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Alumni Association (University of Michigan), Individual Photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Title: Alumni Association (University of Michigan),Individual Photographs ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Photos of University of Michigan alumni, faculty and staff collected by the University Alumni Association.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8730p?rgn=main;view=text View

L.M. Montgomery Collection. Cavendish in the Olden Time, 1900.

Title: Cavendish in the Olden Time, 1900. 1900.

ArchivalResource: 12Pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/625662882 View

Baxter, Charles, 1848-1919,. Letters by and about Robert Louis Stevenson, 1872-1904.

Title: Letters by and about Robert Louis Stevenson, 1872-1904.

Stevenson writes to his father, Thomas Stevenson, giving a description of Frankfurt where he is studying with his friend, Walter Simpson; reporting on the progress of his books and their publication, including a story in French, a "memoir" of Fleeming Jenkin, and problems with "Kidnapped"; and inquiring into his parents' activities, including an engineering paper his father is writing. He frequently mentions family, friends and his desire to come home to Scotland and occasionally alludes to his health. Charles Baxter writes to James Nicol Dunn, 1889-1904, concerning research and publications about Stevenson.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48800013 View

Hench, Philip S., 1896-1965. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection, 1806-1995, bulk 1863-1974

Title: Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995

The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection documents the work of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, the legacy of the commission’s discoveries, the lives of individuals who were connected to the commission, and twentieth century campaigns to shape public memory of the commission. Items in the collection date from 1800 to 1998, with the bulk of the items dating from 1864 to 1974. A wide range of formats are represented in the collection including, but not limited to the following: articles, artifacts, audiocassettes, bills (legislative records), biographies, charts (graphic documents), correspondence, diaries, editorials, interviews, journals (periodicals), magazines, maps, medical records, military records, negatives (photographic), notes, photographs, reports, reprints, scrapbooks, and speeches. Unique materials in the collection are supplemented with copies of original documents and photographs housed in other institutions (e.g the U.S. National Archives). Most of the materials in the collection were collected or created by Nobel laureate Philip Showalter Hench while researching the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.

ArchivalResource: 67 linear feet; 153 boxes

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-hs/viuh00010.xml View

Leavens, Austin M. Diary of Austin M. Leavens : for summer of 1902 in the state of Maine.

Title: Diary of Austin M. Leavens : for summer of 1902 in the state of Maine. 1902.

A diary kept by Leavens while a student at Mount Hermon School for Boys in Northfield, Mass. The diary records activities during a summer that he and fellow student Walter C. Simpson of Greensboro, Vermont, spent as cooking ware salesmen in various Maine towns. Writing in a humorous manner, Leavens outlines their daily activities, what they sold, and how they traveled to such communities as Brunswick, Augusta, Hallowell, Waterville, Oakland, Madison, Gardiner, and Randolph, Maine.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86078721 View

Papers, 1900-1958.

Title: Papers, 1900-1958.

Correspondence, memoranda, speech and article files, surveys, subject files, financial records, clippings, pamphlets, and memorabilia resulting from personal and family matters; work with the Davis Coal and Coke Co. in West Virginia, 1923-1926, the United States Coal Commission, 1922, and other firms; editorship of COAL AGE and FACTORY AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT, 1927-1933; trip to Russia surveying industrial development for the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1931; affiliation with engineering societies, 1918-1934; work with the Civil Works Administration, the Wagner (NRA) Labor Board and the National Labor Relations Board, 1933-1936, the Rural Electrification Administration, 1936-1939, and the Federal Works Administration, 1939-1941; membership on the United States Maritime Commission, 1941-1946, the President's Water Resources Policy Commission, 1950-1951, and the Small Business Administration, 1951-1953; and his interest in public power projects and labor arbitration, 1944-1950. Correspondents in the general correspondence files include Otto S. Beyer, Francis Biddle, Morris L. Cooke, Herbert Hoover, Harry Hopkins, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Estes Kefauver, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Colonel Walter L. Simpson, Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, and General Arthur Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 146 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155521899 View