Showing Collections: 51 - 60 of 435
Broadcast Marketing and Photo Lab records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1.7
Scope and Contents
This collection contains videotapes of university events from primarily 1985 to 1993. The photographs (5 cubic feet) are of university buildings, departments, events, clubs, students and staff. The date range is from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Dates:
1950s-1990s
Brownson family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00178
Scope and Contents
The Brownson family papers consist of correspondence between members of the Brownson, Johnson, and Allured families, as well as essays, poetry, and a sermon.Many of the letters are to Oscar Brownson of Pontiac and Evart, Michigan. Brownson entered Oberlin College in 1843, but a year later he returned to Pontiac to teach school. Several letters from a cousin, Franklin Barber, urged him to join the United States Navy, where he could get a free medical training. Brownson received...
Dates:
1843 - 1931
Buzzard family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00555
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three letters addressed to members of the Buzzard Family of Detroit, Michigan. The first letter (1844) discusses the sale of mills and mentions one mill that was destroyed by fire. A letter written in 1849 by three members of the Buzzard family reports their arrival in Chicago to pick up a load of wheat to be carried to St. Clair, milled, and then delivered to Buffalo. The third letter (undated) contains a poem "Indian Lament" about the mistreatment of Indians by...
Dates:
1844, 1849, Undated
Campbell family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00182
Scope and Contents
The Campbell family papers consist primarily of Civil War letters from Alexander and Allen Campbell to their father, John, in Groveland, Michigan. The Campbell brothers joined the 1st Michigan engineers and served for the most part in Tennessee, where they helped build bridges and repair railroads. The letters discuss their experiences and home matters as well as recruitment and opposition to the draft. Their regiment later joined Sherman for his March to the Sea. In one letter Allen...
Dates:
1860 - 1866
Candis Cain Papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.78
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of "Edwin Havens: Profile of a Romantic," a paper written by Cain for American Studies 411.
Dates:
1973
Carleton W. Washburne educational publications
Collection
Identifier: MSS 558 large
Scope and Contents
This collection of publications by Washburne, spanning from approximately 1915-1968, address childhood education, arguing that the purpose of education should extend beyond basic subjects and job-oriented training but equip the student for citizenship in a democracy. Washburne developed the innovative Winnetka Plan of Individual Work, inspired by the Dalton Plan (in-depth study of subject modules by students at an individual pace) and the Montessori principles, and was revolutionary in it's...
Dates:
1915 - 1968
Chamberlain family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.12
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of family correspondence, documents, and business records, particularly relating to Henry Chamberlain. Included are genealogies of the Chamberlain, Langdon, Woodward and Wheelock families.The letters in the early years of the collection relate to the migration of the family westward to Ohio, and then to Michigan. There is an 1830 agreement in which certain New Hampshire citizens sponsor William Chamberlain to go and scout the area above the Ohio River for...
Dates:
1795 - 1931
Changing Men vertical files
Collection
Identifier: MSS 677
Scope and Contents
Artificial collection collected over a span of 3 decades by Special Collections staff.
Dates:
1921 - 2018
Charles Adolphus Jewell papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.5
Scope and Contents
The Charles A. Jewell papers consist of original correspondence and a manuscript compilation of transcribed letters and family history.The first group of correspondence (1860-1862) consists of original letters written by Charles to his family while he was attending Michigan Agricultural College, and a letter to Jewell's parents from Theophilus C. Abbot, Professor of English during this period discuss the courses he was taking, his instructors and their teaching methods, dormitory...
Dates:
1860 - 1979