Collections

Records of the Michigan Interfaith Council on Alcohol Problems and affiliated organizations. MICAP is a Lansing based organization dedicated to “solving the alcohol problem.” The series in the record group are: the Executive Director’s Files, Topical Files related to alcohol and gambling, Audits and Financial Information, Publications, and Board meetings.

The MICAP record group contains material dating from as early as 1933, but the bulk of the collection is comprised of records from Rev. Allen B. Rice’s Executive Directorship 1972-1999. The collection has been divided into five series: Executive Director’s Files 1972-2005; Audits and Financial Information 1933-2000; Publications 1973-1999; Topical Files 1983-1991, and Board Meetings, 1974-1995.

The Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association (MIFA) was founded in 1933 to administer high school forensics contests throughout the state of Michigan. The policies and activities of MIFA are determined by a Forensic Council, and records pertaining to the council are included as a subseries in this collection. There are four main speech activities that are sponsored by MIFA: debate, individual events, drama/theatre, and legislative debate. Materials pertaining to specific components of these general activities form the bulk of the collection. Overall, the records largely span the years 1974-2004, although older items are scattered throughout the collection, including materials from two legacy organizations.

The records of the Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association (MIFA) document the organization's growth from the 1930s to the 2000s, but most of its records concern the years after 1964, and in particular, the period from 1974 to 2002. The records are divided into eight: Administration, Publications, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Multimedia, Activities, Michigan High School Oratorical Association, and Files of Jon Fitzgerald, Executive Director of MIFA. The Forensic Council Minutes (in the Administration Series) and the Publications Series are the most useful parts of the collection for the researcher to gain an understanding of MIFA. The Activities, Photographs, and Multimedia series provide the best accounts of student participation.

Organization of advisors of school publications, sponsored by the journalism department at the University of Michigan, 1921-1972. Annual reports and minutes of executive committee; files relating to conventions, conferences and workshops; correspondence and miscellaneous subject files; and photographs.

The Michigan Interscholastic Press Association record group provides documentation of its administration and programmatic activities with high school newspapers and journalism programs around the state. The records are organized into five series: Executive Committee Minutes; Conventions, Conferences and Workshops; Correspondence; Miscellaneous; and Photographs.

Justice, civil and criminal docket books of the first and second districts of Ypsilanti township, Washtenaw County, Michigan.

The docket books are arranged by district and then by category: justice, civil, and criminal.

Records of the Michigan Land Use Institute, a northern-Michigan based environmental and regional planning organization. The Institute uses local programming and local and statewide political lobbying to establish an approach to economic and physical development that strengthens communities, limits suburban sprawl, and protects Michigan’s natural resources. This record group contains correspondence, reports, conference papers, and publications related to the organization and its goals.

The Michigan land Use Institute Records contain materials dating from the Institute's inception in 1995 through 2006 and originating from a number of different offices and administrative units. The collection has been divided into five series, Legal, Library, Policy Files, Program Files, and Visual and Electronic Materials.

Oral history project focused on elder public health and community health nurses. Project leader Stephanie Myers Schim completed a dissertation based on the interviews. Administrative files on the project, background material on interviews, audio cassette tapes, transcripts of some interviews, and articles on the project including the dissertation "Leadership Expression of Elder Community Health Nurse Leaders in Michigan."

The Michigan Leaders in Community Health Nursing oral history project material consists of three series: Documentation and Research, Publication and Dissertation, and Audio Materials. The records date from 1986 to 1997.

Group and composite portraits of the members of the Michigan Legislature.

This is a collection of group and composite portraits of the members of the Michigan Legislature. The photographs were accumulated from different sources.

The pre-1990 accessions from the Michigan Library Association (MLA) are available in three broad groups of material which overlap one another in terms of office of origin, dates, and subjects. This arrangement reflects the way the material was received from the MLA.

The papers received with the 1990 accession cover the years 1937-1952 and 1961-1989 with the bulk of the material from 1980-1989.

The papers received in 1993 cover the years 1977-1991 and mostly contain records of the Intellectual Freedom Committee. Accession also includes bylaws, minutes of the Management and Administration Forum, policies and procedures, and minutes of the Executive board, 1981-1983.

Organization established in 1902 to represent the interests of industrial manufacturers in dealings with state government; publications, administrative records, correspondence, topical files, photographs, and other materials detailing the work of the organization.

The records of the Michigan Manufacturers Association have been arranged into the following series: Administrative records; Bulletins; Print masters of Enterprise and other mailings; Collected historical materials; Photographs; John C. McCurry (General Manager; John G. Thodis (Director of Government Relations and later President); and Topical files: George M. Van Peursem and John G. Thodis.

Programs, flyers, handbooks, newsletters, bylaws, directories, rituals, and miscellaneous publications of a variety of Masonic organizations in Michigan.

The Michigan Masonic Publications collection includes programs, flyers, handbooks, newsletters, bylaws, directories, rituals, and miscellaneous publications of a variety of Masonic organizations in Michigan. Statewide bodies and local bodies in Southeastern Michigan are most strongly represented. Although materials printed as early as the 1850s are found in the collection, the bulk of items date from the 1950s through 1970s.

Histories of organizations and proceedings of the major orders in Michigan, as well as a few reference works relating to freemasonry in general, are cataloged separately in the Michigan Historical Collections printed works catalog.