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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Paul F. H. Morley and an important landscape architect. This term, all my student volunteers have processed many of the boxes of records we have on the Morley family and business of Saginaw, Mich. In one box, my student Gwyn Richard, found correspondence, a blueprint, and some copies of sketches, all dated from March to November 1915, between Paul F. H. Morley and landscape designer Aubrey Tealdi of Ann Arbor. Blueprint of Morley garden, Saginaw. A combination scrapbook/guest boo...
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: Dr. Pol Materials in the Clarke
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Thursday, March 12, 2015. Dr Pol Materials in the Clarke. We recently added two interesting items to the collection of the Clarke Library: a book titled Never Turn your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a County Vet. And the DVD, The Best of the Incredible Dr. Pol Collection. Episodes from the popular National Geographic. Paul F. H. Morley and an important landscape archi. Clements Library Director Speaking Tuesday, March . Dr Pol Materials in the Clarke. Michelle Ann Abate Presents on Lil Tomboy. Michiga...
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. Asbestos in the archives! One Tuesday night a couple of weeks ago, in my History 583 Archives Administration class, one of my students found an asbestos tile in the Bliss Lumber Company records that they are all processing for the final project. It is clearly labeled as ASBESTOS. Why is it there? Now, what to do with it? Then, in discussion, I remembered last year a student found a paint sample that was advertised as "Burn it," but it would not burn. Monday, February 23, 2015.
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: Commencement Speakers of Years Past
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Friday, May 8, 2015. Commencement Speakers of Years Past. By Casey Gamble and Bryan Whitledge. For anyone who has had the opportunity to enjoy sitting through lengthy commencement ceremonies, you understand how nice it is when a prolific orator can deliver a speech that imparts wisdom and inspiration and entertains at the same time. Commencement in Finch Fieldhouse, ca. 1950s. But one speaker that Central was certainly proud to invite to commencement spoke in December 1981. CMU alumnus and NBC report...
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: Michelle Ann Abate Presents on "Lil Tomboy"
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Friday, March 6, 2015. Michelle Ann Abate Presents on "Lil Tomboy". Editor's note: The Clarke Historical Library will be closed this Saturday, March 7 and next Saturday, March 14 due to Central Michigan University's spring break. We will be open Monday, March 9 to Friday, March 13 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Saturday hours will resume]. Professor Abate’s presentation was made possible in part by funds made available through the John and Audrey Cumming Endowment, which supports presentations regarding ...
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: Paul F. H. Morley and an important landscape architect
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Paul F. H. Morley and an important landscape architect. This term, all my student volunteers have processed many of the boxes of records we have on the Morley family and business of Saginaw, Mich. In one box, my student Gwyn Richard, found correspondence, a blueprint, and some copies of sketches, all dated from March to November 1915, between Paul F. H. Morley and landscape designer Aubrey Tealdi of Ann Arbor. Blueprint of Morley garden, Saginaw. A combination scrapbook/guest boo...
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: Update on Archival Processing
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Update on Archival Processing. Editor's note: This Saturday, May 2, is the last Saturday that we will have business hours until September. Feel free to stop by the Clarke from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm]. Ongoing addition to Lee Barnett [research] Collection: 9 boxes, 6 Ov. Folders (approx. 5 cubic feet) The total collection is now 30 cubic feet (in 51 boxes, 15 Ov. folders). Carol I. Paquette Sing-out Walled Lake Scrapbook, 1967-1969 collection (1 folder). J E Howard correspondence, 18...
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: Soldiers' Views of the End of the Civil War
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Soldiers' Views of the End of the Civil War. By Casey Gamble and Bryan Whitledge. Thanks to Victoria Fisher and Lindsay Gabriel for their research assistance. Hance Morgan was a Union soldier from New York who began his service in 1862. During his years in service, he was with many different NY regiments. In the days prior to the surrender, Morgan notes that his regiment was moving toward the site of the surrender and that they crossed the Appomattox River. Finally, an April 9 d...
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Happy Holidays and WWII Christmas Correspondence. The Clarke archives has 25 collections with some mention or documentation of Christmases past. Remembering our troops, here is an example from a WWII soldier. Pvt Harley Whelpley served as a private in Company C, 167th Engineers Construction Battalion in France and Belgium in 1944. He may have been from Mich. No further information is available on him. Dec 7, 1944. Dear Pearl and John,. November 30, 1944 letter from Harley.
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Clarke Historical Library News and Notes: Lecture Series
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Lecture Series, Clarke Historical Library, Spring 2016. Thursday, February 4th — 7:00 pm – Park Library Auditorium. 8203;CMU faculty member and author of The Detroit School Busing Case: Milliken v. Bradley and the Controversy over Desegregation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011). 8203;In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. 1974) While the literature on Brown. Is voluminous, Joyce Baugh's measured and insightful study offers the only available book-length analysis of Milliken. Which the Co...
