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Athletic Department (University of Michigan) records, 1860-2017
370 linear feet (in 389 boxes) — 15 oversize boxes — 12 oversize folders — 1300 films and videotapes — 22 oversize volumes — 634 digital audiovisual files — 37 digital audio files
Digitized Football Team Photographs, 1879-2008
(The digitized football team photos displayed in the Bentley Library Image Bank include scans from prints and negatives in the Athletic Department records as well as team photos from other collections, including Rentschler's Studio, U-M News and Information Service, Michigan Union, U-M Photographps Vertical File, and other sources.)
Autobiography of Civil War experiences, 1883-1888
(details Cutcheon's and his unit's experiences in the Civil War from 1862 to 1865)
Betsey Ann Cowles Palmer, 1822-1898
The Betsey Ann Cowles Palmer series (2 folders, approx 243 MB) contains correspondence to family in Montana, Michigan, and elsewhere. Topics include family matters and news, including settling the estate of her husband, Charles Henry Palmer, who died without making a will. The series also includes Betsey Palmer's obituary.
Blake family, 1806-1984 (majority within 1870s-1910s)
1 linear foot, 1 oversize folder, 1 oversize volume, 902 MB (online)
The Blake family series (1.3 linear feet and oversize items) includes materials of Alde L. T. Blake and William F. Blake, their daughter Dorothy S. Blake (materials of their daughter Ethel are found within the Kutsche family series), as well as Thomas Dawes Blake and Freeman N. Blake. Alde L. T. Blake's materials include correspondence with Jane Addams, Ben Lindsey, Woodbridge N. Ferris, and Anna Howard Shaw, as well as related exchanges with representatives of various women's rights and consumer rights organizations. Also included in the series her personal correspondence and scrapbooks, as well as photocopies of materials held by the Rutgers Archives.
William F. Blake materials include his scrapbooks dated between 1872 and 1929, largely concerning family history and business interests, his personal and business correspondence, as well as volumes containing copies of letters sent by Robert Blake in his capacity as U.S. Consular Agent serving in Canada, including detailed commercial report about London, Ontario in 1873; and a ledger with copies of letters sent by William F. Blake during his time as a U.S. Consul in 1878-1879.
Dorothy S. Blake's correspondence includes her personal correspondence, as well as a number of letters about her teaching career in Grand Rapids. Freeman N. Blake materials include his scattered correspondence and two notebooks from his time as a law school student in Cambridge. The series also includes materials related to Thomas Dawes Blake, all in oversize folder. Included here are his obituaries and military documents dating to 1806. The Blake family series also includes family histories, digital copies of genealogical material, and miscellaneous items.
Blake family papers, 1806-1984
1.8 linear feet — 2 oversize folders — 1 oversize volume — 902 MB (online)
Board of Regents (University of Michigan) records, 1817-2016 (majority within 1899-2016)
286 linear feet — 3 oversize volumes — 20 oversize items — 298.4 MB (online) — 1 oversize folder
1876-1886, 1927
(primarily letters, 1877-1879, of Claude R. Buchanan to his parents, John and Sophia, while a student at the University of Michigan, Class of 1881)
Papers, 1861-1916
Civil War letters relating to Captain Ebenezer Butterworth of Co. C, 1st Michigan Infantry, genealogical materials, recipes, etc.