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Presbyterian missionary family working in Thailand, China, and Malaysia between 1932-1975. Material consists of personal correspondence to and from family members, as well as a large collection of slides and photo albums depicting the family's lives and travels in Asia.

The Lewis family papers depict the lives of a Presbyterian missionary family working in Thailand, China, and Malaysia between 1932-1975. Material consists of personal correspondence to and from family members, as well as a large collection of slides and photo albums depicting the family's lives and travels in Asia. Also included Ralph Charles Lewis' 1972 diary.

This scrapbook was likely compiled by L. H. P. Farrar of Boston, Massachusetts, around 1876. The bulk of the scrapbook consists of printed, illustrated trade cards from businesses in the Boston area. It also includes twelve collaged scenes of household rooms, where Farrar pasted in clippings and photographs of furnishings alongside samples of wallpaper, tissue paper, or other decorative papers used as background designs or curtains. Several rooms feature hand-drawn or hand-crafted elements, like a hallway door, a piece of furniture, and a child's dress. Rooms depicted include: a hall, a music room, a parlor and back parlor, a library, a sitting room, a dining room, a kitchen, three chambers, and a nursery.

This scrapbook was likely compiled by L. H. P. Farrar of Boston, Massachusetts, around 1876. The volume has an embossed cover with pre-printed, decorative papers affixed to shapes of urns, fans, and stripes, and a statement on the back indicates its design was patented in 1876. The bulk of the scrapbook consists of printed, illustrated trade cards from businesses in the Boston area. Many feature images of animals, flowers and plants, women and children, and various stereotyped representations of women, African Americans, Asians, and laborers.

The volume contains twelve collaged scenes of household rooms, where Farrar pasted in clippings and photographs of furnishings alongside samples of wallpaper, tissue paper, or other decorative papers used as background designs or curtains. Several rooms feature hand-drawn or hand-crafted elements, like a hallway door, a piece of furniture, and a child's dress. Rooms depicted include: a hall, a music room, a parlor and back parlor, a library, a sitting room, a dining room, a kitchen, three chambers, and a nursery.

Popular novelist, author of The Robe and Magnificent Obsession, and minister of the First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Correspondence with his family, publishers and other authors concerning his work and including comments on national politics, Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and World War II; also manuscripts of addresses, articles, sermons, and novels; scrapbooks; and photographs.

The Douglas papers consist of material collected by his daughters, Virginia Douglas Dawson and Betty Douglas Wilson Herman, in the preparation of their biography of their father, The Shape of Sunday. The collection has been arranged into the following series: Correspondence; Ministerial Activities; Literary Career; Miscellaneous and personal; and Scrapbooks.

Nursing student at the University of Michigan who served as a nurse in France during World War I. Includes diary, correspondence, and photo album relating to her World I nursing service. Also certificates and a medal.

The L. May Helmer papers primarily documents her service during World War I while she was stationed in Dijon, France. Material documenting her wartime nursing service includes a diary, correspondence, and a photo album/scrapbook. The photo album includes scenes aboard the SS Mongolia, scenes in the hospital including patients and staff, views of Dijon, France, travels in France, and a view behind German trench in Argonne Forest. Some family photos are also included in the album. Pasted into the album are various documents relating to transportation and her service with the Nursing Bureau. The papers also include a medal for service in World War I, a foreign service certificate, a 1911 certificate from the Michigan State Board of Registration of Nurses, and a 1907 photograph of the Alpha Theta Society.

Republican state senator, state coordinator of the Anderson for President campaign in 1980. Papers and photographs relating to her public career and to her interest in women's issues, especially abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment; also relating to her involvement with the President's Committee on Mental Retardation, her political activities and in the state senate; and scrapbook, 1966-1970, detailing political career.

The collection concerns Beebe's public career and her interest in women's issues, especially abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment Also documented is her involvement with the President's Committee on Mental Retardation, her political activities and in the state senate. The papers of Lorraine Beebe have been arranged into biographical files; career files - private; career files - public; organizational files; speeches; correspondence; honors and awards/miscellaneous; and photographs.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, businessman; scrapbooks relating to business and Masonic activities and to his civic activities.

The collection consists of photocopies of letters exchanged with Michigan Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, 1927-1951, and four scrapbooks, 1910-1933, concerning his business and Masonic activities and his chairmanship of Grand Rapids Welfare Union fund-raising drive during the depression.

Editor and publisher of the Port Huron Times Herald. Scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs concerning his newspaper career and other Port Huron, Michigan, activities.

The collection is composed of four series: Correspondence; Miscellaneous; Scrapbooks; and Audio-Visual materials. One of the scrapbooks contains letters received from William Lyon Phelps, H. L. Mencken, Edgar A. Guest, Chase S. Osborn, Frank Murphy, Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur H. Vandenberg.

Muskegon, Michigan equipment manufacturer. Correspondence, scrapbooks, printed materials and miscellanea concerning student activities at University of Michigan, the Shaw-Walker Company of Muskegon, Michigan, unemployment during the Depression, State Republican Party affairs, political conservatism, the Muskegon Red Cross, Liberty Bond drives and the United States Shipping Board during World War II, and his activity as an author and patron of conservative writers.

The Louis C. Walker papers have been divided into the following series: Correspondence, Miscellaneous, and Scrapbooks. The container listing describes more fully the subject content of the Correspondence series. Appended to the finding aid is a selective index to some of the more significant correspondents within the collection. Miscellaneous is an amalgam of collected materials and non-correspondence manuscripts mainly arranged by topics of interest to Walker or relating to organizations or projects in which he was involved. Of note here are materials relating to a strike at his company and various other material pertaining to his ideas on job sharing. The collection is largely an accumulation of personal materials and contains very little on the company which bears his name.

State Representative from Lapeer, Michigan; U.S. Congressman, 1913-1931, and special attorney to the Secretary of the Interior, 1931-1932; correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, campaign materials, and other items relating to his advocacy of the national park system, the concept of historic preservation, fair employment practices legislation, increased support for Howard University and all other aspects of his career.

The Louis C. Cramton papers came to the Bentley Historical Library in three separate accessions (1948-1950; 1971; 1987). The collection has been arranged into six series: Correspondence, Miscellaneous Papers, Topical Files, Newspaper clippings/Scrapbooks, Photographs, and Louis Kay Cramton Papers.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, resident and local historian. Collected Washtenaw County historical documents and scrapbooks of clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia.

The Lucy Chapin collection includes collected letters and manuscripts, most notably papers of James Kingsley, Washtenaw County public figure and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan. Of great importance are the scrapbooks maintained by Lucy Chapin on the people and events of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County. These scrapbooks document life in the nineteenth century from the 1840s to 1900. The volumes include clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia.