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Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3799
Scope and Contents
Louise Decker was born in 1912 in Otsego, Michigan. While writing this diary, she lived on Washburn Street and Dayton in Kalamazoo Michigan. She died on July 16, 1998 in Kalamazoo.She kept this diary over five years between 1939 and December 1942. She recorded an entry of three or four lines almost every day. Every day she wrote about what she and her husband, Frank, did and about the weather. Most of the entries are about cleaning the house, shopping with her sister, visiting...
Dates:
1939-1942
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3634
Abstract
This collection contains six letters. These letters are from 1887 and are all written in the month of August
Dates:
1887
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3516
Scope and Contents
From the business statement we know that his Jeweler store was for some time located at 49 N. Main Street, Three Rivers. By 1964 it appears that Dooley had moved his business to a new location at 111 ½ W. Michigan Street. This may have been caused by new jewelers moving into the area, as seen within the 1964 Telephone Directory which has three jewelers all listed on N. Main Street. Although this directory does not list Dooley’s store.
Dates:
1943-1960
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3540
Scope and Contents
The collection amounts to .05 cubic feet and is composed of one booklet, titled "The Four Wheeler ‘Kalamazoo Kind’" published by the Lull Carriage Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan in July, 1918. The booklet contains stories, anecdotes, information and advertisements from the company. Almost all of the pieces in this booklet relate to World War I and deal with for example, substituting beans for meat, rationing wheat, women and war and stories about those who have enlisted. This booklet is...
Dates:
July 1918
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3643
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters written between Lydia Siedschlag and Alfonso Ianelli, and some newspaper clippings.Letters from Lydia are undated but topics covered indicate they are from 1934-1935 and the 1940s. Letters from Alfonso Ianelli are dated and cover 1934-1935 and one is from 1960. Newspaper clippings concern the Fountain of the Pioneers that Ianelli created for Bronson Park.Topics in the letters range from where colleagues are working, how much Lydia’s...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1934-1935, 1940s, 1960
Collection
Identifier: 01-exws_mbpennington
Abstract
Papers of Father M. Basil Pennington, OCSO, Trappist monk who wrote extensively on Catholic contemplative practices and was associated with the Centering Prayer movement at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. Drafts and typescripts of articles and books, serials and periodicals containing articles by or about Pennington, notes, correspondence, multi-media, also includes genealogical research concerning the Pennington family.
Dates:
1951-2003; Majority of material found within 1964-2000; Other: Date acquired: 12/07/1995
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-587
Abstract
The collection is composed of 10 diaries written by Frederic Millen (1891- 1954) along with various letters written by family members from 1818 to 1932 all from the eastern part of the United States.
Dates:
1818-1932
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3894
Scope and Contents
Lillian Cobb Bechmann was born in Morenci, MI in 1883. She was married to John W. Bailey on July 14, 1910. She and Mae Dorsey Hicks were residents of Battle Creek, MI. In 1933 John W. Bailey was the mayor of Battle Creek. Hicks was married to James A. Hicks in Detroit on October 19, 1921. In January 1933 Hicks and Mrs. Bailey went on an 18-day cruise of the Caribbean aboard the S.S. Reliance. On their trip they took numerous photographs of what they encountered, and kept postcards, cruise...
Dates:
1933
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_marchstreet
Abstract
Editorial office archive of March Street Press including correspondence, typescripts, proofs, copyright documents, photographs, cover art and ephemera. Also contains issues of Parting Gifts magazine and copies of books published by the press.
Dates:
1987-2009; Majority of material found within Bulk 1992-2009; Other: Date acquired: 2012
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-2974
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the genealogy of Marcia Kuder and her various family lines from Kalamazoo and Calhoun Counties all compiled by Marcia Kuder. The earliest family research begins in 1782 and ends in 2016. The donor’s family surnames include Laudenslager, Perkins, Stringham, Hussey, Bowen and Jones.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1782-2016
