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American Tool & Die Works
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3938
Scope and Contents
“Precision Tools and Dies” is a general informational/ advertisement booklet for the American Tool & Die Works company located in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1937 to roughly about 1955. This booklet provides a map displaying the company’s wide variety of distribution around the area of Kalamazoo, reaching as far as Indiana, Ohio, and various cities in the northern and eastern areas of Michigan. The booklet also contains some images, including the building of the company, and several of the...
Dates:
ca. 1950
Andrew Jackson Easton diaries
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4233
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of thirty-two diaries written by Andrew Jackson Easton (1834-1920) from 1869-1914. The diaries detail the daily life of Andrew, a general farmer who lived in Berrien Center, Michigan. The winter months focus on activities such as woodcutting and selling. The warmer months focus on farming activities for both livestock and produce. The fall months focus on picking produce and harvesting crops.
Dates:
1869-1914
Anna Poole Ferguson Collection
File
Identifier: RH-A-3753
Abstract
This collection contains photographs and other materials relating to the Kalamazoo State Hospital Nursing Program that belonged to Anna Poole Ferguson, dating between 1903 and 1965. She was the aunt of Sue Baden, who gave these items to her friend Dorothy Barstow, after her death. Both Dorothy and Sue were graduates of the Borgess School of Nursing.
Dates:
1903-1965
Archie Royer, Sr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4037
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 12 letters from Archie Royer, a former circus clown and Van Buren County resident, to his friend and fellow circus performer Bert Cole in New York. The collection also contains two pages of poems apparently composed by Royer, and a drawing with writing in Spanish.The letters in this collection detail Royer’s life on his farm in the 1940s. They range in date from November 1941 to July 1948. They are all addressed to Bert Cole (1875-?), a friend whom...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1869-1956
Ardis Pierce and Wayne Loney Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3207
Scope and Contents
The Kalamazoo Police Department traces its beginnings to 1882. These ledgers record a variety of calls the department received many of which dealt with animals, both alive and deceased, theft, assaults, lost items, accidents, missing children, rubbish, dangerous sidewalks and people who were inebriated.The entries record the reports but do not cover what the police did to deal with what was being reported.
Dates:
1910-1912
Arista
Record Group
Identifier: RG-40/27
Scope and Contents
Finding aids and inventories of Arista (40/27).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964 - 1985
Arthur and Effie Johnson Ford Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3752
Abstract
The collection contains various documents and photos related to Arthur and Effie Johnson Ford and range from 1887 to 1929.
Dates:
1887-1929
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
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- Bronson Methodist Hospital. School of Nursing (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 3
- Clarage Fan Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 3
- Kalamazoo Central High School 3
- Kalamazoo Post Office (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 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
- Bronson Methodist Hospital (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
- First Presbyterian Church (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
- Gull Lake Country Club (Richland, Mich.) 2
- House of David (Religious society) 2
- Kalamazoo Corset Co. 2
- Kalamazoo Public Schools 2
- Kalamazoo Publishing Company 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
- 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
- Agape Christian Student Fellowship (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Alabastine Company 1
- Allen, J. Adams (Jonathan Adams), 1825-1890 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
- Aseltine, Elmer A. (Elmer Adelbert), 1865-1946 1
- Ashley family 1
- Ashley, Harriet M. Holder, 1841-1922 1
- Ashley, Jerome B., 1837-1906 1
- Austin, Frank G., 1852-1915 1
- B. F. Freeland Sons Company (Sturgis, Mich.) 1
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 1802-1869 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
- Ben Franklin Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Bennett, Reuben, 1848-1919 1
- Berghoff Cafe 1
- Best, Earnest L., 1939- 1
- Beta Phi Mu. Kappa Chapter (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Billingham & Cobb Architects (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Bingham, H. L. (Harry L.) 1
- Bird, Charles Harold 1
- Blanchard family 1
- Blanchard, William 1
- Bloom, Oliver J., 1861-1933 1
- Blossom Shop (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Blossom, Alice E., -1936 1
- Boardman, Ann Gilbert 1
- Boardman, Gilbert S (Gilbert Simeon), 1833-1917 1
- Boardman, S. (Samuel Ward) 1
- Bodmer, Joseph, 1882-1975 1
- Boekeloo, Hubert J., 1918- 1
- Bond Supply Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1 ∧ less
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