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Record Group 50

Michigan Finding Aid

 

Entry 1:  Michigan History Magazine

Shelves 140 and 141

Bound copy for 1928

Spring-Summer, 1935

Jan.-Mar., 1945 (Acc. #82.78.9L)

July-Sept., 1945 (Acc. #82.78.8L)

Jan.-Mar., 1946 (Acc. #82.78.7L)

Oct.-Dec., 1946 (Acc. #82.78.6L)

March, 1947 (Acc. #82.78.5L)

June, 1947

September, 1947 (Acc. #82.78.3L)

December, 1947 (Acc. #82.78.4L)

June, 1953

Index, 1957

Index, 1958

March, 1955 (Acc.; #82.78.14L)

September, 1955

March, 1956

September, 1957 (Acc. #82.30.77L)

December, 1957

March, 1958 (Acc. #82.78.13L)

June, 1958

December, 1958

March, 1959

June, 1959

September, 1959 (Acc. #82.78.12L)

December, 1959

Index, 1959

March, 1960

June, 1960

September, 1960

December, 1960

March, 1961

June, 1961

September, 1961

December, 1961

March, 1962

June, 1962

September, 1962

December, 1962

Index, 1962

March, 1963

June, 1963 (Acc. #75.65.2)

September, 1963

December, 1963

Index, 1963

March, 1964

June, 1964

September, 1964

December, 1964

Index, 1964

March, 1965

June, 1965

September, 1965

December, 1965

Index, 1965

March, 1966

June, 1966

September, 1966

December, 1966

Index, 1966

Winter, 1967

Spring, 1967

Summer, 1967

Fall, 1967

Index, 1967

Winter, 1968

Spring, 1968

Summer, 1968

Fall, 1968

Winter, 1969

Spring, 1969

Summer, 1969

Fall, 1969

Winter, 1970

Spring, 1970

Summer, 1970

Fall, 1970

Spring, 1971

Summer, 1971

Winter, 1971

Fall, 1971

Winter, 1972

Spring, 1972

Summer, 1972

Fall, 1972

Winter, 1973

Spring, 1973

Winter, 1974

Spring, 1974

Summer, 1974

Fall, 1974

Winter, 1975

Spring-Summer, 1975

Winter, 1976

Spring, 1976

Summer, 1976

Fall, 1976

Winter, 1977

Spring, 1977

Summer, 1977

Fall, 1977

Index, 1977

May/June, 1978

September/October, 1978

November/December, 1978

January/February, 1979

March/April, 1979

May/June, 1979

July/August, 1979

September/October, 1979

November/December, 1979

January/February, 1980

March/April, 1980

July/August, 1980

September/October, 1980

November/December, 1980

January/February, 1981

March/April, 1981

May/June, 1981

July/August, 1981

September/October, 1981

March/April, 1982

May/June, 1982

July/August, 1982

September/October, 1982

November/September, 1982

January/February, 1983

March/April, 1983

May/June, 1983

July/August, 1983

September/October, 1983

November/December, 1983

January/February, 1984

March/April, 1984

May/June, 1984

July/August, 1984

September/October, 1984

November/December, 1984

January/February, 1985

March/April, 1985

May/June, 1985

July/August, 1985

September/October, 1985

November/December, 1985

January/February, 1986

March/April, 1986

May/June, 1986

July/August, 1986

September/October, 1986

November/December, 1986

January/February, 1987

March/April, 1987

September/October, 1988

January/February, 1989

March/April, 1989

July/August, 1989

November/December, 1989

January/February, 1990

March/April, 1990

May/June, 1990

March/April, 1991

May/June, 1991

July/August, 1991

September/October, 1991

November/December, 1991

January/February, 1992

March/April, 1992

July/August, 1992

November/December, 1992

January/February, 1993

March/April, 1993

November/December, 1993

January/February, 1994

May/June, 1994

July/August, 1994

September/October, 1994

January/February, 1995

March/April, 1995

May/June, 1998

2000

July/August, 2000

July/August, 2001

January/February, 2002

March/April, 2002

July/August, 2002

September/October, 2002

January/February, 2003

March/April, 2003

July/August, 2003

November/December, 2003

January/February, 2004

May/June, 2004

January/February, 2005

November/December, 2005

March/April, 2006

July/August, 2007

November/December, 2007

 

The Michigan Historical Review

Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall, 1987

Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring, 1988

Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall, 1988

Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring, 1989

Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall, 1989

Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring, 1990

Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring, 1991 (Acc. #91.73.2L)

Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring, 1992

Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall, 1992

Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring, 1993

Vol. 22, No. 22 Fall, 1996 (Acc. #2007.13.03)

Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring, 1997

Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall, 1999

Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring, 2000

Vol. 27, No. 2, Fall, 2001

Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring, 2002

Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall, 2002

Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall, 2003

Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring, 2004

Vol. 30, No. 2, Fall, 2004

Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring, 2005

Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring, 2006

Vol. 90, No. 4, July/August, 2006

Vol. 32, No. 2, Fall, 2006

Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring, 2007 (Acc. #2007.122.01)

Vol. 33, No. 2, Fall, 2007 (Acc. #2008.50.01)

 

Entry 2:  Books and pamphlets

Shelf 145        

Dunbar, Willis F., Michigan Through the Centuries, 1955

            Vol. I

            Vol. II

            Vol. III-Family and Personal History

            Vol. IV-Family and Personal History

Dunbar, Willis F., Michigan-A History of the Wolverine State, 1971

Fuller, George N., Michigan-A Centennial History of the State and Its People, 1939

Fuller, George, Economic and Social Beginnings of Michigan, 1916

Fuller, George, Messages of the Governors of Michigan

            Vol. I, 1925

            Vol. II, 1926

History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 1883

Jackson, George L., The Development of State Control of Public Instruction in Michigan,   

Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, 1893

Michigan Geological and Biological Survey-Biennial Report of the Director, 1912-

            1914

Michigan Manual

            1893

            1899

            1905

            1909

            1926

            1945

            1949

            1951-52

            1959-60

            1969-70

            2005-2006 (Acc. #2006.141.02)

Michigan-The Great State

Quaife, M.M. and Sidney Glazer, Michigan-From Primitive Wilderness to Industrial  

          Commonwealth, 1948

Reiman, Lewis C., When Pine Was King, 1952 (Acc. #2007.65.34)

Sheldon, E.M., The Early History of Michigan, from the First Settlement to 1815, 1856

Stapleton, William J., A Century of Service in Medicine, 1965

Tuttle, Charles R., General History of the State of Michigan, 1873

Tuttle, Charles R., Michigan with Biographical Sketches, 1873

                    

Shelf 146

Abbott, Diane, B., The Lower Peninsula of Michigan-An Inventory of Historic

 Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1976 (Acc. #79.10L)

Andrews, Wayne, Architecture in Michigan, 1982

Andrews, Wayne, Architecture in Michigan-a photographic survey, 1967 (Acc.

            #2000.167.04)

Angelo, Frank, Yesterday’s Michigan, 1975 (Acc. #2004.181.12)

Atwell, Willis, Do-You-Know-An Illustrated History of Michigan, 1937 (Acc. #76.242.2)

Babst, Earl D. and Lewis G. Vander Velde, Michigan and the Cleveland Era, 1948 (Acc.

            #2004.181.08)

Bald, F. Clever, Michigan in Four Centuries, 1954 (2 copies) (Acc. #79.5.15L &

            #80.17.1L)

Bush, George, Future Builders-The Story of Michigan Consumers Power Company, 1973

            (Acc. #75.223)

Catton, Bruce, Michigan-A Bicentennial History, 1976 (Acc. #86.43.5L)

Chaput, Donald, Michigan Indians-A Way of Life Changes, 1970 (Acc. #86.39.71L)

Cocker, W.J., The Civil Government of Michigan, 1880

Cook, Lewis, istoric

Historic Michigan, 1980 (Acc. #81.24.23L)

Cook, Lewis, Michigan-The Look of the Land, Vol. II, 1979

Disturnell, J., The Great Lakes or Inland Sea of America, 1865

Fuller, George N., Geological Reports of Douglass Houghton, 1928

Fuller, George N., Historic Michigan-Land of the Great Lakes, 3 vols.

            Vol. III – Wayne County and Detroit

            Vol. III- Southwest Michigan and Berrien County

Gardner, Emelyn Elizabeth and Geraldine Jencks Chickering, Ballads and Songs of

            Southern Michigan, 1967 (Acc. #78.49.2L)

Gibson, Arthur Hopkin, Artists of Early Michigan, 1975 (Acc. #79.49.1L)

Grimm, Joe, Michigan Voices-Our State’s History in the Works of the People who Lived

            It, 1987 (Acc. #87.126L)

Havighurst, Walter, The Long Ship Passing-The Story of the Great Lakes, 1942 (Acc.

 #2004.181.03)

Hemans, Lawton T., Life and Times of Stevens Thomson Mason the Boy Governor of

            Michigan, 1920

Johnson, Ida Amanda, the Michigan Fur Trade, 1919 and Ivey, Paul Wesley, The Pere

            Marquette Railroad Company, 1919

Laws Relating to Elections, 1927 (Acc. #2007.169.26)

Martin, Helen M., Ne-Saw-Je-Won-A Tale of the Waters that Run Down from Lake

            Superior to the Sea, 1939 (Acc. #79.46.1L)

Moore, Charles, History of Michigan, 4 vols., 1915

Northwright, James, Where Copper Was King, 1905

Romig, Walter, Michigan Place Names, 1975 (Acc. #79.5.14L)

Second Inaugural Message of Governor Fred M. Warner, 1907 (Acc. #82.52.1L)

Severance, Henry Ormal, Michigan Trailmakers, 1930

Streeter, Floyd Benjamin, Michigan Bibliography, Vol. 1 and 2, 1921

The Governors of Michigan, 1835-1991

Voss, Edward G., Michigan Flora-Gymnosperms and Monocots, Part I, 1972

            (Acc. #79.5.8L)

Warner, Robert M. and C. Warren Vander Hill, A Michigan Reader-1865 to the Present,

            1974 (Acc. #79.5.9L)

 

Shelf 147

Index to the Reports and Collections of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Vols. I-IV, 1874-1890, 1904

Index to the Report and Collections of the Michigan Pioneers Historical Society, Vols. XVI-XXX, 1890-1906, 1907

Pioneer Collections and Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan

            Vol.1-1874-6, 1900

            Vol. 2-1877-1878, 1880

            Vol. 3-1881, 1903

            Vol. 4-1881, 1883

            Vol. 5-1882, 1884

            Vol. 6-1883, 1884

            Vol. 7-1884, 1886

            Vol. 8-1885, 1886

Vol. 9-1886, 1886

Vol. 10-1886, 1888

Vol. 11-1887, 1888

Vol. 12-1887, 1888

Vol. 13-1888, 1889

Vol. 14, 1889, 1890

Vol. 15-1890, 1890

Vol. 16-1890, 1890

Vol. 17-1890, 1892

Vol. 18-1891, 1892

Vol. 19-1891, 1892

Vol. 20-1892, 1892

Vol. 21-1892, 1894

Vol. 22-1893, 1894

Vol. 23-1893, 1895

Vol. 24-1894, 1895

Vol. 25-1894, 1896

Vol. 26-1894-95, 1896

 

Shelf 148

            Vol. 27-1896, 1897

            Vol. 28-1897-98, 1900

            Vol. 29-1899-1900, 1901

            Vol. 30-1905, 1906

            Vol. 31-1901, 1902

            Vol. 32-1902, 1903

            Vol. 33-1903, 1904

            Vol. 34-1904, 1905

            Vol. 35-1907, 1907

            Vol. 36-1908, 1908

            Vol. 37-1909-1910, 1910

            Vol. 38, 1912, 1912

            Vol. 39-1915, 1915

            Vol. 40, 1929

A Guide to Historic Sites Survey

A History of the Michigan State Federation of Women’s Clubs-1895-1953 (Acc.

            #81.22.1L)

Art Education for the Elementary Schools of Michigan, 1915 (Acc. #76.244.1)

Baird, Willard, This is Our Michigan, 1954 (Acc. #94.87.31)

Beal, Vernon L. Promise & Performance-the Political Record of a Michigan Governor-

            Chase Salmon Osborn, 1960

Beal, W.J., Michigan Agricultural College, 1915

Bigelow, Martha Mitchell, Michigan-Pioneer in Education, 1955 (2 copies) (Acc.

            #81.24.18L)

Bordin, Ruth, Andrew Dickson White-Teacher of History, 1958

Bordin, Ruth, The Vander Velde Years, 1961

Chronicle

            June, 1968

            Spring, 1976

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, 1917 (Acc.

            #2003.155.02)

Cox, William J., Primer of Michigan History, 1899 (Acc. #75.226)

Dickerson, Julia Terry and Dorothy Joan Bolton, The Boizard Letters, 1993

Dodge, Roy L., Michigan Ghost Town

            Vol. 1, 1970

            Vol. 2, 1971

            Vol. 3, 1973

Downing, Estelle, Graded Sentences for Grammatical Analysis, 1915 (Acc. #

            2003.155.03)

Elliott, Frank N., When the Railroad was King, 1966

Farmer, Silas, The Michigan Book –A State Cyclopedia, 1901 (Acc. #81.23.1L)

Gardner, Washington, Official Directory and Legislative Manual for 1895-1896

George, Sister Mary Karl, The Rise and Fall of Toledo, Michigan…The Toledo War!

            1971

Greenman, Emerson F., The Indians of Michigan, 1961

Hall, Gerald L. and Jeremy W. Kilar, Poems for the Bicentennial Michigan-1976, 1976

            (Acc. #77.74)

Harley, Rachel Brett and Betty MacDowell, Michigan Women Firsts and Founders, 1992

            (Acc. #93.59.1)

Harris, William C., Public Life of Zachariah Chandler-1851-1875, 1917

Hine, Darlene Clark, Black Women in the Middle West: the Michigan Experience, 1988

Kern, John, A Short History of Michigan, 1977 (Acc. #80.20.1L)

Lieb, Sarah, History of Michigan, 1889 (Acc. #2005.077.007)

Maybee, Rolland H., Michigan’s White Pine Era-1840-1900, 1960

Michigan Centennial Farms Directory-1972 (Acc. #93.33)

Michigan Quester History-1954-1998, 1998 (Acc. #2007.13.05)

Michigan Social Register, 1942

Michigan Social Register, 1952 (Acc. #2004.181.09)

Michigan State Normal College Bulletin, 1916-1917

Morris, Peter, Baseball Fever, 2003 (Acc. #2008.52.01)

Otis, Charles Herbert, Michigan Trees, 1915 (Acc. #2006.166.02)

Parker, John, The Great Lakes and The Great Rivers: Jonathan Carver’s Dream of

            Empire, 1965 (Acc. #80.51.4L)

Pattengill, H.R., Government of Michigan-Constitution of 1909, 1914

Petersen, Eugene T., Gentlemen on the Frontier: A Pictorial Record of the Cultural

            Michilimackinac, 1964 (Acc. #2004.244.05)

Petersen, Eugene T., Mackinac’s Grand Hotel: The Early Years, 1987

Quaife, Milo M., Michigan’s County Flags and Histories, 1940

Reimann, Lewis C., Between the Iron and the Pine, 1951

Russell, Donna Valley, Michigan Voyeurs, 1982 (Acc. #87.37.3L) of Michigan,

            1915, (Acc. #2003.155.01

Scheer, Luke, Michigan and the Old Northwest, 1945, (Acc. #88.28.2L)

Shay, Harry, All About Michigan Almanac, 1993

Swierenga, Robert P., The Dutch Transplanting in Michigan and the Midwest, 1985

The Voyager-Folklore and Legend (Acc. #80.8.5L)

The Voyager-Pioneers and Explorers, (Acc. #80.8.4L)

University Bulletin-College of Engineering and Architecture, University

Vander Hill, C. Warren, Settling the Great Lakes Frontier, Immigration to Michigan-

            1837-1924, 1970 (Acc. #87.37.2L)

Warner, Robert M. Chase Salmon Osborn-1860-1949, 1960

Weddon, Willah, First Ladies of Michigan, 1977

 

Shelf 149

Elliott, Frank N., When the Railroad Was King, 1966

Person, James E., The Unbought Grace of Life, 1994 (Acc. #95.59)

The Autobiography of Theodore Edgar Potter, 1978 (Acc. #80.15.1L)

The Staebler Papers, 1953

Woodford, Frank B., Alex J. Groesbeck: Portrait of a Public Man, 1962

            (Acc. #79.37.41L)

 

 

Entry 3:  Posters

Map Case 4, Drawer 1

Governors of Michigan (2 posters) (Acc. #2003.142.01)

Ford Heritage Trails

Glimpses of Michigan’s Past-1837 and Statehood

History of Michigan in Paintings Poster set

            Before History-10,000 BC (Acc. #2003.093.01)

            Michigan Indians-Algonquian Village-1500AD (Acc. #2003.093.02)

            Furs-Trappers-Traders, 1660-1850 (Acc. #2003.093.03)

            The Pageant of the Sault-June 14, 1671 (Acc. #2003.093.04)

            Jolliet and Marquette-May 17, 1673 (Acc. #2003.093.05)

            Sieur de la Salle and the “Griffon”-Aug. 27, 1679 (Acc. #2003.093.06)

            Mme. Cadillac Arrives in Detroit-Oct., 1701 (Acc. #2003.093.07)

            Massacre at Michilimackinac-June 2, 1763 (Acc. 2003.093.08)

            Americans Take over Ft. Mackinac-Sept. 1, 1796 (Acc. #2003.093.09)

            Detroit Fire-June 11, 1805 (Acc. #2003.093.10)

            Perry Transfers to the Niagara-Sept. 10, 1813 (Acc. #2003.093.11)

            Lewis Cass Expedition-May 25-Sept. 23, 1820 (Acc. #2003.093.12)

            The Boy Governor-July 24, 1831 (Acc. #2003.093.13)

            Michigan Fever-1836 (Acc. #2003.093.14)

            The Iron Horse-July, 1837 (Acc. #2003.093.15)

            Douglass Houghton Finds Copper-1840 (Acc. #2003.093.16)

            When Pine Was King, 1840-1890 (Acc. #2003.093.17)

            Capital Moves to Lansing-Jan. 3, 1848 (Acc. #2003.093.18)

            Charles Harvey Builds the Locks, 1853-1855 (Acc. #2003.093.19)

            Putting the World on Wheels-1913 (Acc. #2003.093.20)

            Arsenal of Democracy-WWII (Acc. #2003.093.21)

            One-Room School-1861 (Acc. #2003.093.22)

            Michigan in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Acc. #2003.093.23)

            Detroit-World Port, 1965 (Acc. #2003.093.24)

            Riches Underground, 1966 (Acc. #2003.093.25)

YES! MICHIGAN! Posters

            Detroit Institute of Arts

            Lakeshore scene of Empire Beach

            Round Island Lighthouse

Michigan-Nowhere else on Earth

 

Entry 4: Michigan Sesquicentennial

Vertical file 5501

3 buttons

Michigan History cover from November/December, 1986

“The Quest for Statehood,” Michigan History

            July/August, 1986

            January/February, 1986

            March/April, 1986

            November/December, 1986

            May/June, 1986 (2 copies)

Detroit Heritage: A History of Detroit and Michigan, June 6, 1976

Calendar of Events-January-December, 1987

2 Michigan Statehood stamps

Michigan History, January/February, 1987

Sesquicentennial Slate

Flyer for “Michigan Sesquicentennial Celebration” Open House, January 25 (3 copies)

“Sesquicentennial Pioneer Certificate” from Library of Michigan and the Michigan

            Genealogy Council

150-Michigan Sesquicentennial logo sheets (3 sheets)

Vendor list for Sesquicentennial commemorative products

Application for logo use

“Michigan Family Reunion” brochure (5 copies)

Michigan Living, January, 1987

“How Michigan Became a State”

Brochure to join the Sesquicentennial celebration

Postcard advertising Sesquicentennial memorabilia

1987 calendar from Consumers Power (2 copies)

Envelope with Michigan Statehood stamp on it

Michigan Historical Museum poster

Shaping a State,” Detroit News, August 29, 1986 (2 copies)

 

Entry 5: Michigan Museums

Vertical file 5502

“Lessons in herstory,” Detroit Free Press, January 7, 2001

Michigan’s Marvelous Museums (6 copies)

Michigan Museums and Historic Exhibits

Detroit Historical Society and Museum pamphlet

“The Detroit Story” pamphlet from Detroit Historical Museum

“Step Back to Colonial Days”

Museums of the Detroit Area

The U.S. Grant House in Detroit (3 copies)

11th Annual Michigan Museums Conference, June 20-22, 1963

Michigan Historical Museum

Honolulu House Museum from Marshall, Michigan

The Herald from Greenfield Village, 1973

Davenport Public Museum

 

Entry 6:  Michigan Bankruptcies, 1845-46

Vertical file 5503

Copy of bankruptcy list

 

Entry 7:  Michigan Pictures

Vertical file 5504

Michigan golf course

Front of old house

Holland tulip Festival

Front of Gerald Ford Museum

The Lakes

Autumn scene

Heart of inland seas

Inland waters

Deer in woods

Taquaminon Falls

 

Entry 8:  Great Lakes

Vertical file 5506

Great Lakes Red Book, 1909

 

Entry 9:  Michigan History

Vertical file 5507

“War with Ohio brought Michigan the U.P.,” Detroit News, April 26, 1999

Michigan Comes into Its Own,” Detroit Free Press, May 10, 1931

Historical Memoranda of the Territory of Michigan, 1904

Packet of Michigan Pioneers postcards, 1937

Page from Harper’s Weekly, 1879 showing Michigan’s new Capitol

“History Books Answer Critics about Wild Buffalo Roaming Michigan,” Plymouth Mail,

            Jan. 26, 1940

Brochure for Grand Hotel (Acc. #92.108.2)

“How They Lived on Mackinaw 140 Years Ago,” Detroit Free Press, August 6, 1961

Michigan and the Centennial of the Homestead Act, 1862-1962

“Mapmaking pioneers,” Detroit News (3 copies)

Michigan’s Old Time Surveyors, October, 1977

“Remnants of the Revolution in Michigan

Michigan’s One-room Schoolhouses,” Michigan Monthly, June, 1995

“State Boasts Historical Buildings,” Northville Record, August 9-10, 1972

“Old Barracks Ballads Never Die Either,” Detroit News,  April 25, 1951

History of Michigan, 1907

Michigan and the Old Northwest, 1783-1805 (2 copies)

“Early Land Offices and Survey Information” (2 copies)

“Michigan Pioneer Families” articles in The Detroit News-1986

            Detroit, then westward, December 29

            Settlers left East to farm in Michigan, December 22

            A woman of substance, November 10

            Wilderness beckoned, November 17

            Oakland sheriff had arresting history, November 24

            Shawano-a lost legend, November 3

            Hamel family settled in 1834, December 15

            Luther Pond: Early settler was War of 1812 vet, December 1

            Woman finds key to past in book, December 8

“Michigan Pioneer Families” articles in The Detroit News-1987

            Being left without land led Scot to Michigan, September 14

            Early resident found opportunity in grocery business, November 16

            Early settler takes the long way from Scotland to Saginaw, November 2

            Bad Voyage ended quest to be a sailor, Aug. 13

            Settlers saw unspoiled state, July 13

            Romeo area family farms a fruitful heritage, July 20

            Settler ran ad in 1837 directory, July 6

            Truman Sheldon caused a stir, August 10

            Pioneer caught ‘Michigan fever’ 150 years ago, August 3

            Westphalia founder ‘lost in a strange land’, July 27

            Jacob Heck found opportunity in Monroe, February 16

            Goodrich clan early settlers, February 9

            Schoolcraft boys no match for Chapman in 1835 race, February 2

            Sandstone: His dream state capital, October 5

            European settler followed complicated path to Pontiac area, December 21

            Rogers family took on a wilderness September 26

            Architectural treasure hidden on Mackinac Island, September 21

            Descendants tell of Ottawa chief’s legendary powers, June 29

            Galpins farmed 240 acres, August 17

            Edwardses and Joneses get together, November 30

            A man of ‘unimpeachable character’, October 12

            Indian chief was treaty signer, November 23

            Courageous family trekked west with 7 kids, December 14

            Saginaw’s industrial pioneers, October 19

            Mathewsons made name for themselves, December 7

            Almost was city for Euphemia, November 9

            Wars led settler to Michigan, October 26

            Morris saga: Life, death in Van Buren County, March 23

            Couple sought Garden of Eden in Michigan, April 16

            Life was hard in wilds of Brandon Twp., March 30

            DeLisle roots trace to 1701, April 20

            Michigan pioneer found live tough but his efforts paid off, May 25

            Mich. wilds looked good to out-of-work blacksmiths, May 11

            Shanty was newlyweds’ first home, May 18

            Michigan was a temporary stop in wandering Abbotts’ travels, May 4

            Iveses found their Eden in Berrien County, June 1

            Scotsman found trade in young Detroit to his liking, June 8

            A Scot gave his adopted land a gift-his life, August 24

            State cured settler’s case of wanderlust, September 7

            Wisner had a proud past, January 19

            Civil War disrupted lives of state’s settlers, June 22

            Connecticut man finds way to Michigan, April 13

            Pioneer farmed in Ionia, January 5

            Family odyssey recaptured, March 2

            A 150 years of memories, January 12

            Settler had adventure in his blood, January 26

            Land held hope for young couple

            Wayne County sheriff paved way for future, March 16

            Elder, younger Snooks made their mark on Macomb County, March 9

            Barry County inn helped Bristols prosper, April 27

 

Map Case 4, Drawer 1

“Shaping a State,” Detroit News, August 29, 1986 (Acc. #2006.042.01)

Regional Land Use Plan (Acc. #2007.024.104)

 

Entry 10:  Michigan pamphlets

Vertical file 5508

“The Fairest One of All,” Chronicles, Summer, 1976

Know Your Michigan

Michigan-thumbnail sketch

The Story of Michigan License Plates

Michigan-Two Powerful Peninsulas

A Brief History of Michigan (2 copies)

History of Michigan Counties

Michigan’s 5 Big Bridges

Facts About Michigan

The Great Lakes and The Great Rivers: Jonathan Carver’s Dream of Empire, John Parker

The Parks of the People

Historic Michigan-A Guide to Michigan’s Official State Markers, 1958

“The Erie Canal and the Settlement of Michigan,” Detroit Historical Society Bulletin,

            November, 1964

Fishing in Michigan (Acc. #2007.133.06)

 

Entry 11:  Michigan: Governors

Vertical file 5509

Program for Inaugural Reception and Family Celebration, January 1, 2003

Program for Gubernatorial Inaugural Evenings, January 1, 2003

RSVP card for Inaugural Evening, January 1, 2003

Program for Gubernatorial Inauguration, January 1, 2003

John Engler-Michigan’s 47th Governor

“G. Mennen Williams-Photos Tell of …The Toll of Time” Detroit Times, March 3, 1960

“Romney is Elected!” Detroit Free Press, November 7, 1962

“24,000 Win Lottery Prizes,” Detroit Free Press, November 25, 1972

 

Entry 12: Michigan: Driving Rules

Vertical file 5511

Michigan Laws relating to Motor Vehicles, 1936 (Acc. #94.32.3)

“Your License to Drive,” September, 1967

“What Every Driver Must Know,” May, 1961

“What Every Driver Must Know,” 1939 (Acc. #95.99.20)

“What Every Driver Must Know,” 1965

 

Entry 13:  Maps

Map Case 1, Drawer 4

Historic Michigan, 1952 (2 copies)

Pocket Map of Michigan, 1839

A New Map of Michigan with its Canals, Roads, and Distances (has steamboat routes) (2

            Copies)

Michigan Farmer map of Michigan, 1911 (Acc #75.117) Map has portraits of Michigan

            Governors, US Presidents, world rulers, and Panama Canal)

Rolled paper box 2

Lake Survey maps

 

Michigan Maps file box

Adventure North to Great Lakes Area, 1973

Rand McNally official Auto road Map of Michigan, 1929 (Acc. #94.87.4)

Across Lake Michigan, S.S. Milwaukee Clipper (Acc. #95.26.3a)

Your Holiday Guide to the Fabulous Copper Country in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Michigan Transportation Map, 1980-1981

Michigan-Showing distances between Railroad Stations, 1918

Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority County Map, 1957 (Acc. #2001.138.04)

Michigan map from Peterson Drugs in Plymouth, 1952 (Acc. #98.147.11)

Nautical Charts of the Great Lakes, 1968

Michigan AAA map, 1955

Michigan AAA map, 1931-1932, (Acc. #85.6.2L)

A Guide to Michigan’s Historical Attractions

Auto-Owners highway map of Michigan, 1937 (Acc. #94.87.5)

Michigan AAA map, 1953

Ford Times Recreation Map of the Great Lakes, 1965

Michigan AAA map (Acc. #77.189.63)

Huron-Clinton Metroparks Guide, 2001-2002

Southeastern Michigan Fishing and Hunting Guide, 1942 (Acc. #2002.126.03)

Saginaw County map, 1860

 

Compiled by Lena Packer, 26 May 2006

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

           

 

 

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