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Sound recordings
The Sound Recordings series consists of two music phonograph records (45 rpm) and ten digital audio recordings. The digital audio recordings are of Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman (Albert Cleage Jr.) teaching and preaching. Of note are two separate tributes given following the assassinations of Malcolm X (1967) and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1968).
Albert J. Schimpke collection of R.G. Peters materials, 1890-circa 1970
4 linear feet (in 6 boxes) — 1 oversize folder — 173 GB
Sound recordings
The series Sound recordings consists of taped interview by Schimpke with associates of Peters. These interview were recorded on ca. 58 reel-to-reel tapes. In 1994-1995, seventy-five cassette use copies of these tapes were made.
Albert Kahn Associates records, 1825-2014 (majority within 1900-1945)
166 linear feet (in 180 boxes; textual materials, photographs, and audiovisual materials) — 90 portfolios (photographs) — 22 scrapbooks (sample architectural materials) — 131 oversize volumes (books) — 12,731 drawings (in 45 drawers and 114 tubes; architectural drawings) — 111 MB (online)
Albert Kahn's Professional Papers and Albert Kahn Associates' Files
The Albert Kahn's Professional Papers and Albert Kahn Associates' Files series (18 linear feet, 1903-2014) includes nine subseries of professional materials related to Albert Kahn and his firm, Albert Kahn Associates, Inc.: the AIA 2003 Gold Medal Submission, Cost Ledgers, Employee Biographies, Mechanical Engineering Department Maps, Newspaper and Journal Articles, Publications, Scholarships and Contributions, Special Activities and Events, and Transcripts of Speeches.
AIA 2003 Gold Medal Submission
The AIA Gold Medal Submission subseries (0.2 linear feet, 2002-2003) includes printed and digital copies of the presentation that was made to the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects. It was prepared by Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. in its unsuccessful attempt to have Kahn receive this award posthumously in 2003. With photographs and text, the nomination materials effectively summarize the significance of Kahn's industrial, commercial, institutional and residential architecture in American history.
Sound Recordings, 1978-1982
Sound Recordings consists of seven audiocassette tapes. The topics of these tapes include Arab immigration and contribution to culture, family and childhood stories narrated by Aliya Ogdie-Hassen, a speech given to the Kiwanis Club, and information on the Southend Dearborn Health and Social Services.
Arab Culture Access: Contributions to Civilization; Early Arab Immigration, 1978
Audio Cassette, Compact Cassette, 1 7/8 ips
Visual materials, 1973-1978
The Visual Materials (1973-1978) include photographs documenting Earthworks activities both in the school as well as on various field trips. The series also includes films of a student dance concert and a student-created animation.
Allen F. Sherzer visual materials collection, 1880s-1940s (scattered dates)
0.3 linear feet (in 2 boxes) — 1 oversize folder — 1 film reels (16mm)
Motion Picture
The 16mm film was shot by Allen Sherzer, ca. 1928. It consists of a series of short segments spliced together into a single roll. Segment/shot list title cards have been spliced into the compiled reel as follows (not all shots have title cards)
- Glider Club -- new plane
- AA train station -- students leaving for holiday
- Diag
- Pep Rally
- Huron river tug-of-war
- Frosh march to Ferry Field / Sophomore band
- Wrestling and obstacle course at Ferry Field
- Baseball vs Wisconsin
- Fraternity initiations -- scrubbing Diag
- Michigamua on lawn of President's House
- Graduates marching on Diag -- close-up of Bennie Oosterbaan
- Tom Lovell -- poet, campus character
- Sr. Class Day
- Dean Cooley's last class address (Cooley stepped down as dean in 1928)