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Lenawee County (Mich.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Manuel McCormick diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00489
Scope and Contents

The collection includes the diary of Manuel McCormick of Lenawee County, Michigan. The entries describe his experiences, troop movements, and battles through the southern United States, particularly Tennessee, while a soldier during the American Civil War, from January 1863 through July 1864.

Dates: 1836 - 1886
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sand Creek Telephone Company and Sand Creek Threshing Company records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00394
Scope and Contents The collection contains joint records including receipts, account records, and hardware and machinery catalogues, of the two companies operating in Sand Creek, Lenawee County, Michigan.Volume One contains business accounts from a granary (1910-1911), and from the Sand Creek Telephone Company (1915-1915). Volume Two contains company meeting minutes of the Sand Creek Threshing Company (1917-1930). Volume Three contains records of the Sand Creek Telephone Company (1912-1920) and the...
Dates: 1910 - 1935
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Thomas Wright diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00009
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the diary of Thomas Wright (1831-1841) as it was published in the Tecumseh Herald in 1955, with a brief history of Tecumseh, Michigan. Wright's diary chronicles his relocation in 1831 from Massachusetts to Michigan, where he bought a farm. Earliest entries in the diary detail his journey across Lake Erie in a crowded boat that carried 250 passengers "of every age and condition".

Dates: 1955
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Waldron family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00413
Scope and Contents This collection contains deeds, mortgages, tax receipts, and a diary (1878) of Aaron K. Waldron, a prominent farmer of Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan. Also included is family correspondence (1863-1879) including two Civil War letters (1863) to Waldron's wife, nee Sarah Gunderman, from her brothers John, 126th New York Regiment, and Abram, 148th New York Regiment.The Civil War letters have been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates: 1846 - 1904
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

W.H. Parish Publishing Co. collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00621
Scope and Contents

The collection contains parts 1, 2, 4 - 12 (part 3 is missing) of "Artwork of Lenawee and Monroe Counties" published by the W.H. Publishing Co. of Chicago, Illinois.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Works Progress Administration Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: 00264
Scope and Contents he collection consists of a Works Progress Administration scrapbook with clippings and photos about projects in the Lansing, Jackson and Ingham county and surrounding areas. The cover of the scrapbook is titled "WPA Scrapbook sponsored by Fred L. Fulton 5th District, pastepot and scribe Phil Johnson, cartoonist L.E. Tedman,and features a cartoon of Fred Fulton on the cover. The scrapbook includes are newspaper clippings about the projects, cartoons and drawings by L.E. Tedman about Fulton...
Dates: 1936-1937, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections