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Ann Arbor Board of Education, 1857-2011
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.
Ann Arbor Public Schools Records, 1833-2011
26 linear feet (in 27 boxes.) — 231 oversize volumes — 7 digital audio files
Ann Arbor (Mich.) Fire Department records, 1850-1962
2.5 linear feet (in 3 boxes) — 8 oversize volumes
Ann Arbor, Michigan photograph collection, 1860s-1970s
2 linear feet (UCCs) — 2 oversize folders (UCCm)
Ann Arbor (Mich.) records, 1830-2002
14 linear feet (in 15 boxes) — 37 oversize volumes — 1 oversize folder — 3.67 GB (online)
Ann Arbor Railroad Company, 1896-1964
67 linear feet
This subgroup is divided into administrative records, financial records, legal and other records, labor relations files, and records of subsidiaries. Administrative and financial records are arranged alphabetically by type of material, labor relations files by file number.
Records of the parent company include annual reports for the years 1910 to 1963; minutes of meetings of the board of directors and executive committee, 1910 to 1960; financial records; reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission; legal records; and various other reports and studies. The bulk of the records--42 feet--consists of labor relations files dating primarily from the 1920s to 1960. These files contain contracts and agreements, complaints, and claims regarding wages, hours, rules, and regulations for various groups of railroad workers. A card file in box 57 indexes and summarizes circular letters sent out by the Bureau of Information of the Eastern Railways from the 1930s to the 1960s.
In addition to the records of the Ann Arbor Railroad there are fragmentary records of five of its subsidiaries: the Ann Arbor Boat Company; Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad Company; Manistique, Marquette and Northern Railroad Company; Menominee and St. Paul Railway Company; and Wabash Radio Corporation. These records range from annual reports and minutes to labor relations files, balance sheets, and reports to the Michigan Board of Assessors.
Penn Central Transportation Company Records, 1835-1981 (majority within 1835-1960)
273 linear feet — 144 oversize volumes
Township Record Books, 1845-1902
Township Record Books includes minutes of annual and township board meetings. Also variously includes election results; motions and agreements; oaths of office; reports of Highway Commissioners' and minutes of the Board of Health.)
Ann Arbor Young Men’s - Young Women's Christian Association (Mich.) records, 1894-1956
2 linear feet — 1 oversize folder