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Letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 562 Collections and/or Records:

Mladen Kabalin papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.282
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of records related to the Michigan Natural Areas Council. This include minutes, reports, and correspondence. Report topics include Proud Lake, Roscommon, Sleeping Bear Dunes and Warren Lakes.

Dates: 1960 - 1964
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Moody family collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00258
Scope and Content The bulk of the Moody family collection consists of photographic materials, ranging from photographs, negatives, glass negatives, slides, and scrapbooks. The photographs show Craig family, Barney family, and Moody family members. Genevieve Moody created most of the scrapbooks. Also included are correspondence related to Genevieve Moody, funeral books of several family members, Genevieve’s diaries, details about Northern Michigan family vacations, and anniversary booklets for Rogers City,...
Dates: 1875 - 1994
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Moses Little letter

 Collection
Identifier: c-00187
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter from Moses Little of Salisbury, New Hampshire to his brother, John, in Livonia, New York (1853). Moses describes the "gold fever" that was consuming the people of Salisbury.

Dates: 1853
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. C. M. Burdick collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00487
Scope and Contents Included in the collection are Mrs. C. M. Burdick's diaries (1925-1937), correspondence and a biographical sketch of R. E. Olds entitled "That Boy Ranney". Among the most interesting items in the correspondence is a letter from R. Shettler explaining his unhappiness with R. E. Olds over the affairs of the Reo Motor Car Company. There is also some material on Olds' interest in music. A few photographs of women who worked in the Reo Motor Car Company office are also in Mrs. Burdick's...
Dates: 1904 - 1957
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

Mrs. Earl Tooker collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00332
Scope and Contents This collection consists of one letter, dated July 14, 1863, written by a Confederate soldier, John Flood, Company H, 47th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, to his mother in Woodstock, Georgia. He discusses the fall of Vicksburg and Grant's siege of Jackson, Mississippi. A photocopy of the letter is also included.The letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates: 1863
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Robert E. Onweller collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00115
Scope and Contents This collection contains miscellaneous and unrelated materials found in a Hudson, Michigan drugstore when the donor's husband bought it. They include a ledger (1866-1878) of S.S. Johnson and Company, a furniture factory; a small ledger (1875) containing medicinal recipes belonging to Marvin M. Maxon, druggist and former owner of the store; a personal diary (January-May 1877) of Mrs. Laura O'Conor of Seneca Falls, New York; a ledger and cash book (1879-1887) of the Eaton Brothers Company,...
Dates: 1865 - 1930
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

MSU HealthTeam records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-3.1
Scope and Contents The early records document the major projects taken on by the Institute of Biology and Medicine in fulfilling its objectives. Those were the establishment of the College of Human Medicine, the construction of the Life Science Building I, the construction of the Encapsulated Health Care Facility (a project which failed after considerable effort), the construction of the Clinical Sciences building, and the establishment of the College of Osteopathic Medicine. The material is best described as...
Dates: 1947 - 2011
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Naomi Carrier Schopp papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00116
Scope and Contents The papers of Naomi Carrier (Mrs. William) Schopp consist mainly of correspondence of Mrs. Schopp, of Eaton and Ingham Counties, Michigan, her mother, Mrs. Joseph J. (Ada) Taylor, of Eaton County, and other relatives and friends. Included are correspondence between Mrs. Taylor, her sister, Nettie, and their mother, Marilla Collins.Of interest are letters from Nettie (1893) describing the difficult birth of her child, from Ada (1914) discussing household tasks, and from M. A. Wilson...
Dates: 1891 - 1942
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

National Iranian Radio and Television Instruction Film Project records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.9.5.27
Scope and Contents

The records consist of correspondence and memos about the National Iranian Radio and Television Instruction film project. They include updates about the project as well as a brief description of the controversy around the project.

Dates: 1977
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections