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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
Frank E. Taylor Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4324
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of materials relating to organist Frank E. (“Bud”) Taylor (1913 – 1997) and the State Theater of Kalamazoo. The materials cover a timespan from the mid 1930’s to the early 1980’s.
Dates:
mid 1930’s to the early 1980’s
General Gas Light Company Pamphlet
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3936
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of a pamphlet as an advertisement from the General Gas Light Company located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Published in 1928, it promoted their Humphrey Radiantfire, an indoor gas heater which could fit in the fireplace. The pamphlet advertised 24 radiators which came in various colors such as brown, bronze, black, rich maroon, green, wrought iron, pierced hearth and various shades of brass. Other products advertised included 6 brass fenders...
Dates:
1928
Kalamazoo Torch Club Records
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4321
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of materials relevant to the Kalamazoo Torch Club. The materials in the collection relate to club membership, newsletters, and club business from 2006 to 2020.
Dates:
2006-2020
Mae Dorsey Hicks Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3894
Scope and Contents
Lillian Cobb Bechmann was born in Morenci, MI in 1883. She was married to John W. Bailey on July 14, 1910. She and Mae Dorsey Hicks were residents of Battle Creek, MI. In 1933 John W. Bailey was the mayor of Battle Creek. Hicks was married to James A. Hicks in Detroit on October 19, 1921. In January 1933 Hicks and Mrs. Bailey went on an 18-day cruise of the Caribbean aboard the S.S. Reliance. On their trip they took numerous photographs of what they encountered, and kept postcards, cruise...
Dates:
1933
Thomas Brady Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3997
Abstract
This collection consists of papers and materials relating mostly to Joseph Dorr Waterman and his mother, Mary C. Waterman (later Simonds). The collection contains the correspondence and financial records of these individuals. There are also items not related to the Waterman/Simonds family, including a wallet, Civil War era letters and keepsakes, and advertisements for Kalamazoo businesses. J. Dorr Waterman was a resident of Kalamazoo from 1857-1883.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1857-1883
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- Clubs -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 1
- Gas fireplaces -- Catalogs 1
- Humphrey Radiantfire 1
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- Ocean travel 1
- Passenger lists 1
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- Tool and die industry -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo -- Catalogs 1
- Tool and die makers -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
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- American Tool & Die Works (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- American Tool & Engineering Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Brady, Christine 1
- Cash, Sophie, 1834-1932 1
- Drake, Jane, 1826-1899 1
- General Gas Light Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Hicks, Mae Dorsey, -1970 1
- Kalamazoo Torch Club (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company 1
- Reliance (Steamship : 1920) 1
- Simonds, Darwin, 1812- 1
- Simonds, Mary C. Waterman, 1813-1868 1
- State Theatre (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Taylor, Frank E., 1913-1997 1
- Waterman, Joseph Dorr, 1835-1883 1
- Waterman, Maria Drake, 1836-1883 1
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