Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

Scrapbooks, 1958-1974, of Health Science Relations of the University of Michigan, agency concerned with the distribution of news relating to health care delivery and research. Include clippings of news stories relating, in part, to the University of Michigan Medical School and Hospital.

The Health Science Relations scrapbooks include clippings of news stories relating, in part, to the University of Michigan Medical School and Hospital.

Professor of astronomy at University of Michigan. Personal correspondence, mainly with family, describing his various astronomical expeditions to Chile and Sumatra; also speeches and photographs.

The collection consists mainly of copies of letters to family describing his work in astronomy, trips to Mexico, Sumatra and Europe and comments on current events with frequent references to personal family matters. There is one letter, July 19, 1925, concerning the teaching of evolution in the schools with comments about Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, and the Scopes trial.

Disciples of Christ clergyman; ministerial papers.

The H. Edmund Curch collection includes correspondence and other materials concerning pastorates in Trowbridge and Belding, Michigan. There are also papers relating to organizational work for the denomination, including establishing new congregations and arrangements for holding conventions and conferences. Also retained were related state and national denominational printed material. Some of the papers are of his wife, Nettie Curch.

Entrepreneur and disability rights activist from Birmingham, Michigan. The collection document’s Van Arnem’s life and career through news clippings, columns that Heidi Van Arnem wrote for the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, business materials, files relating to her advocacy and fundraising efforts, and visual materials.

The collection is arranged into four series, Personal and Entrepreneurial, Fundraising and Advocacy, News Clippings, and Visual Materials.

Papers of Helen B. Van Tyne and earlier members of the Belfield family. Civil War papers and family correspondence of Henry H. Belfield, founder of the Chicago Manual Training School; and papers, 1944-1971, of Helen Van Tyne, Ann Arbor, Michigan civic leader and member of the citizens advisory council of the Washtenaw County Juvenile Court, concerning her interest in the problem of juvenile delinquency, the Michigan League for Planned Parenthood, the Michigan Council on Women in Business and Industry, and the James Foster Foundation.

The papers of Helen Van Tyne consist of materials relating to two major areas: Mrs. Van Tyne's involvement in various Ann Arbor-area civic organizations from the late 1940s until the late 1960s, and a collection of family papers, photographs, and ephemera, particularly relating to her grandfather, Henry Holmes Belfield (1838-1913). The collection has been divided into three series: Organizational Affiliations, Personal Papers, and Belfield Family Papers.

Postcard views relating to the lumber mill in South Boardman, Michigan, and to logging activities near Fife Lake, Michigan.

The collection consists of postcard views relating to the lumber mill in South Boardman, Michigan, and to logging activities near Fife Lake, Michigan.

Collection of papers related to Jones-McDonald-Gibson-Cope families of Macomb County, Michigan. Genealogical chart, marriage certificate, high school diploma, photographic scrapbook, family correspondence and two different drafts of a compiled history for James Jones and his family descendants, spanning the years 1867 -- 1987. This collection is related to the James Henry McDonald family collection, which is also held at Bentley Historical Library.

The collection contains photographs, genealogical research, a scrapbook, correspondence and memorabilia of James Jones and his family descendants, including Ann Elizabeth McDonald and Helen Gibson Cope, from whom much of this collection originates. Materials span the years 1867-1987, with a genealogical chart created in 1954 and also many undated family photographs. The material is organized into two boxes and the genealogical chart is housed in an outsize folder.