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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 The collected papers reflect the life work of Betty Louise Fouch, including her personal published and unpublished writings, a variety of correspondences with family and friends, genealogical information, newspaper clippings from local and non-local sources, paperwork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
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
Esther Morris Rasmussen
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1584
Scope and Contents
Letters exchanged between Esther Morris Rasmussen (1914-1991), her immediate family, and friends, 1930-1980. The collection includes correspondence from Leo. Brown, Jr. to Esther, 1934-1939 and letters from Esther’s five brothers, Richard, Edward, Walter G., Robert S. and Harold during their service in the armed forces during World War II. Included are letters exchanged in early 1945 in regards to Robert’s untimely death in an airplane crash, as well as Harold’s abrupt marriage later in the...
Dates:
1930-1980
Mrs. Ruth Van Haaften Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1624
Abstract
The collection is composed of photographs, artifacts, and documents from Edward Clarence Van Haaften who was a Kalamazoo resident and veteran of both World Wars I and II. The collection ranges in date from 1917 to 1945.
Dates:
1917-1945
The Herschfield Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4120
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1912-1919
World War I German Soldiers Album Collection
Collection
Identifier: 04-exws_wwi
Scope and Contents
Collection contains three photograph albums and a scrapbook. Two photograph albums belonged to unidentified German soldiers in World War I, and contain images from approximately 1911-1918. Photograph album of Paul Hohendorn, a medical officer on the Eastern Front in World War I, with label naming Albert Borowski and a handwritten note, "Onkel, Paul im Kriegseinsatz Ost 1914/18". Accordion spine scrapbook, "Meine Stationer als Soldat im Weltkrieg 1914-1918." Scrapbook belonged to Paul Pommer,...
Dates:
1911-1918