Collections : [Central Michigan University Clarke Historical Library]

The collection mainly documents people and buildings of Fremont, Michigan, with a few images of Whitecloud, Hesperia, Holland, and Walkerville, Michigan.

A woman photographer’s collection is rare, much less one from Michigan. The collection consists mostly of 8 x 10 inch glass plate negatives, one film negative, and a copper engraving plates (in the last box). Each negative is in a folder instead of a folder. Most of the images are of women, children, babies, and families, although there are a few images of men, often in World War I uniforms, stores, wedding parties, a dog, a choir, and some sports teams (basketball and football), and school groups or graduating classes. Many of the images are identified. Only a few images are dated, 1920-1924. Many of the images of the children are charming.

Most of the images are of people or buildings in Fremont, although a few images are identified as groups or people from Hesperia, Holland, Whitecloud, and Walkerville, Michigan. Schools noted in the collection include Fremont High School, Brookside School, and Christian School. School basketball and/or football teams and class photographs include those from Whitecloud, Hesperia, Holland, and Fremont, Michigan.

Processing Note: By the time the collection was donated to the Clarke, many of the negatives were cracked or broken in pieces, while others had emulsions separating or separated from the glass. Those with images lost or badly deteriorated were returned to the donor as requested, which constituted about half of the original collection. Thus, researchers will find many numbers missing in the numerical sequences.

The collection includes photographs of CMU people, places, and events, 1962-2002, and undated.

The collection consists mainly of undated photographs, both black and white and colored, of various sizes, proof sheets, some on cardboard, and some negatives documenting a wide variety of Central Michigan University (CMU) staff, students, programs, departments, special events, and related topics. Some of the portraits in the collection predate 1962. Also, some of the photographs in the collection were taken by private photographers. There are two alphabetical runs in this inventory due to the way the material was transferred to the Clarke and processed. Due to the size of this collection it could not be interfiled into the earlier CMU. Photographs collection in file cabinets. After 2002, all CMU photographs were taken with digital cameras. Peggy Brisbane and her husband, Robert Barclay, took many of these photographs. Mugs means Mugshots. This is a term used by the photographers in the collection.

The records include: meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, histories, photograph albums, scrapbooks, programs, miscellaneous, published materials, an oversized photograph, and papers of Joseph Cherwinski, a Lansing poet and librarian. The collection is ongoing.

Organizational records, 1933-2003, include: meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, histories, photograph albums, scrapbooks, programs, miscellanea, and materials relating to the presidential terms of William S. Poe, Joye S. Giroux, and Mrs. Geneva. Published materials include the works of members, other poets, newsletters, and the Peninsula Poets, 1946-2002, except for 1955-1958. Also included are the papers of Joseph Cherwinski, Lansing poet and librarian. An Oversized folder includes a professional black and white photograph of 30 Poetry Society of Michigan members seated at three tables at a black-tie dinner On the image written in white ink, Poetry Society of Michigan (PSM), Detroit Leland Hotel, October 24, 1939, Acme Photo. .The photograph measures 9.5x16.5 inches. Although the photograph has holes punched in the corners, a crease, and a rip on the central left edge taped on the back, it is still in very good condition. A related note (photocopy) identifies the photograph as probably the only one [up to 1939] taken of the complete group. Members of the speaker's table (in the background) are identified as then PSM President Muriel Jeffries Burd (in white). To her left and to the end of the table are seated: Clifford Allen (founder), Marjorie Hanhardt, Elmer Adams, and Emil Tolonen. To Burd's right and to the end of the table are seated: Dorothea York, Sidney Mason, and Jessie Wilmore Murton. The note further states that most of these poets were charter members and that additional guests attended a reception after dinner, including Anne Campbell and her husband, then editor of the Detroit News. The collection is ongoing.

The records include circulars regarding business and shipping operations for the Port of Detroit, Michigan, 1790-1827.

The records include 90 letters and 35 printed circulars regarding business and shipping operations for the Port of Detroit, 1790-1827. The records relate to the leveling of duties on goods and merchandise imported on foreign ships and vessels; rules regulating the receipt and distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures of foreign vessels; and rules regulating the registration and enrollment of U.S. vessels.

Correspondence regards the appointments of Inspectors of Revenue David Duncan at Michilimackinac, 1803; Matthew Ernest at Detroit, 1800; and William Woodbridge (1780-1861), Inspector and Collector at Detroit, 1814 [later Michigan Governor and U.S. Senator].

Other important Michigan correspondents include Reuben Atwater (1768-1831), Collector of the Port of Detroit [later acting Governor, 1811-1812, and Secretary of the Territory of Michigan, 1808-1814]; Peter Audrain; and A. Gallatin.

Other correspondence concerns the schooners Wilkinson on March 16, 1804; the Eagle and the Champion on April 24, 1816; the Fair American on March 19, 1816; and the Hornet, November 27, 1818.

Most of correspondence is between the Port of Detroit inspectors and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Comptroller’s Office. The collection is arranged in chronological order.

Collection includes 1334 film negatives of people, [1920-1945].

Collection of 849 film negatives measuring 3.5 inches x 5 inches, and 485 measuring 5 inches x 7 inches, [1920-1945]. The creator is unknown. Negatives are organized into the topics of babies, boys, children, couples, girls, men, including some in graduation caps and gowns and various World War II uniforms, and women, including some in graduation caps and gowns. There are both portraits and group images, including some wedding and anniversary photographs. There are also miscellaneous images, including pets, buildings, caskets and grave sites, and a few sets of multiple images on one negative. Also included are three small photographs of women. None of the people or locations are identified.

The collection includes posters Central Michigan University events, departments, offices, speakers, workshops, conferences, and other topics.

This is a collection of posters mostly generated by Central Michigan University (CMU)’s Public Relations and Marketing Department. The posters promoted a wide variety of CMU events, departments, offices, speakers, workshops, conferences, etc. The size, color, and composition of the posters vary greatly. The poster designs range from basically enlarged photographs of university buildings, to stark words, to very artistic theatrical posters. Dated posters range 1968-2006, but the majority of the posters are undated. About half of the undated posters have a month and day but no year, for example, “An evening with Muhammad Ali. January 28.”

More than 600 posters are organized into CMU (more than 570) and non-CMU topics (more than 40). Each topic has its own folder. Additional posters have been added periodically so the alphabetical/ numerical order of folder listing is no longer in strict order. For ease of filing, new additions are added to the top of each folder. There are 570 CMU posters and 41 non-CMU posters. In the Folder Listing, the title or Description of the poster, date of poster, and size of poster, in inches, is given. Many posters have multiple dates on them, such as, for example, “Register for Classes, Mon. Dec. 1, 8-5, Tues. Dec. 2, 9-4, Weds…” Any posters that are damaged by rips or holes are also noted.

The collection is ongoing with poster coming from various sources.

Here are the topics of the posters in alphabetical order, which does not follow the folder order because of later, ongoing additions: CMU topics (folders), 570 posters total: Folder 5: CMU Admissions, 26 posters, 1983, 1986-1989, 1991, 1999, and undated; Folder 6: CMU and You Day, 19 posters, 1980-1989, 1991, 1993-1994, 1996-2000; Folder 1: CMU Art Festivals, 4 posters, 1994, and undated; Folder 7: CMU Art Gallery, 5 posters, 1983-1984, 1986-1987, and undated; Folder 8: CMU Artists Course [musicians], 27 posters, 1975, 1979-1980, and undated; Folder 9: CMU Athletics, 20 posters, 1978, 1980-1983, 1986-1988, 1990-1994, and Undated; Folder 2: CMU Beaver Island, 15 posters, 1991-1993, 1998-2003, 2005, and undated; Folder 3: CMU Career Day, 5 posters, 198-1985, 1993, undated; Folder 4: CMU Charles Anspach Platform Series, 7 posters, 1980-1981, 1985, and Undated; Folder 30: CMU Clarke Historical Library, 2 posters, 1985, undated; Folder 20: CMU Conferences / Visiting Artist/ Artist Speakers Course [not musicians], 11 posters, 1976, 1979, 1982-1983, 1988, 1990-1991, and Undated; Folder 21: CMU Departments, 15 posters, 1980-1984, and undated; Folder 10: CMU Development Fund/ Campus Campaigns, 11 posters, 1974-1975, 1983, 1985-1989-1991, 1993, and undated; Folder 23: CMU Faculty Conferences/ Programs, 6 posters, 1980, 1986-1987, 2002, and undated; Folder 24: CMU Film Festivals, 15 posters, 1972, undated [1970s]; Folder 11: CMU Foreign Language Day, 18 posters, 1976-1979, 1981-1984, 1986-1995; Folder 8: CMU Front Row Central, 2 posters, 1995; Folder 25: CMU Graduate Studies/ Extended Degree Programs, 23 posters, undated; Folder 26: CMU Greater Michigan Instructional Materials Exhibits, 13 posters, 1975, 1977-1979, 1981-1982, 1984-1989, 1991; Folder 27: CMU Greek/ Fraternities / Sororities, 7 posters, 1989-1990, and undated; Folder 39: CMU Health Services, 6 posters, undated; Folder 28: CMU IPCD (Institute for Personal and Career Development) Distinguished Lecturer Series, 6 posters, undated; Folder 12: CMU Library, 10 posters, 1991, and undated; Folder 29: CMU Minority Affairs, 9 posters, [1974], 1977, 1982-1983, 1985, 1993, 1995, 2005, and undated; Folder 30: CMU Miscellaneous CMU, 7 posters, 1973, [1976], 1976, 1981, undated; Folder 30: CMU Museum, 5 posters, undated; Folder 31: CMU Musical Performances [no notation they are Artist Course-related], 55 posters, 1972, 1975, 1985-1997, 1999, 2001, and undated; Folder 32: CMU Office of Career Development of Handicapped Persons, 1 poster, 1976; Folder 33: CMU Other Speakers Sponsored by, 9 posters, 1975, 1981-1982, 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000-2001, and undated; Folder 13: CMU Percussion Workshops, 5 posters, 1992-1995, 1998; Folder 14: CMU Program Board/ Speaker Series, 34 posters, 1974-1975, 1977, 1979-1981, 1984-1987, 1989, 1992-1994, 1998-1999, and undated; Folder 34: CMU Racism, 2 posters, undated; Folder 15: CMU Scholarship, 15 posters, 1990-1991, 1993-1995, 1999-2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and undated; Folder 16: CMU School of Music, 26 posters, 1977-1978, 1980-1981, 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1997, 2000-2001, 2003-2005, and undated; Folder 35: CMU Sexual Assault/ Sexual Harassment, 9 posters, undated; Folder 17: CMU Student Art Exhibits, 19 posters, 1977-1982, 1984-1985, and Undated; Folder 18: CMU Student Services, 19 posters, 1978-1980, 1983-1984, 1991, 2002, and undated; Folder 36: CMU Study Abroad Poster, 1 poster, undated; Folder 37: CMU Summer Classes/ Programs, 15 posters, 1982-1987, 1989-1992, and Undated; Folder 40: CMU University Theater, 84 posters, 1968, 1971-1972, 1976, 1981-1996, 2003-2005, and undated; Non-CMU topics (folders), 41 posters total: Folder 19: Community Events, 11 posters, 1978, 1981, 1986, 1989, 2005, and undated; Folder 22: Energy/ Conservation, 13 posters, 1978, and undated; Folder 4l: Miscellaneous, 5 posters, undated; Folder 38: Theater (not CMU), 12 posters, 1982-1984, 1986-1988, and undated.

Each folder is described in the following order in the Folder Listing: Poster Description. Date (if given) - size (any remarks)

The collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, reports, speeches, subject files and a plaque documenting Harold Abel's tenure as Central Michigan University's president, 1975-1985. There are very few personal materials in the collection. Of particular note are the materials documenting the Jane Fonda campus speech controversy, 1977-1978.

Except for some Biographical Information, 1975, 2002, undated (3 folders), the rest of the collection has no personal materials in it. The remaining series in the collection, all related to CMU or educational topics, include: Correspondence, 1972-1985 (approximately .5 cubic ft.); Meeting Minutes, 1976-1984 (approximately .5 cubic ft.); Photographs, 1981, undated (a few folders); Reports, 1964, 1985 (Approximately .5 cubic ft.); Speeches, 1976, 1985 (9 folders); most of the rest of the collection consists of Subject Files, 1973-1987. There is also one Plaque, 1977.

The collection includes a lot of financial, budget, fundraising, and Development Fund information in the collection because of the lean budget years experienced by CMU during President Abel’s tenure. Other topics documented at length in the collection include the Institute for Personal and Career Development (IPCD), commencements, December 1976-May 1985, the Jane Fonda Controversy, and Korean Hanyang University and Chung Ang University.

The only Photographs in the collection are in folders with Inauguration Materials, Development Board Meeting Minutes, and the Subject Files for the Perry Shorts Stadium Improvement and the Roscommon Property.

Oversized Michigan Senate Resolution No. 691, July 2, 1980, commending CMU administrators and deans for not taking a pay raise, is also included.

Abbreviations used in the finding aid include CMU for Central Michigan University, MI for Michigan, and Dept. for Department. Folder labels with acronyms used by President Abel are followed by the full organizational name, if known, in parenthesis at the end of the label.

The collection includes President Plachta's Biographical Materials, Subject and Correspondence files, Speeches, Subject and Correspondence files.

The collection consists of President Plachta’s subject and correspondence files on a wide variety of CMU related topics, organizations, people, and events, including larger sections documenting scholarships, the Board of Trustees, and various colleges and universities. Speeches, 1992-1996 (.5 cubic ft.) are also included. They are mostly Addresses to Campus or the Academic Senate. One folder of Biographical Materials precedes the Speeches.

Processing Note: Duplicates, reading or FYI materials, and papers with social security numbers were removed from the collection during processing.

The papers consists of family papers, photographic materials, genealogical materials, miscellaneous, and a scrapbook.

Miscellaneous papers, compiled from various donors and sources, compose this collection. The collection includes various photographic images, genealogical materials, music, correspondence, notes, and a scrapbook about Preston and Woodworth family members.

The organizational records include meeting minutes, correspondence, policies, bylaws, photographs, programs, accounts, scrapbook, and other materials.

The organizational records include meeting minutes, 1967-1971. 1986-1990; correspondence, 1969-1976; Central Michigan University's Gerald L. Poor School Museum materials, 1976; policies, bylaws, and articles of incorporation, 1965-1973; photographs, 1960s-1970s; programs, 1969-1973; accounts,1971-1978; scrapbook, 1967-1972; and other materials.