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Detroit Gazette collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00292
Scope and Contents

This collection contains microfilm of volumes 1-13 (1817-1830) of the Detroit Gazette, a French-English weekly newspaper published in Detroit by John P. Sheldon and Ebenezer Reed. The editors were also the public printers for the territory.

Dates: 1817 - 1830

General Land Office records

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.17
Scope and Contents

The microfilm contains the Register's Monthly Abstract of Agricultural College Scrip Entries in Michigan at: Traverse City, 1864 and 1867; Ionia, 1864-1870; Detroit, 1864-1872; Marquette, 1864-1883, East Saginaw, 1864-1881. The entries are for colleges in: Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

Dates: 1864 - 1883

William Hollister collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00449
Scope and Contents The collection contains two scrapbooks which detail, via newspaper clippings, magazine articles and photographs, the development of the sport of hydroplane racing during the 1940s and 1950s. The first scrapbook covers the period 1946 to 1955; the second the period 1955 to 1959. Most of the material deals with racing on the Detroit River and racing personalities in the Detroit area.Both scrapbooks are preserved on microfilm. Black and white copy negatives are available for...
Dates: 1946 - 1959