The Prisoner at the Bar
subject: Book covers
subject: Covers (Illustration)
subject: Graphic arts
subject: Publishers and publishing
subject: Pictorial bindings
description: Binding of The Prisoner at the Bar: Sidelights on the Administration of Criminal Justice, by Arthur Train, published by C. Scribner's Sons, 1908.
creator: Decorative Designers (Designers)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1908
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Deerfield Township Comprehensive Plan
subject: Comprehensive plan publications
subject: Deerfield Township (Mich.)
subject: Livingston County (Mich.)
description: 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.
creator: Deerfield Township Planning Commission
creator: Township Board of Trustees, Deerfield Township, Livingston County, Michigan
source: Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1994-07-21
contributor: Planning & Zoning Center, Inc. (Mich.)
contributor: Landplan, Inc. (consultant)
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

DeGroot, Loren (Interview transcript and video), 2017
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States—History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives, American
description: 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.
creator: DeGroot, Loren
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401.
date: 2017-03
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Kadi DeHaan audio interview and transcript
subject: Civil rights--Michigan--History
subject: Women--Personal narratives
subject: People with disabilities--Personal narratives
description: 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.
creator: DeHaan, Kadi
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2012-03-14
contributor: Petrauskas, Kelly
contributor: Lajdziak, Andrew
contributor: Helms, Fred
contributor: Felice, Zachary
rights: In Copyright
relation: Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral History Project
format: audio/mp3
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Sound
type: Text

Delagrange, Merle (Interview outline and video), 2013
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Army
subject: United States. National Guard
description: 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.
creator: Delagrange, Merle
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2013-10-11
contributor: McGregor, Michael (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Robert Delaney, 2025 (Interview video and transcript)
subject: Oral history
subject: Personal narrative
subject: PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals)
subject: Groundwater--Pollution
description: 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.
creator: Delaney, Robert
source: Living with PFAS (project)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2025-08-01
contributor: DeVasto, Danielle (interviewer)
rights: In copyright
format: video/mp4
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

DeLange, Jeff (Interview outline and video), 2009
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Army
description: 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.
creator: DeLange, Jeff
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2009-11-01
contributor: Miller, Hayden (Interviewer)
contributor: Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Mich.)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Delfino, Frank (Interview outline and video), 2013
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: United States. Army
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
description: 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.
creator: Delfino, Frank
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2013-10-10
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Dellinger, Valeria (Interview outline and video), 2006
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
description: 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.
creator: Dellinger, Valeria
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2006-10-16
contributor: Collins Sr., Charles E. (Interviewer)
contributor: Collins, Carol (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Dells, Glen (Interview outline and video), 2007
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: United States. Air Force
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
subject: Video recordings
description: 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.
creator: Dells, Glen
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2007-06-01
contributor: Vanwyck, Kayla (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Village of Sebewaing Parks and Recreation Master Plan
subject: Master plan reports
subject: Recreation--planning
subject: Sebewaing (Mich.)
subject: Sebewaing Township (Mich.)
subject: Huron County (Mich.)
description: The Village of Sebewaing Parks and Recreation Master Plan was prepared by the Delta Institute and was approved on November 5, 2018.
creator: Delta Institute
source: Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2018-11-05
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

1983 Amendments
subject: Comprehensive Plan publications
subject: Delta Township (Mich.)
subject: Eaton County (Mich.)
description: The 1983 Amendments were prepared by the Delta Township Planning Commission as part of the Delta Township Comprehensive Plan in April 1983.
creator: Delta Township Planning Commission, Eaton County, Michigan
source: Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1983-04
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

1984 Revisions
subject: Comprehensive Plan publications
subject: Delta Township (Mich.)
subject: Eaton County (Mich.)
description: 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.
creator: Delta Township Planning Commission, Eaton County, Michigan
source: Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1984-12-10
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

Specula omnis status vitae humanae [folium 127]
subject: Incunabula
subject: Printing 1450-1500
description: 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]
creator: Denis, the Carthusian, 1402-1471
source: Seidman Rare Books Collection
publisher: Nuremburg: Peter Wagner
date: 1495
contributor: Danhauser, Petrus (editor)
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: application/pdf
language: la
type: Text

Denison, Donald
subject: Michigan--History
subject: Local histories
subject: Memoirs
subject: Oral histories (document genre)
subject: Grand Rapids (Mich.)
subject: Personal narratives
subject: Heritage Hill (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
subject: Grand Valley State University
description: 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.
creator: Denison, Donald
source: Grand Rapids oral history collection (RHC-23)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1975
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
format: audio/mp3
language: eng
type: Text
type: Sound

Diary of Earl Dennis (Outline, transcription and scan)
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Army Air Corps
subject: Military life
subject: Soldiers
subject: Diaries
description: 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.
creator: Dennis, Earl
source: Veterans History Project Interviews, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1942-1943
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: World War II

Denoble, Jerre (Interview transcript and video), 2010
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: Video recordings
subject: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives
subject: Baseball for women--United States
subject: Baseball
subject: Sports for women
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
subject: Baseball players--Michigan
subject: Baseball players--Illinois
description: 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.
creator: Denoble, Jerre
source: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2010-08-08
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

fierce pussy
subject: Artists and community
subject: Artistic collaboration
subject: Lesbian artists
description: 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.
creator: Department of Visual and Media Arts
source: Department of Visual and Media Arts
source: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
source: Kutsche Office of Local History
source: The Rainbow Resource Center
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2018-02-14/2018-02-15
contributor: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
contributor: Kutsche Office of Local History
contributor: The Rainbow Resource Center
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

DePrimo, Bernard (Interview outline and video), 2015
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Army
description: 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.
creator: DePrimo, Bernard
source: Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
date: 2015-05-20
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

DeRoo, Autumn (Interview transcript and video), 2009
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: Video recordings
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American
subject: United States. Air Force
subject: United States. National Guard
description: 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.
creator: DeRoo, Autumn
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2009-12-01
contributor: Smither, James (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

The Lessons of Treblinka
subject: Treblinka (Concentration camp)
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
description: Photocopied magazine article. New American Library.
creator: Des Pres, Terrence
source: Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1979
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

Jews to honor couple who risked all to save their lives
subject: Dutch Americans
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
description: 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.
creator: DeSmet, Kate
source: Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1991-06-03
contributor: The Detroit News
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

Termaat Authorization for visit
subject: Dutch
subject: Netherlands
subject: Emigration and immigration
description: Authorization for Pieter Termaat to visit Grand Rapids, Michigan as a contract employee of Touche, Niven, Bailey & Smart.
creator: Detroit Air Regional Office
source: Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1952-10-24
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

Master Plan of Policies
subject: Master plan reports
subject: Detroit, Michigan
subject: Wayne County (Mich.)
description: The Master Plan of Policies for the City of Detroit was prepared by the Detroit Planning Department in 1990.
creator: Detroit Department of Planning, City of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
source: Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1990
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text