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Miscellaneous Letters from Charles, from Edward Morris (brother), 1934-1935
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31141023888683], Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Letters exchanged between Esther Morris Rasmussen (1914-1991), her immediate family, and friends, 1930-1980. The collection includes correspondence from Leo. Brown, Jr. to Esther, 1934-1939 and letters from Esther’s five brothers, Richard, Edward, Walter G., Robert S. and Harold during their service in the armed forces during World War II. Included are letters exchanged in early 1945 in regards to Robert’s untimely death in an airplane crash, as well as Harold’s abrupt marriage later in the...
Dates:
1934-1935
Paul Pommer, World War I German soldier’s scrapbook, 1914-1918
File
Identifier: exwsPommerBk04
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook belonged to Paul Pommer, a resident of Hesse, Germany, and documents his time as a German soldier in the first World War. Pommer received troop training in Darmstadt with the Reserve Infantry Regiment 118, 2nd Company, 7th platoon, advanced training at Camp Wegscheide in Bad Orb, mobilized to Friedberg, spent time in France or Belgium, then joined the spring offensive where he was wounded on March 28, 1918. First in "kriegslazarett" or battlefield hospital in Brussels, then moved...
Dates:
1914-1918
Property Records
Series
Scope and Contents
Property records include a deed, a contract, architectural drawings for the new addition, building appraisal and correspondence about the building on East Kilgore.
Dates:
1925-1973
Records of the Justice of the Peace for Kalamazoo County, 1837-1929
Record Group
Identifier: RG 68-64
Scope and Contents
This record group consists of the justice journal (1886-1929) and the justice dockets (1837-1843, 1858-1859) of the Kalamazoo County Justice of the Peace. The justice journal offers a narrative account of all action involving cases heard before the court. Includes names of individuals, attorneys, action, damages and costs, resulting judgment, fines and the like. The justice dockets offers a narrative docket of cases involving assumpsit, garnishment, and violation of action, examination, and...
Dates:
1837-1929
Records of the Kalamazoo County Clerk, 1838-1931
Record Group
Identifier: RG 68-64
Scope and Contents
This record group consists of various records of the Kalamazoo County Clerk for the years 1838-1931. The record group includes: minutes of the Highway Commission (1858-67); appointments of deputies by sheriffs, and oaths (1905-31); journal of the County Poor Board (1838-59); ledger of the Superintendent of the Poor (1863-71); record of County Relief Board for Spanish-American War servicemen's families (1898-99); statement of state tax lands (1841-49); record of marriages (1866-81); inventory...
Dates:
1838-1931
Records of the Kalamazoo County Clerk, 1845-1930
Record Group
Identifier: RG 68-98
Scope and Contents
This record group consists of various records of the Kalamazoo County Clerk for the years 1845-1930. The record group includes: census of Kalamazoo County (1884, 1894, schedule 1 only), schedule of free inhabitants of Kalamazoo County, volume for 1884 is for Pavilion and Wakeshma townships only; list of persons whose usual place of abode was, upon the 1st day of June 1880, within the county of Kalamazoo (1880); statement of medical practitioners (1886-1903, 1894-1900); record of soldiers...
Dates:
1845-1930
Scrapbook #3: Of letters and ephemera from the Simm family, 1942-1950
File — Box 10 (AC-2003-081): Series AC-2003-081 [Barcode: 31141023416220]
Identifier: AC-2003-081
Scope and Contents
An ivory-colored scrapbook containing letters from the Simm family to Merze Tate written between September 1942 to May 1950. Most letters were written by Ida Vandaliah (Larkin) Simms, an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority member with Merze Tate, concerning Ida's daughter Jacquelyn (born September 9, 1942). Some leaves include birth announcements and invitations to Jacquelyn's christening, black-and-white photgraphs of Tate with baby Jacquelyn, her mother or her father. Some letters are written on...
Dates:
1942-1950
Scrapbook #5: Correspondence from Jean Coston Maloney, approximately 1945-1951
File — Box 10 (AC-2003-081): Series AC-2003-081 [Barcode: 31141023416220]
Identifier: AC-2003-081
Scope and Contents
Ivory-colored scrapbook containing letters from Jean Coston Maloney Lee concerning her daughter Frances Jean Maloney (born 1943), daily life as a music teacher and mother, and comments on the people she meet during her trips. She also mentions her husband Arnold stationed overseas, the birth of her son Arnold, expresses sympathy concerning Merze's nephew, and thanking Merze for gifts to Frances Jean. The letters date roughly from January 1945 to December 1951. Other ephemera includes holiday...
Dates:
approximately 1945-1951
Smithsonian Exhibit
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This series contains material about an exhibit that was completed in November 1934 and donated to the Smithsonian for display. This exhibit consisted of forty dioramas that showed the history of pharmaceutical research and manufacture. Material includes correspondence between the Smithsonian, the contractor of the dioramas, and Upjohn for the years 1933-1949 as well as the contract, general specifications, and legends for the dioramas. Also of note, are the Diorama Books, which contain high...
Dates:
1887-2001
Women’s Committee, Council of National Defense, Michigan Division, 1917-1922
Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains material relation to Caroline Bartlett Crane's personal and public life as a Unitarian minister, a social and urban reformer, suffragist, and early conservationist. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, speeches, sermons, articles,articles, travel journals, scrapbooks, biographical material, and photographs. Papers relating to women's issues of the early 20th century include: correspondence with suffragists Anna Howard Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, and...
Dates:
1917-1922