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Professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Michigan. Family and professional correspondence, diaries, notebooks discussing travels and readings, manuscripts of articles, and miscellanea; miscellaneous papers of his wife, Ethel Bonner, and assorted diaries of family members; and photographs.

The Bonner collection consists of correspondence, subject files, writings, professional papers, and photographs. There are also diaries and other papers of his wife Ethel Bonner.

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Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan, area family; correspondence, diaries, and other family materials.

The Campbell family collection includes correspondence and other family materials. Items of interest include Civil War correspondence of Gabriel Campbell and John S. Farnill; correspondence, diaries, and teaching materials of William Campbell; personal correspondence of Mary and Sarah (Sadie) Campbell concerning farming, local Republican politics, and school affairs; and printed materials concerning the Free Silver question and the election of 1896. The papers of Robert C. Campbell include diaries and University of Michigan student notebooks. Of interest are the notes he took from the lectures of John Dewey in philosophy, Henry Carter Adams in political economy, Burke A. Hinsdale in pedagogy, Joseph B. Steere in zoology, and A.A. Stanley in music, among other professors. The collection also includes high school notebooks of Carrie Read and E. Mabel Read.

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Summer engineering camp of the University of Michigan at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Records include correspondence, annual reports, and other papers relating to the establishment and administration of the camp; includes papers of camp directors Joseph B. Davis and Clarence T. Johnson; also includes records of predecessor surveying camps, including the Bogardus Engineering Camp at Douglas Lake, Michigan; and photographs.

The Camp Davis record group documents the summer camps for training students in the techniques of surveying and geodesy conducted by the College of Engineering's Department of Geodesy and Surveying. The bulk of the material concerns Camp Davis and Jackson Hole, Wyoming but also includes material relating to earlier camps at Douglas Lake and other sites in Michigan. The records are organized in five series: Histories; Michigan Engineering Camp, Early Sites, 1874-1912; Bogardus Engineering Camp, Douglas Lake, Michigan, 1906-1929; Camp Davis, Jackson, Wyoming Site, 1929-; and Photographs.

7.0 linear feet — 1 oversize volume — 1 oversize folder

Summer training camp for University of Michigan forestry students. Correspondence, memoranda, and other materials concerning the operation of the camp; include correspondence of Robert Craig, Jr. and Samuel T. Dana; material collected by camp director John Carrow which relates to the camp and School of Natural Resources; and photographs and scrapbooks.

The records of Camp Filibert Roth document the administration of the camp and the range of research, training and recreational acclivities that took place there. Records include topical and correspondence files of camp directors and School of Natural Resources faculty who worked with the camp, photographs and slides of camp facilities and activities, correspondence with camp alumni and printed material.

The records were received in two principal accessions. Boxes 1-2 were acquired from the School of Natural Resources. The second accession, boxes 3-7, consists largely of the material collected by John Carrow (1913-1995), a former student and professor in the School of Natural Resources. Carrow graduated from the University of Michigan in 1938 and joined the Faculty in 1947. He was also Director of Camp Filibert Roth from 1948 to 1967. Carrow was Secretary of the School of Natural Resources Alumni Association and continued to hold that position after his retirement as a full professor in 1977. Carrow collected items of historical interest not only from Camp Filibert Roth but also from the entire School of Natural Resources.

The records are organized into eight series: Topical Files, Chronological Files, Printed Materials, Alumni Association, Camp Files, Midwest Forestry Conclave, School of Natural Resources and Visual Materials.

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Chronological Files, 1926-1946

The Chronological Files series (.3 linear ft.) consists of 16 folders arranged chronologically that document the annual camp sessions from 1929 to 1946 (with the exception of 1936 and 1937). The folders consist of a variety of materials, the majority of which is correspondence of Camp Director Professor Robert Craig, Jr., much of it with Samuel Trask Dana, then dean of the School of Forestry and Conservation. Other materials found in this series include reports and news releases about camp activities authored by Professor Craig, student information, final examinations, property inventories, blueprints of planned buildings, news clippings, and budget information. Also of interest are feature stories submitted to the Michigan Daily by volunteer student correspondents, notable for their portrayal of student life at Camp Filibert Roth.

Professor Craig's on-site summer reports and post-session annual reports to Dean Dana offer fine outlines of the academic-administrative regimen of the camp and are the best source of information regarding camp activities.

48 linear feet — 1 oversize volume — 58.5 GB (online)

The University Planner's Office oversees the master planning, site planning, and site design for the university. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, architectural drawings, and photographs spanning the years 1840 to 2014.

The records of the University Planner's Office consist of 48 linear feet, 72.3 GB of digital files, and one oversize volume. Records contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, architectural drawings, and photographs spanning the years 1840 to 2014. The records document the role of the University Planner's Office in campus planning on the University of Michigan campuses and in conjunction with the City of Ann Arbor.

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The Canterbury House ministry is an episcopal student chaplaincy established in 1945 as the Episcopal Student Foundation to minister to University of Michigan students. The activities of the ministry were centered in Canterbury House (various locations), which today functions as a spiritual ministry and as a hub for music, community activism, and food justice. Its records are comprised of historical records for the ministry and coffee house, including board of trustees and staff records. Coffee house records include programs, financials, and recordings from coffee house performances, as well as records of the Institute of Public Theology.

The Canterbury House records contain the records of the Episcopal Student Foundation and the Canterbury House, the Episcopal Campus Church at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The records are divided into four series: History and Background Materials, Episcopal Student Foundation Board of Trustees, Staff, and Canterbury House series.

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Industrial hygienist, consultant and lecturer in environmental and industrial health in the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan. Logs of daily activities, 1936-1961, correspondence relating to consulting projects, speech and lecture material, and research files on lead poisoning and the effects of air conditioning on workers; history of occupational health at the University of Michigan, 1873-1970, history of the American Academy of Occupational Medicine, 1946-1956; history of the Bernardino Ramazzini Society, 1942-1978; study of automobile body industry in Detroit, 1936; and related photographs.

The papers of Carey Pratt McCord represent only a fragment of what once must have been a larger body of papers and consequently document only a small portion of his varied and active career. The collection has been arranged into the following series: Personal; Correspondence; Speeches and lectures; Writings and related; Research files; Miscellaneous; and Photographs.

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Historian of Michigan’s lumber industry; correspondence and research materials.

The collection consists of three series: Correspondence; Research materials; and Miscellaneous. The correspondence dates from 1928 to 1940 and includes letters received in response to various queries. The research materials include notes relating to his interest in Michigan lumbering, the development of lumbering within such cities as Deward, Roscommon, Saginaw, Meredith, Seney, and Muskegon. One of Leech's principal research interest was the life and career of "Silver Jack" John Driscoll.

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University of Michigan alumnus (Law School, 1899) who served in United States House of Representatives as a Michigan Representative from 1913-1939. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and other material relating largely to his death. Also included is a family portrait.

The collection consists of newspaper clippings and other material relating largely to his death. Also included is a family portrait.

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Field director of the American Public Health Association, 1931-1948, later professor of public health administration at the University of Michigan, 1948-1953. Files detailing various community health administration studies that he administered; also thesis and miscellaneous public health materials.

The Carl E. Buck Papers, 1932-1953, consist of one foot of material relating principally to various community health administration studies he carried out as field director of the American Association of Public Health and later as professor of public health administration in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. There is one folder of biographical material at the beginning of the collection.

The community study material includes some correspondence, research materials, and the final reports of the studies. Also included in the collection is Buck's Ph.D. dissertation, "An Evaluation of Medical School Inspection in Light of Recent Developments," and an incomplete series of news releases from the Detroit Health Department, 1931-1941.