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Dwight B. Waldo Lincoln Collection
Lincolniana collected by Dwight B. Waldo (1864-1936), the first president of Western Michigan University (the books associated with this collection are cataloged individually and searchable through the Western Michigan University Libraries online catalog)
E. J. Kelly Collection
The collection is composed of a wide variety of items dating from World War 1 to the 1960s. These items include military souvenirs, photographs, business papers and publications, and newspaper clippings.
Edwards & Chamberlin Hardware Co. Collection
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.
Emily Dickinson Illustrated Editions Collection
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.
Facsimile Leaves Collection
Loose facsimile leaves distributed as samples from vendors. Reproductions from various medieval and Early Modern texts.
Farrell Products Company Ledger
The collection is composed of one black leather-bound ledger from Farrell Products Company in Dowagiac, MI. The ledger contains the company by-laws, records of meeting minutes, and records of stockholders and stockholder meetings. The entries in the ledger range from 1923 to 1925.
Ferris Wilcox Ledger
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.
Four Township Water Resource Council Records
This collection is composed of material from the Four Township Water Resources Council ranging from 1975 to 2022. All material is relevant to the Kalamazoo River Watershed and the Four Townships of Prairieville, Barry, Richland, and Ross.
Frank E. Taylor Collection
This collection is comprised of materials relating to organist Frank E. (“Bud”) Taylor (1913 – 1997) and the State Theater of Kalamazoo. The materials cover a timespan from the mid 1930’s to the early 1980’s.
Galesburg High School Alumni Association Ledger
One ledger kept by the Galesburg High School Alumni Association from about 1897-1930. There are 7 alphabetical index tabs in the front that were not used for indexing, instead the accounting of dues paid to the association, and the names of the members who paid them, begin here. The ledger also contains accounting for the association with entries of cash balances and expenses. There are no markers of where one type of information ends and another begins, and sometimes they overlap.