Horace H. Rackham and Mary A. Rackham Fund Records 1929-1950 1934-1940

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

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Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, on September 15, 1879, the sixth of eleven children and the third of four daughters born to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stone mason. Her two elder sisters worked to supplement the family income, and financed her education at Claverack College, a private coeducational preparatory school in the Catskills. After leaving Claverack, Higgins took a job teaching first grade to immigrant children, but decided after a short ...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Rackham, Mary A. Horton, d. 1947

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Horace H. Rackham Educational Memorial (Detroit, Mich.)

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German Protestant Home for Orphans and Old People (Detroit, Mich.)

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Methodist Children's Home Society of Michigan.

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Children's Fund of Michigan

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Philanthropic foundation created by Senator James J. Couzens and administered by William J. Norton to fund organizations in Michigan involved in child health and child guidance. From the description of Children's Fund of Michigan records, 1929-1965 (bulk 1929-1961). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423385 The Children's Fund of Michigan (CFM) was a charitable corporation created April 11, 1929 by Michigan Senator James Couzens with a gift of ten m...

Spring Arbor College (Spring Arbor, Mich.)

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Rackham Arthritis Research Unit (University of Michigan)

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Administrative unit within the department of internal medicine of the Medical School of the University of Michigan. From the description of Rackham Arthritis Research Unit (University of Michigan) annual reports, 1946-1971, 1981-1987. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422740 ...

Flint Institute of Research and Planning.

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Detroit Zoological Park (Mich.)

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Starr Commonwealth for Boys.

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Horace H. Rackham and Mary A. Rackham Fund

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The last will and testament of Horace H. Rackham provided for the establishment of a trust fund to provide for the health and welfare of individuals, particularly the sick, aged, the young, the poor, and other underprivileged. Much of the trust money went to the University of Michigan to be used for a building for the graduate school and an endowment to be used for different kinds of research. The Fund also awarded grants to agencies involved in child welfare, community culture, edu...

Adrian College (Adrian, Mich.)

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The college, founded by Methodists in 1859 in Adrian (Mich.), remains a small, private, liberal arts college. Pendleton was a college trustee. From the description of Certificate of Donation, 1860. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 43309237 ...

National urban league

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The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, later the National Urban League, resulted from the 1910 merger of three welfare organizations in New York, N.Y.: the Committee for Improving Industrial Conditions among Negroes in New York, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, and the National League for Protection of Colored Women. From the description of Records of the National Urban League, 1910-1986 (bulk 1930-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130941 ...

Olivet College

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Michigan State Normal College

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Rackham, Horace H. 1858-1933.

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Clark, Mary H., 1844-1896

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Williams House, Inc.

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Ferris Institute

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Michigan State University

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Michigan State University was established in 1855, and by 1862, it stood as the nation’s premier land-grant university. Over the decades, the university has continued to be a model of what a land-grant university can and should do. As a university of, for and by the people, Michigan State University began a long tradition of empowering people through educational opportunity....

University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Knapp, Mark Stevens, 1872-1948.

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Flint, Michigan, physician. From the description of Mark S. Knapp papers, 1887-1948. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418331 ...

W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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Goodwill Industries of America

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Boys Club of Detroit (Mich.)

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Kalamazoo College

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Arnold Home, Inc.

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Fenton Community Center.

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Detroit Baptist Missionary Society.

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Fresh Air Camp (University of Michigan)

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The University of Michigan Fresh Air Camp was started in 1921 by Lewis Reimann and Thomas Evans, the former of whom served as the camp's first director. The camp began as a volunteer driven organization of students involved with the Student Christian Association, with the goal of providing outdoor experience to underprivileged, mostly urban youth. For the first three years, the camp was held in different locations, but in 1924, through a gift of Virginia Ives, it acquired a permanen...

Sophie Wright Settlement.

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Michigan Children's Aid Society.

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Horton, Bryson Dexter, 1871-1945

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Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies

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For history, see the finding aid for Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies records. From the guide to the Announcements, Bulletins, Handbooks (Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies), 1883-ongoing, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan) While the University of Michigan made its first provisions for graduate study in 1845, throughout most of the nineteenth century there were few graduate students to educate. Control of graduate programs...

Maternal Health League of Michigan.

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Albion College

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Boy Scouts of America

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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time. The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Or...

King's Daughters and Sons Home for Aged People.

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Novy, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1864-1957

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Professor of bacteriology, director of the Hygienic Laboratory, and dean of Medical School of University of Michigan. From the description of Frederick George Novy papers, 1882-1957. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418821 Frederick G. Novy was a respected bacteriologist at the University of Michigan, serving as director of the Hygienic Laboratory and Dean of the Medical School. Novy was born December 9, 1864 in Chicago, Illinois. He g...

Michigan Society for Mental Health.

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University of Michigan. Institute for Human Adjustment

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