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Collection
Identifier: MSS 78 small
Scope and Contents
The Baurat Theodor Reh papers include correspondence, mostly dated 1939, to and from Baurat Theodor Reh, Reichsverkehrsminister Julius Dorpmüller, and others, relating to the railroad system in German South-West Africa (now Namibia). Dorpmüller was the Nazi Germany Minister of Transportation. Also in the collection is a map, charts, printed matter, and Reh's "Supf-Plakette" certificate. The materials document some of Nazi Germany's plans for post-World War II port construction, railroad...
Dates:
1929 - 1941
Collection
Identifier: MSS 77 small
Scope and Contents
The Colonel I. Palle papers consist of material generated during the course of the 1895 war in Madagascar. Material includes the field notes of Colonel I. Palle, maps, and correspondence. Subjects and persons mentioned in the documents include General Jacques Charles Rene Achille Duchesne, military field operations, material and food supply for the troops, and the military drive and advance to occupy Tananarive.
Dates:
1895
Collection — Map Case: MSS 497
Identifier: MSS 497
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 9 posters and five maps from Southern Africa. Seven posters are from the Medu Art Ensemble (1 with a duplicate). Four of the Medu posters are about South African politics, one is about a MEDU artist Judy Seidman’s exhibition at the Botswana Art Museum. The remaining two focus on Culture and Resistance Symposium and accompanying art exhibit. Five are original silkscreens. The posters not affiliated with the Medu Art Ensemble cover a Namibian labor union and a rock...
Dates:
approximately 1979-1985
Collection
Identifier: MSS 508 large
Scope and Contents
The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival records (1976-2015) contain crew guides and handbooks, maps, banners, t-shirts, programs, brochures, posters, meeting minutes, correspondence, inventories, press clippings, as well as recordings and photographs taken during the festival. The collection gives an insight of the intense effort and amount of coordination it took to make the festival possible, and how it evolved and grew more complex with each iteration.
Dates:
1976 - 2015