Southgate Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities

We just found out from the DCH RMO that the Southgate Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities that closed in 2001 placed all of their kardex cards inside the patient files.  As a result, the kardex will be destroyed when the patient record is destroyed and will not be transferred to the Archives.We don’t know if [...]

United States District Courts

The following .pdf is an updated list of the current contact information for US District Courts in Michigan.
US District Court Contacts

Apportionment Commission, 1963-1966

RG 68-4.
Records of the Commission accumulated by Bernard J. Apol.   Includes Precinct maps drawn after 1960 census, and documentation about Supreme Court case on apportionment that began circa 1964.  Final decision on the case dated c. 1972.
(Note: Filed in state record black binders under “A” for Apportionment.)

Archives of Michigan History

1828 – Historical Society of Michigan founded by Lewis Cass as a private corporation. It operated until 1861. (Valerie Gerrard Browne and David Jerome Johnson, A Guide to the State Archives of Michigan: State Archives, pg. 296. “Historical Society of Michigan” by Elizabeth S. Adams – found in Library of Michigan vertical file on “Historical [...]

Local Ordinances

Local ordinances are filed with the Office of the Great Seal.
See Mark’s rolodex under “G” for a direct number into the Great Seal (this is not a public number).

16th Amendment to U.S. Constitution

The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was approved by the Michigan Senate February 23, 1911.
Michigan Senate Journal 1911

Comrades on the Battlefield

Veterans Organizations (Includes descriptions of Northern Veterans of the Civil War and Comrades on the Battlefield, both founded by George E. Dolton)

Photographs of Prohibition/Bootlegging/Stills

General Photos. Prohibition Folder
State Police RG 79-45. Photographic Prints. Boxes 25, 26, 27, 28.
Also newspaper scrapbooks from 1930s.

Michigan House of Representatives District Map

See link for pdf of actual map
Michigan House of Representatives District Map

Trademarks-Labels

Trademarks – Labels
RG 70-50, Dept. of State
Trademarks/labels