Albert J. Dann Papers, 1909-1919

Summary

Creator:

Dann, Albert J.

Abstract:

Business correspondence, political advertising, and letters of Albert J. Dann.

Extent:

1 cubic foot (in 2 boxes)

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by M. Matyn

Background

Scope and Content:

The collection consists mainly of Dann’s business correspondence concerning advertisements for his newspaper, printing jobs, bills, receipts for his equipment, and supplies purchased. There is one official ballot for a Lake Odessa election in 1918 and political advertising, 1918-1919. Of special note are 32 letters from various Michigan soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, during World War I, describing the countryside and conditions after the armistice. These letters were published in the Lake Odessa Wave.

Biographical / Historical:

Biography:

Albert J. Dann (died 1919) was the editor and publisher of the Lake Odessa Wave, a newspaper. He was also the owner of a printing and publishing company named for himself in Lake Odessa (Mich.). Dann’s company published the Lake Odessa Wave, 1910-1925 and 1943- 949. No further information is available on Dann. The Clarke Historical Library has scattered issues of the newspaper, its predecessor, and what it merged into. (The Lake Odessa Wave, The Lake Odessa Times, and The Lake Odessa Wave-Times, respectively)

Acquisition Information:

No Acc#

Arrangement:

The papers are organized alphabetically and chronologically.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Printers--Michigan--Ionia County.
Printers--Michigan--Lake Odessa.
Newspaper publishing--Michigan--Ionia County.
Newspaper publishing--Michigan--Lake Odessa.

Names:

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces--History.
Dann, Albert J.

Places:

Lake Odessa (Mich.)--History.
Ionia County (Mich.)--History.