Nathan Sargent petition and letter of recommendation for Commissioner of Customs, April 5, 1869
subject: Sargent, Nathan, 1794-1875
subject: Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861
subject: Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
subject: Whig Party (U.S.)
subject: United States--Politics and government--19th century
subject: United States--Officials and employees
subject: United States. Congress. Senate
subject: United States. Office of the Vice President
subject: United States. Department of State
subject: Washington (D.C.)
subject: New York (State)
subject: Lancaster (Ohio)
description: Letter of support dated April 5, 1869 from government officials recommending Nathan Sargent retain his position as Commissioner of Customs.
source: Nathan Sargent papers, (RHC-44)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1869-04-05
rights: No Copyright - United States
language: eng

Nathan Sargent petition and letter of recommendation for Commissioner of Customs, April 6, 1869
subject: Sargent, Nathan, 1794-1875
subject: Ewing, Thomas, 1789-1871
subject: Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
subject: Whig Party (U.S.)
subject: United States--Politics and government--19th century
subject: United States--Officials and employees
subject: United States. Congress. Senate
subject: United States. Office of the Vice President
subject: United States. Department of State
subject: Washington (D.C.)
subject: New York (State)
subject: Lancaster (Ohio)
description: Letter of support dated April 6, 1869 from government officials recommending Nathan Sargent retain his position as Commissioner of Customs.
source: Nathan Sargent papers, (RHC-44)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1869-04-06
rights: No Copyright - United States
language: eng

Nathan Sargent petition and letter of recommendation for Commissioner of Customs, March 22, 1869
subject: Sargent, Nathan, 1794-1875
subject: Whig Party (U.S.)
subject: United States--Politics and government--19th century
subject: United States--Officials and employees
subject: Petitions
subject: Pennsylvania
subject: Washington (D.C.)
description: Letter of support dated March 22, 1869 from government officials recommending Nathan Sargent retain his position as Commissioner of Customs.
source: Nathan Sargent papers, (RHC-44)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1869-03-22
rights: No Copyright - United States
language: eng

Nathan Sargent petition and letter of recommendation for Commissioner of Customs, October 9, 1844
subject: Sargent, Nathan, 1794-1875
subject: Whig Party (U.S.)
subject: United States--Politics and government--19th century
subject: United States--Officials and employees
subject: Petitions
subject: Pennsylvania
subject: Washington (D.C.)
description: Letter of support dated October 9, 1844 from government officials recommending Nathan Sargent retain his position as Commissioner of Customs.
creator: Borrow, Alexander
source: Nathan Sargent papers, (RHC-44)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1844-10-09
rights: No Copyright - United States
language: eng

Nathan Sargent petition. William F. Johnson from John M. Clayton, May 16, 1849
subject: Sargent, Nathan, 1794-1875
subject: Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
subject: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
subject: Whig Party (U.S.)
subject: United States--Politics and government--19th century
subject: United States--Officials and employees
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)
description: Letter requesting Johnson's influence to get Sargent appointed as head of a Bureau in Washington.
creator: Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856
source: Nathan Sargent papers, (RHC-44)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1849-05-16
rights: No Copyright - United States
language: eng

Nathan Sargent recommendation. George S. Boutwell from George E. Spencer
subject: Sargent, Nathan, 1794-1875
subject: Whig Party (U.S.)
subject: United States--Politics and government--19th century
subject: United States--Officials and employees
subject: Petitions
subject: Pennsylvania
subject: Washington (D.C.)
description: Letter of recommendation for Nathan Sargent, expressing the opinion that Sargent not be removed from the office of Commissioner of Customs.
creator: Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905
source: Nathan Sargent papers, (RHC-44)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1869-06-01
rights: No Copyright - United States
language: eng

National Holocaust Remembrance Day address
subject: Holocaust Remembrance Day
subject: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
description: Address by Pieter N. Termaat, to the Congregation Ahavas Israel on National Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 10, 1983. Termaat's address is preceeded by a message from Dr. Jan H. Lubbers, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, also delivered by Termaat .
creator: Termaat, Pieter
source: Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1983-04-10
contributor: Lubbers, Jan H.
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

National Holocaust Remembrance Day program
subject: Holocaust Remembrance Day
description: Program for the Congregation Ahavas Israel's Holocaust Men's Club events for National Holocaust Remembrance Day.
creator: Congregation Ahavas Israel, Men's Club
source: Adriana B. and Peter N. Termaat collection (RHC-144)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1983-04-10
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: Text

National Poetry Festival, 1973
subject: Grand Valley State University
subject: Grand Valley State College
subject: Michigan
subject: Allendale (Mich.)
subject: Universities & colleges--Michigan
subject: Events
subject: Posters
description: National Poetry Festival, sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson College, June 14-24, 1973. Patricipants included Diane Diprima, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, George Economou, Theodore Enslin, Allen Ginsberg, Victor Hernandez Cruz, David Meltzer, George Oppen, Rochelle Owens, Carl Rakosi, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Reznikoff, and Robert Vas Dias (GV faculty).
source: Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1973
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

National Poetry Festival, 1973
subject: Grand Valley State University
subject: Grand Valley State College
subject: Michigan
subject: Allendale (Mich.)
subject: Universities & colleges--Michigan
subject: Events
subject: Posters
description: National Poetry Festival, sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson College, June 14-24, 1973. Patricipants included Diane Diprima, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, George Economou, Theodore Enslin, Allen Ginsberg, Victor Hernandez Cruz, David Meltzer, George Oppen, Rochelle Owens, Carl Rakosi, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Reznikoff, and Robert Vas Dias (Grand Valley faculty).
source: Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1973
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

National Poetry Festival, 1975
subject: Grand Valley State University
subject: Grand Valley State College
subject: Michigan
subject: Allendale (Mich.)
subject: Universities & colleges--Michigan
subject: Events
subject: Posters
description: National Poetry Festival, sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson College, July 9-19, 1975. Participants included Carol Berge, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Kathleen Frazer, Nikki Giovanni, June Jordan, Galway Kinnell, Ishmael Reed, Charles Simic, James Welch, James Wright.
source: Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1975
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

National Poetry Festival, July 6-14, 1971
subject: Grand Valley State University
subject: Grand Valley State College
subject: Michigan
subject: Allendale (Mich.)
subject: Universities & colleges--Michigan
subject: Events
subject: Posters
description: National Poetry Festival, Thomas Jefferson College, July 6-14, 1971
source: Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1971
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Native American Awareness Day, May 1980
subject: Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals
subject: Indians of North America
subject: Michigan
subject: Michigan -- Grand Rapids
description: Native American Awareness Day flyer, May 19, 1980 collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.
creator: Anishnabe Student Organization
date: 1980-05
rights: In Copyright
format: application/pdf
type: Text

Native Americans at Nike site, Chicago, Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Great Lakes Region (North America)
subject: Harbors--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Black-and-white photography
description: Black and white photograph of a group of Native Americans gathered on top of a hill at the abandoned Belmont Harbor Nike missile site in Chicago. In June of 1971, this group of Native Americans and their supporters occupied the abandoned area of Chicago’s Belmont Harbor in the hopes that the site be set aside for housing units for Native Americans as well as a school for Native American children. Scanned from the negative.
creator: Gilbert, Douglas R.
source: Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1971-06-15
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
type: Image
coverage: 1970s

Native Americans at Nike site, Chicago, Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Great Lakes Region (North America)
subject: Harbors--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Black-and-white photography
description: Black and white photograph of a group of young Native Americans gathered at the abandoned Belmont Harbor Nike missile site in Chicago. In the photograph, a young couple and passengers in a parked car are seen gathered next to a building at the site, with a group of musical instruments and a speaker system set up in front of the building nearby for a music performance by "Stone Savage" during the protest. In June of 1971, this group of Native Americans and their supporters occupied the abandoned area of Chicago’s Belmont Harbor in the hopes that the site be set aside for housing units for Native Americans as well as a school for Native American children. Scanned from the negative.
creator: Gilbert, Douglas R.
source: Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1971-06-15
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
type: Image
coverage: 1970s

Native Americans at Nike site, Chicago, Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Great Lakes Region (North America)
subject: Harbors--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Black-and-white photography
description: Black and white photograph of a group of Native Americans gathered on top of a hill at the abandoned Belmont Harbor Nike missile site in Chicago, Illinois. In June of 1971, this group of Native Americans and their supporters occupied the abandoned area of Chicago’s Belmont Harbor in the hopes that the site be set aside for housing units for Native Americans as well as a school for Native American children. Scanned from the negative.
creator: Gilbert, Douglas R.
source: Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1971-06-15
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
type: Image
coverage: 1970s

Native Americans at Nike site, Chicago, Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Great Lakes Region (North America)
subject: Harbors--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Black-and-white photography
description: Black and white photograph of a group of young Native Americans gathered at the abandoned Belmont Harbor Nike missile site in Chicago, Illinois. In the photograph, a group of young people are standing and eating picnic food in the foreground, while crowds are seen standing on top of the grassy hill in the background. In June of 1971, this group of Native Americans and their supporters occupied the abandoned area of Chicago’s Belmont Harbor in the hopes that the site be set aside for housing units for Native Americans as well as a school for Native American children. Scanned from the negative.
creator: Gilbert, Douglas R.
source: Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1971-06-15
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
type: Image
coverage: 1970s

Native Americans at Nike site, Chicago, Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Great Lakes Region (North America)
subject: Harbors--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Black-and-white photography
description: Black and white photograph of a group of Native Americans gathered on top of a hill at the abandoned Belmont Harbor Nike missile site in Chicago, Illinois. In June of 1971, this group of Native Americans and their supporters occupied the abandoned area of Chicago’s Belmont Harbor in the hopes that the site be set aside for housing units for Native Americans as well as a school for Native American children. Scanned from the negative.
creator: Gilbert, Douglas R.
source: Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1971-06-15
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
type: Image
coverage: 1970s

Native Americans at Nike site, Chicago, Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Illinois
subject: Native Americans--Great Lakes Region (North America)
subject: Harbors--Illinois--Chicago
subject: Black-and-white photography
description: Black and white photograph of a Native American gathering held at the abandoned Belmont Harbor Nike missile site in Chicago, Illinois. In the photograph, a woman is standing next to a chain link fence with multiple posters posted upon it in protest including one that reads, "Our Treaties Have Been Broken!!! Three Hundred Years of Indian Genocide Has To Stop," and two others promoting a music performance by Stone Savage, "Chicago's only tribal rock band." In June of 1971, this group of Native Americans and their supporters occupied the abandoned area of Chicago’s Belmont Harbor in the hopes that the site be set aside for housing units for Native Americans as well as a school for Native American children. Scanned from the negative.
creator: Gilbert, Douglas R.
source: Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1971-06-15
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
type: Image
coverage: 1970s

Natte, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2008
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. Air Force
description: Rich Natte was born in 1924 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was forced to quit his schooling at the age of sixteen so that he could provide for his family. Rich found a job at a local furniture store until being drafted in 1943. He spent six weeks at basic training in Gulf Port, Mississippi and spent an additional six weeks at a carpentry school in Virginia. Rich was then sent from Rhode Island to Norwich, England where he served with the 491st Engineer Battalion doing airbase maintenance. After the war was over he spent one more month in France before being sent home and discharged.
creator: Natte, Richard
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2008-06-28
contributor: Natte, Jeremiah (Interviewer)
rights: In Copyright
relation: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
format: application/pdf
format: video/mp4
language: eng
type: Moving Image
type: Text

Natural Ravines Map of GVSC
subject: Grand Valley State University
subject: Ottawa County (Mich.)
subject: Ravines -- Michigan
subject: Campus planning
subject: Land use
subject: Maps
description: Site analysis map featuring the natural ravines and recreation areas and created as part of the campus planning of Grand Valley State College as seen in the publication, "Grand Valley State College: A Guide to Future Physical Development," circa 1961. The map, labeled as Figure 7 of the publication, features a site analysis of the landscape located west of the Grand River and south of State Highway M-50 (later designated M-45), including the topography and plateau areas for potential campus building groupings along the edges of the ravines.
creator: Grand Valley State College
source: Grand Valley State College: A Guide to Future Physical Development
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1961
contributor: Johnson, Johnson & Roy, Inc. (landscape architects & site planners)
contributor: Meathe-Kessler, Associates, Inc. (architects)
contributor: Wehrer & Borkin (educational consultants)
contributor: Williams & Works (utility consultants)
contributor: Hotaling, Robert B. (area township planner, MSU)
contributor: Jones, John Paul (head of city planning department, Grand Rapids)
rights: In Copyright
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Nature trail on the Allendale campus
subject: Grand Valley State University
subject: Michigan
subject: Allendale (Mich.)
subject: Universities and colleges
subject: Facilities
subject: Property
description: Self-guided nature trail on the Allendale campus.
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
rights: In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image

Naughton, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2008
subject: Oral history
subject: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
subject: United States--History, Military
subject: Michigan--History, Military
subject: Veterans
subject: United States. Naval Reserve
subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
subject: Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American
subject: Video recordings
description: Gerald Naughton was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 29, 1931. He moved to Michigan when he was five years old and graduated from high school in 1950. Gerald joined the Navy reserve in 1955 and was later in the Navy full time. He was in the Navy for 17 years during the Korean War and Vietnam. Gerald now resides in the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.
creator: Naughton, Gerald
source: Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 2008-09-11
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

Navigatore Class Italian DD destroyer
subject: United States. Navy
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: Military education
subject: Warships--Recognition
subject: Slides
description: Navigatore Class Italian DD destroyer, October 1, 1947.
creator: United States. Navy
source: Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)
publisher: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
date: 1947-10-01
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: image/jpeg
language: eng
type: Image