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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-01038
Collection
Identifier: MSS 512 small
Dates:
approximately 1985-1990
Collection
Identifier: 00010
Scope and Contents
The material in the Barnes collection encompasses the period 1846 to 1899. Barnes graduated from the University of Michigan in 1850 and settled in Lansing to practice law. After establishing his reputation, he became attorney for the Jackson, Lansing, and Saginaw Railroad. He also assumed a promotional position with the Railroad, and eventually became its secretary and general manager.Barnes was philosophically minded and frequently wrote on various social matters. The bulk of...
Dates:
1846 - 1899
Collection
Identifier: c-00295
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, a majority from relatives and school friends of Lottie Pendleton (later Mrs. George W. Bailey) whose home was in Cleveland, Ohio, and who attended college at Adrian, Michigan. The letters (1854-1862) are largely from students at Albion and Oberlin Colleges and the University of Michigan, discussing future visits and the infrequency or shortness of letters written or received. Also included is a letter from her brother, Harry, describing events of the...
Dates:
1774 - 1887
Collection — Box: 1-3
Identifier: Serial-00600
Dates:
1963-2006, 2010-2012, 2017-2018
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.2
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a program for the National Society of Pershing Rifles, May 28, 1941 banquet in the Union Ballroom, and poems by Richard Purdum in various literary magazines from 1950-1967.
Dates:
1941 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1967
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.386
Content Description
This collection includes a copy of the "Haiku Diary 2011" by Robert F. Mainone. It is a self published book consisting of photocopies of Mainone's engagement calendar. The calendar has daily entries of Mainone's weather observations, events, and haiku poems he wrote that day. The volume also contains copies of letters he has received about his poems. The letters mostly deal with people requesting to publish his poems.
Dates:
2011
Collection
Identifier: MSS 345 large
Scope and Contents
The Robert VanderMolen papers contains personal and professional correspondence (1962-2004), draft and published writings, works of others, ephemera, poetry reading and contest announcements, and grant application materials.
Dates:
1962-2004
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.123
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a great deal of correspondence, including many to and from family and friends while Ruth Ryder was in the American Red Cross. Other subject materials cover the topics of the June 10, 1945 alumni reunion in Manila, the establishment of the Edward H. Ryder and Georgia R. Ryder Scholarship Fund, and the East Lansing High School Class of 1931 Fifty Year Reunion. The scrapbook in this collection is dedicated to the Manila reunion and contains lists of attendants and...
Dates:
1925 - 1997
Collection
Identifier: c-00134
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of correspondence and other papers relating to the Stephen Scofield family of Ingham County, Michigan. Much of the correspondence relates to Grace Scofield Bridger (daughter of Stephen) and is mostly personal in content. Of special interest, however, are a letter (January 24, 1858) describing land and farming conditions in Wisconsin, and a letter (May 3, 1888) relating farming news and local market prices of farm produce in Kansas. Also included are a number...
Dates:
1853-1920, undated
