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Benjamin B. Brock papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00239
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection consists of Civil War letters from Benjamin B. Brock of the 26th Michigan Infantry to his family. Brock fought in the eastern theater and was wounded at Spottsylvania, but later returned to his regiment. His letters describe his experiences but are generally concerned with home matters. He frequently expressed his dissatisfaction with the army and especially with a war to free slaves. The letters relating to his service in the Civil War have been...
Dates: 1861 - 1865
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Benjamin D. Pritchard records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00324
Scope and Contents This collections contains records, account books and letterbooks of Captain Benjamin D. Pritchard, Commanding Officer of Company L, 4th Michigan Cavalry, dating from August, 1862, to July, 1865. The military materials include two ledger books (1862-1865), five folders of invoices and receipts, and an inventory of Company L's weapons, ammunition, clothing, horses, and track. There are also several roll call issues of supplies.Another ledger gives the daily cash account...
Dates: 1862 - 1911
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Benjamin M. Harman papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00496
Scope and Contents

Harman records in the two diaries the day-to-day activities of a soldier, including meals, marches, a trip on a schooner, illnesses, skirmishes, and his income and expenses. The diaries span the dates December 21, 1861 to May 27, 1863, the day that he was killed in battle at Port Hudson, Louisiana.

The other papers are photocopies of muster rolls for Harman (1861-1863) and correspondence (1881-1888) by his mother and relatives trying to secure his pension for his mother.

Dates: 1861 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1881 - 1888
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Berrien County records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00032
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of an official canvass of votes cast in Berrien County, Michigan in the presidential election of 1848, and two bonds (1871, 1874) issued by the Township of Three Oaks to help pay for construction of the Michigan Central Railroad.

Dates: 1848, 1871, 1874
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Bertha Malone collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00245
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence (1865-1887) between members of the Noddins family of Ionia, Michigan, primarily Civil War letters from Sarah and Robert Noddins to their son, Thomas, in the Union Army. The letters often mention a son William but he is actually the son-in-law, William Hicking.Also included is a lecture on the capture of John Wilkes Booth, given on speaking tours by Luther B. Baker, who helped capture Booth. Luther Byron Baker was an officer of the U.S....
Dates: 1865 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1887
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Bessey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.416
Scope and Contents The Bessey family papers have been arranged into the following series: Biographical Data, Manuscripts and Publications, General, Correspondence, Scrapbooks, Oversized materials and Photographs.The biographical data series includes information on Charles and Ernst Bessey, and on relatives of Edith Carleton Higgins (Mrs. Ernst A. Bessey), including her mother, Ella M. (Noyes) Higgins (1851-1913); her sisters, Mabel Cornell Porter and Bertha Noyes and, her brothers, Leslie A. Higgins...
Dates: 1878 - 1968
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Betty Kayleyta Shay papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.287
Scope and Contents

The Betty Kaleyta Shay papers consists of materials related to her experience as a Michigan State University-University of Nigeria Student Exchange (MINEX) program student. Included are travel itineraries and program information, and items she saved from her travels such as brochures, a menu, and postcards. There are also essay tests that she took, photographs, and Nigerian newspapers.

Dates: 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Bob Stein collection of leftist political ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 563 large
Scope and Contents The Bob Stein collection of leftist political ephemera consists of newsletters, mailings, meeting agendas, and other printed ephemera and personal notes relating to U. S. leftist political organizations. Organizations and publications represented within the collection include the Students for a Democratic Society, POLIT, Student Representative Party (SRP), Maroon Chicago, and the Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.) newsletter. Subjects include anti-McCarthyism, anti-nuclear weapons,...
Dates: 1940 - 1967
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Books, Inc. collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 435 large
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises some of the titles that Books, Inc. sold.

Dates: Publication: 1944 - 1961
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Bostock family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00562
Scope and Contents The Henry Bostock letters consist mostly of correspondence from him to his mother in Michigan. The letters contain descriptions about camp life and conditions, pay, items he wished his mother would send, his regiment movements, as well as descriptions of commanders. The majority of the letters date from 1862. Also included is a letter to his brother William, a letter from George Blashfield to Captain Cogswell about the circumstances of Henry's death, a letter from Captain Cogswell to Henry's...
Dates: 1861 - 1865
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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Michigan State University. Cooperative Extension Service 8
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Kuhn, Madison, 1910-1985 6
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Michigan State University. Faculty 6
Michigan State University. Alumni and alumnae 5
Michigan State University. Buildings 5
Greenback Labor Party (U.S.) 4
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Michigan State University. Board of Trustees 4
Michigan State University. Department of History 4
Michigan State University. International Programs 4
Michigan State University. Museum 4
Michigan State University. Students 4
Republican Party (Mich.) 4
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 4
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United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 18th (1862-1865) 4
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 26th (1862-1865) 4
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1863) 4
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865) 4
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865) 4
United States. Navy 4
American Committee on Africa 3
Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954 3
Blair, Austin, 1818-1894 3
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 3
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 3
Michigan Agricultural College. Students 3
Michigan State Grange 3
Michigan State University--University of Nigeria Program 3
Michigan State University. Anniversaries, etc. 3
Michigan State University. College of Human Medicine 3
Michigan State University. College of Osteopathic Medicine 3
Michigan State University. Department of Military Science/ROTC 3
Michigan State University. Latin American Studies Center 3
Reo Motor Car Company 3
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 3
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 3
Scott, D. K. (David Knight), 1940- 3
United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1866) 3
United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1866) 3
United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 4th (1862-1865) 3
United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 6th (1862-1865) 3
United States. Army. Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) 3
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1862-1865) 3
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 24th (1862-1865) 3
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1865) 3
United States. Department of Agriculture 3
Wharton, Clifton R., 1926- 3
AFL-CIO 2
Adams, Walter, 1922-1998 2
Andersonville Prison 2
Anonymous 2
Baker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold), 1916-2007 2
Bessey, Ernst Athearn, 1877-1957 2
Bingham, Kinsley S. (Kinsley Scott), 1808-1861 2
Bregger, Myra Potter 2
Case, Sarah Avery 2
Chamberlain, Henry, 1824-1907 2
Chandler, Zachariah, 1813-1879 2
Citizens for Eisenhower (Organization) 2
Combs, William H. 2
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 2
Daughters of the American Revolution 2
Democratic Party (Mich.) 2
Democratic Party (Mich.). State Central Committee 2
DiBiaggio, John A., 1932- 2
Eastern Michigan University 2
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 2
Grand Army of the Republic 2
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 2
Guyer, Gordon E. (Gordon Earl) 2
Hamilton, Ruth Simms 2
Holmes Group (1983- ) 2
Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879 2
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) 2
James Madison College 2
Jewell, Charles Adolphus 2
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 2
Johnson, Samuel, 1839-1916 2
Jones, Margaret Zee 2
Kedzie, Frank Stewart 2
Kedzie, R. C. (Robert Clark), 1823-1902 2
Libby Prison 2
McPherson, M. Peter 2
Michigan Council for the Arts 2
Michigan State College. Cooperative Extension Service 2
Michigan State Police 2
Michigan State University Railroad Club 2
Michigan State University. African Studies Center 2
Michigan State University. Centennial celebrations, etc 2