Object Type: Folder
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Ernst Floeter is a former German soldier who served as a Prisoner of War of the United States during World War II. He is interviewed by Bob Garrett of the Archives of Michigan.
The John King papers consists of papers relating to the Civil War record of John King (1864-1865) of Company D, Sixth Michigan Infantry (heavy artillery). Included are King's discharge papers (1864 and 1865) and documentation of his promotion to corporal (August 20, 1864). The collection also includes two letters written by Phebe Trego, the mother of John King. The letters, dated October 16, 1864 and July 28, 1865, were addressed from Bristol (Eckhart County) Indiana.
This collection consists of architectural drawings of the Michigan Central Station in Detroit, Michigan. The architects of the station were Warren and Wetmore architectural firm in partnership with Reed and Stem. Not all of the drawings within the collection have been digitized.
Wayne County (Mich.)
This collection consists of the discharge of William W. Collins from Company F, 22nd Regiment of Michigan Infantry Volunteers, May 12, 1865. It also includes his service record dated June 17, 1919.
Chesterfield (Mich.)
This collection contains letters to and from various members of the Bush family. The letters largely focus on the Civil War, or aspects of the conflict.
John W. Bosier shares his experience as a seamen on the U.S.S. Nashville during World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in January 1941 and did his training at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois.
Letters from the Civil War, both from the battlefront and home, from families in Coldwater, Mich. and Campbell, N.Y.
Coldwater (Mich.)
Part of the Bess Britton One-Room School House Collection (One-Room School House Memory Project) located at the Webster Memorial Library (Van Buren District Library System), Decatur, Michigan. Interviewer and Transcriber: Kenneth H. Baker. Includes transcript and audio compact disk. Interview conducted in a conference room located at the Allegan County Fairgrounds (c. 2011). The interview is approximately 40 minutes in length.
Allegan County (Mich.)
The digital material in this collection consists of images taken by J. D. Small Studios documenting various performances, rehearsals, and social events of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2007. The images have been migrated from CDs and are organized by the studio's original project numbers. The studio's original folder and file names have also been retained. Folder names for each project include the type of event and date. Printed thumbnail sheets for these images are retained with the rest of the collection's physical material. One CD with 138 images (07-9027 GLSO Big Band 2007 03 04 Disk 1) was not readable at the time of processing.
Lansing (Mich.)
Narrative documents Fisher's experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany from December 1944 to April 1945. Fisher, a member of the Medical Detachment, 589th Field Artillery Battalion of the 106th Infantry Division, was injured and captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was caught in the town of Schoenberg, Belgium and served time in these prisoner of war camps located in Germany: Stalag IV-B (Muhlberg), Stalag VIII-A (Gorlitz), and Stalag XI-B (Fallingbostel). This 7-page document includes basic description of his capture, life in the POW camps, and liberation by the British on April 16, 1945. After a brief time in a British hospital (Oxford), he returned to the States convalesced and attended rehab in Miami (June-July, 1945). Fisher finished out his service in the surgical ward of Camp McCoy Station Hospital in Wisconsin. He was discharged from service on November 16, 1945.
Schoolcraft County (Mich.)
This accession consists of twelve digital files that make up the final draft of the "Conservation Resource Alliance Area Plan 2010-2015." This final draft is dated March 29, 2010. The files include a cover page, executive summary and contents, the body of the final draft, and multiple appendices. The Conservation Resource Alliance, originally the Northwest Michigan Resource Conservation and Development Area Council, Inc., guides conservation efforts in its thirteen-county area in the northwest lower peninsula of Michigan. The "Area Plan 2010-2015" provides an assessment of economic needs, threats, and opportunities to the natural resources in the area.
This collection contains letters and cased photographs of the family of Ebenezer and Abigail Beardslee. The collection primarily consists of letters written by Moses A. Beardslee, who served in the 22nd Michigan Infantry, Company D, during the American Civil War. The collection also contains a few letters from Ebenezer Beardslee, as well as his draft substitution papers. Finally, the collection contains cased photographs of the Beardslee family, including of Moses Beardslee in his Union Army uniform.
Oakland County (Mich.)
This collection contains material related to Kathy Berlin's time working as a correctional officer at the State Prison of Southern Michigan (SPSM) in Jackson, Michigan. Kathy entered the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) training academy in February 1987, started a permanent assignment at SPSM in June 1987, and left the job in October 1987. The collection contains the journal Kathy kept while at the training academy and working at the prison, notes and assignments from the MDOC training academy, training material specific to SPSM, items she carried in her pocket while working at SPSM, letters to her from people incarcerated at SPSM, material related to her employment at MDOC, and personal photographs and cards. Also included is a draft of a memoir titled "Fish Cop: A Woman Guarding Men Inside the World's Largest Walled Prison" and a digital file of the final memoir. Kathy also collected newspaper clippings, mostly from the Detroit Free Press, on topics related to SPSM. Those are: photographer Taro Yamasaki's seven-part series on life inside SPSM (December 1980), riots at SPSM and the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia (May 1981), the murder of correctional officer Josephine McCallum at SPSM (March 1987), and the murder of correctional officer Jack Budd at SPSM (December 1987).
Jackson (Mich.)
This collection consists of the Civil War diary of Cyrus Bacon, assistant surgeon, Seventh Michigan Volunteers. Bacon was from Edwardsburg, Cass County, Mich. The diary begins August 15, 1861, the day Bacon received his commission and concludes October 5, 1863, at which time Bacon was home on leave.
Cass County (Mich.)
Discharge paper of George Vedder, private, Company B, Third Regiment of Michigan Infantry Volunteers, May 25, 1866.
Victoria (Tex.)
Contains correspondence of Soloman Kroll, of Company C, Eighth Michigan Infantry, to his family, Sept. 11, 1861 to June 6, 1862; Jerome Kroll, Company A, Twentieth Michigan Infantry, to his family, Jan. 12, 1862 to Aug. 23, 1872; Henry Bedlegram of Kipps Corners, Mich., to his uncle, Nov. 6, 1864 and Jan. 26, 1870; Francis Fuller, Company D, Fourteenth Michigan Infantry, July 29, 1864; and Monroe Loomis, of Victor, Mich., July 29, 1862.
This collection contains 17 letters from Daniel Halbert, Company H, Sixth Michigan Infantry, 1862-1866, to his cousin, Maria Halbert. Three of the letters were written upon his return to civilian life, and describe his attendance at Albion Commercial College.
Ionia County (Mich.)
This collection contains several documents relating to promotions received by Joseph Elder who served in Company A, Third Battalion, Eleventh United States Infantry. The first document, dated Sept. 1, 1863, promotes Elder from private to corporal. The second, dated Nov. 17, 1864, promotes Elder from corporal to sergeant.
