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Topical / Organizational Files
The Topical / Organizational Files series (8.25 linear feet), arranged alphabetically by subject or the name of an organization, consists of materials related to Axelrod's interest and activities in a number of public health planning councils, committees, and task force groups, as well as correspondence, notes, and related materials. Folders pertaining to the School of Public Health document Axelrod's teaching career. "Rural Health Services" and "Community Research Associates" document Axelrod's concerns for the health care of farmers and migrants during the Great Depression and the displaced persons of Europe following World War II. Also included are reports and memos on legislative bills affecting the public health care system in the United States. Other documentation includes Awards and Honors, "Background Paper on the Michigan College for Osteopathic Medicine," Bibliographical Material, Michigan Office of Services to the Aging and Oral History of the American Hospital Association.
Biographical /Personal
The Biographical/ Personal series, approximately 0.1 linear feet, includes biographical information in the form of curricula vitae, bibliography, and short narrative biographical descriptions, created at differing stages in Miller's career. It also includes a possibly unpublished paper given by Miller at a professional association meeting.
Education
The Education series, approximately 0.1 linear feet, includes materials relating to Miller's own education. It includes materials relating to the completion of his doctoral thesis at Syracuse University, as well as materials relating to courses Miller completed at the University of Michigan in the summer of 1950, including notes, exams, and study materials/syllabus information.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan series, approximately 2.55 linear feet, is comprised of four subseries, Course Materials, Administrative files, Requests for Funds, and Conferences/Meetings which together give insight into Miller's various commitments, responsibilities, and activities at the university.
Biographical/Personal
The Biographical/Personal series (Box 1) begins with a look at Revelli's career through newspaper clippings. There is a copy of Revelli's reflections of his long, illustrious career as a band director/musician. Researchers can read materials that pertain to Revelli's personal life, from his first directing position at Hobart High School, through to his retirement as the University of Michigan's band director in 1971.
Biographical
The Biographical series consists of one folder containing obituaries, eulogies, clippings, records of Lytle's military service and a short autobiographical sketch. There are also two black and white photographs of Lytle.
Writings
The Writings series contains Lytle's writings divided into two subseries, Published and Unpublished. The Published subseries includes copies of Lytle's articles from the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, and Education Week, 1987 through 1993; a copy of his book, Liberty Schools: A Parent's Voucher Plan; a 1974 booklet entitled Property Tax Cut & School Vouchers; and a series of columns for The Eccentric Newspapers entitled "Liberty Schools," also from 1974. The Unpublished subseries contains numerous articles, essays, and proposals by Lytle, the majority in draft form and dating from 1988 through 1992. One folder contains articles addressing Michigan educational issues in particular. The Unpublished subseries also contains proposals and drafts from 1990 through 1993 of Lytle's unfinished manuscript" Schooling's Revolution," a book length work on how to improve America's education system through privatization, parental choice, and increased technology in the classrooms. Of note in this subseries are the several partial drafts with extensive margin notes and commentary most likely by Milton Friedman.
Personal Papers
The Personal Papers series reflects aspects of Claudius Grant's military, professional, and personal lives. It includes a multi-volume diary written while serving in Co. D, 20th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War (1862-1865) and which documents daily activities in camp and on the march; comments on drunken officers; a criticism of Colonel A. W. Williams; accounts of the sieges of Knoxville and Petersburg and of the battles fought during May and June in 1864, especially the battle of the Wilderness. The series also includes correspondence (mainly with Grant's mother and wife) while he was a student at University of Michigan and during the Civil War. ASmong other topics, these letters explain the resolutions asking for the resignation of Colonel Williams; describe a march through Kentucky and the battle before Petersburg. Other highlights include letters to William H. Pettee (Dec. 6, 1880) concerning the establishment of a school of mines at the University and Harry B. Hutchins (Sept. 18, 1905) discussing the relative merits of the Michigan Union and Alumni Also included is a paper (Oct. 18, 1899) on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.; letter, Dec. 6, 1880, to William H. Pettee concerning the establishment of a school of mines at the University; letter, Sept. 18, 1905, to Harry B. Hutchins discussing the relative merits of the Michigan Union and Alumni Memorial building projects. The series also includes some miscellaneous deeds as well as a paper (Oct. 18, 1899) on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Kentucky during the Civil War.
Administrative
The Administrative series consists of minutes, memoranda, correspondence and financial documents which relate to the administration of the center, and is arranged alphabetically by topic. The series includes the minutes and other papers of the center's executive committee.
Unit Publications
Unit Publications include addresses, annual reports; bulletins and catalogs; directories of students, alumni, faculty and staff; journals and manuals for faculty and students; newsletters, including a run of the newsletter Law Quadrangle Notes, and printed versions of the on-line newsletter The Docket; various reports; and yearbooks. There are six histories of the Law School or a component thereof, including one by Elizabeth Gaspar Brown titled The Law School of the University of Michigan 1859 - 1984: An Intellectual History.
Note that beginning in November 2002 the authoritative source for program degree requirements are the printed bulletins with effective dates stored as digital files, accessible at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/86079. Also, note that Bentley holdings of the Michigan Law Review are separately cataloged and that the full complete run is maintained by the University of Michigan Law Library.
Administrative Records
The Administrative Records series is comprised of Budget Reports; Correspondence; Executive Committee Minutes; Funding Materials; Grant Proposals, Reports, and Related Materials; Job Descriptions; Memoranda; Office Organization; Preservation and Storage Concerns; Reorganization of PASE; Staff Meeting Notes; and Personnel Records.
Highlights of this record group include five folders, which contain minutes of PASE's Executive Committee arranged chronologically. These records, dating from 1974 to August 1979, also include related correspondence and other materials that provide valuable information about the operation of the office.
Five folders consisting of correspondence, memoranda, and other related materials document PASE's identification of funding agencies. This set of materials spans nearly the entire period of PASE's existence, although no materials from the years 1976 and 1979 are present. Complementing these records is a significant number of grant proposals, reports, and other related materials, which PASE submitted to various organizations in order to secure funding. It should be noted that two folders include proposals and related records sent to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) during the years 1972 to 1975. To maintain these documents' original order, the folders are dated 1972-1975 and 1973-1975, respectively.
The record group includes a folder of job postings and descriptions, which provide information about employees' responsibilities. Included also is one folder of memoranda exchanged between PASE and the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies in 1975 and 1976. Of special note is a memo that serves as an introduction to PASE's recently reorganized personnel in 1976. Memoranda and correspondence from 1979 and 1980 document the prospective administrative reorganization of PASE.
Because of the personally identifiable nature of the records contained, one folder of personnel-related documents is closed to research for thirty years past the records' dates of creation. These materials date from 1973 to 1980. The folder comprises the records of particular employees, arranged alphabetically by last name, which were selected for their documentation of PASE activities. Of special note are records pertaining to the three directors that PASE had throughout its existence.
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Littlefield Family
The Littlefield Family series provides biographical and genealogical content relevant to Hazel's childhood. Of particular interest are diaries by Josiah L. Littlefield and Emma L. Littlefield, along with business accounts of the family business in Farwell, Michigan.
Biographical and Professional Materials
The Biographical and Professional Series (0.5 linear feet, 1942-1990), although limited in quantity, is the portion of the collection that offers the widest overview of Muschenheim's life and work. Researchers will find fairly detailed material useful for becoming familiar with accomplishments at various stages of his career. Particularly valuable are the files regarding nomination for Fellowship, American Institute of Architects. Nomination materials include comprehensive biographical statistics (to 1961); descriptions of achievements in design work, exhibitions and jury participation; detailed data regarding publications; and achievements related to initiatives in education. Also important is a file with material about Peter Behrens and his school in Vienna, Austria, where Muschenheim was immersed in modern theory from 1925 to 1929. Additionally, the series includes a folder with various "lists of work," created at different times for different purposes and a transcription of an interview conducted by the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University in 1987 (a copy of the finding aid, "The William Muschenheim Architectural Drawings and Papers, 1902-1990," Avery Library, Columbia University, is also included in the series). A folder containing obituaries is an excellent source for studying how Muschenheim's career was assessed at the time of his death in 1990.
Personal/biographical materials
Personal/biographical materials is a small series of collected biographical information about Copeland and the Copeland family. Within this series has been placed the scattering of papers of Copeland forebears. There are two letters of Will Holmes to Francis Holmes Copeland written while serving in the Civil War. The letters are dated 1862 and 1864.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium, its buildings and guests: anniversary souvenir, 1898.
[32] p.; 15 x 23 cm.
Documentation and Research
The Documentation and Research series deals with the collection of information from the interviewers and subjects. This includes correspondence before and after the interview, release forms, background information on the nurses, outlines of interviews, and photographs of the interviewees. Some of the files contain miscellaneous historical documents supplied by the subjects of the interviews. In 1996 Schim conducted a second round of interviews in conjunction with her dissertation research. Transcripts from these second interviews are included in the files. Interviews with transcripts are indicated in the inventory. For the interviews without transcripts, the outlines contain a general index of the wide variety of subjects covered on the cassette tape. For example, the interview outline with Florence Vander Woude indicates a discussion of her involvement with the University of Michigan affiliated 298th General Hospital unit during World War II in addition to discussion of her career in community health.
Lynn W. Fry photograph collection, circa 1940-1971 (scattered)
1 folder (17 slides and 1 photograph)
Biographical
The Biographical series consists of a few folders of articles and clippings about Moody.
Early records
Early records includes the charter agreement and two record books (labeled no. 2 and no. 3). Record book no. 1 has been lost. The remaining record books cover the period 1895 to 1908 and combine together in chronological order both committee and directors minutes.
Minutes of the Directors' Meetings
Beginning in 1909, the minutes of the chamber's committees and board of directors were separated. The second series of the collection comprises the board of directors minutes, 1909-1946.
Miscellaneous Committee Minutes
The manner in which these committee minutes of the various chamber committees were bound for 1909 to 1929 is extremely disorganized. After 1929, however, and running up through 1946, the committee minutes and reports have been bound chronologically. Both director and committee minute books frequently contain a fairly complete index which was compiled at the time the records were being gathered for binding. When available, these indices appear at the beginning of each volume.
Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation records
The Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation records series (21 linear feet) contains correspondence, meeting minutes, financial information, grant recipient files, executive records and other information related to the Berman Foundation.
The series has been divided into 3 sub-series: Executive Director, Grant Recipients, and Administrative Records.
Biographical Material
Biographical Materials are slight, but provide some broader context to the collection. Background material includes data on collections, shows, exhibits, publications, clients, etc. There are also several brochures and a number of articles based on interviews with Korab.
Administrative
The Administrative file dates from 1966 to 1999, with the bulk of the material falling into the 1968 to 1994 range. This series contains meeting minutes, departmental correspondence, materials relating to the external and internal departmental reviews, personnel files and information about the programs offered in the department.
University of Michigan
Fischer's University of Michigan papers contain a melange of information on the School of Business Administration, SACUA, and the Lecture Committee. Within the School of Business Administration, Fischer was director of a study on the military retirement system, and this is well documented in the collection.
Consulting
Consulting projects comprise the bulk of the papers within the collection, documenting Fischer's involvement in international as well as domestic affairs. Of particular interest, his consulting work for the Hebrew University in Israel includes reminiscences of the political unrest occurring at that time. Also, Fischer was asked to serve a number of times as a consultant to the United States government.
Personal Correspondence
The Personal Correspondence (1993-1945, 0.1 linear feet) series includes correspondence with his family while in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II. The letters detail his daily life and work in multiple locations in Europe.
Landscape architectural drawings
The landscape architectural drawings series documents the sisters' Ann Arbor-based landscape design practice begun in the 1930s. This series begins with some of their student projects from graduate school at the University of Michigan followed by commissions in Ann Arbor (mainly in the 1930s and 1940s), several later design commissions from the 1940s after they had relocated to Lansing, and finally with a subseries of landscape projects undertaken for the Michigan Highway Department.
Pencil and watercolor on heavyweight paper were used for most of the Student Projects from the early 1930s. This subseries consists of plans and elevation drawings for public facilities, including a teahouse, an automobile club, a military entrance, and a roadside market. Also part of this subseries are two pencil-drawn plans for a residential district of a city and two colored drawings of a playground park plan. Some of the drawings are signed by Alice or Jessie; others are not, but are obviously by the same hand(s).
The bulk of the series is made up of two subseries of landscape project drawings for a number of Michigan clients in the 1930s and 1940s; one subseries documents commissions within Ann Arbor, the other covers Michigan Projects outside of the city. These drawings include general landscape plans, detailed planting plans, building elevation drawings, and some plans and sketches for garden structures such as rose arbors, summer houses, and pools. The formats include pencil drawings on tracing paper, photocopies of such drawings, and blueprints. There is some duplication of drawings in different formats.
Some projects are fully documented by several drawings, while others consist of only one plan. Most of the work is by Jessie Bourquin, who carried on the practice alone after Alice relocated to Lansing in 1935. The finely detailed plans and beautifully executed drawings attest to a high level of professional skill, as well as to the assiduous attention to detail for which the Bourquins became known. Intricate planting plans include dozens of varieties of flowers, trees, and shrubs arranged in multiple beds.
In addition to illustrating the sisters' professional capabilities, the Bourquins' drawings help to document the "end of an era" in Ann Arbor and other communities -- the decline of the leisured, aristocratic estate lifestyle of the well-to-do in early twentieth century America. The Bourquins ended their practice and sought new careers as the Depression dampened demand for luxuries like landscaping, and after World War II different, less elaborate architectural tastes came to the fore.
Topical Files
The Topical Files (1 liner foot) consist of an alphabetical run of files relating to student/community organizations and student academic programs. Included among the papers are files of HAP-NICA (Humanitarian Assistance Project for the Independent Development of Agriculture in Nicaragua), and documents about the University of Michigan's Committee on the Underclass Experience (CUE) and the University of Michigan's Residential College.
Hap-Nica was a project of the New World Agriculture Group and the Guild House Campus Ministry in Ann Arbor. Hap-Nica worked in conjunction with farm workers, unions and the Higher Institute of Agricultural Science in Nicaragua to promote the development of Nicaragua's capacity to raise its own food. Hap-Nica provided financial and technical assistance. The Hap-Nica newsletters document the projects and interests of the organization. Included within the files are the records of A2Mistad, a brigade that assisted in the construction of a soil testing laboratory in Managua, Nicaragua, to house equipment donated by the Italian government. The records include meeting minutes and fund raising information. Seeds of Hope, an eighteen-minute slide show documentary produced by Hap-Nica is also included within the files. The documentary includes slides, text and audio cassette recording.
The University of Michigan Committee on the Underclass Experience (CUE) originated in 1970. The committee, comprised of students and faculty, was concerned with improving the quality of teaching through grants, the appointment of departmental associates, an informal newsletter, seminars, workshops, and continuing education initiatives. The "General" folder contains information describing the fundamentals of the program.
Research and Writing
Items in the Research and Writing series (1983-2011; 10 linear feet and 1.15 MB) concern Walton's work as a scholar. The majority of the materials are drawn from his research after joining the University of Michigan in 1992. The series is arranged into four subseries: Correspondence, Academic and Professinal Writing, Research, and Reviews.
Correspondence
The Correspondence subseries contains letters and messages to and from Walton regarding his research and critiques, dated between 1992 and 2008.
Academic and Professional Writings
Researchers will find drafts of Walton's published works, dated between 1991 and 2011, within the Personal Writings subseries.
Unit Publications
The Unit Publications series includes research abstracts from graduate students and nursing specialists from 1965 to 1988; academic program brochures, catalogs, and other marketing materials; faculty, staff, and graduate student directories from 1971 to 1998; a history of the School of Nursing dated June 1953; numerous manuals regarding academic policies and procedures including faculty, staff, and student handbooks from 1938 to 2010; newsletters including The Bulletin (volumes 1-19), and volumes of News and Notes from 1986 to 1995.
This series also contains various progress reports, self-studies, and A Survey of Hospital Nurses: Summary Report. Also included are faculty research surveys; abstracts, brochures, and programs pertaining to faculty, student, and practitioner symposia.
Unit Publications
The Unit Publications series contains printed material published specifically by the School of Kinesiology. These publications are defined as being widely distributed and may be published at regular intervals. They are arranged by genre of the publication. Previous to 1990 this unit was known as the Department of Physical Education and the Division of Physical Education.
The Unit Publications include annual reports published from 1987 to 1989. There are also bulletins or course catalogs which describe courses offered by the Division of Physical Education and the Division of Kinesiology for the period from 1987 to 1998. The researcher should consult the School of Education Publications (0347, Bimu, C202, 2) for bulletins, from 1921 to 1984, with descriptions of courses offered by the Department of Physical Education. The electronic version of the School of Kinesiology bulletin, from 1998 to the present, is the authoritative source of admission information, course offerings and degree requirements for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Many of the bulletins contain addenda as well as student forms, the latter of which are record sheets used for tracking progress in program requirements and electives for the school's different programs.
The history Kinesiology: A Michigan Tradition, 1894-1994 was written to celebrate the centennial of physical education instruction on the University of Michigan campus. This series also contains several manuals describing the study of physical education for both men and women as well as an information handbook for majors, minors and dance students. There are also three newsletters found in this series. The Division of Physical Education Alumni Newsletter covers the years 1985 through 1986. The alumni newsletter Movement was first published in 1988 and continues to the present. It describes the activities and research of the faculty, staff, students and alumni. The 1984 issues of Physical Education Newsletter are available here. The researcher should consult the School of Education Publications for 1983 issues.
Honors, Awards, and Miscellaneous
Honors, Awards, and Miscellaneous (.3 linear ft.) spans from 1921-1989 and contains citations, degrees and other honors given to Rice. Some biographical material is included.
Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
The Anti-Discrimination Ordinance series, approximately 0.5 linear feet, is arranged mostly chronologically and contains correspondence, agendas and minutes for city council and other city commission meetings, and texts of prepared speeches that Duty delivered at these meetings in favor of passing Ypsilanti's anti-discrimination ordinance. There are also folders of newspaper clippings and miscellaneous materials relating to Duty's pro-ordinance activities.
Citizens For Community
The Citizens for Community series, approximately 0.25 linear feet, is arranged topically and consists of materials tracing Duty's activities in this community gay rights advocacy group.
Administrative
Administrative series documents the organizational structure and annual agricultural offerings of the Community Farm of Ann Arbor. The series contains meeting minutes, budgets, and correspondence.
Publicity
Publicity series documents the history, goals, and activities of the Community Farm of Ann Arbor. The series contains promotional leaflets and flyers, newsletters, and newspaper clippings.
University of Michigan
Cole received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, becoming an Assistant Professor in 1966, an Associate Professor in 1971, and Director of OSAT in 1978. This series documents Cole's professional activities at the University of Michigan, including his position as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of OSAT. The series contains information on the Traverse City Management Briefing Seminar, which was founded by Cole, and various projects related to the University of Michigan.
Mechanical Engineering Department
The Mechanical Engineering Department subseries contains notes, exams and teaching materials for courses that Cole attended and taught. Videos from mechanical engineering classes can be found in the Audio-Visual Material series.
Personal
The Personal series measures .5 feet and includes biographical information, Finerman's notes from classes he took as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and one folder of correspondence, some of which overlaps with his professional career and work. There are four journals within this series documenting Finerman's travels to other countries on professional matters. He recorded logistical details and thoughts on other issues such as computer installations and meetings he had with others.
Biographical Material
Biographical Material consists of one folder, which includes data sheets, resumes, biographical statements in campaign literature, and clippings.
Political Activities
Composing the bulk of the collection, the Political Activities series is further divided into the following subseries: Initiative Petitions, Statements, Gubernatorial Campaign, 1982, Ron Paul Campaign Correspondence, U.S. Senatorial Campaign, 1988, Non-Campaign-Related Materials, State Senate/Gubernatorial Campaigns, 1990, and Congressional Campaign, 1992. Within the Initiative Petitions subseries, there are four folders containing material documenting Jacobs's role in writing and promoting Robert Tisch's proposed state tax reduction amendments and later his own version of a tax reduction amendment. The Statements subseries contains Jacobs's views on such topics as the state of American democracy, the need for and future of the Libertarian Party, and Michigan's economy.
Material from Jacobs's five political campaigns make up the remaining subseries. These are arranged chronologically by campaign: Gubernatorial, 1982; U.S. Senatorial Campaign, 1988; State Senate/Gubernatorial Campaigns, 1990; and Congressional Campaign, 1990. Highlights of the material include a folder of miscellanea from the 1982 gubernatorial effort that contains unlabeled photographs of Jacobs greeting people on the campaign trail. This folder also contains Jacobs's political literature, sample ballots, and documents pertaining to the election results.
Also of special interest is the correspondence in the subseries, State Senate/Gubernatorial Campaigns, 1990, which conveys the opinions of Jacobs's Libertarian counterparts toward his temporary switch to the Republican party and his personal rationale behind the change. Records from the 1992 congressional campaign include a folder of surveys and questionnaires that Jacobs completed during the campaign. Due to several undated materials in this folder, they are arranged alphabetically by the name of the organization that sent them. Other documents of note include a folder of Jacobs's political statements and campaign-related notes, arranged chronologically, as well as several undated statements.
Another folder includes correspondence and other material generated by Jacobs in support of Libertarian candidate Ron Paul's 1988 presidential campaign. A folder of material from 1989, which is not related to any of his campaigns, includes correspondence documenting Jacobs's ballot initiative regarding the development of a school-voucher system and a property tax reduction initiative, his support of salary cuts for federal officials, and the creation of a Michigan citizens' organization to stage petition drives. These records are arranged chronologically.
Titus Vespation Hoisington
The Titus Vespatian Hoisington series contains research, notes, clippings and exhibit documents about the creation of a memorial for Titus Vespatian Hoisington, a veteran of the American Revolution who died in Michigan.
Research Files
The Research Files series contains local history research including spreadsheets of cemetaries, information about historical buisnesses, maps, pictures and census information.
Art
The Art (0.2 linear ft.) series consists of materials relating to Redstone's intense interest in Art. This series includes information on his exhibitions and activities to promote art in the community. Also included is a watercolor painting that was part of an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Clippings/Publicity
The Clippings/Publicity (0.3 linear ft.) series consists of newspaper articles by and about Redstone, his career, and public activities. Of note is a scrapbook of photographs and clippings documenting in part his career in Palestine.
Biographical material and correspondence
Biographical Material and Correspondence includes letters from Orville Atwood, John V. Brennan, Prentiss M. Brown, Frank Couzens, James Couzens, Ella Lee Cowgill, Frank Fitzgerald, Richard T. Frankensteen, William Haber, Clarence Hillberry, Fred Johnson, Harry Kelly, Alexander Ruthven, Forrester B. Washington, Lawerence Westbrook, and G. Mennen Williams. Some other correspondents are included but most of the material concerns Norton's social work.
Presentations and essays
Presentations and Essays help to document Norton's views on public relief during the depression, his interest in the improvement of mental health facilities in Michigan, and the activities of the Children's Fund of Michigan.
Administrative Files
The Administrative Files series, 2004-2012 (0.2 linear feet), is arranged alphabetically and primarily consists of correspondence, reports, and committee and director information relating to the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. Material from the Friends of the MBGNA is also inluded in this series.
Events and Projects
The Events and Projects series, 2004-2010 (0.3 linear feet), is arranged alphabetically and consists of materials relating to the various events and projects that were undertaken by the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. A few of these projects and events include Community Education Programs, the Earth Day Festival, and the Peony Garden Conservation Plan.
Student Housing
The Student Housing series includes Dean of Women files and files relating to League Housing. The Dean of Women files include the handbook for the Assistant Dean and an Administrative Assistant, and a retrospective of forms and procedures used in the office from the late 1950s and early 1960s. There is also an internal study conducted in 1957, and a handbook for directors of women's residences. The League Housing files include correspondence with the house directors and contract, pricing, and inspection records (filed alphabetically by street address) for some of the houses. Of interest are photographs of four of the houses. These papers provide a glimpse of women's lives at the university in the last years of the university regulations governing their living arrangements. Also within the files are agreements between the house owners and the ODW on rental charges, and records of inspection tours.