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George and Miriam Arend Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3466
Abstract
The collection is composed of letters, documents, and photographs belonging to George and Miriam Arend, the parents of Dean Arend, who was a professor at Western Michigan University.
Dates:
1915-1991
George C. and Lucy J. Cook Book
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3675
Scope and Contents
According to Kalamazoo County marriage records, George Cook age 26 married Lucy Jane Garrett, age 25 on February 7, 1872. According to the marriage license, Cook, born in Salem, Michigan, resided in Iowa working as a merchant. Lucy, born in Cleveland, Ohio, had no profession listed. Neither have been found in the 1870 U.S. Census and there is no record of them in the 1872 Kalamazoo City Directory. They could have come to Kalamazoo to marry due to some type of association with Rev. Samuel...
Dates:
1872
George F. Pierrot Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3566
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a copy of the World Letters, a geography education textbook consisting of correspondence from George F. Pierrot, a well-known Detroit-based TV personality and frequent speaker at the Detroit Institute of Art. Beginning in Northern Ireland and ending in Punjab, India, the correspondence in question served to provide some geographical information about various localities in Europe, Africa, and Asia, in 1937, in the form of a travel narrative written by George Pierrot...
Dates:
1937-1939
George Kennicutt Notebook
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3971
Scope and Contents
The Kalamazoo School District began in 1833 and by 1865,consisting of the Union School on the corner of South West and West Vine Streets along with four ward schools. This census in the notebook, compiled in 1865, shows 2151 students which differs a little from the yearly catalogs, which showed 2,090 at the end of the 1864-1865 school year and 2,332 at the end of the 1865-1866 school year. The names are not in alphabetical order but seem arranged according to where the students lived. This...
Dates:
1865
George L. Trombley Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3694
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of sheet music of four songs composed by George L. Trombley (1883-1963) from 1912-1917 as well as a brochure for the Kalamazoo Conservatory of Music and Associated Arts from 1925 or 1926.
Dates:
1912-1917; 1925-1926
Gillespie Drug Store Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4061
Scope and Contents
Narcotic reports and inventories for the Gillespie's Drug Stores in St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Michigan from 1963 to 1976. Also includes controlled substances order forms, treasury department circulars, yearly narcotic inventories, miscellaneous inventory records, and wholesale dealers inventories.
Dates:
Record Keeping: January 1963- August 1973
Gladys Lambert Dunham Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3552
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of diaries written by Gladys Marie Lambert Dunham from the years 1921 to 1987. Some of the diaries are a different year than what is stated on the cover. The diaries are an excellent example of life in a small farming village during the mid- to late-20th century. Gladys writes about the weather each day, places in southwestern Michigan that she visited, her work and the food she ate. Many entries describe her day washing, cleaning, canning food, and picking...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1987
Grace Christian Reformed Church Directories
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4272
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of eleven church directories for the Grace Christian Reformed Church located downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Directories range from 1953-1987. Each cover, excluding the 1987 edition, includes a picture of the church located at 612 S. Park Street (listed 610 S. Park Street on the 1953 editions), and the name of the current reverend. The information inside includes lists of members with their addresses and numbers, births, deaths, and committee activities.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1953-1978, 1987
Grace Davis Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1803
Scope and Contents
This collection includes news clippings and other materials collected by Grace Davi's mother, the later Alma Powell from the early 1930s to the late 1960s.The articles range in chronological order from the early 1930s to the late 1960s. They provide local, state, and national news, events, and perspectives. Alma Powell's articles also provide a snapshot of African-American history in Kalamazoo and nationwide. Through her work with the Kalamazoo Human Relations Committee, various...
Dates:
early 1930s - late 1960s
Grace Field Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3482-AC-2011-089
Abstract
The collection is composed of financial documents, correspondence, and organizational documents from the Michiana Cello Society. This collection has documents that date from 1984-1997 contained within.
Dates:
1984-1997; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2010
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- Upjohn Company 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
- Kalamazoo Central High School 3
- Kalamazoo Post Office (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 3
- Kalamazoo Public Library 3
- Western Michigan University 3
- Alphadelphia Association (Organization) 2
- Black Sparrow Press 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
- Packard, Cullen C. 2
- Pere Marquette Railroad 2
- Pfizer Inc. 2
- Reidsema, John M. 2
- Tuberculosis Sanitorium (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 2
- Waldo, Dwight B. (Dwight Bryant), 1864-1939 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
- Alabastine Company 1
- Allen, Francis Wilbur 1
- Allen, Thomas B. (Thomas Burt), 1928-2004 1
- Alvan Motor Freight Inc. 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
- 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
- Balch, Nathaniel A. (Nathaniel Aldrich), 1808-1894 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
- Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006 1
- Berlin, Lucia 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
- Bixby, Robert, 1952-2012 1
- Blackburn, Paul 1
- Blake, Trevor 1
- Blanchard family 1 ∧ less
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