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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...
Dates:
1820-1970
Betty Fouch Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1362
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents dating from the late 1940s to 2008. The collected papers reflect the life work of Betty Louise Fouch, including her personal published and unpublished writings, a variety of correspondences with family and friends, genealogical information, newspaper clippings from local and non-local sources, paperwork related to Betty’s health, divorce, and children, a substantial amount of addressed and unaddressed cards, as well as myriad lists and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1940-2008
B.F. Freeland Sons Company
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3810
Scope and Contents
The B.F. Freeland Sons Company’s main products were galvanized steel stock tanks, used to provide water to livestock. The catalog advertises several different kinds of stock tanks, with prices, dimensions, diagrams, and a few photographs of their products in use. In addition to the stock tanks, the catalog advertises a few different types of stock feed boilers and cookers, as well as other pieces of farm equipment, such as tank pumps and barn ventilators.
Dates:
1916
Blossom Shop Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3695
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a card describing an exhibit on March 14th of an unknown year. The exhibit features treasures from the Orient and was directed by Miss Vashti B. Kaye of Seattle.
Dates:
Card announces exhibit on March 14 of an unknown year. It is known that the shop existed from 1909-1932.
Blue Star Mothers of America Inc. Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3805
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of two Ritual Constitution and By-Laws booklets dated 1951 and 1960, and one 1980 yearbook for the Hattie Russell Chapter of the Blue Star Mothers of America Inc. The Hattie Russell Chapter located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.From the Blue Star Mothers of America Inc. Constitution:
"Preamble: We, the mothers of the members of the armed forces of the United States of America, do unite to establish a permanent organization. Desiring to continue to be of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1951, 1960, 1980
Bond Supply Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4030
Scope and Contents
The Bond Supply Company, founded by Fred J. Bond c1873-1938, began in 1912 in Kalamazoo located on the southwest corner of North Rose and Eleanor Street. In the 1912 city directory, the company stated that it was "Manufacturers and Jobbers, Plumbing, Steam, Mill Well Supplies." The Bond Supply Company, a wholesale firm, was the successor of the Quinn Manufacturing Company located at the same site which employed Fred Bond. Over the years, Bond served as Secretary and General Manager joined by...
Dates:
Publication: 1913
Bronson School of Nursing Alumni Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-2940
Abstract
This collection contains letters, video cassettes, photographs, and slides of graduation exercises, school buildings, and student activities from the Bronson School of Nursing Alumni Association, covering a period from 1943 to 1998.
Dates:
1943-1998
Bryce Lyon Correspondence Collection
Collection
Identifier: 02-exws_lyon
Abstract
Scholarly and personal correspondence between medieval historian Bryce Lyon (1920-2007) and other scholars in the United States, United Kingdom and Belgium.
Dates:
1949-2007; bulk 1949-2004; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2011
Buddhadharma Society
Record Group
Identifier: RG-40/201
Scope and Contents
Finding aids and inventories for the WMU Buddhadharma Society (40/201).
Dates:
Majority of material found within Early/mid 1990s to early/mid 2000s.
Burton C. Waite Diaries
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3378
Abstract
The collection is composed of two diaries written by Burton C. Waite from Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1889 and 1890.
Dates:
1889-1890
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- Adams, Lida Leora, 1883-1972 1
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- Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham 1
- 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
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- American Tool & Die Works (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
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- Ames, Charles S., 1853-1925 1
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- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 1
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- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 1
- Arcadia Roller Rink (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
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- 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
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- Ben Franklin Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.) 1
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- Benson, John Howard, 1901-1956 1
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- Beta Phi Mu. Kappa Chapter (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
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- Bingham, H. L. (Harry L.) 1
- Bird, Charles Harold 1
- Bixby, Robert, 1952-2012 1
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