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The collection includes his scrapbooks, typed notes, notecards, reel-to-reel tapes, a 16 mm film, and slides.

The collection consists of his scrapbooks, typed notes, typed 3x4 and 5x8 inch notecards, reel-to-reel tapes, a 16 mm film, and slides. The vast majority of the collection, particularly the note cards and slides document Michigan historic markers, historic sites, events, counties, townships, Chippewa Indians, and school trips to the Upper Peninsula, the Straits area, and Grayling, Michigan. Also included are the 1884 and 1885 tax assessor’s assessment books for Jerome Township (Midland County). The assessor’s volumes are not records of permanent historic value, but have been maintained as examples in this collection. [Midland County’s Clerk and Treasurer’s historic financial and clerical records are also housed (on deposit) at the Clarke.] Midland County (Mich.) history is well represented in this collection.

The collection is organized by format and size: letter-sized (or smaller) materials in boxes, note cards according to their size, and legal- and oversized materials at the end. Letter-size (or smaller) materials are organized alphabetically by title or topic, and then by size, and /or chronologically as needed.

Overall, the collection is in good shape. The plumber’s account book and copy of the Declaration of Allegiance are quite acidic and brittle and should be used with care. There is a slightly musty smell to the collection, so researchers with allergies or asthma may wish to take precautions while using the collection.

Processing Notes: The collection originally included about 21 cubic feet of material. Of this, maps, books, children’s literature, and textbooks were separately cataloged. Mass-produced out-of-state slides, unidentified reel-to-reel tapes, all duplicates, and out-of-state postcards were withdrawn from the collection during processing. A substantial number of Michigan postcards were merged into the Clarke’s Michigan Postcard collection. Family vacation slides were returned to Mr. Berriman's daughter, Beth DeWitt, as per her request. The collection was donated by Beth DeWitt, on behalf of all of Mr. Berriman's children in their father's memory and honor.

The collection consists of over 80 letters and documents pertaining to the Standing Rock Indian Agency located in South Dakota. The papers relate to nearly every aspect of running the agency.

The collection contains only one letter for the year 1878 and no papers for the years 1879-1898. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters written to Major William T. Hughes, Indian agent at Standing Rock, from the following individuals: John Quincy Smith, commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1875 to 1877; S.A. Galpin, clerk to John Quincy Smith, and E.A. Hayt, who succeeded John Quincy Smith as commissioner in 1877. Beginning in 1899, the collection contains letters from George H. Bingenheimer, Indian agent at Standing Rock to Joseph Archambault (1872 -- 1939?) of Porcupine Station, a district within the reservation.

Topics in the letters vary: cutting wood on the reservation by resident Indians and military personnel stationed at Fort Yates (February 28, 1877); building new homes for the Indians (April 18, 1877); withholding rations to Indians who refused to stay on the west side of the Missouri River (May 24, 1877); and testifying to a council with General Carlin regarding dissatisfaction with a civilian agent (bearing the marks of Billy Fat, High Bear, and Lone Dog, January 20, 1880).

Letters indicate that tension existed between the personnel at the military garrison at Fort Yates and the Indian agency. One letter dated February 9, 1877, referred to hogs running freely: "Hereafter any found inside the garrison will be shot under the direction of the Officer of the Day and the meat distributed to the command." A July 7, 1877, letter to Major Williams from the Office of Acting Assistant Commissary of Subsistence stated the following regarding non-payment for food stuff: "I have the honor to inform you that I have been directed by the command officer of the post to sell no more subsistence stores to you." H. S. Howe, Captain of the 17th Infantry command post at Standing Rock requested that Major Williams take over the mediation of disputes among the Indians. The Captain’s August 17, 1878, letter describes a dispute that involved the killing of a cow, owned by Bear Face’s band, by an Indian named Kill Eagle.

A Lakota Indian child named Joseph was sent to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, and studied there for three years (October 1881-May 1884). When he returned to the reservation, Joseph worked for his father on the family cattle ranch. The letters to him from George Bingenheimer indicate that Joseph, then in his late 20s, was engaged in some type of management of the area of Porcupine Station. In a letter dated January 19, 1900, he raised the issue of "whites" being on the reservation without a pass. In another dated July 29, 1901, Bingenheimer instructed Joseph to drop 10 Indians from the rolls (for rations only) because they could support themselves. Ironically, Joseph Archambault and family are listed in the letter as being cut off from rations. In a letter dated July 31, 1901, he informed Joseph that "…he has appointed Phillip Bullhead of Little Dog’s band of your district as a chief and you will transfer the following named Indians and their families (a list of 38 persons) to his band." Joseph Archambault later became a translator for Sitting Bull; and, in 1917, he was elected county treasurer, the first Indian elected to public office in the state of South Dakota.

Baptismal, marriage, death, and communion and confirmation records.

The record group consists of microfilm of church registers containing records of baptisms, communion and confirmations, marriages and burials. The records are closed to research except with the permission of the church.

Ann Arbor, Michigan Episcopal Church; vestry and parish records, liturgical materials, Christian service and educational materials, administrative records, printed material, and photographs.

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church has created a rich body of material which documents both its own history and its place within the history of Ann Arbor. The records of the parish have been arranged into nine series: Vestry; Registers; Church Programs; Administrative Records; Scrapbooks; Diocese of Michigan and other non-parish material; Liturgical Materials; Publications; and Photographs.

Historical and other background information; vestry records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, registers of church services, and other subject files; records of church organizations; files pertaining to church camp and special church services; printed materials, and photographs.

The records of St. Andrew's Memorial Episcopal Church (1886-1987) contain items such as meeting minutes, reports, service bulletins, publications and photographs which tell the story of the church. The records are divided into five main series, Background information; Vestry Records, Register of church services; Registers of baptisms, burials, marriages, communicants; Church Organizations, Church Activities, Printed Materials and Photographs.

Papers of the starr family Family papers include: biographical materials; correspondence; legal papers; autograph albums; photographs and miscellaneous; school reports; and teaching certificates.

Family papers, 1839-1942, and undated include: biographical materials, 1928-1929; correspondence, 1895-1935; legal papers, 1839-1866; autograph albums, 1878, 1880-1882, 1885-1889; photographs and miscellaneous, 1883-1897 and undated; school reports, 1880-1881; and teaching certificates, 1879-1883 and 1879-1911. Most of the correspondence is to Minnie and Clara Ellen Starr concerning their nephew, Jack. Photographs document several generations of the Starr family, Dennis and Nancy Quick, and the Hamer family, the first African American family in Royal Oak, Michigan. Other materials document Eva, George E., Mary, and the general family, within photographs, a family tree, and some miscellaneous legal papers and correspondence. The collection is organized by family, alphabetical by individual creators’ names, and then chronologically organized.

Michigan telephone directories, 1890-2014.

Statewide Michigan Bell and Yellow/White Pages telephone directories, 1890-2014.

Records, 1897-1921,of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments of the University of Michigan; include correspondence and other papers relating to the development of the collection; also scrapbooks,1890's,containing illustrations of musical instruments. Correspondents include: Francis W. Kelsey, Albert A. Stanley, Frederick Stearns, Frederick Kimball Stearns, George R. Swain, Levi D. Wines, and Dean C. Worcester.

The records include correspondence regarding the acquisition and care of the instruments (1897-1921), annual reports, a statement of loan policy, and articles by Robert Austin Warner on the history and content of the collection. Also included are two scrapbooks containing bills and letters regarding Stearns' acquisitions, clippings, and illustrations from 1890s catalogs.

Ludington, Michigan, business firm established by Justus S. Stearns. Topical files relating to business interests, including papers concerning their conviction on charges of receiving illegal refunds from the Pere Marquette Railroad, and relating to the sale of their property in L'Anse to the Ford Motor Company; and also microfilm of records of business operations at Ludington and one of their subsidiary firms at Bennett in Lake County, Michigan.

The Stearns papers consist of three boxes of manuscript material and thirty-three rolls of microfilm. Virtually all of this concerns Stearns' complex business dealings. There is no personal correspondence and but a single manuscript folder describing Stearns' political career. The microfilmed material are volumes primarily detailing the history of the Stearns Salt and Lumber Company. The records fall into two distinct groups, those created before 1900 and those done after the turn of the century.

Before 1900 the company's records are very straightforward. They consist of cashbooks, journals and ledgers. The only complication is that there were two sets of ledgers. The ledgers from Ludington apparently are the main records of the firm, those maintained at Bennett, Michigan, were of Stearns' box manufacturing, saw, planing and shingle mills. The records were microfilmed chronologically.

After the turn of the century the firm's record keeping became far more bulky and opaque. For microfilming, these records were divided into six groups: general ledgers and journals, sales ledgers, lumbering operations, payrolls, mill and manufacturing reports, and miscellaneous records (some of firms other than Stearns Salt and Lumber).

The general ledgers and journals are arranged chronologically. There are three types of ledgers (transfer ledger number 1, transfer ledger number 2 and transfer ledger number 3) and two types of journals (a general journal and a journal 2B). Apparently each ledger type and journal 2b had some specific purpose, but all explanatory material has been lost, and the entries are very cryptic. These records were filmed in their entirety.

Because of their bulk, the company's sales records were sampled. Every third account was filmed. A sufficiently large sample remains to allow a researcher to statistically reconstruct the firm's trading patterns.

Stearns kept a separate set of books detailing work in the field. These are grouped together as "Lumbering Operations" records. They include ledgers, journals, cashbooks, and sales records. The volumes are arranged chronologically. Most were sampled. Every third ledger account was filmed. Every other month of the journals was filmed. Because of their complex arrangement sampling of the sales records would have been very difficult, and thus they were filmed in their entirety.

Payrolls were also sampled. Every third month was filmed. Camp payrolls apparently refer to field operations, Ludington payrolls to workers at Stearns' home operations. The "Record of Employees" is a very brief volume giving a great deal of information about Stearns' Ludington office workers and middle level administrators. Marital status, children, club affiliations, property ownership, and financial status are among the items included.

Mill and Manufacturing records are production reports of Stearns' Ludington operations. They were filmed in their entirety. The miscellaneous volumes include a wide variety of documents, all filmed in their entirety. Included are inventory control books, records of land transactions, a sand register, records of the Stearns Warehouse Company, the Epworth League Railway and the M. Reichardt & Son Piano Manufacturing Company.

Soldier in Company A, 185th New York Infantry, during the Civil War. Consists of a diary containing an account of his wartime activities as well as photographs showing a soldiers' monument inscribed with his name in Baldwinsville, New York.

The Stephen Henry Fenner papers consist of a diary containing an account of his wartime activities as well as photographs showing a soldiers' monument inscribed with Fenner's name in Baldwinsville, New York).