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This collection consists of letters, notes, reports and maps from Monroe's survey work. Also included are Monroe's notes about bills he introduced in the Michigan State Senate in the 1880s, and a diary kept during a trip to Europe, Egypt, and England in 1904.

Scope and Contents The Jean Herring Loomis Frame collection consists of photographs from a trip she took to Japan and Asia circa 1919-1922. The photos of Japan are primarily of Nikko with a few of Kyoto. Some of the photographs are identified and include Miyajima Gate, Yomeimon Great Gate, Ieyasu Temple, Shinobadzu Pond at Uyeno, Bronze Gate and Tomb of Ieyasu, Karmon Gate, Yasaka Pagoda at Kyoto, Daibatsu at Kamakura, Karamon Ieyasu Temple, Mount Fuji, Kiyomidzu Temple in Kyoto, and Nagoya Castle. Other...

Scope and Contents This collection includes the Civil War reminiscences of Newton Thorne Kirk (1836-1909). Written between 1907 and 1909, this account was based on a war diary of Kirk's service with Company E, 26th Michigan Infantry. Wounded and made prisoner at the Battle of Spottsylvania Court House, he describes his experiences while in Confederate hands. He also comments on the inauguration of President Lincoln and on Michigan Governor Austin Blair. Kirk's papers also include a certificate (1864)...

Scope and Contents The papers of Robert Frantz are travel narratives from trips he and his wife Sarah took in 1953 and 1956. The narratives describe the countries they visited, what they saw and did, how they traveled, whom they met, and his thoughts. The "Mediterranean Journey 1953" describes the Frantz's travels to Spain, France, Italy, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, and Greece. During their "World Journey 1956," they visited Hawaii, Japan, China, Thailand, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey,...