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Willis Dunbar Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-40
Scope and Contents
Dunbar papers include information on his career as an educator, author, historian, radio programming director, and civic leader. Collection reflects Dunbar's varied interests in Kalamazoo and Michigan including files from his radio programs, ca. 1943-1951, material relating to the House of David, Benton Harbor, Michigan, American Expeditionary Forces (Polar Bears), correspondence regarding the Michigan Centennial Commission, Michigan Constitutional Convention material, 1961-1962, scrapbook...
Dates:
1929-1970
Wolbers Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3589
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents relating to Wolbers shopping center which was located in Portage, Michigan. The dates of the documents range from 1905 to 1992.
Dates:
1905-1992
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Card
Item
Identifier: RH-A-4313
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of one program card from the Cooper, Michigan chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union dating from 1914-1915.The front of the program bears the title “Woman’s Christian Temperance Union” in a gothic font, which “Cooper, Michigan” below it in a smaller typeface. Additionally, the program year (1914-1915) is stated. The statement “Friends and neighbors, you are welcome to our meetings one and all; We need you in our struggle Against King...
Dates:
1914-1915
Women in Business
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3479
Scope and Contents
Women in Business was a statewide company located in Muskegon. The Kalamazoo and Battle Creek office was managed by Marti Fritz living in Kalamazoo. The inside cover has the categories, zip codes and area codes for the businesses listed. It appears, according to the statement on the bottom of page one that there was a cost to listing in the brochure. Some businesses may not have been owned by women but catered to them. The majority of them do have their owners and operators listed along with...
Dates:
1984-1985
Women's Honorary Accounting Society
Record Group
Identifier: RG-40/106
Scope and Contents
Finding aids and inventories for Women's Honorary Accounting Society (40/106).
Dates:
1958 - 1971
Women's Recreation Association
Record Group
Identifier: RG-40/35
Scope and Contents
Finding aids and inventories for Women's Recreation Association (40/35).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959-1972
World War I German Soldiers Album Collection
Collection
Identifier: 04-exws_wwi
Scope and Contents
Collection contains three photograph albums and a scrapbook. Two photograph albums belonged to unidentified German soldiers in World War I, and contain images from approximately 1911-1918. Photograph album of Paul Hohendorn, a medical officer on the Eastern Front in World War I, with label naming Albert Borowski and a handwritten note, "Onkel, Paul im Kriegseinsatz Ost 1914/18". Accordion spine scrapbook, "Meine Stationer als Soldat im Weltkrieg 1914-1918." Scrapbook belonged to Paul Pommer,...
Dates:
1911-1918
WPA Historical Records Survey-Southwestern Michigan
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1000
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of surveys done between 1936 and 1939 focusing on historical events and documentation in southwest Michigan done by the Works Progress Administration. Counties included are Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Saint Joseph, and Van Buren.Historical topics also are included like the plank roads and the Alphadelphia Association. Also included are WPA personnel records, travel vouchers and instructional material....
Dates:
1936-1937
WWII Propaganda and Print Collections
Collection
Identifier: 04-exws_wwii
Abstract
Nazi-period German serials, photos and ephemera, as well as American and some North African serials, as well as ephemera. This collection also contains books (the books are cataloged individually and searchable through the WMU Libraries catalog: Library Search).
Dates:
1904-1964; bulk 1918-1945; Other: Date acquired: 1986, 1988, 2010
Yeckley School District Papers
File
Identifier: RH-A-4341
Scope and Contents
This file is composed of an end of school year program dated 1922, from the Yeckley Schoolhouse in Rutland Township, Michigan which operated from 1868-1955.
Dates:
1922