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Women

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Edna Z. Emley papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00406
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence and various other papers of Edna Z. Emley (nee Osterrout), of Mason, Michigan, and her family. The earliest letters (1836-1851) are to Bernhard Stohlmann of Allen, Hillsdale County, Michigan, a relative of the paternal great-grandmother of Emley's first husband, Clifford Migrants. Most of these letters are written in German and pertain largely to personal matters of Stohlmann and his friends still living in Germany. This correspondence is not...
Dates: 1836 - 1941
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Elizabeth Cooper Matheson diaries

 Collection
Identifier: c-00314
Scope and Contents This collection contains diaries of Elizabeth Cooper Matheson who moved with her family from Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, to Salem, Ohio in 1862, and to Riverside, Michigan in 1867. The early entries include many observations on events of the Civil War. Matheson, a Quaker, also gives details of Quaker meetings and of the Temperance Society which she joined in 1862. In addition, she describes in detail the journey from Ohio to Michigan including the crossing of Lake Erie and...
Dates: 1861 - 1873
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Golf (Women's) UA 8.1.3.16

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-00913
Dates: 1977 - 2009
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Jane Comstock letter

 Collection
Identifier: c-00416
Scope and Contents

This letter, written primarily by Jane Comstock and Charlotte Gladding of Eaton Rapids, Eaton County, Michigan, and addressed to Samuel Hickson of Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, is divided into notes to several members of his family. Topics include the Comstock's new farm, crops, Thomsonian medicine, and Charlotte's recent marriage.

Dates: 1845
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kristine Vogel papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.161
Scope and Contents This collection consists of one copy of the site project paper entitled "Shaping Michigan State University," a group research project for IAH 201, authored in part by the donor. The paper documents the history of MSU, its buildings, campus, role of women and minorities and the effects of war. The paper is divided into five chapters, each dealing with an issue that affected Michigan State University. Chapter 1 covers “Creation, Construction, and Infrastructure,” Chapter 2 covers “Education...
Dates: 1994
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lisetta Neukom Higgins collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00172
Scope and Contents The Lisetta Neukom Higgins collection consists primarily of newsclippings, a scrapbook of newsclippings, and a few complete editions of newspapers - all of which contain the published work of Higgins and span the dates 1907-1917. The newspapers are in frail condition. The scrapbook is in stable, leaning towards frail, condition. In all cases, Higgins faithfully either encircled or marked in some way the articles that she wrote. They have been marked, and often dated, with a black grease...
Dates: 1907-1985, undated; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1967
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mary Taylor Hale correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: c-00330
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the correspondence was written by friends and relatives in Michigan and California in the period 1864-1880 to Mary Taylor, later Mrs. Richard Hale, a school teacher residing in Milford, Michigan

In addition to education and the problems of teaching, such topics as the Civil War, the draft, election politics, and farming activities are discussed.

Also included are the courtship letters (1842) of John Taylor of Milford and Jane Wark of New York City.

Dates: 1835 - 1880
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Carl Wolff collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00249
Scope and Contents

This collection contains five letters to Alexander Brown in Jackson County, Michigan, from relatives in New York. The letters discuss family news, agriculture prospects, and the possibility of moving to Michigan as Brown had done (1836). Also included is a diary kept by Belle Voorheis of Mungerville (now Burton), Michigan. Her entries record life in rural Michigan in 1872. The collection also contains a recipe for brewing beer.

Dates: 1836, 1872
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

MWA Newsletter, The

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-01043
Dates: 1991 - 1995
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Pendleton family papers

 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
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections