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Town family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00132
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of letters between Oka and Sarah Ann while he was in Lansing, Michigan. Sarah Ann's letters deal mainly with family matters and the farm. In his letters, Oka describes Lansing and the politics of the Constitutional Convention and the legislature.Their son, Carlton, married Nellie Faling and the couple settled in Clam Lake, Michigan (now Cadillac), where they ran a store. A series of letters from Nellie to her family in 1875-1876 describes their...
Dates:
1830 - 1932
Town Girls' Club records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.3.15
Scope and Content
The records of the Town Girls’ Club comprise eight folders and span the years 1941-1951. The folders are arranged alphabetically by title. The Activity Sheets folder contains summaries of activities conducted by the Town Girls’ Club for academic years between 1943 and 1948. Some years list the officers as well as the activities. The Constitution folder contains four versions of the constitution for the Town Girls’ Club. One of the constitutions is dated 1943, the others are undated. The...
Dates:
1941 - 1951
Track and Field (Women's) UA 8.1.3.16
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00912
Dates:
1985 - 2005
University Conferences and Institutes records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.3.3
Scope and Contents
The collection includes records and bulletins for conferences and seminars sponsored by the Lifelong Education Programs Office in cooperation with other departments on campus. The programs cover a wide variety of fields including police administration, dairy engineering, agriculture, education, business management, forestry, and medicine.The collection also holds the documents for the Black Woman Writer and the Diaspora conference. These include housing and travel arrangements...
Dates:
1944 - 1985
Virginia Norfleet reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: c-00149
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a typed transcript of the reminiscences of Virginia Norfleet which was written for her grandchildren. Mrs. Norfleet gives a highly moralistic account of life in the Tidewater area of Virginia from 1812 to 1894, with emphasis on the Civil War and its effects on living conditions. She discusses slavery and the freeing of her father's slaves after General Lee's surrender; describes the school she attended after the Civil War; and gives a brief history of Franklin,...
Dates:
circa 1900
Voice of American Homemakers Oral History Project collection
Collection
Identifier: 00161
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 7 volumes and 172 cassette tapes. The tapes contain over 200 oral histories from individuals in 37 states. The volumes contain the transcripts of the interviews. Also included are a published book that organizes the collection around key themes and findings from the interviews and the proceedings of the Seminar of Humanists and Homemakers.
Dates:
1981 - 1986
Waters family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: c-00325
Scope and Contents
This collection contains five letters relating family matters, three of them from Achsa Waters of Independence and Union, Michigan, to her family (Otis) in Steuben County, New York. She mentions visits to Oberlin, Ohio; a trip through Memphis to Vicksburg, Mississippi (1864) to teach the "colored people" and to deliver clothing from Oberlin and Union. Another letter, form Otis B. Waters of Genessee County, New York to his uncle, talks of finances and an impending trip "West" to be married....
Dates:
1860 - 1865
Who's Who and What's What, Associated Women Students Handbook UA 12.1.9
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00753
Dates:
1937 - 1971