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Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4354
Abstract
The collection is composed of 2 boxes filled with 21 folders of books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, correspondences, history, and other papers regarding the Checker Cab Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan from its start in 1921 to its bankruptcy in 2010.
Dates:
approximately 1921-2010
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3542
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook contains a large number of newspaper clippings relating to social welfare, local, regional, and national political events, myriad open letters printed in the News-Palladium (today the Herald-Palladium), and personal letters relating to his political career and service as postmaster in Benton Harbor. The letters and pamphlets relate to speeches given or attended by Roman Jarvis.
Dates:
1851-1940
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3644
Abstract
This collection contains letters from mostly 1945 within the Rosel family. These letters are mostly between Dale Rosel and his wife Helen.
Dates:
1945-1946
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4040
Scope and Contents
Ruth Genevieve Van Horn Zuckerman was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on November 7, 1900 to Samuel H. Van Horn (1875-1938) and Laura J. (Mills) Van Horn (1880-1967). As a young adult, Ruth attended Western Michigan College (1918-1921) and the University of Michigan (1921-1922) to receive a B.A. in English. Continuing her studies, she returned to the University of Michigan (1925-1926) and also attended Columbia University (Summer 1935, Fall 1936-1967) to receive a M.A. in English with a minor in...
Dates:
1936-1985
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_blacksparrow
Abstract
Editorial office records of Blacksparrow Press (1966-2003), as well as a collection of nearly every title published by the press in all of their various editions. The books are all cataloged separately and are searchable via Western Michigan Libraries' online catalog. The archival portion of the collection consists primarily of typescripts for books, editors' copies of manuscripts, first proofs, uncorrected page proofs, corrected page proofs, galley proofs, catalogs, screenplays, prospecti...
Dates:
1966-2006; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1966-1996; Other: Date acquired: 2001-2004
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3642
Abstract
This collection contains letters addressed to the Shepard family, Hattie and Esther, a mother and daughter. These letters come from various people and are from 1920’s to the 1940’s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920-1949
Collection
Identifier: exws-sisterjanepatriciafreeland
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the academic work and education of Sister Jane P. Freeland, who was a nun, lover of music, and a medieval scholar recognized worldwide as the translator of medieval religious works never before available in English. The vast majority of the items are drafts of her translations and notebooks full of her jottings. She particularly loved medieval songs and hymns of Abelard.The collections also contains personal material including correspondence with her home...
Dates:
approximately 1970s-2010s
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4123
Abstract
This collection contains miscellaneous letters exchanged between various people in Southwestern Michigan between the years 1882-1958.
Dates:
1882-1958
Collection
Identifier: 03-01-exws_wilentz-diprima
Abstract
Correspondence received by bookseller Ted (Theodore) Wilentz from the poets Diane di Prima and Barbara Guest between the late 1960s and late 1990s.
Dates:
1967-1991
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4120
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1912-1919
