Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

Non-profit organization providing energy efficiency information and services to homes and businesses in Michigan. Name changed in 2009 to Michigan Energy Options. Collection includes administrative and financial files; records of grants, programs, and services; documentation of the Energy Demonstration House; records of the organization’s work with regional task forces and issue advocacy; seminar and curriculum development materials; printed brochures and newsletters; press releases and clippings; and photographs and slides of staff and volunteers, the Energy Demonstration House, and exhibits and events.

The Urban Options records provide an in-depth look at the work of this non-profit energy efficiency organization from its founding in 1978 until 2002. The collection documents how Urban Options was managed as it grew and integrated new services; how programs were developed and implemented; how the organization delivered its message of energy efficiency and sustainability through publications and media outreach, and how it sought institutional and individual support for its work. The records are arranged into eight series.

Michigan Republican State Senator; the collection relates primarily to proposed legislation, other files document issues of concern to the Hispanic community of Michigan; also issues relating to Michigan veterans.

The Papers of Valde Garcia contains documents that span his entire career as a Michigan State Senator from 2001 to 2010. A small number of records date from Garcia's time as a Michigan State Representative before entering the senate. The collection is arranged into three series: Bills and Legislation, Hispanic Issues, and Personal Records.

Letters of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg with family members John and Barbara Bailey; also papers of Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., aide to President Dwight Eisenhower, largely concerning Republican politics, 1948-1952, and election of 1952.

The Vandenberg Family papers, 1923-1965, and Washington, D.C.; include letters of Arthur H. Vandenberg with family members John and Barbara Bailey; also papers of Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., aide to President D. Eisenhower, largely concerning republican politics, 1948-1952, and the election of 1952. Correspondents include: Thomas Dewey, Dvight Eisenhower, and Nelson Rockefeller.

The Institute of General History at the University of Turku, Finland (Turun Yliopisto. Yleisen Historian Laitos) microfilmed thousands of letters from Varsinais-Suomi (Southwest Finland) region in 1964. The letters were written by Finnish emigrants to their families and friends in Finland.

The Varsinais-Suomi Region immigrant letters consist thousands of letters written by Finnish emigrants from Varsinais-Suomi (Southwest Finland) region to their families and friends in Finland between 1880 and 1964. There are also post cards, diaries and passports in the collection. Many letters originate from the United States and Canada, but there are also others from South America, Australia, New Zealand and the Soviet Union. The Institute of General History collected the letters between February 1 and October 31, 1966. The collected letters were organized and microfilmed in the fall of 1966.

The collection was arranged by town (also known as parishes or municipalities). Within each town the letters of each recipient were kept together. The owners of the letters are in chronological order according to the emigrating year of their correspondents.

Every subseries of letters includes a questionnaire that was completed by the letter recipient. In the upper right corner of the questionnaire there is a code that includes the abbreviation of the town and the location of the sender.

The questionnaire for collecting these America letters contained the following questions:

1. The owner of the letters (name and address)
2. The writer of the letters (name and last address)
3. The relationship between the owner and the writer
4. When left for America
5. Who were they visiting in America
6. Why left
7. Home town in Finland
8. The occupation of the parents
9. How large was the family of the parents of the emigrant
10. Was the emigrant married when he left Finland
11. Did the wife and children emigrate, too
12. Did the emigrant get married in America
13. What year
14. The nationality of the spouse
15. The occupation of the emigrant when emigrated
16. Had the emigrant ever been working outside the home town before emigrating
17. How did the emigrant go to America (route and vehicle)
18. The first workplace in America
19. What kind of work
20. Where did the emigrant live the longest time in America
21. What kind of work
22. Other members of the group who emigrated at the same time: name, hometown, return to Finland
23. The later life of the emigrant: did/did not return to Finland
24. If applicable, why did the emigrant return
25. Return route and vehicle
26. Occupation after return
27. The number of the letters (photos, diaries etc.) in the enclosed questionnaire envelope
28. The owner donates the letters/loans them only for microfilming
29. The collector of the letters (name and address)
30. To be filled by the Institute of General History

Documents in this collection are identified with the following abbreviations indicating the name of the town or parish from which the immigrant came.

1. ALAS = Alastaro
2. AURA = Aura
3. B-DÖ = Brändö Al.
4. D-FJÄRD = Dragsfjärd
5. HAL = Halikko
6. HIIT = Hiittinen
7. HOUTS = Houtskari
8. JOK = Jokioinen
9. K-KERTA = Kakskerta
10. K-TI = Kalanti
11. K-LA = Karjala Tl.
12. K-NA = Karuna
13. KEM = Kemiö
14. K-KO = Kisko
15. K-JOKI = Kodisjoki
16. KORP = Korpoo
17. K-KI = Koski-Tl.
18. K-VI = Kustavi
19. K-TO = Kuuisto
20. KUUS = Kuusjoki
21. L-LA = Laitila
22. LEMU = Lemu
23. L-TO = Lieto
24. LOIM = Loimaa
25. L-TI = Lokalahti
26. MAAR = Maaria
27. M-LA = Marttila
28. M-KU = Masku
29. MERI = Merimasku
30. MIET = Mietoinen
31. MUUR = Muurla
32. M-KI = Mynämäki
33. NAAN = Naantali
34. ORIP = Oripää
35. PAAT = Paattinen
36. PAIM = Paimio
37. PAR = Parkano
38. PER = Perniö
39. P-LI = Pertteli
40. PYHÄ = Phyämää
41. RÖY = Pöytyä
42. RYM = Rymättylä
43. S-VO = Sauvo
44. S-RO = Somero
45. SUOM = Suomasjärvi
46. T-LO = Taivassalo
47. T-JOKI = Tarvasjoki
48. T-KU = Turku
49. USK = Uskela
50. VEH = Vehmaa
51. VEL = Belkua
52. VÄST = Västanfjärd
53. Y-NE = Yläne

Minutes of the Village Council of Vassar, Michigan; also indexes to records of the Riverside Cemetery Association.

The record group is arranged into two series: Council Minutes and Other Materials. The Council Minutes are bound volumes of proceedings of the village council. Other materials includes a record of interments and deeds of the Riverside Cemetery Association.

Baits, Vera Burridge, member of Board of Regent of the University of Michigan. This collection contains speeches, addresses and alumni awards.

Speeches and alumni awards.

Professor of early American history at the University of Michigan. Correspondence, files, lecture materials, papers relating to his books and articles, and professional activities, including correspondence with prominent historians.

Papers, 1911-1974, of Verner W. Crane, professor of history at the University of Michigan; contain correspondence files, lecture materials, papers relating to his books and articles, and professional activities. Correspondents include: John R. Alden, Charles M. Andrews, Herbert E. Bolton, Julian P. Boyd, Carl Bridenbaugh, Ronald S. Crane, Lawrence H. Gipson, Oscar Handlin, Robert A. Humphreys, Bernhard Knollenberg, Edmund S. Morgan, Frederick B. Tolles, Frederick J. Turner, Carl Van Doren, Claude H. Van Tyne, Clarence L. Ver Steeg, and Lawrence C. Wroth.

The Office of the Vice President for Communications, immediately under the President's Office, acts as the official voice of the University of Michigan. The Office is divided up into six units: Director of Communications Administration and Policy and Chief Freedom of Information Officer, Executive Writer and Communications Counsel, Media Relations and Public Affairs, News Services, Marketing Communications, and Michigan Public Media. All together, these units provide information to the public about the events, programs, policies, and decisions created by University administration, faculty, staff, students and alumni. The Vice President for Communications (University of Michigan) records consist of files created and collected by Julie Peterson, Associate Vice President for Media Relations and Public Affairs under the Vice President for Communications, and by Deborah Greene, Executive Communications Coordinator under the Associate Vice President for Media Relations and Public Affairs.

The Vice President for Communications (University of Michigan) records consist of files created and collected by Julie Peterson, Associate Vice President for Media Relations and Public Affairs under the Vice President for Communications, and by Deborah Greene, Executive Communications Coordinator under the Associate Vice President for Media Relations and Public Affairs.

University of Michigan office overseeing institutional development and fundraising activities. Includes miscellaneous brochures, directories, newsletters, organizational charts, reports, and statistics of the Vice-President for Development and the Office of University Relations and Development; also includes brochures and newsletters from the various financial campaigns such as the Campaign for Michigan-A Heritage for Leadership, the Annual Giving Program, and the Campaign for Michigan.

The University of Michigan. Vice President for Development Publications (5 linear feet) include annual reports, brochures, directories, ephemera including flyers, invitations, posters, and programs, histories, manuals, newsletters, and reports. These publications are divided into three series: Unit Publications, Sub-Unit Publications, and Major Campaign Publications. The bulk of the publications document the day-to-day activities of the Development Office. Researchers will also find publications detailing the Development Council, the Michigan Alumni Fund, Office of Trusts and Bequests, the Presidential Societies, and major capital campaigns, including the $55 Million Program to Ensure the Vital Margin, a Heritage of Leadership: Campaign for Michigan, the Campaign for Michigan, and the Michigan Difference.

Records of University of Michigan office (and its predecessor administrative offices) responsible for external fund raising and development activities, including subject files of development officials Arthur Brandon, Lyle Nelson, and Michael Radock; staff files; and photographs.

The records of the Vice President for Development date from 1948 to the present and measure 39.5 linear feet. They reflect the basic concerns of the office for these four decades: preserving and improving the university's public image and planning major fundraising efforts. Unfortunately, both activities are incompletely documented. In the area of public relations the records tend to discuss how immediate problems will be dealt with, rather than overall conceptions of the university's image. The thought behind the innovative fundraising devices created or employed by the office is sometimes recorded through consultant reports, but in general is not well documented.

The manuscript records have been divided into two subgroups, one representing the records of the vice president (or senior staff person, for those years in which there was no vice presidency), the other containing records created by the development office. The Vice Presidents subgroup has been divided by the name of each person who has held the office: Arthur Brandon, Lyle Nelson, and Michael Radock. Researchers should note that since Nelson and Radock used their predecessor's files for some time before inaugurating their own records, the relationship between office tenure and file dates is not an exact one. The Development Office subgroup contains records of that office and its subsidiary units. Several accessions of Development Office records received in 1989 and 1990 have been grouped together as Development Office subgroup: 1989-1990 accessions.