Michigan

Michigan State University Bicentennial Coordinating Committee records

Record Group

Identifier: UA-13.3.4

Scope and Contents Records of the Michigan State University Bicentennial Coordinating Committee include correspondence, grant proposals, lectures, news releases, and miscellaneous papers pertaining to University's involvement with celebrating the Bicentennial of the United States. There are also records detailing the activities of the State of Michigan Bicentennial Commission. Topics covered in depth include information on the "Perspectives on the Land" television series, the Michigan Folk Art Project, and...

Dates: 1973 - 1978

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

Robert M. Williams collection

Record Group

Identifier: UA-17.279

Scope and Contents

The Robert M. Williams collection primarily contains photographs and postcards of street scenes and daily life in the Michigan towns of Baraga, Brown City, Copper Harbor, Dryden, and L’Anse. There are also postcards and photographs of the dedication and planting of the L’Anse Township School Forest on May 23, 1930. The collection also includes photographs of Michigan State University’s Agriculture Hall, Morrill Hall, and the Physics and Electrical Engineering Building.

Dates: circa 1900s-1930s

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Robert Miles collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00610

Scope and Contents

The Robert Miles collection contains 27 photographs from Charlevoix, Ironton, Petoskey, and Beaver Island, Michigan. Included are photos of town scenes, fish packing, ice cutting, lumbering mills, the Beaver Island locomotive, ships, and individuals from these respective northern Michigan communities.

Dates: 1897 - 1915

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

State of Black Michigan

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: Serial-01059

Dates: 1986 - 1993

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

State of the State Survey Briefing Paper UA 11.9

Collection — Box 1-2

Identifier: Serial-01063

Dates: 1995 - 2000

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

The Ottawa and the Chippewa of Michigan census

Collection

Identifier: c-00455

Scope and Contents

The full title of the census is "Census Roll of the Ottawa and Chippewa of Michigan by Horace B. Durant and Supplementary Census of 1909 by Durant". The information contain includes age, sex, marital status, residence and subject's status in the 1870 census.

Dates: 1909

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Thomas-Prescott families papers

Collection

Identifier: 00170

Scope and Contents The collection documents the lives of the Thomas and Prescott families of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The collection contains biographical papers, genealogy/lineage records, and correspondence of family members. The bulk of the collection is the correspondence of Benjamin H. Thomas Jr., spanning the period from 1879 to 1927.The biographical papers consist of obituary notices and correspondence which discuss eligibility to join the D.A.R. and the moral character of family...

Dates: 1824 - 1960

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections