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Lansing (Mich.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

James Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00026
Scope and Contents of the Papers The James Taylor papers include correspondence, receipts, and other materials dealing with his business and personal activities. Throughout the correspondence there are numerous letters concerning education, particularly at the college level. One letter, dated February 26, 1865 gives a good account of academic life at the University of Michigan. The collection also contains personal correspondence about life in general. Most of the receipts pertain to Taylor's agricultural implement business...
Dates: 1855 - 1900
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Jenison family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.446
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of Frederick C. Jenison's papers for the period 1907-1939. Included are personal and business records, primarily expenditure reports. The personal correspondence includes copies of letters that Jenison sent. The papers are most complete for the 1930s, less complete for the 1920s, and rather incomplete for the period 1910-1920. One significant portion of the collection consists of check stubs, both personal and business, for most of the period 1907-1939....
Dates: 1877 - 1939
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Justin Kestenbaum collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.323
Scope and Content

The Justin Kestenbaum collection contains photographic materials such as photographs, negatives, and transparencies that Kestenbaum used for his books, "Out of the Wilderness: An Illustrated History of Greater Lansing" and "At the Campus Gate: A History of East Lansing." Some of the photographs came from the University Archives and Historical Collections; others were taken by Kestenbaum himself. The photographs show people and places from the Lansing area.

Dates: undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lansing Automobile Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00297
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the membership list for the Lansing Automobile Club circa 1919. The list includes such prominent Lansing, Michigan citizens as Edwin A. Bowd, William H. Newbrough, and Roy C. Vandercook.

Dates: circa 1919
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lansing Board of Water and Light newsletters

 Collection
Identifier: c-00692
Scope and Content

The collection consists of Lansing Board of Water and Light newsletters called Watts and Drops. The newsletters give information about the employees of Lansing Board of Water and Light as well as information about the Board of Water and Light facilities and services.

Dates: 1982 - 1984
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lansing Civic Players collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00649
Scope and Content

The Lansing Civic Players collection includes theater programs with advertisements, cast and crew lists, and production notes.

Dates: 2007 - 2008
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lansing State Journal collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00676
Scope and Contents

This collection contains selected issues of the Lansing State Journal: the Farmers' Week Magazine Section, 1937, 1939-1945, 1951; Mid-Century Edition, 1950; and Centennial Edition, 1955. Also included are copies of the August 14, 1945 announcing the surrender of the Japanese to the Allied Forces.

Dates: 1937, 1939-1945, 1950-1951, 1955
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

March of Dimes collection

 Collection
Identifier: 00226
Scope and Content The March of Dimes collection contains materials related to March of Dimes fundraising and activities in Ingham County and Lansing, Michigan. The collection contains photographs documenting these activities including local fundraising and collection drives, airplane transport of patients to Warm Springs, Georgia, hydrotherapy of patients, hospital wards, local children affected, presentation of money and equipment, scenes of people and groups, and children getting vaccinations. There are...
Dates: 1947-1968, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

McKibbin family papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.410
Scope and Contents The McKibbin family has lived in Lansing, Michigan since the early 1880s. The majority of the papers in this collection relate to the Joseph T. McKibbin family in the period 1900 to 1950. The members of this family are Joseph T. and Emma Augusta McKibbin and their children May, Grace, Jean, Frank, and Clifford.Located under the heading "McKibbin Family" are correspondence dating from 1845 to 1900, tax receipts and legal documents dating from 1850 to 1900, and some...
Dates: 1845 - 1962
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections