Book covers
Covers (Illustration)
Graphic arts
Publishers and publishing
Pictorial bindings
Binding of The Prisoner at the Bar: Sidelights on the Administration of Criminal Justice, by Arthur Train, published by C. Scribner's Sons, 1908.
Decorative Designers (Designers)
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
No Copyright - United States
Comprehensive plan publications
Deerfield Township (Mich.)
Livingston County (Mich.)
The Deerfield Township Comprehensive Plan was prepared by the Deerfield Township Planning Commission and Township Board of Trustees with assistance from the Planning & Zoning Center, Inc. and Landplan, Inc.
Deerfield Township Planning Commission
Township Board of Trustees, Deerfield Township, Livingston County, Michigan
Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
DeGroot, Loren (Interview transcript and video), 2017
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States—History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, American
Loren DeGroot was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1935. While he was still in high school, he enlisted in the Naval Reserves. After he graduated high school in 1953, he began classes as Grand Rapids Junior College and then went to the University of Michigan to finish his bachelor’s in engineering. After graduating, he went to officer training in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1957, he joined the crew of a destroyer ship. His first cruise was to the Mediterranean, where he served as a shore patrol officer on the island of Rhodes in Greece. He then went to Piraeus, Greece and spent a total of six months in the Mediterranean before going back to Newport. His home base was then switched to Mayport, Florida where he served as ship’s navigator. After finishing serving his active duty on the ship in 1960, DeGroot joined the inactive Naval Reserve and stayed in it for 14 years. He went back to the University of Michigan to finish his master’s degree.
DeGroot, Loren
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401.
Kadi DeHaan audio interview and transcript
Civil rights--Michigan--History
Women--Personal narratives
People with disabilities--Personal narratives
Kadi DeHaan was in a car accident when she was in high school. She lost feelings and use of her legs. She has been in rehabilitationand is learning muscle memory. She is in great progress toward her goal of walking again. She discusses her accident and how it has changed her life.
DeHaan, Kadi
In Copyright
Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral History Project
Delagrange, Merle (Interview outline and video), 2013
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
United States. Army
United States. National Guard
Merle Delagrange was born in 1950 in Grantwood, Indiana. He was newly married and living in Ohio when he was drafted in 1969. After training at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Fort Polk, Louisiana, he was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado until he received his orders to be deployed to Vietnam. He arrived in Vietnam on April 28, 1970 and was assigned to D Company, 1st Battalion. 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division stationed at Camp Evans. He was wounded in a friendly fire incident in early May, but soon rejoined the unit and was with them when they were heavily engaged Firebase Ripcord in July and had to be rescued by another unit. Throughout the rest of his tour he led a platoon on patrols until he left Vietnam and returned home on March 28, 1971. He joined the National Guard in 1976 where he stayed with the 193rd Infantry Company for eighteen years and retired as a sergeant first class.
Delagrange, Merle
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Robert Delaney, 2025 (Interview video and transcript)
Personal narrative
PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals)
Groundwater--Pollution
Robert Delaney, a former Michigan Department of Environmental Quality project manager, became one of the first in the state to identify and investigate widespread PFAS contamination. His work at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda and later statewide helped bring public, governmental, and national attention to PFAS risks, despite facing political pushback.
Delaney, Robert
Living with PFAS (project)
In copyright
DeLange, Jeff (Interview outline and video), 2009
Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American
Jeff DeLange served in the Army for a total of five years as an infantryman and toured in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2006 and 2009 where he conducted patrols and later helped with the turnover of operations to the Iraqis.
DeLange, Jeff
Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Mich.)
Delfino, Frank (Interview outline and video), 2013
Frank was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 21, 1949. He graduated from high school in June 1966 and had two unsuccessful attempts at college. He worked for the United States Postal Service and received his draft notice on his twentieth birthday 1969. Frank was drafted into the United States Army. After basic training and AIT, he attended mortar school and the NCO training school in Fort Benning, Georgia. He served for several months as the training NCO at Fort Riley before being sent to Vietnam. Frank was attached to Charlie Company, 1/506th, 101st Airborne and was stationed out of Camp Evans. Frank was involved with Firebase Ripcord and later operated the TOC at Camp Evans and was in charge of base defenses.
Delfino, Frank
Dellinger, Valeria (Interview outline and video), 2006
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
Valeria Dellinger was a veteran of WWII in the United States Army in 1945 and 1946. She served in Los Alamos, New Mexico as a switchboard operator for the military at the time of the development of the atomic bomb. She married her husband after she was discharged in 1946. He remained a MP for the military and transferred to the Pacific when they were testing the atomic bomb, while she stayed on at Los Alamos in the civil service for a while before moving to Michigan.
Dellinger, Valeria
Dells, Glen (Interview outline and video), 2007
United States. Air Force
Glenn Dells served in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War from 1966 to1970. His military occupational service (MOS) during Vietnam was munitions specialist; which meant that he built, delivered, blew up, and disarmed bombs. He was stationed in Phan Rang when he served his time in Vietnam. He talks about his experiences with the Vietnamese population, and how it was difficult for him to distinguish friend from foe. He discusses some of the regrets he had about serving in Vietnam; like missing a year of his son's life. He talks about what he and others would do when they had some free time, and how they got to see the Bob Hope show at their base. He tells about how they would normally communicate with those back home, and how they were allowed to make a 3 minute phone call via HAM operators on Christmas. He talks about what he had learned from serving in the military during Vietnam. Some of what he learned was how to take orders, how take pride in doing your job, and how to take pride in yourself. He also talks about how he feels on the subject of serving in the military today.
Dells, Glen
Village of Sebewaing Parks and Recreation Master Plan
Master plan reports
Recreation--planning
Sebewaing (Mich.)
Sebewaing Township (Mich.)
Huron County (Mich.)
The Village of Sebewaing Parks and Recreation Master Plan was prepared by the Delta Institute and was approved on November 5, 2018.
Delta Institute
Comprehensive Plan publications
Delta Township (Mich.)
Eaton County (Mich.)
The 1983 Amendments were prepared by the Delta Township Planning Commission as part of the Delta Township Comprehensive Plan in April 1983.
Delta Township Planning Commission, Eaton County, Michigan
The 1984 Revisions were prepared by the Delta Township Planning Commission as part of the Delta Township Comprehensive Plan and were adopted on December 10, 1984.
Specula omnis status vitae humanae [folium 127]
Incunabula
Printing 1450-1500
One leaf from Specula omnis status vitae humanae by Dionysius Carthusiensis and edited by Petrus Danhauser. Printed in Nuremberg by Peter Wagner on January 28, 1495. [GW 8419; ISTC id00248000]
Denis, the Carthusian, 1402-1471
Seidman Rare Books Collection
Michigan--History
Local histories
Memoirs
Oral histories (document genre)
Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Personal narratives
Heritage Hill (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Grand Valley State University
Donald Denison was born in Grand Rapids, graduated from the University of Michigan ca. 1913, and served in WWI. His father was a judge who was appointed by President Taft in 1911 to the U.S. District Court of Appeals. Mr. Denison's father resigned as a judge in 1931 to enter private practice with the firm of Newton Baker, President Wilson's Secretary of War. Mr. Denison sold bonds through National City and his own company. He died August 21, 1983.
Denison, Donald
Grand Rapids oral history collection (RHC-23)
Diary of Earl Dennis (Outline, transcription and scan)
World War, 1939-1945
Army Air Corps
Military life
Soldiers
Diaries
Diary kept by Earl L. Dennis grew up outside of Coopersville, Michigan. He was drafted into the Army in April, 1942, at the age of 29. He trained at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and was then stationed in Groton, Connecticut, where he became a cook for a fighter squadron 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, 9th Army Air Force. He shipped out from New York and sailed around Africa to Egypt, where his unit supported the British 8th Army from the Second Battle of El Alamein through the conquest of Tunisia. They then went to Malta and supported the invasion of Sicily, and then went on to bases on Sicily. His diary covers his time in the service through the Sicilian campaign. Both the scanned version of the diary and a transcription are provided, with an outline acting as a table of contents.
Dennis, Earl
Veterans History Project Interviews, (RHC-27)
Denoble, Jerre (Interview transcript and video), 2010
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives
Baseball for women--United States
Baseball
Sports for women
Baseball players--Michigan
Baseball players--Illinois
Jerre Denoble was born in Oakland, California in 1923. She learned to play ball from her father, and while she was a teenager she started playing softball in an industrial league. A friend encouraged her to try out for the AAGPBL, and she joined the league in Cuba for spring training in 1947. She was assigned to Grand Rapids, but after scoring the only run in the season opener, she was sent to Peoria. After playing one season, she went back to her job in California.
Denoble, Jerre
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)
Artists and community
Artistic collaboration
Lesbian artists
Poster with a synopsis of who the artist collective is, including individiual member's bios, and the dates, times, and location of the two events.
Department of Visual and Media Arts
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
Kutsche Office of Local History
The Rainbow Resource Center
DePrimo, Bernard (Interview outline and video), 2015
Bernard DePrimo was born in 1924 in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan and in early 1943 he was drafted. In March 1943 he began training at Camp Davis, North Carolina with the 430th Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion. He received communication training and artillery training at Camp Davis and Fort Fisher until it was time to go overseas. He left the United States on October 22, 1943 bound for England and stayed there with the 430th until June 8, 1944. Over the course of 1944 and into 1945 he and the 430th advanced across France protecting Allied ground forces from the German Luftwaffe. He was also attached to the 110th Field Artillery Battalion driving trucks as part of the Red Ball Express, transporting supplies and later German and Allied prisoners of war and displaced persons. After the war ended on May 8, 1945 he was reassigned to the 203rd (or 207th) Field Artillery Battalion and stayed with them for the rest of his time in Europe. On October 12, 1945 he left Europe and on October 31, 1945 he was discharged from the Army at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.
DePrimo, Bernard
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
DeRoo, Autumn (Interview transcript and video), 2009
Autumn DeRoo made the choice to join the Air Force at the age of 17 early in her high school career. Going into a technological field, dealing mainly with computers, Deroo was able to work at Cheyenne Mountain with NORAD and the U.S. Base Command in the States, and was there at the time of the 9/11 attacks. She later served on a NATO base in Portugal, where she was when the Iraq War started in 2003. She eventually left the military as a Technical Sergeant and now works at Grand Valley State University.
DeRoo, Autumn
Treblinka (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
Photocopied magazine article. New American Library.
Des Pres, Terrence
Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)
Jews to honor couple who risked all to save their lives
Dutch Americans
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
Newspaper article about Pieter and Adriana Termaat's receipt of the Courage to Care Award at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.
DeSmet, Kate
Dutch
Netherlands
Emigration and immigration
Authorization for Pieter Termaat to visit Grand Rapids, Michigan as a contract employee of Touche, Niven, Bailey & Smart.
Detroit Air Regional Office
Detroit, Michigan
Wayne County (Mich.)
The Master Plan of Policies for the City of Detroit was prepared by the Detroit Planning Department in 1990.
Detroit Department of Planning, City of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan