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Edwards & Chamberlin Hardware Co. Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3264
Abstract
The collection is composed of materials from the Edwards and Chamberlin Hardware Company, a Kalamazoo firm in business from 1889 until 1931. The materials date from 1911 until 1931.
Dates:
1911-1931
Emily Dickinson Illustrated Editions Collection
Collection
Identifier: 03-01-exws_dickinson
Abtract
This collection is comprised primarily of drafts, proofs, layout plans, and illustrations pertaining to the creation of Poems for Youth and A Murmur in the Trees, both books containing collections of poems written by Emily Dickinson and published by Little Brown and Company.
Dates:
1995-1998
Facsimile Leaves Collection
Collection
Identifier: 02-exws_facsleaves
Abstract
Loose facsimile leaves distributed as samples from vendors. Reproductions from various medieval and Early Modern texts.
Dates:
1996-2013; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1995
Ferris Wilcox Ledger
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3991
Scope and Contents
The children sketched on some of the pages were probably Rhea and Martha Mcewen, the daughters of H. C. Mcewen. H. C. Mcewen worked for the public highways in Leonidas in 1888. They signed her name to a few pages. Rhea Mcewen was born in 1912 and Martha Mcewen was born in 1914, both in Leonidas, Michigan.
Dates:
1888
General Farm ledger
Item — Box: 1 of 1
Identifier: Rh-A-4246
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one ledger possibly from a local farmer in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. The range of the material is from 1888-1901. The ledger tracks farm expenses of the unnamed farmer, the farms of Frank Milham and Noah Bryant, and keeps track of a “wood account” which recorded lumber purchased by various individuals.
Dates:
1888-1901
Helen Zakin papers
Collection
Identifier: 01-exws_zakin
Abstract
Photographs, negatives, and slides, notes, booklets and papers gathered by Dr. Zakin for her research, as well as academic papers and presentations and correspondence.
Dates:
1972-2004; Other: Date acquired: 2010
Hiram B. Valentine Collection
Item
Identifier: RH-A-3539
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal ledger of Hiram B. Valentine, a resident of Brady Township, Kalamazoo, MI, who ran a 40-acre farm along with his wife and four children. This collection was acquired by Dr. Sharon Carlson thanks to the Starring Endowment, in 2012. The ledger contained in this collection lists the wages paid to various farm laborers for certain tasks, as well as things related to the production of various goods (i.e., wheat, corn, butter, leather, etc.) and business...
Dates:
1821-1891
Ives Street Press Archive
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_ivesstpress
Abstract
Collected papers, samples and other materials of Barbara Cash (1930-1997) printer and designer at Ives St. Press (Connecticut and Maine). The collection contains correspondence with authors and colleagues, designs for broadsides and books, business records of the Ives Street and Cellador Presses, professional association meeting and contest materials, and materials for Cash's MFA thesis on fine presses in New England.
Dates:
1979-2001; Majority of material found within Bulk 1981-1992; Other: Date acquired: 2002-04-10
J. Whirler Pop-up and Children's Literature Archive
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_whirler
Abstract
A collection of materials from a Portland, Oregon, bookstore, J. Whirler Books specializing in children's books and pop-up books. Collection includes articles and newsletters, book fair programs, publisher advertisement bookmarks, catalogs, directories, postcard advertisements, assorted issues of children's literature serials, and misc. correspondence to booksellerThis collection also has a large number of books associated with it (the books are cataloged individually and searchable through...
Dates:
1971-1999; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1996-1999; Other: Date acquired: 1999
Jeremiah H. Cronin Store Ledger Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3953
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one single account ledger book from J.H. Cronin Store of Marshall, Michigan between May 1, 1915 to July 26, 1915. This store was owned by Jeremiah Henry Cronin and was established in 1851 according to the Marshall directory of 1934. This ledger features all grocery sales accounts kept in chronological order. Every page in the ledger was full, and included the name of the customer and a list of their purchases below. This ledger provides a historical account of the...
Dates:
Record Keeping: May 1, 1915 to July 26, 1915
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- Cistercian glass painting and staining -- France 1
- Cistercians 1
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- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Graphic novels 1
- Crime -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo -- History 1
- Cuneiform tablets--Specimens 1
- Detective and mystery stories 1
- Diaries 1
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- Disabilities -- Services for -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 1
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- Illustration of books 1
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- Interviews 1
- Iron Man (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
- Ives Street Press -- Records and correspondence 1
- Jewelry stores -- Michigan -- Three Rivers 1
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- Kalamazoo (Mich.) -- Department of Public Safety 1
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- A.K. Edwards and Co. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
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- Abbaye de Pontigny 1
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- Acme Manufacturing Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
- Allen, Thomas B. (Thomas Burt), 1928-2004 1
- American Roentgen Ray Society 1
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 1
- Baldwin, Alec, 1958- 1
- Beeson, B. F. 1
- Berlin, Lucia 1
- Black Sparrow Press 1
- Blackburn, Paul 1
- Blake, Trevor 1
- Bonine, Mary Anne, 1947-2013 1
- Bourne family 1
- Boutilier, Nancy, 1961- 1
- Bower, Charles L., 1831- 1
- Bowles, Jane (Bowles, Jane Auer), 1917-1973 1
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
- Bromige, David 1
- Bronson Methodist Hospital. School of Nursing (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Bukowski, Charles T. 1
- Cash, Barbara 1
- Catholic Church--Clergy 1
- Chamberlin Hardware Co. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Chamberlin, Charles 1
- Chase H. Dickinson 1
- Chase family 1
- Chase, Helen Sebring, 1883-1967 1
- Chase, Jay Gould, 1880-1949 1
- Christensen, Paul, 1943- 1
- Clark Commercial College (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Clark, Tom (Thomas Willard), 1941- 1
- Club Konrad Haebler 1
- Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
- Coleman, Wanda 1
- Cook, Barbara Wood 1
- Cook, Ferris 1
- Cooney, Seamus 1
- Corman, Cid 1
- Cossery, Albert, 1913-2008 1
- Crane, Augustus W., 1868-1937 1
- Crane, Caroline Bartlett, 1858-1935 1
- Crane, Mary Alice, 1913-1987 1
- Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
- Cronin, Jeremiah H., 1873-1960 1
- DC Comics, Inc. 1
- Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002 1
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 1
- Dooley, Lloyd S., 1896-1979 1
- Dorn, Edward 1
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
- E.J. Kelly Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Edwards & Chamberlin Hardware Co. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Edwards, Paul, 1950- 1
- Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996 1
- Enslin, Theodore 1
- Eshleman, Clayton 1
- Everson, William, 1912-1994 1
- Faas, Ekbert, 1938- 1
- Faksimile-Verlag Luzern 1
- Fante, John, 1909-1983 1
- Ferris, Wilcox & Co. (Leonidas, Mich.) 1
- Field, Edward, 1924- 1
- First National Bank and Trust Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Frank, Thaisa 1
- Gaudie, Mary Louise Treash, 1912-1991 1
- Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972 1
- Griffin family 1
- Grossinger, Richard, 1944- 1
- Hanka, Ladislav 1
- Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943 1
- Helmsworth, James A., 1915-2015 1
- Helmsworth, Juliet Chase Muller, 1909-2000 1
- Hicks, Mae Dorsey, -1970 1
- Hinga, Dirk, 1861-1928 1
- Hinga, Frederick Martin, 1926-2012 1
- Hinga, Marvin, 1891-1951 1
- Hinga, Mildred Quigley, 1897-1994 1
- Hinga, Shawn 1
- International Typographical Union. Local 122 (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Ives Street Press 1
- J.H. Cronin Store (Marshall, Mich.) 1
- Jaffe, Sherril, 1945- 1
- Joel Oppenheimer, 1930-1988 1
- Kalamazoo Light Guard 1
- Kalamazoo Sled Company 1
- Kalamazoo Society for Crippled Children and Adults 1
- Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad 1
- Kelly, Eugene, 1890-1964 1
- Kelly, Robert, 1935- 1
- Kingsbury, Charles Henry 1
- Koller, James 1
- Kovalak, Tom, 1968- 1
- Lakeside for Children (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1 ∧ less
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