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Bert Byron Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3564
Scope and Contents This collection covers the time period during B.B. Davis’ life in the Philippines in the 1930s to mid-1940s. The majority of the collection contains correspondence between B.B. Davis and his wife to family and friends living in and around Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids, MI, in particular Areta Williams Hibbard. Many of the letters were written to Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Lorenzo Hibbard, the latter of whom was a sister to B.B. Davis.The letters from the 1930s give an interesting insight...
Dates: 1930-1940

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 The collected papers reflect the life work of Betty Louise Fouch, including her personal published and unpublished writings, a variety of correspondences with family and friends, genealogical information, newspaper clippings from local and non-local sources, paperwork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

Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-92
Scope and Contents The collection contains material relation to Caroline Bartlett Crane's personal and public life as a Unitarian minister, a social and urban reformer, suffragist, and early conservationist. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, speeches, sermons, articles,articles, travel journals, scrapbooks, biographical material, and photographs. Papers relating to women's issues of the early 20th century include: correspondence with suffragists Anna Howard Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, and...
Dates: 1880-1960

Clyde Cory Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3869
Abstract

This collection contains letters of correspondence from Clyde Cory to his family and wife while serving in World War I from February 1917 to July 1919.

Dates: 1917-1919

Dr. George C. Palmer Letter

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: RH-A-4352
Scope and Contents

The collection contains an envelope and one letter written by Dr. George C. Palmer in Kalamazoo, Michigan in October of 1866 to his brother Alonzo A. Palmer living in Pendleton Hill, Connecticut.

Dr. Palmer writes about his health and requesting a weekly letter reporting his condition. He writes that his brother has pulmonary weakness and is thinking to advise him to travel west. He also reports his own health is good.

Dates: October 1866

Elmore Y. Warner Letter

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3351
Scope and Contents The letter is dated March 24, 1862. It is filled with general news. He talks about that the regiment may be on the way further south. Warner had been sick but felt better. He had stopped at the house of a widow and five daughters who helped him even though all their friends had been in the Confederacy. He reported that the ladies, “…don’t know anything about cooking.” He stated that he had not heard from her in almost four weeks and “…give me at least the scratch of your pen…” The small...
Dates: 1862

Frobenius Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3493
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of family letters written to Mary Kammerer Frobenius, Frank Frobenius and his daughter, Ruth Frobenius Hamill from the years 1882 to 1948. This collection was originally part of A-55, Kalamazoo Valley Museum.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1882-1948

Galesburg Girl Scouts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4209
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of several materials addressed to Glowing Embers, a Girl Scout Troop of Galesburg, Michigan, ranging from the 1930 to 1971. Material includes meeting notes, reports, registration lists, badges, and other various materials.

Dates: 1930-1971

George F. Pierrot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3566
Scope and Contents This collection contains a copy of the World Letters, a geography education textbook consisting of correspondence from George F. Pierrot, a well-known Detroit-based TV personality and frequent speaker at the Detroit Institute of Art. Beginning in Northern Ireland and ending in Punjab, India, the correspondence in question served to provide some geographical information about various localities in Europe, Africa, and Asia, in 1937, in the form of a travel narrative written by George Pierrot...
Dates: 1937-1939

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
American Roentgen Ray Society 1
Anders, Jennie 1
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 1
Ashley family 1
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Ashley, Harriet M. Holder, 1841-1922 1
Ashley, Jerome B., 1837-1906 1
Balch, Nathaniel A. (Nathaniel Aldrich), 1808-1894 1
Bayles, Burtis 1
Bayles, Charles H. 1
Bourne family 1
Boylan, Walter J. 1
Bridges, Arthur 1
Camp Albert L. Mills (N.Y.) 1
Cory, Clyde Vern, 1889-1976 1
Cory, Marguerite (Molly) Bernice Bosworth, 1893-1960 1
Crane, Augustus W., 1868-1937 1
Crane, Caroline Bartlett, 1858-1935 1
Crane, Mary Alice, 1913-1987 1
Davis, Bert Byron (1880-1944) 1
Davis, Rosella Snyder (1876-1958) 1
Esch, John 1
Farnsworth, James S., 1907- 1
Farnsworth, Philip M. 1
Faulkner, Myran, 1869- 1
Forbes family 1
Forbes, John C. 1
Forbes, Lydia Jane 1
Foreman family 1
Foreman, Alta Werkman, -1992 1
Foreman, Willis H., 1914-1996 1
Fort Custer (Mich.) 1
Fouch, Betty Louise Spaulding Kohler 1
Frobenius family 1
Frobenius, Frank, 1860-1928 1
Frobenius, Mary Kammerer, 1860-1943 1
Girl Scouts of America. Glowing Embers Council (Galesburg, Mich.) 1
Griffin family 1
Gull Lake Country Club (Richland, Mich.) 1
Haines, Horace F. 1
Haines, Horace G. 1
Haines, Margaret, 1898-1952 1
Haines, Mary French 1
Hamill, Ruth Marie Frobenius, 1900-1996 1
Hammond, Charles G. 1
Hamptom, Jacob, 1847-1929 1
Haynes family 1
Hershfield Brothers (Department store) 1
Hershfield family 1
Hershfield, David, 1898-1968 1
Hershfield, Harry Aaron, 1870-1945 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
Holder family 1
Hollister, Albert Newcomb, 1874-1914 1
Jarvis, Roman I., 1851-1940 1
Kalamazoo Public Schools 1
Kingsley, David, Dr. 1
Millen, Frederic, 1891-1954 1
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864 1
Noecker, Paul, Mrs. 1
Palmer, George Culver, 1839-1894 1
People's Church (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
Peterson, Faith 1
Pierrot, George, 1898-1980 1
Pope family 1
Quigley family 1
Sangren, Paul V. (Paul Vivian), approximately 1895-1967 1
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1
Shepard family 1
Shepard, Frances Esther 1
Shepard, Hattie Florence Childs 1
Siedschlag, Lydia E., 1891-1980 1
Silberman, Harriette C. Hershfield 1
Stevens, Louretta E. 1
United States. Army. Ohio Regiment, 43rd 1
United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 102nd 1
United States. Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865) 1
Van Haaften, Edward C., 1894-1967 1
Van Haaften, Ruth, 1896-1990 1
Waldo, Dwight B. (Dwight Bryant), 1864-1939 1
Warner, Elmore Y., 1833-1886 1
Warren family 1
Watervliet High School (Watervliet. Mich.) 1
Women's Civic Improvement League (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
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