LGBTQ+ people
College students
Belonging
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of exposure to LGBT books, fiction or non-fiction. Every reference was treated with a great deal of sterility and distance if not complete dismissal. So to find out we had an entire little library on campus dedicated to queer literature was beyond wonderful. Everything I had wished I was able to read growing up was right here in one place. To have something like this on campus is such a joy because it means our stories get to be celebrated just like everyone else's.
Lex
Grand Valley State University. Kaufman Interfaith Institute
Kaufman Interfaith Institute (exhibitor)
Believing and Belonging on Campus: An Interfaith Photovoice Project (project)
Joseph E. Bradford from Horatio T. Libby
United States. Patent Office
Engines
Patents
Machinists
Portland (Me.)
New York (N.Y.)
Request from Horatio T. Libby, an engine machinist, that Joseph E. Bradford investigate a patent held by Henry Bailey.
Libby, Horatio T.
Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
No Copyright - United States
Jeff Lichon audio interview and transcript
Civil rights--Michigan--History
People with disabilities--Personal narratives
Jeff Lichon was born and raised in West Michigan. He discusses his struggles with disability after being in a car accident at age 15.
Lichon, Jeff
In Copyright
Speaking Out: Western Michigan Civil Rights Oral History Project
Lieb, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2016
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States--History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
United States. Army
Charles Lieb was born on October 27, 1946, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In July 1964 he began his time at West Point and graduated from the academy as a 2nd lieutenant in June 1968. He attended the Airborne School, Infantry Officer Basic Course, and Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia. From January to mid-June 1969 he was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina with the 2nd Battalion of the 504th Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. In May 1969 he received his deployment orders for Vietnam and he arrived in Vietnam in August 1969. He joined Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division as the platoon leader of 2nd platoon. He patrolled with them until March 1970 when he became the battalion S3 (operations officer). He operated with South Vietnamese forces during the establishment of Firebase Ripcord, and was stationed on Ripcord from April until he was wounded at Ripcord on July 21st near the end of the battle for the firebase. After recovering he served at Fort Carson, Colorado, and for the rest of his career he took the Infantry Officer Advanced Course, attended the University of Denver, and served at San Jose State University as a Reserve Officers' Training Corps instructor. He retired from the Army in 1979.
Lieb, Charles Robert
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Lilley, James (Interview outline and video), 2009
Michigan--History, Military
United States. Army Air Forces
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
James Lilley was born in Ferndale, Michigan in 1922. He graduated from high school in 1940 and then spent two years in an apprenticeship with his father at Pontiac Motors. James enlisted in the Army Air Forces and went through basic training in St. Petersburg in the summer of 1942. James later went through flight school in California and trained to be a fighter pilot. After training James was stationed in Saipan where he escorted B-29s on their missions over the Pacific. James helped secure Iwo Jima and shortly after was injured on his last mission. He was discharged in 1946 and began his career in engineering.
Lilley, James
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Spring Lake District Library (Spring Lake, Mich
Lillie, Joy (Interview transcript and video), 2011
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
Joy Lillie, born in Coopersville Michigan, served in the 51st Field Hospital in the Army Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1945 during the Second World War. During her service she spent 9 months in Oran, Algeria, and went to Normandy shortly after D-Day and worked in France, Belgium and Germany.
Lillie, Joy
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
United States--Politics and government--19th century
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Springfield (Ill.)
Illinois
Signed response from Abraham Lincoln to the request for an autograph, July 10, 1860
J. Elfreth Watkins from Robert Todd Lincoln
Correspondence
Washington (D.C.)
Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, politely refusing to express an opinion in print.
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926
Lindemann, Gerd (Interview outline and video), 2011
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German
Germany--Heer--Panzerarmeekorps Afrika
Gerd Lindemann was born in Rodach Germany, trained as a tank officer and commanded a tank company in the Afrika Korps in 1942 and 1943. He fought at El Alamein and Kasserine, and was captured in May, 1943. He was sent to the United States as a POW, went home after the war, and eventually returned to the United States.
Lindemann, Gerd
Boring, Frank (Interviewer), Michigan Military Preservation Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Lindner, Paul (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007
United States. Navy
Paul Lindner was born in Indiana in the early 1920s and joined the US Navy on July 3, 1941. Paul went through basic training in Chicago and was then sent to Rhode Island to train as a mechanic working on torpedo boats. Paul later traveled through the Pacific to Panama, Australia, New Guinea, Milne Island, Boona, and Kiriwina Island. Paul was also sent to Europe where he patrolled off the coast off Plymouth, England, and Cherbourg, France. He was eventually transferred to the Pacific shortly before the war ended, and never served there. Photographs and an account of military service are appended to interview outline.
Lindner, Paul
Lindquist, Jay (Interview outline and video), 2014
United States. Air Force
Jay Lindquist was born in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from high school there in 1952. He attended the Naval Academy and served on several ships before transferring to the Air Force in 1957. He trained as a fighter pilot served as a flight instructor, and then trained to work with rocket systems before volunteering for duty in Vietnam. He served there between 1965 and 1966 training Vietnamese pilots and flying observation aircraft out of Da Nang with the 110th Vietnamese Liaison Squadron, and won the Distinguished Flying Cross on one of his missions.. He returned home in 1966 and worked at the Air Defense Weapons Center in Florida until he resigned from the Air Force to pursue a business degree at the University of Michigan during which time he served with the Michigan Air National Guard until he resigned from there as a lieutenant colonel and took a job at Western Michigan University as a marketing professor.
Lindquist, Jay
Link, Bernie (Interview outline and video), 2005
United States. Marine Corps
Bernie Link was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1925. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, his older brother enlisted in the Marine Corps and following his graduation in 1943, Link attempted to follow. Apart gaining an enlistment in the Marines, Link went through basic training in San Diego and advanced training at Camp Pendleton, California. Following his training, the Marines assigned Link to the 5th Marine Division. He took part in the assault on the Japanese held island of Iwo Jima and received a facial wound at the base of Mount Suribachi on the island.
Link, Bernie
Michigan Military Preservation Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Colleen Linn, 2025 (Interview video and transcript)
Personal narrative
PFAs (Perfluorinated chemicals)
Groundwater--Pollution
In this interview, Dani and Colleen discussed Colleen's research on PFAS in Michigan, focusing on how private well users and communities respond to water safety issues. Colleen's research also led her to reconsider her grandfather's experience with asbestos exposure, highlighting the broader implications of chemical exposure studies.
Linn, Colleen
Living with PFAS (project)
In copyright
Historical Spiritual Conference and Traditional Pow Wow, August 1984
Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals
Indians of North America
Michigan
Michigan -- Grand Rapids
Historical Spiritual Conference and Traditional Pow Wow flyer, Cross Village MI, August 21-26, 1984, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.
Little Traverse Bay Bands
Litty, Fred (Interview outline and video), 2014
Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American
Fred Litty is a Korean War veteran that also was a civilian living in Germany during World War II. He was born a U.S. citizen in Yonkers, New York in 1930, but at the age of five his family moved back to Germany and lived in a Berlin suburb. He describes his experiences before and during the war, discussing the Hitler Youth program, his father's military service on the Eastern Front, surviving bombing raids, multiple moves, and finally the atrocities committed by the Red Army in 1945. As a US citizen, he was allowed to move to the American sector of West Berlin, and he and his family returned to New York. In October 1951 he was drafted into the U.S. Army and was deployed to fight in the Korean War. He was assigned to a mortar platoon of the 27th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division. He served on the front line for six weeks until he was reassigned to a position in the rear in record keeping, and returned home and was discharged in 1953.
Litty, Fred
Master plan reports
Tyrone Township (Mich.)
Livingston County (Mich.)
The Tyrone Township Master Plan was prepared by the Livingston County Planning Department and was adopted by the Tyrone Township Planning Commission on June 11, 1985.
Livingston County Planning Department, Livingston County, Michigan
Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
Livo, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2011
Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives, American
Robert Livo, born in Detroit Michigan, serve in the U.S. Naval reserves from 1953-approximately 1954 to 1955. During his service, Robert went thought most of his training at Great Lakes Naval Base in Illinois. The men were put to work often cleaning and repairing ships that had come into port. Robert worked in the electronics department. He was also sent on a small cruise assigned to refill line layers in the South Atlantic. During this cruise Robert was given 18 days in Brazil.
Livo, Robert
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Allegan County (Mich.)
Factories
Refrigerated trucks
A loaded delivery truck with its back door open that is ready to deliver pies to restaraunts. The caption reads: "These modern latest type pie trucks are washed inside and outside every night to insure the highest degree of sanitation."
Lloyd J. Harris Pie Co.
Digital file collected by the Kutsche Office of Local History from the Saugatuck Douglas History Center for the Stories of Summer project.
Copyright Undetermined
Bakeries
A black and white photo of a man stirring something in a kettle in front of a large number of aliminum troughs. The caption reads: "For your protection we use nothing but aliminum throughout our entire Bakery."
A black and white scan of an open letter to Lloyd J. Harriss that includes both the image of a man and the letter itself. The letter, which has a header labled The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co," expressed gratitude and pride that Lloyd J. Harriss attributed some of his success to the use of their utensils. It is signed by a W. C. White, the president of the company.
A black and white photo of two women operating the apple peeling machine. The caption reads: "This very expensive and highly complicated machine peels the apple and removes the core with a minimum of waste at the rate of 80 apples per minute. The apples then pass over an inspection table to make sure all peelings and spots have been removed. They then pass into a slicer which insures a univorm slice so that every piece of apple gets backed alike."
A photo of a man in a bakers uniform. He is removing pies from the oven and placing them on a large rack. The caption reads "Apple pies coming out of the oven," although it is partially cut off.
A color photo of an object with the Lloyd J. Harris logo. Below Lloyd J. Harris, it reads: "Bakers of the Worlds [sic] Finest Pies."