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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
Overview
The collection contains various documents and photos related to Arthur and Effie Johnson Ford and range from 1887 to 1929.
Dates:
1887-1929
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 her...
Dates:
October 9 and November 6, 1959
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
Ben Tibbs Archive
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_tibbs
Overview
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
Bernard E. Sobiechowski
Collection
Identifier: A-4102
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 58 letters written by Bernard E. Sobiechowski, to his wife, Delores Hozeski, between 1952 and 1953, while he was in the U.S. Navy and stationed in Korea.According to their letters, Bernard and Delores had a daughter, Sue or Suzie, sometime during 1952, before he was drafted in the Korean War. In July of 1952, he arrived to where he would be stationed, in Teague, or Deague, South Korea. Bernard’s letters to Delores were mainly love letters, in detail,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-1953
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- Diaries 35
- Business enterprises -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 31
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- Photographs 27
- Personal correspondence 23
- ledgers (account books) 17
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- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 8
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- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 8
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- Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- Church history 8
- Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- Societies and clubs 8
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- financial records 8
- Advertisements 7
- Pamphlets 7
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 7
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- registers (lists) 3
- Aerial photographs 2
- Bible records 2
- Blueprints 2
- Book designers--United States 2
- Books 2
- Books -- Reviews 2
- Business enterprises -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo -- History 2
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- Cistercian monasteries 2
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- Illumination of books and manuscripts 2
- Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works 2
- Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- Pictorial works 2
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- Letterpress printing 2 ∧ less
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- 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 Public Library 3
- Upjohn Company 3
- Western Michigan University 3
- Black Sparrow Press 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 Post Office (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 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
- 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
- Alphadelphia Association (Organization) 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 Roentgen Ray Society 1
- American Tool & Die Works (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- American Tool & Engineering Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 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
- 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
- Barton, Edward Read 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
- Benson, John Howard, 1901-1956 1
- Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006 1
- Berlin, Lucia 1
- Best, Earnest L., 1939- 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
- Blanchard, William 1
- Bloodroot Press 1
- Bloom, Oliver J., 1861-1933 1
- Blossom Shop (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Blossom, Alice E., -1936 1
- Boekeloo, Hubert J., 1918- 1
- Bond Supply Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Boudeman, Donald O. 1
- Boudeman, Donald, 1880-1949 1
- Boudeman, Donna Nicholson, 1909-1987 1
- Bourne family 1
- Boutilier, Nancy, 1961- 1
- Bowen family 1 ∧ less
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