GII
B181
F1
July 31, 1824
Typed copy of letter from Lewis Cass inquiring into location of “public archives” relative to early history and settlement of Detroit and the M.T.
GV
B215
F8
February 17, 1846 ALS Alpheus Felch relating to libraries…includes interesting comment on care and preservation of public documents for posterity.
GVII
B220
F3
Legislative Matters, 1839
Reports storage of records in basement of Capitol as well as county offices for Wayne county.
LEECH, CARL ADDISON
“Deward, The Model of Michigans’ Old Lumbering Towns.”
“The Lumbering Pictures of Michigan.”
“Paul Bunyan’s Land and the First Saw Mills of Michigan.”
Michigan Encyclopedia – Box 5
Record Group 84-48
Box 7
LIBRARY – CITY OF DETROIT – 1820
Detroit Gazette
December 29, 1820. THE ANNUAL MEETING
Of the Corporation of City Library will be holden at the Academy, on TUESDAY next, at 10 o’clock, A.M. for the purpose of electing Trustees and a Treasurer for the ensuing year.
SOL. SIBLEY.
WM. WOODBRIDGE,
J. MONTEITH.
Detroit, December 28, 1820.
Detroit City Hospital for Contagious Diseases
“According to Mrs. Alice Dalligan, Burton Historical Collections, the City Hospital for Contagious Diseases was originally proposed as an adjunct to Harper Hospital, later it was decided to build separate buildings further away. The contagious disease patients were isolated in cottages from 1887 until 1911 when the Herman Kiefer Hospital was built.” (excerpt from letter received archives February, 1972, written by Martha A. Koellner, 1310 East Carroll Street, Macomb, Illinois, February 15, 1972.)
DETROIT AND CHARLEVOIX RAILROAD
RESEARCH – FREDERIC AND CHARLEVVOIX RAILROAD
Source:
1. Special Report of Railroad Commissioner. 1919
2. Annual Report of Commissioner of Railroads, 1886-1901.
3. Poors Manual for Railroads, 1896.
See correspondence: Mrs. Mabel Secord, August 16, 1955
G II
B 33
F 20 1835
Broadside of “Democratic County Meeting” attached to ALS from Abiel Silver to S. T. Mason, February 27, 1835. (Silver was Cass County delegate to Second Convention of Assent in 1836 and Commr. Of State Land Office, 1846-50).
Mention of anti-Mason political current in Cass & Calhoun Co. see folder 22-24.
G9
B40
F7
State Officers, Boards, etc. 1910-1912.
Dairy and Food Department.
re: Fees rec’d and accounted for since provisions of Act 129
Public Act, 1905 and Act 70 of Public Act, 1905 became operative.
Summary of work done for month of November, 1911, does not include anything relative to dairying.
T. K. Ditwiler, Librarian, Dairy Industries Supply Assoc. Inc. 1145 – 19th St., NW, Washington 6, D.C.
Dairying
Source:
1870 to 1909-1912
GII
B3 Affairs Outside. Dept. of Agric. Bur. Of Animal Ind. 1885-
F1 1909 6 Ls.S. re: cattle quanantine
GII Appointments – State Officers. 3 A.L.sS.: Ls.S.
B203 Dairy and Food Commission, 1893. Re: Appointments
F4
Dairy and Food Commissioner, 1859. 2ALsS.
F5 State Analyst. Recommendations for office of state analyst.
GII
B467
F10 Correspondence-Misc. 187-1909 16 A.LsS.; LsS.
Re: quarantine of Cook County, Texas cattle and Michigan hay.
GII
B580 Resignations. State Officers. Livestock Sanitary Commission.
B581 1885-1910.
CUSTOMS
Region 5, GSA, Chicago has 15 volumes of records of the Customs at Detroit. This includes copies of sales records, manifests, some mortgage records, licenses, etc. Covers dates from 1831 to 1918. Accession group 67-A-703.
Does not include passenger lists.
Source:
1. Dustin, Fred. Echoes from the Little Big Horn Fight: Reno’s Position in the Valley. Saginaw: Privately printed, 1953. 17 p, maps. $1.50.
2. Graham, William A. The Custer Myth. Harrisburg, Pa.: The Stackpole Co., 1953. xxxvi, 413p. Illus. Biblio, & Index. $10.
3. National Park Service. Historical Handbook Series No. 1. Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana. By Edward S. & Evelyn S. Luce. Washington, D.C; 1953. $0.20
4. Parsons, John E. and John S. Dumont. Firearms in the Custer Battle. Harrisburg, Pa.: The Stackpole Co., 1953, v. 59p. Illus. Biblio. $2.75.
5. VandeWater, Frederic F. Glory Hunter, Indianapolis, 1934.
6. Whittaker, Frederick A. A Complete Life of General George A. Custer, New York, 1876.
7. Kansas Historical Quarterly. Nov. , 1946. Taft, Dr. Robert. on “Custer’s Last Rally,”; Adams, Cassily. “Custer’s Last Fight,” Mulvany, John. Ran “The Pictorial Record of the Old West” including “Custer’s Last Stand.”
8. North Dakota History, July, 1948. Second installment of Wells, Philip F. “Ninety-Six Years Among the Indians of the Northwest.” These reminiscences of Mr. wells include his memories of G. A. Custer.
9. MHC-Archives Picture File. Vertical File-Nat’l Archives list of Custer Photos. Image, Vol. 5, No. 7, (Sept., 1956)
10. Bibliographies. Dustin, Fred. in Graham. The Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, at Crow Agency, Montana, a part of the National Park Service, is compiling a biblio on Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn River, June, 25-26, 1876. E.S. Luce, Supt., reports that there are now on hand nearly a thousand references items, books, magazines, newspapers, off. orders and letters, unpublished mss, etc. about 30 percent of complete. (1946)
11. Monroe Public Library has good collection. MSL, also.
12. GII, B40 717 ALS
13. Dustin’s. Ms in Saginaw Museum.
Custer, George A.
Source:
1. Michigan History Vol. 26, P. 142 (Spring 1942). Ness, George T. Jr. “Michigan’s Civil War West Pointers.” Mentions
2. Dustin, Fred. “George Armstrong Custer.” Vol. 20, P227. (April – June, 1946)
3. Weissert, Charles A. “Michigan Marker Program.” Mentions Custer marker in Monroe, Vol. 31, P8 (March, 1947)
4. Michigan News. Vol. 34, p. 177 (June, 1950) Monroe Museum display of Custer’s saddle, boots, trunk, shotgun case, and a deer he mounted when studying taxidermy. September 1947 issue P330 mentions buffalo-skin coat.
5. Michigan News. Vol. 37, P 211. Reports Andy Palmer has identified 45-70 Springfield rifle on exhibit in Monroe Hist. Museum as Custer’s. Id made by comparing the gun with one in Custer photograph.
6. Michigan News. Vol. 38, P. 438. Dr. Robert Frost of Monroe gave talk on Custer and criticize those who tend to debunk the contributions of Gen. Custer.
CURTENIUS, FREDERICK W.
SA
Exec. Act. May 31, 1841. Order for commission of Curtenius as Inspector
General of the Michigan Militia with rank of Colonel.
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