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Letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 560 Collections and/or Records:

Walter L. Mallmann papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.34
Scope and Contents This collection contains the speech presenting Walter Mallmann with the Michigan Public Health Association Distinguished Service Award. Also included is the transcript and audio reels of four oral history interviews conducted by Vergil Noble for a history class at Michigan State University. In the first interview Mallmann discussed his family and life growing up in Escanaba. The second interview covers Mallmann's years as a student at Michigan Agricultural College. He talks about his...
Dates: 1913 - 1981

Warden family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00118
Scope and Contents The Warden family papers include correspondence (1832-1831), personal diaries (1876-1886), poetry, a teaching certificate (1874), and a brief family tree.The earliest correspondence in the collection includes a number of letters (1832-1835) to Warden from friends in Scotland. The remainder of the letters are mostly from family members living in various places in Michigan. Civil War period correspondence includes letters to Warden from Major Dean, a family friend serving with the...
Dates: 1832 - 1886

Warren family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00007
Scope and Contents This collection primarily contains correspondence, diaries, religious materials, and legal documents of the Warren family of Three Oaks, Berrien County, Michigan. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters (1879-1899) from Albert L. Warren to his parents (Caroline C. and Rev. Waters Warren) and brothers (Edward K. and Frederick P.). Albert L. Warren was an itinerant watch repairman who tried prospecting gold, teaching, farming, selling wholesale groceries and later patent medicine,...
Dates: 1830 - 1966

Waters family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: c-00325
Scope and Contents This collection contains five letters relating family matters, three of them from Achsa Waters of Independence and Union, Michigan, to her family (Otis) in Steuben County, New York. She mentions visits to Oberlin, Ohio; a trip through Memphis to Vicksburg, Mississippi (1864) to teach the "colored people" and to deliver clothing from Oberlin and Union. Another letter, form Otis B. Waters of Genessee County, New York to his uncle, talks of finances and an impending trip "West" to be married....
Dates: 1860 - 1865

Webster Teachout papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00150
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Civil War letters from Webster Teachout of the 11th Michigan Cavalry to his family in Michigan. Teachout served primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee. His letters describe daily camp life and troop movements.

Dates: 1864 - 1895

Wesley Fishel papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.95
Series Description (1) BIOGRAPHICAL FILES. 1940-1948, 1955-1977, undated. 0.2 cubic feet This series provides a broad overview of Wesley R. Fishel's professional life. Included are resumes, academic appointment papers and award certifications received by the scholar. Materials in the first nine folders reflect the beginnings of Fishel's early academic career, such as his appointment as an instructor of political science at UCLA. This series is arranged chronologically by subject.(2) ...
Dates: 1921 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1977

William A. Wiltberger papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.283
Scope and Contents The William A. Wiltberger papers reflect a large section of Wiltberger’s life, from the 1920s to the 1970s. They include material from his work as an educator, a police officer, an Air Force Colonel, and his membership in the International Association for Identification, the International Association of Police Chiefs, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The correspondence series spans the dates 1925-1942. This series includes several letters from the FBI personally...
Dates: 1922 - 1978

William B. Drew papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.135
Scope and Contents The William B. Drew collection consists of materials from Drew’s Cinchona mission in Ecuador, reports about the effects of herbicide in South Vietnam, reports about swidden (slash and burn) to forest in Thailand, and the essay “History of the Botany and Plant Pathology Department from 1945-1973.” In this essay Drew writes about his time as a professor and head of the department and describes events in the department as well as faculty members. The collection also includes MSU...
Dates: 1943 - 2005

William B. Hixson papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.249
Scope and Contents The collection consists of postcards from the turn of the twentieth century. These postcards feature photographs of Native Americans, mainly of individuals in ceremonial dress. The postcards are arranged by tribe, when known. Postcards with no known tribal affiliation are separated by the category of the picture or in some cases by the title of the postcard when there are no other similar images. There is also a letter to Hixson from George Cornell of the Michigan State University Native...
Dates: 1896 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1906

William F. Raven papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.96
Scope and Contents The William Raven papers consist of correspondence related his job as an Agricultural Extension Agent. The correspondence consists of letters to Raven requesting information, replies to his letters, a few letters from his superiors, and some letters relating to his duties as an agent. There are also a few letters in the collection from Raven himself. The Raven family materials folder contains copies of genealogical information on Edwin Morse who was Paulina Raven's husband, newspaper...
Dates: 1913 - 1915, 1981, Undated