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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.
A.W. Johnson Company
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3603
Scope and Contents
A.W. Johnson retail store was opened on August 29, 1914 on 110 W. Main St. by Alfred Woodworth Johnson and Vernon McFee. On February 13, 1915 Alfred Woodworth bought out his partner Vernon McFee, making Alfred the president and sole owner of the company. Lawrence Barnes joined the company as a salesman in 1919 where he would work for Alfred Woodworth until Alfred’s retirement in 1958. Alfred would spend his remaining years as a Christian Science Practitioner until his death on July 16, 1961....
Bangor High School Viking Press Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3802
Scope and Contents
The Viking Press was a newspaper written, edited and compiled by students of Bangor High School. It featured important headlines, sports, entertainment and social news articles of interest to the students.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...
Barry County Schools
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3604
Scope and Contents
Directories that cover the entirety of public schools in Barry County, listing the administration and teachers names and positions from each school.
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.
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.
Bernard E. Sobiechowski
Collection
Identifier: A-4102
Scope and Contents
Bernard E. Sobiechowski was born around 1928 in Grand Rapids, Michigan by his father, Erich Sobiechowski, and his mother, Charlotte Lohe. Both of his parents were born in Germany, and came to the United States between 1923 and 1925. Bernard lived with both of his parents and attended Union High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan while growing up. Bernard’s wife, Delores Hozeski, was born on September 28, 1926, by her father, Anthony Hozeski, and her mother Martha Furmankiewicz Hozeski. Anthony...
Bert Byron Davis Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3564
Scope and Contents
This collection covers the time period during B.B. Davis’ life in the Philippines in the 1930s to mid-1940s. The majority of the collection contains correspondence between B.B. Davis and his wife to family and friends living in and around Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids, MI, in particular Areta Williams Hibbard. Many of the letters were written to Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Lorenzo Hibbard, the latter of whom was a sister to B.B. Davis.The letters from the 1930s give an interesting insight...
Besmilr Brigham-Will Inman Correspondence Collection
Collection
Identifier: 03-01-exws_brigham-inman
Abstract
The majority of this collection is correspondence between American poet Besmilr Brigham and American poet / editor Will Inman between 1977 and 1978. It also includes typescripts and proofs of Brigham's poems and short stories, as well as two photographs.
Betty Beeby Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-213
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is letters to Norton Pearl, Betty Beeby, and Jane Beeby, but letters to other family members (Ethel, Myrtle, and Dorothy Pearl, etc) are included as well. In addition, the collection also consists of letters to Loran Post, the Dahne family, Henry Graves, the Waite family, and the Yunker family. The diaries belong to John W. Pearl, Norton Pearl (ranging from 1890 to1954), Alice Pearl, and Myrtle Pearl. The bulk of the photographs are from Glacier National Park and...
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- A. W. Johnson Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
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- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
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- 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 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, 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
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- Bean, James 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
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- Blanchard family 1
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- Bloodroot Press 1
- Bloom, Oliver J., 1861-1933 1
- Blossom Shop (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Blossom, Alice E., -1936 1
- Bond Supply Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Boudeman, Donald O. 1
- Boudeman, Donald, 1880-1949 1
- Boudeman, Donna Nicholson, 1909-1987 1
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- Boutilier, Nancy, 1961- 1
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- Bower, Charles L., 1831- 1
- Bowles, Jane (Bowles, Jane Auer), 1917-1973 1
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
- Boyce, Gray Cowan, 1899-1981 1
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