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Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.231
Scope and Contents
The majority of Erdman’s photographs are images he took while on campus as an instructor. Many of the images bear the name “Kodak Shop Photo.” The Action Shots folder contains images Erdman took of activities during his time at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Some examples of campus action shots are the field testing of vehicles, servicemen, and portable barracks. Other notable photos include an early tank, caterpillar vehicles, trucks carrying portable...
Dates:
1918
Collection
Identifier: MSS 78 small
Scope and Contents
The Baurat Theodor Reh papers include correspondence, mostly dated 1939, to and from Baurat Theodor Reh, Reichsverkehrsminister Julius Dorpmüller, and others, relating to the railroad system in German South-West Africa (now Namibia). Dorpmüller was the Nazi Germany Minister of Transportation. Also in the collection is a map, charts, printed matter, and Reh's "Supf-Plakette" certificate. The materials document some of Nazi Germany's plans for post-World War II port construction, railroad...
Dates:
1929 - 1941
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00189
Dates:
1974-1977, 1990, 1997-1998
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00193
Collection
Identifier: c-00089
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a logbook for the brig Charles of Boston, kept from May 5-July 7, 1828. The logbook records the ship's movement, weather conditions, and sighting of other ships.
Dates:
1828
Collection
Identifier: c-00402
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letterpress books containing correspondence concerning business and legal transactions of the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad Company.
The first volume contains copies of letters written between January 15 and May 16, 1885. At that time, J. B. Mulliken was general manager of the railroad. The second volume contains copies of correspondence written from April 27 to August 27, 1896. Charles H. Heald was the railroad's general manager at the time.
Dates:
1885 - 1896
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.216
Scope and Contents
The Donald Hayworth papers consist of political campaign material, photographs, scrapbooks, and personal certificates of Hayworth’s career. Also, the collection contains a scrapbook of a lecture tour of Louise Morley, “Role of British Youth and Women in World War II”.
Also include are film of Report from Washington in which Congressman Donald Hayworth, U.S. Representative for the 6th Congressional District of Michigan, reports to his constituents on matters of special concern to his...
Dates:
1943 - 1958
Collection
Identifier: 00021
Scope and Contents
The Holder collection is divided into three basic series. The first deals with his work for the Taft Highway Association. This series includes correspondence, records of the association and newspaper clippings. The second series relates records of the Association and newspaper clippings. The second series relates to Holder's position with the Michigan State Highway Department during World War II. This material contains records of bus line surveys as well as gasoline and tire rationing...
Dates:
1925 - 1959
Collection
Identifier: c-00184
Scope and Contents
This collection contains notes made by Bill Taylor from a 1964 interview with H. J. Karn, in which Karn discusses his working experience in the Lansing plant of the REO Motor Car Company during the years 1906-1916. Also included is a REO Company brochure describing a 1910 record-breaking transcontinental trip from New York to San Francisco in a REO car. The collection includes a photograph of the REO bus that traveled across the country in 1920.
Dates:
1910 - 1964
Collection
Identifier: 00097
Scope and Contents
The Hackley and Hume papers contain the business records of several inter-related Michigan-based business firms and some of the private papers of the families of Charles Henry Hackley and Thomas Hume. The papers span the years 1859-1955. The papers document lumbering and lumber investments in Michigan and other states. The papers also document Charles Henry Hackley and Thomas Hume, both prominent timbermen and philanthropists, as well as other family members. Hackley and Hume were active...
Dates:
1859 - 1955
