Letters
Subject
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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Mallison family collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00675
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials from the Mallison family including the Civil War letters of Simeon Mallison and George Hewes, an article (1928) about Bertha Mallison and her chicken dinners, a Mallison Farm Chicken Dinners card, a photo postcard of the Hesperian House where Bertha Mallison cooked, a photograph of Mallison family exhibit, a photograph of farm house, a photograph of Todd Mallison (great great nephew of Simeon Mallison) with Post 294 GAR flag, a Homestead Certificate from...
Dates:
1861-1873, 1928, 1958, 2013, undated
Manly Miles papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.449
Scope and Contents
The four letters were written by Manly Miles to his brother, Isaac. Three dated 1848 were written while he was at Western Reserve College, and the fourth, dated 1850, while he attended Rush Medical College. Typewritten copies are included for each. Letters dated 1848 provide descriptions of Western Reserve College and various professors. There are references to fellow Michigan students C. Bartlett, I. T. Hinman, H. A. Goodale, and Doc Kenny, and to family matters and members including an...
Dates:
1848 - 1888
Old Newaygo Dairy Herd Improvement Association records
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.9
Scope and Contents
The collection includes herd records, progress reports, printed materials, and letters relating to the Old Newaygo Dairy Herd Improvement Association (D.H.I.A.) of Fremont, Newaygo County, Michigan.Several samples are included of early cow and herd records (1905-1913). Also included is a bulletin from the Dairy and Food Department (1907) describing cow-testing in Denmark, and the start of cow-testing in the United States.Other items include a state D.H.I.A. records; a...
Dates:
1905 - 1955
Vietnam Project records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.9.5.5
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Michigan State University Vietnam Project comprise a voluminous record. They cover a seven-year period and comprise thousands of individual documents contained in 71 boxes and approximately 4,000 folders. The papers are arranged according to the three major areas into which the project was divided: Michigan State University Administration of the Project, Public Administration, and Police Administration. Though the division of the project's papers was suggested by the...
Dates:
1954 - 1961
William S. Calkins correspondence
Collection
Identifier: c-00412
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters to Calkins, a resident of North Lansing, Michigan, concerning the purchase of a wood-burning furnace from a Chicago firm. Also a letter from a cousin, Sarah Warner of Evans Mills, New York, discussing family health.
Dates:
1886