries of Fred T. Henson from 1907 to 1969. Henson was a farmer in Richland Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. The diary entries cover his daily activities, the weather, chemicals used on crops, his wife Gladys' activities, genealogical data on Kalamazoo County residents, obituaries, and wedding announcements. Henson also describes his service days in World War I, including a stay in East Lansing, Michigan where he was a member of the Michigan Agricultural...
Dates:
1907 - 1970
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.93
Scope and Content
This collections contains publications about the history of Michigan Agricultural College, the impact the U.S. Civil War had on agricultural extension in Michigan, the Morrill Land Grant College Act and life of Bela Hubbard, an Michigan pioneer. Also included in the Berg collection are the articles of incorporation and by-laws and some correspondence of the Michigan State University chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national honorary extension fraternity. There is a newspaper plate from the...
Dates:
1930 - 1969
Collection
Identifier: 00256
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of materials from Herbert W. Spendlove's time working in journalism. This includes his time as a reporter for the Saginaw News, city editor for the Saginaw News, editor for the Jackson Citizen Patriot, and editor of the Ann Arbor News. Of particular interest is correspondence between Spendlove and major figures such as J. Edgar Hoover, George Romney, and George Wallace. The collection also has several invitations to conferences and presidential inaugurations...
Dates:
1941 - 1995
Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.13
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters and newspaper clippings pertaining to the development of Walter J. Hayes State Park near Clinton, Michigan. Herman Halladay, a Clinton resident and Secretary of the Michigan State Board of Agriculture, was one of the first to suggest creating a state park at Wamplers Lake in the heart of the Irish Hills. Interest in the project was aroused through Halladay's friend, T. F. Marston, who was with the State Conservation Department. Through the help of the members...
Dates:
1922 - 1931
Collection
Identifier: 00148
Scope and Contents
The Horner Woolen Mills collection consists primarily of correspondence and financial records, the bulk of which date from 1903 to 1919.The correspondence series, including general correspondence, letterpress copies of outgoing letters, and quotations and estimates, relate mostly to the mill's activities between 1907 and 1914. These partially document daily operations; the company's investment in real estate in Michigan and Oklahoma; and its interest, as contract creditors to the...
Dates:
1892 - 1961
Collection
Identifier: UA-12.4.2
Scope and Content
The Howland House collection contains reunion materials and photograph boards. The reunion materials consist of photocopies of information sheets from former members in which the members describe their lives since they left Howland House, with some containing images of themselves. These information sheets appear to be from the 1992 reunion. There is also an update from 2010 which includes copies of interior and exterior photographs of Howland House in 2010. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1948, 1992, 2010
