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Detroit (Mich.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Henry T. Ewald papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00032
Scope and Contents The papers of Henry T. Ewald, co-founder (1911, with Frank Campbell) of Campbell-Ewald Company, Inc. a Detroit, Michigan Advertising Agency. Upon Campbell's retirement in 1917, Ewald became President and Chairman of the Board, serving as such until his death in 1953. Under Ewald's leadership, the agency expanded, setting up branches in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and other cities, and had as clients such companies as General Motors, Burroughs Corporations, Detroit...
Dates: 1911 - 1961
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Judson Grenell autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: c-00061
Scope and Contents

This typewritten autobiography contains discussions of numerous social, political, and economic issues connected with Grennell's newspaper, the Detroit News, and legislative activities. A microfilm copy of the collection is available.

Dates: 1930
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kathryn Packard collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00306
Scope and Contents

This collection includes grants of public lands in the District of Detroit, Michigan Territory, to Samuel W. Dexter of New York (1824-1825). The collection also contains deeds, pertaining to lands in Washtenaw and Shiawassee Counties, Michigan, purchased by Dexter. Also included are tax receipts for land in Shiawassee County belonging to Francis Prevost and Alvin Brown Lodge, Lodge No. 30 (1884), and a certificate of recommendation into the Masonic Order for Luther Boyden of Mississippi.

Dates: 1824 - 1869
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Kennedy family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00068
Scope and Contents The Kennedy family papers consist of seven letters. The earliest (1817) was written by a young woman describing a mid-winter journey home through western New York by wagon sleigh. Five letters in the collection were written by Frederick A. Kennedy to this wife Caroline while he was serving in the Michigan State legislature in Detroit in 1846. Kennedy discusses current actions of the legislature, including the passage of a bill to pay legislators $3.00 per day; and the initial defeat and...
Dates: 1817 - 1862
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Leta C. Steinestel collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00161
Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter to Leta C. Steinestel, describing the death of her cousin, who was killed in action in France in 1918. The collection also includes official information relating to the graves of American soldiers buried in France or Belgium; a pamphlet for American soldiers on leave in the Riviera, suggesting things to see and do; and a copy of "Le Pantheon de La Guerre," a pamphlet describing a French artist's war memorial paintings. This collection also contains several...
Dates: 1919, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lifelong Education Programs - Southeast Region UA 3.3.2

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-00433
Dates: 1957 - 1987
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lucia Dains Denison papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00517
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a family photograph album which includes views of Lansing, Bellevue, Battle Creek, Detroit, Belle Isle, Palmer Park, Wyandotte (all in Michigan); New York City; Niagara Falls, Georgian Bay, and Thousand Islands, Canada.

Dates: 1900 - 1923
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Marsh family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00047
Scope and Contents The Marsh family papers consist of original and typed transcripts of Civil War letters, the bulk of which were written by Benjamin F. Marsh to his family in Fentonville, Michigan, while serving in the 8th Michigan Infantry. There are also letters from other family members, including A. B. Fay, Ed Francis Holmes, Gordon K. Fay, Lucy A. Bacon, and Augustus Holmes.The letters describe Marsh's army experiences on the march, in camp, in battle, on provost duty, and in army hospitals as...
Dates: 1833-1887, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan State Agricultural Society collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00304
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an inventory of farm machinery exhibited at the First and Second Annual Fairs of the Michigan State Agricultural Society in Detroit in 1849 and Ann Arbor in 1850. Also included is a membership card for Stephen Eldred dated 1854.

Dates: 1849, 1850, 1854
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Edward C. Waldron collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00191
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an advertising circular (1865) announcing the opening of a general surveying office in Detroit, Michigan. The proprietor, Francis L. Thomas, great-grandfather of the donor, did surveying work in the Saginaw Bay area (circa 1845-1880).

Also included is an invitation to a masquerade ball in Chesaning, Michigan (1874).

Dates: 1865 - 1874
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections