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Prentiss Marsh Brown Papers, 1902-1973

Title: Prentiss Marsh Brown Papers 1902-1973

Michigan congressman and senator, head of the U.S. Office of Price Administration; papers include correspondence, legislative files, speeches, political files, business and legal records, diaries and scrapbooks, visual materials, and sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (in 29 boxes), 2 oversize folders, and 12 microfilm rolls

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85837?rgn=main;view=text View

Norton, William J. (William John), 1883-1975. William J. Norton papers, 1906-1987.

Title: William J. Norton papers, 1906-1987.

Materials relating to his welfare activities, his interests in mental health and the work of the American Red Cross, and his general interest in the field of social work; also papers detailing his activities with the Detroit Prismatic Club; essays concerning the legislation of prohibition in Michigan; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78312339 View

Arthur H. Vandenberg papers, 1884-1974, 1915-1951

Title: Arthur H. Vandenberg papers 1884-1974 1915-1951

Republican U.S. Senator from Michigan; advocate of the United Nations and bipartisan foreign policy. Correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, and visual materials.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet (on 11 microfilm rolls), 25 volumes, 20 phonograph records, 1 motion picture reel, and 1 sound tape reel

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-86746?rgn=main;view=text View

George Murphy papers, 1911-1961

Title: George Murphy papers 1911-1961

Judge of the Recorder's Court in Detroit and Frank Murphy's brother; contain correspondence, legal briefs, newspaper clippings, and other materials concerning Detroit politics, 1935-1961, the grand jury investigation of Detroit street railways, 1936, arbitration of labor disputes, 1936-1941, investigation of the Charles Street housing project, 1939-1940, as well as materials illuminating the careers and personal affairs of both George and Frank Murphy, especially in relation to Detroit and the Philippine Islands.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet, 1 volume, and 1 oversize folder

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-86484?rgn=main;view=text View

Norton, William J. (William John), 1883-1975. William J. Norton papers, 1906-1975.

Title: William J. Norton papers, 1906-1975.

Materials relating to his welfare activities, his interests in mental health and the work of the American Red Cross, and his general interest in the field of social work; also papers detailing his activities with the Detroit Prismatic Club; essays concerning the legislation of prohibition in Michigan; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34423174 View

Murphy, George, 1897-1961. George Murphy papers, 1911-1961.

Title: George Murphy papers, 1911-1961.

Correspondence, legal briefs, grand jury findings and public hearings, newspaper clippings, and other materials concerning Detroit, Michigan politics, 1935-1961, campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt for presidency in 1932, grand jury investigation of Detroit street railways, 1936, arbitration of labor disputes, 1936-1941, and investigation of Charles Street housing project in Detroit, 1939-1940; also interview, 1957, concerning Frank Murphy and his role in sit-down strike of 1937, and other materials. relating to public careers and personal affairs of Murphy family, particularly in relation to Detroit politics and Philippine Islands.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear ft. and 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34421455 View

Frank Dwight Fitzgerald papers, 1928-1944, 1930-1939

Title: Frank Dwight Fitzgerald papers 1928-1944 1930-1939

Michigan Secretary of State, 1931-1935; Governor of Michigan, 1935-1936 and 1939; and chairman, 1936, of the Michigan delegation to the Republican National Convention. Correspondence, speeches, press releases, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous notebooks and printed materials concerning his political career.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear feet, 4 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851355?rgn=main;view=text View

Fitzgerald, Frank D. (Frank Dwight), 1885-1939. Frank Dwight Fitzgerald papers, 1928-1944.

Title: Frank Dwight Fitzgerald papers, 1928-1944.

Correspondence, speeches, press releases, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous notebooks and printed materials concerning his political career. Correspondents include: Horatio J. Abbott, Frederick M. Alger, Frederick M. Alger, Jr., Orville E. Atwood, Junius E. Beal, Harry H. Bennett, Malcolm W. Bingay, William W. Blackney, Frank P. Bohn, Frederick V. Bradley, Styles Bridges, Walter O. Briggs, Prentiss M. Brown, Walter F. Brown, Wilber M. Brucker, John L. Brumm, Burt D. Cady, Claude E. Cady, John J. Carton, Roy D. Chapin, Robert H. Clancy, Albert B. Cleage, William A. Comstock, Charles E. Coughlin, Frank Couzens, James J. Couzens, Louis C. Cramton, David H. Crowley, Gilbert A. Currie, Josephus Daniels, James E. Davidson, Murl H. DeFoe, Charles J. DeLand, Jack Dempsey, Luren D. Dickinson, Grover C. Dillman, George A. Dondero, Albert J. Engel, Homer S. Ferguson, Theodore I. Fry, George N. Fuller, Fred W. Green, Alexander J. Groesbeck, Edgar A. Guest, William Haber, John A. Hannah, Michael J. Hart. Clare E. Hoffman, Joseph L. Hooper, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Harry L. Hopkins, Orville L. Hubbard, Cordell Hull, Ivan E. Hull, William F. James, Ira W. Jayne, Theodore M. Joslin, John H. Kellogg, Harry F. Kelly, George D. Kennedy, John C. Ketcham, Henry M. Kimball, Frank Knox, Arthur J. Lacy, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Alfred M. Landon, Howard C. Lawrence, John C. Lehr, Emil Lorch, Frank D. McKay, Clarence J. McLeod, H. Earl McNitt, Joseph E. Maddy, Carl E. Mapes, John B. Martin, Earl C. Michener. Correspondents include: Raymond L. Moley, James O. Murfin, Frank Murphy, Patrick H. O'Brien, John J. O'Hara, Ransom E. Olds, Chase S. Osborn, Frances Perkins, Seymour H. Person, Gifford Pinchot, James K. Pollock, William W. Potter, Thomas Read, Rudolph E. Reichert, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alexander G. Ruthven, Paul W. Shafer, Edmund C. Shields, Charles A. Sink, Alfred P. Sloan, Shirley W. Smith, John K. Stack, Harry S. Toy, Esther Tufty, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Murray D. Van Wagoner, Coleman C. Vaughan. Louis C. Walker, Carl M. Weideman, Walter White, Jesse P. Wolcott, Roy O. Woodruff, and Fielding H. Yost.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. and 4 oversize v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79895927 View

Brown, Prentiss M. (Prentiss Marsh), 1889-1973. Prentiss Marsh Brown papers, 1902-1973.

Title: Prentiss Marsh Brown papers, 1902-1973.

Correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, political and legislative files, and business and legal records; include material concerning New Deal legislation especially banking and taxation bills, the politics of the Second World War, the elections of 1938, 1940, and 1942, the administration of the Office of Price Administration in 1943, and the campaign to build a bridge across the Mackinac Straits; and papers concerning business and personal affairs, particularly interests in ferry transportation across. Mackinac Straits and the operation of the Arnold Transit Company; also photographs.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34419930 View

Blair Moody Papers, 1928-1954, 1934-1952

Title: Blair Moody Papers

Detroit newspaperman and United States Senator from Michigan. Correspondence chiefly concerning his 1952 senatorial campaign and his newspaper work in the United States and abroad during World War II; scrapbooks of newspaper articles written by Moody and published for the most part in the and ; tape recordings of public affairs radio program; photographs and motion pictures of public affairs interview programs. Detroit News Barron's

ArchivalResource: 27.5 linear feet (in 29 boxes), 29 film reels, 60 phonograph records, 37 GB (online)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8634?rgn=main;view=text View

William J. Norton papers, 1906-1987, 1916-1972

Title: William J. Norton papers 1906-1987 1916-1972

Detroit, Michigan, social worker, executive vice president of the Children's Fund of Michigan, and chairman of various relief commissions during the depression. Materials relating to his welfare activities, his interests in mental health and the work of the American Red Cross, and his general interest in the field of social work; also papers detailing his activities with the Detroit Prismatic Club; essays concerning the legislation of prohibition in Michigan; and photographs and sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet and 1 outsize folder

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85343?rgn=main;view=text View