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Auction Catalog Collections

 Collection
Identifier: 04-exws_auctioncatalogs
Abstract

Collections of catalogs from major international auction houses (Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's) pertaining to auctions that took place primarily in the early twentieth through the late twentieth century. The majority of the catalogs are for manuscript, book and jewelry sales, but a third collection recording auctions of a variety of other items is currently under development.

Dates: 1815-1997; bulk 1920-1997; Other: Date acquired: 2000

A.W. Johnson Company

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3603
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of 10 or so documents detailing the process of A.W. Johnson retail company becoming a privately held corporation. Additionally, there are documents detailing the by-laws of A.W. Johnson Co. and the minutes from the first shareholders meeting, the first directors meeting, and from a special directors meeting called by the president.

Dates: 1914-1958

Bangor High School Viking Press Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3802
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of one Viking Press student newspaper from October 9, 1959 and one Viking Press student newspaper from November 6, 1959, both from Bangor High School located in Bangor, Michigan.The October 9, 1959 issue features news about the Homecoming festivities that week, an editorial on Key Club, social news that included “Pam Distefano and Lynn Geresy are now taken off the steady list,” and “Just before the band was to perform at Western, Janet Boreham broker...
Dates: October 9 and November 6, 1959

Barbara & Bobby Shell papers

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4084
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two dance cards from a Bronson Hospital Ball in 1914 and a price book from The Upjohn Company from 1972.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1914, 1972

Barbara Kreuzer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4262
Scope and Contents

This collection contains information regarding the activities of the Women’s Education Coalition located in Kalamazoo from 1984 to 1999. Documents directly or indirectly concern Barbara Kreuzer the co-chairwoman of the WEC and later the Leadership Committee Chair.

Documents include a variety of information regarding public outreach, personal correspondence, and internal activities of the Women’s Education Coalition and Barbara Kreuzer’s participation within it.

Dates: 1984-1999

Barry County Schools

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3604
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of three School Directories from Barry County. The items date from 1959 through 1963. Directories that cover the entirety of public schools in Barry County, listing the administration and teachers names and positions from each school.

Dates: 1959-1963

Battle Creek Township Fire Department journal

 Item — Box: 1 of 1
Identifier: RH-A-4278
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of a single journal from the Battle Creek Township Fire Department in Battle Creek Michigan. The journal covers from 1938-1941. Entries were made by various individual with information from the Fire Department. Journal entries include includes dates, times, address, and personnel. Some entries also include monetary loss, location or cause of the fire, status of the fire upon arrival, and hours worked.

Dates: 1938-1941

Ben Tibbs Archive

 Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_tibbs
Abstract

Issues of literary magazines in which Kalamazoo-area poet Ben Tibbs's works were published, list of contents of the original Tibbs book donation and ephemera.

Dates: 1958-1977

Benjamin C. Sheldon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3301
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of one ledger owned by Benjamin C. Sheldon who was enrolled in Clark Commercial College in Kalamazoo. The ledger has work in it dated January to September, 1856.

Dates: 1856

Berghoff Café Menu

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: RH-A-4267
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of a menu card for Easter Dinner at the Berghoff Café in Kalamazoo, MI. This menu is from the Berghoff Café’s special Easter Dinner on April 19, 1908.

A raised illustration of white lilies is on the cover with a sonnet on the inside cover by the poet laureate of the Berghoff Hotel.

Dates: April 19, 1908

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Western Michigan University Archives & Regional History Collections 541
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Diaries 51
Letters 37
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ledgers (account books) 30
newsletters 30
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Business enterprises -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 29
Personal correspondence 27
Programs 21
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 19
Scrapbooks 19
financial records 19
Business records 18
minutes (administrative records) 18
Pamphlets 16
black-and-white photographs 16
account books 14
Advertisements 13
Menus 12
records (documents) 12
Certificates 11
Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- Societies and clubs 11
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 9
booklets 9
brochures 9
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 8
Catalogs 8
Postcards 8
Clubs -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 7
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
American poetry -- 20th century 6
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Ephemera 6
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annual reports 6
bylaws (administrative records) 6
journals (accounts) 6
membership lists 6
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Schools -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 5
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives 5
church records 5
clippings (information artifacts) 5
color photographs 5
directories 5
family papers 5
notebooks 5
photograph albums 5
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Buildings -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 4
Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- History 4
Michigan -- Diaries 4
Nursing schools -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 4
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Restaurants -- Michigan -- Menus 4
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Western Michigan University -- History 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 4
cabinet photographs 4
estate records 4
personal papers 4
reports 4
school records 4
tax records 4
African Americans -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 3
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism 3
American poetry -- 19th century 3
Authors -- 20th century -- Correspondence 3
Blueprints 3
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Cistercians 3
Concert Programs -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 3
Diplomas 3
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Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works 3
Kalamazoo County (Mich.) -- History 3
Manufacturing industries -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 3
Nursing students -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 3
Photographers -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 3
Poets, American -- 20th century 3
Police -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo -- History 3
Printing industry -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 3
Recipes 3
Restaurants -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 3
Schools -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo County 3
Sermons 3
Tuberculosis 3
Women -- Michigan -- Diaries 3
Women -- Societies and clubs 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 3
cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 3
commercial photography 3
cookbooks 3
design drawings 3
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Names
Upjohn Company 5
Kalamazoo Public Library 4
Bronson Methodist Hospital. School of Nursing (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 3
Callan, Edward (Edward Thomas O'Dwyer), 1917-2011 3
Clarage Fan Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 3
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First Presbyterian Church (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 3
Kalamazoo Central High School 3
Kalamazoo Post Office (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 3
Kalamazoo Publishing Company 3
Kalamazoo Valley Museum 3
Waldo, Dwight B. (Dwight Bryant), 1864-1939 3
Western Michigan University 3
Alphadelphia Association (Organization) 2
Balch, Nathaniel A. (Nathaniel Aldrich), 1808-1894 2
Black Sparrow Press 2
Bronson Methodist Hospital (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
Checker Motors Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
Grand Army of the Republic 2
Gull Lake Country Club (Richland, Mich.) 2
House of David (Religious society) 2
Kalamazoo Corset Co. 2
Kalamazoo Public Schools 2
Kalamazoo Sled Company 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Marlborough Apartments (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
Michigan Female Seminary 2
Packard, Cullen C., 1839-1898 2
Parks, Floyd 2
Pere Marquette Railroad 2
Pfizer Inc. 2
Reidsema, John M. 2
State Theatre (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
Tuberculosis Sanitorium (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
Western Michigan College of Education 2
Western State Normal School (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
A. W. Johnson Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
A.K. Edwards and Co. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
A.L. Pratt & Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Abbaye de Lachalade (Meuse, France) 1
Abbaye de Pontigny 1
Abbaye de la Bénisson-Dieu 1
Abbey, Lewis C. (Photographer) 1
Abrams, Samuel T., Rabbi 1
Academy of Music (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Acme Manufacturing Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Adams, Lida Leora, 1883-1972 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham 1
Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167 1
Agape Christian Student Fellowship (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Alabastine Company 1
Allen, Francis Wilbur 1
Allen, J. Adams (Jonathan Adams), 1825-1890 1
Allen, Thomas B. (Thomas Burt), 1928-2004 1
Allied Paper Corporation 1
Alvan Motor Freight Inc. 1
American Carriage Company 1
American Featherbone Company (Chicago, Ill) 1
American Hotel (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
American National Bank and Trust Company of Michigan 1
American Peat Fuel Company (Capac, Mich.) 1
American Playing Card Co. 1
American Roentgen Ray Society 1
American Tool & Die Works (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
American Tool & Engineering Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Ames, Charles S., 1853-1925 1
Ames, Edward, 1851-1949 1
Anders, Jennie 1
Anderson, Candace 1
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 1
Anderson, Phyllis, 1936- 1
Andrie, Eugene 1
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 1
Arcadia Roller Rink (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Arion Press 1
Aseltine, Elmer A. (Elmer Adelbert), 1865-1946 1
Ashley family 1
Ashley, Harriet M. Holder, 1841-1922 1
Ashley, Jerome B., 1837-1906 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Austin, Frank G., 1852-1915 1
B. F. Freeland Sons Company (Sturgis, Mich.) 1
Bacon, Nathaniel, 1802-1869 1
Baldwin, Alec, 1958- 1
Bannister, Burr, 1837-1916 1
Barton, Edward Read 1
Barton, Olin W. 1
Battle Creek (Mich.). Fire Department 1
Bayles, Burtis 1
Bayles, Charles H. 1
Bean, James 1
Beard, Chauncey 1
Beebe family 1
Beeby, Betty, 1923-2015 1
Beeson, B. F. 1
Bellesorte, Anthony R., approximately 1936- 1
Ben Franklin Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Bennett, Reuben, 1848-1919 1
Benson, John Howard, 1901-1956 1
Berghoff Cafe 1
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