Republican Congressman Harold (Hal) Sawyer represented Michigan's Fifth District in the U.S. Congress from 1977 to 1984. The California native worked in Grand Rapids law firm Warner, Norcross & Judd, and served on the Michigan Law Revision...
Documents and correspondence related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery from 1804. A selection of documents from 10 states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, 1805-1864; and correspondence and documents of the...
Edward V. Gillis worked in the tool and manufacturing business in Grand Rapids Michigan. Gillis was a collector whose focus was Native Americans. This collection includes magazines, posters, maps, other published and some unpublished materials. The...
F. W. (Francis "Frank" Wallace) Beasecker was born in 1917 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He joined the Army in August 1942 and was assigned to Company A, 411th Engineer Base Shop Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Engineer Amphibious Command. He served in...
Guy Vander Jagt served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan from 1966 until 1992. Vander Jagt served as Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee from 1975 until he left the House in 1992. The...
Bennitt, John, 1830-1892; United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 19th (1862-1865)--Surgeons; Surgeons—Michigan--Diaries; United States—History--Civil War, 1861-1865—Medical care; United States--Army--Corps, 20th—Medical care;...
This diary is the second of three kept by physician John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan describing his experience as a Civil War surgeon for the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment. The second volume (Feb. 9, 1864-Jan. 13, 1865) continues the account...
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In preparation for an open house, wives of four Grand Valley State College founders cleaned and polished the interior of the Grey House, used for administration, on March 14, 1962. From left to right, Mrs. Donald Waterman, Mrs. David E. Dutcher,...
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Interior of Cook-DeWitt Center, November 26, 1991.
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Interior of the Cook-DeWitt Center, February 20, 1994.
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Students using study lounge in Seidman House. Lounge has original interior and furniture, ca. 1965.
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Architect William Kessler shows President James H. Zumberge model of interior of Lake Michigan Hall, 1962.
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Interior of the Grey House administrative offices. Left to right: Ellamae Braun, Kenneth VerBurg, Kent Co. School Superintendant Erwin J. Kleinert, Dr. James H. Zumberge, Mrs. V. Scheidt, Mrs. C. Cahill, 1962.
