Allen F. Sherzer visual materials collection, 1880s-1940s (scattered dates)
0.3 linear feet (in 2 boxes) — 1 oversize folder — 1 film reels (16mm)
0.3 linear feet (in 2 boxes) — 1 oversize folder — 1 film reels (16mm)
1.7 linear feet — 1 oversize folder — 2 oversize boxes — 3 digital audio files
The first series, History and Administrative Records (1 linear foot), contains early records of the fraternity, including an audio tape interview with one of the early members of the fraternity (J. Leon Langhorne) and a minute book (1909-1927). There are also records of the activities of the fraternity, including parties, workshops, and community service. Administrative and organizational records are contained in this group as well, including organizational charts, officers' reports, minutes of meetings, and several versions of the constitution and bylaws of the chapter. This series also contains two editions of a book by Charles H. Wesley, The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in College Life, which is a general history of Alpha Phi Alpha from 1906 to 1979. Several references to the Epsilon Chapter and the University of Michigan are made in the book, many of which have been marked.
169.8 linear feet (in 171 boxes) — 1 oversize volume — 84.4 GB (online)
Ann Arbor Board of Education, 1857-2011 (AAPS) series includes agenda items for Board meetings, minutes, rules, a partial index to Board proceedings, and audio tapes with historical narratives. Board meeting agenda for the period between 1941 and 2011 contain gaps for the following periods: July-October 1994, April 1997, July-December 1999.
The 2012 Accession includes files on facility planning (2000-2004), bond/sinking fund (2004), new school (1998-2005), and miscellaneous topics notably a set of school dedication and anniversary programs and a series of three volumes containing students' writings in the early 1940s, mainly autobiographical and some relating to World War II experiences, by fifth graders at Angell, Eberbach, and an unidentified school.
26 linear feet (in 27 boxes.) — 231 oversize volumes — 7 digital audio files
2 linear feet (UCCs) — 2 oversize folders (UCCm)
14 linear feet (in 15 boxes) — 37 oversize volumes — 1 oversize folder — 3.67 GB (online)
8 linear feet (on 11 microfilm rolls) — 25 volumes — 20 phonograph records — 1 film reel — 1 audiotape (reel-to-reel tapes)
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
(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.)
9 linear feet — 80 oversize bound volumes — 38 oversize scrapbooks — 1 oversize folder — 14.1 GB (online)