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Anton-Herman Chroust Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: CHR
Scope and Content Personal and professional correspondence, 1930s-1981; correspondence, testimony, and financial records dealing with his divorce, 1940s-1950s; Chroust's writings including book-length manuscripts on Aristotle and on the rise of the legal profession in America (1965); his unpublished poetry, 1920s; articles collected by Chroust; exams, student evaluations of Chroust, student papers, and his class lecture notes; tax information and financial records, 1946-1980; photographs; and printed material...
Dates: 1924-1981.

Archdiocese of Detroit Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: DET
Scope and Content Correspondence of Rev. Gabriel Richard, co-founder and vice-president of the University of Michigan and U.S. Representative from Michigan; of Frederic Baraga, missionary to the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan and later bishop of Marquette, Michigan; and of Bishops Frederic Résé, Peter Paul Lefevre, and Caspar Henry Borgess. Other correspondents include the missionary, Rev. Francis Xavier Pierz; the civic leader, Rev. Martin Kundig; Rev. Edward Sorin, founder of the...
Dates: 1797-1870.

Birmingham Black Barons records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0001
Abstract

A collection of records, mostly financial, of the Birmingham (Alabama) Black Barons Negro Leagues professional baseball club. The most significant item in the collection is a manuscript cash book, showing the club's financial accounts with each of its players for the seasons 1926 through 1930.

Dates: 1923-1930

French Funerary Materials Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 2816
Abstract

Collection of documents relating to interment and mortuary law in early modern and modern France with a concentration on bureaucratic records from the Entreprise Générale des Inhumations of the Napoleonic era.

Dates: 1668-1888

Gene Tunney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates: 1858 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945

Green Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0508
Abstract

Family correspondence and other manuscript materials of the influential Green family of Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York. Of the 200-odd letters in the collection, the greater number were written by and to the ten children of Dr. John Green and Mary Ruggles in the 1790s, 1800s, and 1810s.

Dates: 1773-1937

John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0504
Abstract

Around 80 manuscripts retained by John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee in the decades following their emigration from Ireland to the United States in 1851. The greater number are personal letters written by family members.

Dates: 1852-1898