Michigan -- Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:
Paul Shirilla collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.512
Content Description
The Paul Shirilla collection contains Michigan State University and regional flyers and bulletins relating to protests of ROTC and the Vietnam War. Also included is material about a student strike of classes. There is also an ASMSU referendum ballot or survey about the strike issues, statements from Michigan State University President Wharton, an issue of Faculty News, and an issue of Swill and Squeal. Other materials include environmental activism flyers, an MSU Environmental Teach-In...
Dates:
1970-1973, 1979, undated
Pierpont Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00096
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters from friends in Dexter, encouraging him to move back. They discuss agricultural prospects, politics, and local gossip. Also included are some family correspondence and rough genealogy for the Smith family.
Dates:
1829 - 1842
Pinckney family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00490
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, invitations, programs, and certificates relating to the Pinckney family. Also included are newspapers and newspaper clippings related to the Civil War and early Lansing, Michigan, history.
Dates:
1848 - 1959
Prohibition Party campaign materials
Collection
Identifier: c-00371
Scope and Contents
The collection contains Prohibition Party tickets for state and local offices of Michigan.
Dates:
1884 - 1891
Putnam family collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00208
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials relating to social and political issues in Michigan during the World War I era. They include pamphlets circulated by the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association advocating women's suffrage. It also includes pamphlets and sample ballots from the Michigan Anti-Saloon League concerning a proposed "Beer and Wine Amendment" to the state constitution, which would set up protection for the liquor trade. Other materials relate to voter registration procedures,...
Dates:
1918-1919, circa 1925
Rawson Smith family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00072
Scope and Contents
The Smith family papers consist mostly of Alfred Smith's letters to his parents while he was in the Army, and correspondence exchanged by family members in Michigan and New York in the years following the war. The collection also includes various documents including insurance policies, deeds, mortgages, and a lottery advertisement (1868).Subjects of particular interest from Alfred's correspondence include conditions in the Union hospital at Albany, New York (July 12, 1862);...
Dates:
1850 - 1892
Richard F. VanderVeen papers
Collection
Identifier: 00118
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the Congressional papers and related materials of Richard F. VanderVeen from his half term in the 93rd Congress and full term in the 94th Congress of the United States House of Representatives. The bulk of the papers is correspondence from his constituents and copies of his replies to them. The subject matter is both general, such as congratulatory letters, acceptance of invitations and requests for information, and legislative, dealing with various proposed bills...
Dates:
1974 - 1976
Stebbins family papers
Collection
Identifier: 00014
Scope and Contents
A manuscript copy of Stebbins' book A History of Plymouth Church (of Lansing) written in 1893 is included. Stebbins compiled an autobiography entitled Sketches of My Life, which he was completing at his death in 1901. A copy of the text is included, as well as his diaries, account books and newspaper clippings on railroads.Other materials in the papers are those of his children Arthur C. and Bliss Stebbins and Susan...
Dates:
1741 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1940
Town family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00132
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of letters between Oka and Sarah Ann while he was in Lansing, Michigan. Sarah Ann's letters deal mainly with family matters and the farm. In his letters, Oka describes Lansing and the politics of the Constitutional Convention and the legislature.Their son, Carlton, married Nellie Faling and the couple settled in Clam Lake, Michigan (now Cadillac), where they ran a store. A series of letters from Nellie to her family in 1875-1876 describes their...
Dates:
1830 - 1932