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John Gibson Parkhurst papers
Collection
Identifier: 00025
Scope and Contents
The largest part of the collection consists of the pocket diaries Parkhurst kept from 1847 to 1906. The early diaries (1847-1860) relate details of his court cases and only rarely mention his personal life. Records of various financial transactions are incorporated in these early diaries. The diaries of the war years (1861-1865) include battle accounts and descriptions of Parkhurst's experiences as a prisoner-of-war in 1862. In the diaries of the post-war years, Parkhurst discusses primarily...
Dates:
1831 - 1906
John Harrington's South Africa papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 259 large
Scope and Contents
This collection of papers on the movement for divestment from apartheid South Africa focuses chiefly on California, but there also is material on Michigan (including MSU), Wisconsin, Connecticut, etc. Includes correspondence, reports, legislative bills, court records, memos, and articles and press clippings on the financial and legal aspects of investment in South Africa and divestiture from apartheid South Africa, as well as some anti-apartheid movement materials and photographs. It is...
Dates:
1972-1995
John J. Castillo papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 540
Abstract
This collection of papers include reports and correspondence of Castillo's work with the Communities of Color and Genetics Policy Project, the Latino Genetics Community and Consultation Network and the Lansing Area Hispanic Business Association (LAHBA). Also included are scripts and presentations for consulting work Castillo performed in the area of diversity training.
Dates:
1970 - 2016
John L. Whitelaw papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00379
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two folders of correspondence (1945) from Brigadier General John L. Whitelaw to relatives in East Lansing, Michigan, when he was stationed in Germany during World War II. In his letters, Whitelaw describes the Ruhr Valley area and Berlin after the German surrender, and comments on the Russian soldiers, trains and the civilian food situation.The collection also contains two scrapbooks. One (1883-1900) contains nineteenth-century pictorial advertisements,...
Dates:
1883 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1900
John Shaw papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00286
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of deeds and receipts of John Shaw of Lenawee County, Michigan. Also included is a Civil War letter describing battles around Richmond, Virginia, a letter licensing Shaw as a minister of the Christian Church of Adrian and Rome, Michigan (1867).The Civil War letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates:
1838 - 1872
John Taylor Bregger papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.74
Scope and Content
John T. Bregger papers include biographical information; personal and professional correspondence; notes, papers, records and memorabilia from his elementary and high school education in Bangor, Michigan, (1903-1913) from his studies at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) (1913-1923; 1954-1967), and from his graduate studies at Cornell University (1921-1922) includes his Masters Thesis on Pomology; news clippings written by Bregger or collected for his personal...
Dates:
1903 - 1981
John Waddell collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00448
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the naturalization certificate of John Waddell dated March 21, 1836 in New York, New York and a memo booklet recording the births and deaths in the family, 1800-1884.
Dates:
1800 - 1884
John Wheeler papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00006
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the Civil War letters of John Wheeler to his family in Cattaraugus County, New York, relating his experiences in the Army of the Potomac, 44th Regiment, New York Volunteers, and in convalescent camp.
Dates:
1861 - 1864
Jon L. Young papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.116
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the reminiscences of Jon L. Young, based on diaries he kept while a student at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) from 1931 to 1935.Young talks about classes, work, and social activities as well as his family which lived in and around the Lansing area. His memoirs also include photographs of himself, brother, and college friends, and an epilogue which briefly summarizes Young's life after college.Young describes classes...
Dates:
April 1986
Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity/Stephen Colbert March to Keep Fear Alive realia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 112 large
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of realia from the rally, including a towel, poster, T-shirt, and buttons.
Dates:
2010