6 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/443033996c8210909a452f2c2742118e.pdf 4cc1b1d9a5641b68e611cb6b969de794 PDF Text Text ��� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-18 Title A name given to the resource Certificate of discharge and voucher for payment of 1st Sgt. John W. Loucks,15th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-10-28 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army. Pay Department Loucks, John W. Subject The topic of the resource United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 15th (1862-1865) United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Description An account of the resource Certificate of discharge of 1st Sgt. John W. Loucks of St. Clair's Company A of the 15th Regiment of Infantry Volunteers of the State of Michigan. Loucks, a lumberman, joined the Regiment in Monroe Michigan, and was discharged by reason of promotion. He was a prisoner of war from Oct. 3 to Oct. 28, 1862. Voucher for payment of services. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5bded3c53b48eb722c230a700988e8cc.pdf 8fbc405579d429c0e73a73ea6aa16685 PDF Text Text ��� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-8 Title A name given to the resource Certificate of discharge and voucher for payment of Pvt. John B. Maloney, 5th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-02-25 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army. Pay Department Maloney, John B. Subject The topic of the resource United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865) United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Description An account of the resource Certificate of discharge of Pvt. John B. Maloney of Capt. Sherlock's Company A of the 5th Regiment of Infantry Volunteers of the State of Michigan. Maloney, a laborer, joined the Regiment in Ft. Wayne Michigan, and was discharged with surgeon's certificate of disability. Voucher for payment of services, paid Feb. 25, 1863. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/791f1a64b00886d66f373af40512b16e.pdf ee1b5145387a34f49d471bf340459d71 PDF Text Text ���� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-10 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to Capt. Mortimer Mansfield, 9th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-09-16 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Mansfield, Mortimer Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to Capt. Mortimer Mansfield of Company G, 9th Michigan Infantry, paid Sept. 16, 1862. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d7de3d70915c06fd0660399d2615ccd6.pdf 0ca8801df6d57f8d8c81fa382360ece5 PDF Text Text ���� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-2 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to 2nd Lieut. Samuel B. McCourtie, 1st Michigan Light Artillery Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-07-01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army McCourtie, Samuel B. Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Artillery Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to 2nd Lieut. Samuel B. McCourtie, 1st Michigan Light Artillery, paid July 1, 1865. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/432a06a2ea44ffdf156aa9cb4e50e401.pdf 15541433c76a100e0213345d0de79685 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Diana Sieger Interviewer: Joseph Medcalf Date: 10/15/06 Time: 41:24 Facilitator: K. Duggins Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (0:00) Introductions (1:00) Kellogg Foundation gave the Grand Rapids Community Foundation a matching grant to begin a Youth Grant Committee and the Grand Rapids Community Foundation (4:28) How Medcalf became involved in the Youth Grant Committee and discusses his first youth working there (6:00) Sieger discusses unique aspects of a community foundation (7:46) Medcalf discusses the benefits of being involved in the Youth Community and how they reconciled their actions via the grant-making process (14:36) Medcalf discusses the decision making process during youth grant committee meetings and how intense it can be. Uses experience of debating teen pregnancy case as well (18:07) Sieger remembers this teen pregnancy case as well (24:35) Medcalf discusses his experience of sitting on the real board of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation with full voting privilege (25:39) Sieger discusses her favorite memory of Medcalf during a board meeting (26:46) Medcalf discusses his career and life aspirations (28:42) Sieger remembers what led her to the foundation (30:04) Medcalf’s most memorable grant-making experience (32:18) Medcalf discusses the line of work in general (33:54) Medcalf discusses how his work at the Foundation affected his work as a youth representative on the Grand Rapids board of Education (36:59) Medcalf always felt welcome and respected as a board member (38:19) Medcalf expresses gratitude about the Foundation experience �(40:25) Sieger praises Medcalf for his persuasive powers and assets as a leader � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a27584a45288b0e856afc8d8bf4afb63.mp3 ce022ad02f06d32f2d584248fdaea00f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Seiger-Medcalf Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Diana Sieger and Joseph Medcalf Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seiger, Diana Medcalf, Joseph Description An account of the resource Diana Seiger, President of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation (GRCF), talks with youth grantmaker Joseph Medcalf about how his experience as a youth trustee on GRCF's board and a member of their Youth Advisory Council has developed his leadership skills. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Grand Rapids Community Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/460da47a1228aff5f7974b439f8b3be0.pdf 2f4399f359e99350bb9018a1b9188625 PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-34 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to Capt. Frederick Meyers, 27th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-05-05 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Meyers, Frederick Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 27th (1863-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to Capt. Frederick Meyers, 27th Michigan Infantry, paid Sept. 1, 1864. Woulded in action at Wildeerness, Virginia, May 5, 1864. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/65b0d7134a591450d3ad9bd7c073c8a6.pdf 9b406f0c930279cadc773d32777c6cbf PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-20 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to Capt. C. R. Miller, 18th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-06-03 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Miller, C. R. Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 18th (1862-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to Capt. C. R. Miller 18th Michigan Infantry, paid June 3, 1864. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e9a57ee4345e6a8d2079b8ccb4842ab2.pdf 1e60664f98c04c9a21224e987bf2e7e2 PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-6 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to 1st Lieut. William H. Mills, 8th Michigan Cavalry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-06-21 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Mills, William H. Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 8th (1862-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to 1st Lieut. William H. Mills, 8th Michigan Cavalry, paid June 21, 1865. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/256dd50bfa940937be0f39c238ce8c04.pdf 92dd47ae1bcd5f7423fea778bc74c572 PDF Text Text ���� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-25 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to Capt. William C. Moore, 18th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-10-31 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Moore, William C. Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 18th (1862-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to Capt. William C. Moore, 18th Michigan Infantry, paid October 31, 1864. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4c2e3b632dc56ae4925fa84adb4e4373.pdf b89a8616fdb2e1c5d9bffe2956bfa63e PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Mark Nepo Interviewer: Shirley H. Showalter Date: 10/17/06 Time: 38:47 Facilitator: N. Pumilia Location: Kalamazoo (1:00) Nepo discusses his personal relationship to philanthropy. “All about love,” his spiritual understanding of and relation to love (3:45) Nepo talks about his work at Fetzer, trying to incorporate story telling into the work and curriculum of the Fetzer Foundation. Program called Generosity of Spirit” (5:00) Recounts a Hindi teaching story called “The Drum” in which a boy learns about generosity and giving. A series of giving encounters (10:30) Talks about how stories can figure into modern culture. Difference between out understanding “Indian Giver” as a derogatory term (14:00) Recounts an experience when a Catholic woman gave him a relic, to combat cancer, he eventually gave it back to her when she was sick (17:00) Tries to give people gifts that he used, more meaningful (18:00) Showalter used to be the president of Goshen College, gave a speech in organizing her scarf collection to the student body. Gave a faculty member who had cancer (was getting chemotherapy) a scarf she bought in Haiti, but woman was going to pass away before it was helpful (25:00) Talks about common thread of wanting and needing, leading to generosity in stories (27:45) Tells a story about a Japanese monk in the 17th century, translated Buddhist text into Japanese (30:00) Talks about precepts of Fetzer Foundation and tells a story to illustrate point- a holy man in India saving a drowning spider (32:00) “Is generosity of spirit taught?” (34:00) Talks about interviewing a Native American woman in Northwest United States, stories about her coming of age �(36:20) One last story about a survivor of the Holocaust and giving to others more in need. Doing something to affirm our own humanity � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9a4bb250f189aac15b27844c26398b68.mp3 e18a14683cf20ff7ac4d803e28594d9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Nepo-Showalter Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Mark Nepo and Shirley Showalter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Showalter, Shirley Nepo, Mark Description An account of the resource Fetzer Institute colleagues Shirley Showalter, Vice President of Programs, and Mark Nepo, Program Officer of Kalamazoo, Michigan, talk about each of their personal experiences with philanthropy, including several stories drawn from around the world about generosity, giving and the true meaning of philanthropy - that it is "all about love." Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Fetzer Institute Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-16 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/30c1ac0da6f1a2182490446caca4c118.pdf fc7ca9affa7fb0e7a18874a49e88c35e PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: David Page Interviewer: Mariam Noland Date: 10/16/06 Time: 29:05 Facilitator: K. Duggins Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (0:00) Introductions (1:02) David discusses the Detroit Riverfront Project and remembers Detroit that he grew up in. remembers the vitality of downtown Detroit. The he discusses the decline of the downtown area. He gives a brief history of the Detroit Riverfront Project and some other revitalization projects (9:45) Page and Noland discuss Kresge’s involvement in making the Riverfront Project happen and about philanthropy in Southeastern Michigan and how that project changed the course of philanthropy in the region. Step by step on the Riverfront Project (17:32) Noland talks more about the Riverfront Project. Kresge gave $50 million with strict stipulations. Page breaks down the cost of building, running and endowing the project. Cost $300 million, must raise $140 million, already have $87 million. List corporations/foundations that have contributed to the Project. Talk about the vision of Riverfront Project. (23:46) Noland says most of river walk will be completed by next summer, will complete what it set out to do. Relays important leaders in philanthropy and community, civic leaders in making this project happen. Talk of strict dealings in completing the project (26:30) Page talks about the complete community involvement in this project and the example that this type of collaboration sets for the rest of the world. Costs to complete the project- building community, providing a space for further revitalizing the downtown Detroit area � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a23b903f85626c3382e321fa23d4c07f.mp3 98b6ec18747a17ec90eca518e2ab9390 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Noland-Page Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Miriam Noland and David Page Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noland, Miriam Page, David Description An account of the resource Colleagues Miriam Noland, President of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, and David Page, Trustee, The Jewish Fund, talk about philanthropy's role in revitalizing downtown Detroit through the Detroit Riverfront Project. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Jewish Fund Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-16 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/fb3cc2f37575176d1eff771859f49098.pdf 48e1e6b89f6c523d82b0cc8118718802 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Russell Mawby Interviewer: Kari Pardoe Date: 10/16/06 Time: 42:02 Facilitator: Elaine D. Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (0:55) How Russ knows Kari (1:00) How Russ became involved in philanthropy- his childhood, parents, Boy Scouts and 4-H were huge influences (2:20) His career is philanthropy, how it began. Dec. 1964 he joined the staff of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (3:58) How Kari got involved in philanthropy- her parents, family and background, and how she joined the Youth Advisory Council (5:15) Russ’s time at Kellogg- went from Director of the Division of Agriculture to the CEO- the positions he held, talks about the vision of the future of the foundation (10:40) Russ talks about CMF’s move to larger community foundations and Russ helped start the Youth Advisory Committee for these foundations (12:28) Kari remembers when she first became involved in the Youth Advisory Council (13:20) Adopting a family at Christmas time, they were living in a house with dirt floors (14:30) How she decided to go into non-profit (not business) after college, and what she does now (15:20) Learning to Give- develop k-12 curriculum to teach kids about philanthropy, Russ talks about how it started, goes into the history of volunteerism (19:50) Examples of what philanthropy these young people do, Russ “the only thing that matters is people, not money” his definition of a leader (22:50) Russ remembers his work in Latin America with Kellogg Foundation and when they started working in Africa in 80’s- his visit to South Africa during apartheid �(26:20) What direction Russ thinks foundations should go in, he remembers the first meeting of CMF, how it formed and the formation of Michigan Non Profit (30:15) The great challenge of early childhood- everyone needs a loving adult, the need for organizations to collaborate (grant makers and non-profit) (32:38) How philanthropy has had an impact on his personal life, talks more about his involvement with 4-H, he talks about the pitfalls of philanthropy work especially as a CEO (35:49) His 5 values: honesty, compassions, respect, responsibility and fairness (36:45) His hope for philanthropy, what his legacy will be, wants to be remember that he cared (38:08) The 3 areas he’s disappointed, haven’t improved with his philanthropic work: supporting a healthy family structure, bringing caring back to the professions (health, juvenile, etc.) and systematic changes in public education system, haven’t changed since institutionalized in the 1830s, society has changed, schools haven’t (40:58) Quote that Kari lives by “In 10 0years it doesn’t matter what car you drove but that you made a difference in the life of a child.” � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/69473df86087ca184a4a456eb67be62b.mp3 3a476b70ec06265a4d633510744cc7f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Pardoe-Mawby Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Russell Mawby and Kari Pardoe Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mawby, Russell Pardoe, Kari Description An account of the resource Former Council of Michigan Foundations' Youth Philanthropy Associate, Kari Pardoe, talks with her mentor Russell Mawby, Chairman Emeritus of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan, about the youth philanthropy movement in Michigan and Russ's perspectives on giving time, talent and treasurer for the greater good. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Youth W.K. Kellogg Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. 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Title A name given to the resource GVSU Concert & Event Posters Subject The topic of the resource Posters Events Michigan Universities & colleges--Michigan Description An account of the resource Division of Student Services provides programs, services, and environments that enhance the personal, social, and intellectual growth of undergraduate and graduate students at the University. Events including concerts were managed by the office of Student Life. Posters for music, speakers, poetry readings and other campuswide events are included. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Division of Student Services Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-07-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV028-06 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1963 – 1981 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV028-06_CurtisMayfield Title A name given to the resource Curtis Mayfield, November 16, 1972 Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State College Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities & colleges--Michigan Events Posters Description An account of the resource Curtis Mayfield, in the GVSC Fieldhouse, November 16, 1972 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grimshaw, Gary Rainbow Graphics Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1972 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a13dfb2f68e714a14f06f1790b4fc1fd.pdf 018ea907f128438504e7bdd94b8cafd9 PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-33 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to Lieut. Col. John H. Richardson, 27th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-02-28 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Richardson, John H. Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 27th (1863-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to Lieut. Col. John H. Richardson, 27th Michigan Infantry, paid Feb. 28, 1863. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/620d76e813656d26f5e687b42e5ef14e.jpg cea32ac97a22348159be24cb86de803d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection James H. Zumberge Library Zumberge Library 1970s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_000084 Title A name given to the resource Zumberge Library. First floor bibliography and study area Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nature Trends Roberts, Ed Description An account of the resource First floor bibliography and study area in front of Zumberge Library west window, later Cafe Biblioteque, ca. 1973. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Facilities Libraries Students Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2038ea76e51f0e23f335aaca64904cd3.jpg f04ca9ee67954a9e4552c493b9081aad Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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Zumberge Library Zumberge Library 1970s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_000106 Title A name given to the resource Zumberge Library. Students on stairs at main entrance Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nature Trends Roberts, Ed Description An account of the resource Students on stairs leading to the main entrance of Zumberge Library, ca. 1973. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Facilities Libraries Students Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e21747aeff1d1984fc0953d0bb79bd4f.pdf 5896324742a7e517fcd6cf20e4fb7a68 PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-2 Title A name given to the resource Discharge papers of Jessie Robinson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-06-05 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Robinson, Jessie Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Regiment, 1st (1861-1865). Company C Description An account of the resource Discharge papers of Jessie (Jesse) Robinson from Company C of the 1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Volunteers, June 6, 1865. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b80e95eb81bb94b3139b8d4eafd15d7b.pdf 48807762f66ccbeaaa2dd5e2091cf9d8 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Stella and Charles Royce Interviewer: Rebecca Noricks Date: 10/27/08 Time: Facilitator: P. Littlewood Location: Grand Rapids, MI (0:00) Introductions (1:50) They discuss how Chuck met Stella at church. He agreed to go meet Stella in Mexico City and bought a car and drove down there 55 years ago (3:15) Stella discusses the difficulties she faces during her childhood; not being able to wash her hair for weeks, leaving the family, welfare, walking to school (5:10) She talks about working for her room and board across the street from school and she was very happy to do so (6:45) She got a chance to go to college and worked in the registrar’s office. She signed up for Foreign Service (8:15) She was posted in the Dominican Republic and chauffeured around. It was nice for two years. She then went to Mexico (9:50) She talks about the highlight of her time here: Maria Callas performing (10:40) She and Chuck met and had a quick courtship. “Marry in haste and repeat at leisure” (12:00) Stella discusses the importance of the arts- her daughter was a professional harpist (12:50) Chuck discusses his family; his mother was a pianist (13:10) He discusses St. Sicilia; the mission has been the same for over 100 years; it is a music center with 800 or more young people involved (15:00) New Horizons band is successful around the country; St. Sicilia Center has grown and bringing out great performances (16:30) They discuss the ballet which was practicing in the basement of the Masonic Temple before moving to a new space through aid (18:20) Ballet space was a sign of Grand Rapid’s character; willingness to pitch in and help �(20:25) They discuss the schools cutting down on arts due to Michigan’s budget problems. Importance of arts to building discipline, example of 40 students and having the arts in their background (23:00) Moving downtown 22 years ago- they were the only ones in the building at that time (25:00) Chuck talks about some of the movers and shakers (26:00) They discuss the impact of the depression on themselves; importance of the value of the dollar. They also talk about the reconstruction of some of Grand Rapids (30:00) They talk about various people who planned for the future- Mayor, Dick Gillette, others (31:30) They talk about the importance of the arts in pulling more people/conventions into Grand Rapids’ museums, symphony, etc. as forms of entertainment (34:00) Community leaders; Dick Gillette, Frey Meyer, etc. (35:30) The talk about the importance of encouraging the arts to children and grandchildren (36:25) They discuss the Stella Royce Piano Program teaching piano for young children in collaboration with St. Sicilia � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ad91e24b1ad9c76f009c7f95d252bf0e.mp3 18079ee720d1cc2f90f6449a9a3c1584 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Royce-Noricks Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Charles and Stella Royce Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Royce, Charles Royce, Stella Description An account of the resource Grand Rapids, Michigan, philanthropists Charles and Stella Royce tell Rebecca Noricks, Communications Manager at the Council of Michigan Foundations, the story of how they met and about their passion for supporting the arts and commitment to their city. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/429a098549d9ceb5af40d5923b0c1973.pdf f9a1060d2a0ed993b73c9f216483164f PDF Text Text 1 Grand Valley State University Special Collections Kent County Oral History collections, RHC-23 Mr. and Mrs. Francis T. Russell Interviewed on October 4, 1971 Edited and indexed by Don Bryant, 2010 – bryant@wellswooster.com Tape # 30, 31 (1:21:28) Biographical Information Francis Thayer Russell was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on 21 June 1892, the son of Huntley Russell and Clara E. Comstock. Huntley Russell was born on 1 September 1858 at New Britain, Connecticut and died in Grand Rapids on 9 December 1928. Huntley was buried in Fulton Street Cemetery. Clara Eglatine Comstock was born in Grand Rapids in April 1866, the daughter of Charles C. Comstock and Cornelia Guild. She died on 18 June 1935 and was buried in Fulton Street Cemetery. Huntley and Clara were married in Grand Rapids on the 1st of September, 1884. Mrs. Russell was born Lucille I. Hopson on 25 May 1894 in Grand Rapids, the daughter of William C. Hopson and Frankie M. Hydorn. Lucille died on 19 October 1973 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Grand Rapids. Her parents were married in Grand Rapids on 19 September 1889. William died in Grand Rapids on 9 March 1948 at the age of 91 and Frankie passed away in Grand Rapids on 18 November 1958 at the age of 96. ___________ Interviewer: This interview with Mr. and Mrs. Francis T. Russell was recorded October fourth, nineteen seventy-one. Ok. Go ahead; what were you going to say? Mr. Russell: I was going to start to remember, to begin with, give my location at birth at recorded in North Park Avenue and Terrace Walk, which, of course now Terrace Walk is eliminated but North Park Avenue is still up there. The house which I was born in was torn down and, turned into stores. But this is a rather unique location in that it was just across the street from the Amusement Pavilion that my grandfather had built in the eighties sometime, along the river bank for the amusement of people that might drive out from downtown, from the heart of Grand Rapids or else come out on the, this dummy line that in the early days or the streetcar later on. But the Pavilion was provided with quite a fleet of row-boats that could be rented and rowed up and down the river and in the early days he had this side wheeler steamer that took a group up to as far as the Plainfield Farm which was Grand Island. At present Grand Island’s about in front of the Blythefield Club and this Farm was up in that general locality of the Blythefield Club. But the, this Pavilion was a fairly good size and had a very large dance hall, had three storied, for one of the attractions, there was a switch-back that ran from the Pavilion itself to another building �2 perhaps oh, 150 yards away. And you’d get in this car and ride along as you would in a figure eight or a jack rabbit or something like that over to this building and then you switched back and then come back to the Pavilion again. Which was supposed to be quite thrilling at that time, I think it was because it had some pretty good dips in it, although they weren’t loop-the-loops or anything like that, but just a thrilling affair for grown-ups and youngsters at that time. But later on, after this switch-back was given up, several years later the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club was established in the building just south of the Pavilion; which used to house the sidewheeler, the steamer that ran up and down the river. And the steamer went over great, so the Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club was formed and was very active in canoeing and shell racing and used to take some their best crew members out to Peoria and one place or another where they’d have some racing contests in the shells. Afterwards, the Boat and Canoe Club built north of this location. North of the bridge and where the present, let’s see, I think the American Legion is in there now, isn’t it. They used to be the last…… Interviewer: Who was? Who was your grandfather? Mr. Russell: C.C. Comstock and he came in eighteen fifty-three, moving out from New Hampshire. His father had been a farmer and sort of a half hearted carpenter, but he was never a very productive along the farming lines and as I gathered, the soil was not too productive, in that locality in which helped to encourage my grandfather at an early age to strike out west, which he did and looked this territory over, some almost the age of between eighteen and twenty and eventually moved out here and established himself in the lumbering business. At that time there was very little rail communication here. He originally arrived by a steamer through Chicago, then through Grand Haven and up the river. And then in his memoirs was one of the events coming up the river he tells about on the boat, when it blew up, the boiler blew up at Grandville and he was blown into the water. The helmsman was killed, but the other passengers seemed to survive alright and get ashore and he walked from there up to just south of the Soldier’s Home where he lived at that time. He had built out in the country there at rather an early age, or not an early age, early in his lifetime and his home was on Boltwood Drive, which was built in eighteen ninety, at that time. But this isn’t that I referred to when he was blown off the steamer he was residing on Ottawa Street. That was so it wasn’t quite the walk as it might have been if he’d been in the later house. He was interested in lumbering and later on building factory for the manufacture of pails and tubs on the corner of Newberry, now Sixth Street and Monroe; used to be Canal Street at that time. And that building is still standing on the northeast corner and his old office building right across the street on the northwest corner is still standing at this time. He was at one time, Comstock, Nelson and Matter in the manufacture of furniture and there was a great deal of difficulty in transporting at that time and getting the finished product out into the territories to be saleable. And it was eventually developed that he built some of his own railcars, his own freight cars, to transport the furniture out of town. That was later on of course when the GR & I, and some other roads developed into Grand Rapids. �3 Interviewer: He built his own freight cars, for what reason weren’t the railroads? Mr. Russell: Well, the railroads weren’t equipped to apparently meet the requirements that he thought should be necessary to take care of the product. And I don’t think that developed very widely but I can gather in his memoirs that there probably weren’t more than three or four cars that were built for that purpose. But his first interest in transportation apparently on his own hook was building a dummy line from Sweet Street up to North Park, where he had the entertainment enterprise. And this dummy ran fairly regular intervals between North Park and Sweet Street, which was the limit of the streetcar line at that time- went as far as Sweet and then back downtown. Then at that point they’d transfer to the dummy further north. And the later on as time developed, the dummy line was absorbed by the streetcar, Grand Rapids Street Railway, and electric cars were run on out there. But … Interviewer: How, how was his street car run? Did he run on electricity, too? Mr. Russell: Oh no, no this was before that, this was a steam dummy. It would carry a little tender behind it and a passenger car and in the summer, the open passenger car, in the winter it was closed. I think they had about, five cars was total equipment. But it afforded transportation for a number of years and by getting the people out to his amusement resort and bathing beach, which was also established out there on the west side of the river and they’d row across from the Pavilion, go over there and go in swimming where there was a sand bar and a sand beach and eventually that wore itself out. The swimming feature was given up and then it turned into just farmland over there…. Interviewer: The river was pretty clean then in those days for swimmers? Mr. Russell: Well yes, it was. I was always taught at that time that the river purified itself every ten miles. That, whatever happened to it, after flowing over the gravel and sand beds that it would be purified after ten miles of operation., We never thought of pollution at that time, nothing of that sort. You couldn’t say it was as clear as Lake Michigan, but it was a much clearer than we’ve been used to seeing it lately. I remember that the, the row boats, in front of the Pavilion were attached to a series of booms that were floating in the river and these booms could of course could, rise and fall with the variation of the river. And there was a tendency I recall a moss gathering on the booms so it showed some pollution at that time. But, you’d get out of those booms and then of course you couldn’t get too many of them [people] or they’d sink. You’d have to go down, just a few at a time to get in the rowboats and then, then row wherever you wanted to. Interviewer: Did you ever go out to the amusement park, when you were a child Mrs. Russell? Mr. Russell: North Park Pavilion? �4 Mrs. Russell: I think I was out there to Sunday School Picnics. I think we used to have Sunday School Picnics…I don’t remember quite so much. Well I remember all about its being there but I’m afraid I didn’t play around there as much as you did. Interviewer: Where did you grow up? Mrs. Russell: Well, I was born on North College Avenue about halfway between Leonard and what’s now Michigan Street, was then called Bridge. And it was a plat that my father had bought up there, a large piece of land; and our house was the only house on it. He built this house, establishing the plat. And we used to walk a good distance of a half mile up Bridge Street to school and think nothing of it. In those days, whether it (would) be summer or winter we’d go home for lunch and go back again. But of course that’s unheard of now. And it occurs to me that we used to go bobsledding right down those College Avenue hills. Either way, because we lived right just halfway between. Then a little later on ‘course there were lots of houses built, largely due to my father’s development. That whole section filled in, so we had neighbors, at that time. I lived there until I was probably twelve or thirteen years old and then we moved down on Lyon Street in one of these houses that are now being shown on the Heritage Hill tour, which intrigued me. I went in to see it Saturday. I hadn’t seen it since about the year, what did I figure that out? I think it was probably about nineteen eighteen. And I’ve never been in the house since we left it. It was very interesting to see five apartments in it. I couldn’t quite picture that because they hadn’t had that many people living there. Interviewer: Whereabouts on Lyon is that house? Mr. Russell: Four-forty. Mrs. Russell: Near College Avenue. It’s a block between College and Prospect. It’s directly back of Central High School. We, we owned the property, straight through from Lyon Street to the Central High School line. We had a big tennis court back of the house that about half the town used to make use of because there weren’t too many tennis courts then; and they’d all come and warm up for the city tournaments, the city tennis tournaments. And so we, we got a lot of circulation of people there while we lived there. And then at that time I attended the Central Grammar School, which was down, at the corner of Barclay and Lyon Street. And of course that’s since been torn down. It was a great big square building and very high on quite a hill that’s since been leveled down, considerably. Then of course the next step was to go to the old high school next door and then I eventually graduated my last year nine twelve I graduated from Central High School. And then from that residence, my father built down on Madison Avenue. I spent the rest of my life with them, I spent down there. I’ve always been around the parts here. Interviewer: Where, whereabouts on Madison was that? �5 Mrs. Russell: At the corner of Logan and it isn’t exactly the corner though, one house south of the corner of Logan on the east side of the street. Right next to, well it used to be Henry Heald’s house, a very old, old house, which was taken down, wasn’t it or is it still there? Mr. Russell: Yes, it‘s turned in to a school. Mrs. Russell: School now. Yes, it, it had quite a historical old house next to it. But, again my father bought a piece of land out there and then sold off the lots to the various people that built between our home and Logan and Morris Avenue and Madison. So we had a neighborhood that developed all at one time practically and ….. Interviewer: What was your father’s name? Mrs. Russell: William C. Hopson. People called it Hopkins or Hobson, it isn’t, it’s none of those, it’s H-O-P-S-O-N. I hate to have it called otherwise. He came here, when did I tell you he came here? Eighteen, hold that down here, I ought to, I hate to be inaccurate. (He) came to Grand Rapids in the spring of 1870. Now that’s right, that’s when he came, he came here from Ypsilanti; but he was born in Toledo, Ohio. And he came here with a widowed mother and he was of tender age of about twelve years old when he came here and had a very heavy degree of dependency on her part. So that, he used to go to night school and tried to pick up his education and I think he went to high school until he was seventeen and I doubt he ever graduated. I don’t think so. But he went heavily to night school. And then at that time he joined a metalworking firm called Shriver-Weatherly. And in the course and learned the trade... he learned the metal trade and worked hard at it I’m sure, because he was pretty vigorous at applying himself. Then his spare time on holidays and nights he used to run a popcorn stand down on the corner of Monroe and Lyon right beside of the Mays, where Mays is now. And he really could tell some tall tales about how much money he’d make on July Fourth, and how far he could make the lemonade go. Interviewer: Was that a pretty big day in Grand Rapids, July Fourth? Mrs. Russell: Evidently it was because apparently they had a parade. I think they always had a parade that got everybody downtown. Then if he could get them downtown then he could catch them for a popcorn ball or a glass of lemonade. I’m sure he said that he didn’t make lemonade out of a single lemon. I think he bought something called citric acid and turned it out of that, and consequently it was profitable. But he had kind of a struggle getting along. And he was sort of proud of some of his success. He helped put the roof on, I think the post office, ahead of the old post office. I don’t think this one was the one that was. Mr. Russell: Oh, no it was…. �6 Mrs. Russell: …the one that preceded this one. But he used to like to talk about having helped put the roof on the one, not the one, two ahead of our modern one; the one that preceded the court building now at the corner of Lyon and Ottawa. Is that? Yes, Ionia and Lyon. And it was the building ahead of that one I’m sure that he put the roof on. And or helped and he had some rugged occupations all right. Of course he went in business after he worked for ShriverWeatherly; he went in business for himself. And he got a man to back him with money, some money, and then after a period he was able to buy the man out and go out on his own. And he continued until it became W.C. Hopson and Company which is still operating under the name Hopson-Bennett now. And…. Mr. Russell: On Grandville Avenue, the building was built in nineteen-ten, that’s it was… Mrs. Russell: Nineteen-ten. He built the building and …. Mrs. Russell: He was a lover of automobiles and, I think the first time he ever saw an automobile for sale was out at the, what do you call that? Mr. Russell: West Michigan Fair… Mrs. Russell: West Michigan Park, West Michigan Fair. Is that what they called it? West Michigan, wasn’t there a park in there? Mr. Russell: No. it was at Comstock Park. Mrs. Russell: Out at Comstock Park. And they had a demonstrator of Oldsmobile, with a little, I think a single lunger. I’m sure it was because it went by jerks and, it had a removable rear. When we rode in it on Sunday why it had two seats, but all during the week when he was going back and forth to work in it he had just a platform and slide the second seat off and put this platform on. And the car wasn’t very dependable because they were the early days and the chain kept breaking, no matter what they did to it; nobody really knew how to repair it. And this chain would keep breaking so whenever we went for a ride on Sunday, the man who was the teamster down at the factory and lived fairly near us, took the horses, they had a team of horses there, had to stay home so he could be sure to come out and tow us in. So we spent, this poor man never got a Sunday out when we were out riding. My father finally said well I’m going to drive that car to Lansing because I’m going to take it right back to the factory. Everything in the world’s happened to it, and Adams and Hart was the automobile agency here. They worked over it and they hadn’t done very well by it so he got this teamster to say he’d go along with him and it took him four days to make Lansing, partly due to the fact that the roads were so muddy. There weren’t any paved roads at all. It was just all dirt roads. And they’d get stuck and then something would break and they’d get that put together and fixed up and then they’d go a little further. But they made Lansing. I don’t know whether he ever brought it back or not but he got to Lansing. I always thought it was so amusing to be towed in, and I was so embarrassing to have had horses �7 be pulling you when you had this good-looking car; and not very many cars in Grand Rapids. There were very few. Then later on he got a fancy, for just a notional fancy, he thought the Franklin car was the car. It couldn’t freeze and it was, oh it was just the car to have. So he stuck to that pretty consistently. Then he got a notion that my mother might drive an electric car. She wasn’t very brave about getting behind a wheel and so he got a Detroit Electric and, he jokingly said to my mother, “Now Mr. Steinman is our city assessor and he lives just a block from us here. Don’t drive around that way or he’ll raise our, what do you call it? Mr. Russell: Personal property assessment. Mrs. Russell: Yes, personal property tax. And so my mother went out with the man demonstrating it, who was trying to teach her to drive it and she tried to turn the corner from Fountain to College and she ran right up on Mr. Steinman’s lawn and, and the car stopped right in his yard, which we always thought was very humorous. Mr. Russell: It was a good start? Mrs. Russell: You know, at that time I lived there on Lyon Street, Blodgett Hospital was on the corner of College and Lyon. Only of course it was UBA Hospital before they changed the name. But that presented quite a different picture with that hospital on the corner. Less than a block away from us, it was. And of course that is right where Fountain Street School is now. That’s the location where UBA was. Mr. Russell: Fountain Street School? Mrs. Russell: Yes. Mr. Russell: UBA was United Benevolent Association. Did you ever hear of that? Interviewer: No. Mr. Russell: That was the hospital organization. Mrs. Russell: It preceded; it’s the same hospital except that the Blodgetts put a put a great deal of money into this hospital and in recognition they changed the name of it. I think they still, their annual meetings refer to it as United Benevolent Association. I think the name has... Mr. Russell: Oh, is that? Mrs. Russell: ….been fluctuated a little. I’m not sure of that, but I think so. Interviewer: What was the United Benevolent Association? Mr. Russell: I don’t know what denomination it was, do you? �8 Interviewer: Perhaps it had some religious affiliation then? Mr. Russell: Yes, it Mrs. Russell: I don’t think so. I don’t think it is. No, I think it was more like, something instead of the [Community] Chest; a group of private, contributors who united to build the hospital. I don’t recall there was ever any religious….. Mr. Russell: Well, now wasn’t Butterworth in operation at that time, too? Mrs. Russell: No. Mr. Russell: That was later on? Mrs. Russell: I don’t think so. I think, I think UBA was the first one. I think. I hope they don’t rely on my accuracy ‘cause I could be wrong and I could be corrected. I just remember what it looks like. I’m sure it was there, when I was there. Interviewer: Did your mother ever, did your father ever buy that electric car? Did you…..? Mrs. Russell: Yes, we had about three of them. We had one right after the other. They were very intriguing to operate because, in fact they created an awful problem for me to learn to drive a gas car when I got married. I had to drive a gar car. His idea was it would keep me out of the gas car, which he had, and the electric would be so much safer. And so I didn’t bother to learn to drive his car at all. So when I got married all Fran had was a gas car. It presented a great problem because an electric, all you did when you got in a tight place was pull everything off. Well, that doesn’t work very well with a gas car. So that every time I’d get any place that was difficult, I’d stall. The system was very interesting. It has two levers and that’s the two levers and the brakes is all there is to the whole car really. You had five speeds and of course they weren’t exactly racing speeds but you could, you’d operate with your right hand you did the steering (changing side of reel) that’s just what it was like. Mr. Russell: there was…. Mrs. Russell: And very clean cars. That was the nice part about it, there was no grease or oil or anything like that about it. The car always, then of course you had to have it charged. We had a charging arrangement in our garage and it would only go about, oh I think they said it would go eighty miles on a charge. It never would. Fifty miles was about all they’d go on a good full charge. So usually when you brought the car in, you put it right on the charge. And tried to keep it pepped up so that you could use it for where you wanted to go. Fortunately the first one we had, we lived on Lyon Street and we didn’t have a charger in the garage then. The garage being a barn, we didn’t have a garage at all; it was an old barn out in back of the house. And our source of electricity was down on Bond Avenue, that isn’t even there anymore, is it? �9 Mr. Russell: No. Mrs. Russell: Bond isn’t even….. Mr. Russell: It was the first block east of Monroe but it isn’t… Mrs. Russell: No, it’d be right in between the gas company and the Old Kent Bank, wouldn’t it? Mr. Russell: Yes Mrs. Russell: Isn’t that about where it… Mr. Russell: It was the first block east… Mrs. Russell: There was a very good garage there. The best garage in the town and they were rather, well they were kind of half ahead of their time, don’t you think they were? Mr. Russell: Well, C.J. Bronson’s Mrs. Russell: Bronson’s garage, yes, so that when we’d get out of juice, we could start at the top of Lyon Street hill and make the garage on Bond Avenue very nicely. Just slide into it. Deader than a doornail, because when an electric car is dead it’s awful dead. It doesn’t do a thing. Interviewer: Why did he think that electric cars were safer than gasoline cars? Mrs. Russell: They didn’t go so fast. They were slow, they were slow cars. Mr. Russell: The highest speed would be thirty, perhaps thirty five, it wasn’t…. Mrs. Russell: Well, then I think they thought they were safer because they had fewer adjustments; you didn’t have a clutch, you didn’t have to do anything about a clutch, you know. It didn’t have to mesh or anything of that kind. You could be awful dumb and drive an electric, and I don’t know, my father thought it was perfectly alright for me to drive that but he wouldn’t listen to me driving a gas car. I don’t know quite what all that reasoning was, do you? Mr. Russell: Well, when you’re limited to fifty mile radius you know, you can’t get very far away from home, because you’d have to be sure to get back. Mrs. Russell: I wasn’t that far away. I wasn’t trying to make distance. Mr. Russell: They, they never got up any speed unless you were on the right side of a hill, then you could do it, so like coming down Lyon Street or Bridge Street. But, then they’re very stable, they’d climb a hill in great shape…. Mrs. Russell: They’d go through anything. �10 Mr. Russell: If they were properly charged up. Mrs. Russell: They’d just, the application, electricity was almost more powerful then gas, the gas might jump you or something, but electric power just really, in fact I backed right straight through this garage door once without raising it, so I know what it can do. Interviewer: Do you remember the first gas station in Grand Rapids? Mr. Russell: Oh, no. Mrs. Russell: Let me see if I can think of an early one. Mr. Russell: I think that would be…. Mrs. Russell: Where’d you get gas? Mr. Russell: Bronson’s garage was where we….. Mrs. Russell: Bronson’s the first, there on Bond Avenue. I’ll bet that was as early, did we go way there for gas? Did you get gas from there? Mr. Russell: Well at our house, we had a fifty gallon tank and the tank, the gasoline tank wagon would drive up there and fill it up, periodically and then we’d have to pump out of that ourselves and fill our tank through a chamois strainer to be sure that no dirt or water or anything else got into the tank. It was very important to be sure that the gas was pure getting in there. It didn’t get through any filter, pump or anything of that sort as it does now. It came right off the tank wagon right into our tank and then we had to transport it in five gallon lots into our automobile tank. And of course in those days the tank didn’t hold more than about ten gallons anyways so. Our experience was the first Model-T Ford, ours was number seven ninety-nine of the Model-T. And, we had that, let’s see, we bought that in nineteen eleven and in about three months, it was so redesigned that we had to run ours back to the factory and have it rebuilt. They changed the details of it from a bent bearing to roller bearing from a pump driven circulation for cooling the motor to a thermo siphon and several refinements so that we sort of felt as if we’d helped them develop the Ford in an experimental way in having such an early number. And that car basically was quite reasonable at as I recall about six hundred dollars, but then you had to have the windshield added and the speedometer and the gas headlights and the gas tank as the acetylene tank, this was before electric headlights. And we had all these details added up you’re well over a thousand dollars. Interviewer: Oh, really? �11 Mr. Russell: …to get the thing operating. But they’d sell the thing with kerosene lamps if you wanted but that didn’t shine very far up the road. You really had to have acetylene gas headlights to give you the real light. Mrs. Russell: Didn’t you have acetylene gas in your house? We did. Mr. Russell: Yes, before electricity was…. Mrs. Russell: Before they had electric…. Mr. Russell: Yes, we had…. Mrs. Russell: ….make it out of carbide, didn’t they? Put in big tanks. Mr. Russell: Yes. Mrs. Russell: It had something, looked like a furnace, did it? Mr. Russell: Sort of, Yes and then, there were two systems…. Mrs. Russell: I can remember carrying buckets of carbide. Mr. Russell: The calcium carbide would be, in one system would be dropped into the water and then it forms acetylene gas and the tank would fill up. Then the other system was dropping water on a sort of container of calcium carbide and you’d raised acetylene gas by that method. The one method was you drop the carbide into the water and the other method was to drop water on the carbide. Mrs. Russell: What’s preferable? Why, why the difference? Mr. Russell: Well, just two different processes. I don’t know, we thought that the best one was the Davis process that we used at our house. Although at your house you had the Owens. Mrs. Russell: I think we did. Mr. Russell: Which was the, it is a…. Mrs. Russell: Do I remember seeing a tank, when it was full rise? Mr. Russell: Yes, in either case, when the water came in contact with the carbide, it would form acetylene gas and then the tank would rise and fill up and shut off the operation, so it wouldn’t go too far. Then as you used the gas, the tank would recede and so the mechanism would start the process again, dropping more carbide into the tank; or dropping more water on the carbide. Interviewer: Where, where was the tank located? �12 Mr. Russell: In the basement. Mrs. Russell: In the basement, yes. Interviewer: Was it in a…..? Mrs. Russell: Looked a little like a furnace in that it was a galvanized iron cylinder sort of, wasn’t it? Mr. Russell: That’s right. Interviewer: I see, it had a support…around it… Mrs. Russell: And it had a cylinder within a cylinder sort of, isn’t that right? Mr. Russell: That’s right. Mrs. Russell: And this one that would rise was the inner cylinder, you see, they’d seed this stuff into the bottom, didn’t they? Mr. Russell: Yes. Mrs. Russell: And then as it formed the gas it would shove this inner cylinder up and I suppose create the pressure that’d carry light around your house and was good light. Don’t you think it was? Mr. Russell: Oh yes, it was very, very nice… Mrs. Russell: Very steady, it was a very steady light. Mr. Russell: Bright light, this was in case you weren’t anywheres near the natural gas main, oh I mean the city gas company. Where we were out there, we’re a long ways away from service. Mrs. Russell: Now we weren’t very far. Why would we have had a ….. Mr. Russell: Well up on the hill, you’d be quite a ways from the central supply which was down on Market and Wealthy, you know. Mrs. Russell: They used to make that out of coal, didn’t they? Mr. Russell: Yes Mrs. Russell: Before the natural gas that they had. Mr. Russell: Yes �13 Interviewer: Do you, do you remember where the first parking lot was in Grand Rapids? Do you remember a parking lot opening? Mr. Russell: No, no I can’t, I can’t recall that ….. Mrs. Russell: You don’t mean a public one, just any one open to the public but not a city run? Interviewer: Correct. Mrs. Russell: Livingston Hotel…? Mr. Russell: Parking lot? Mrs. Russell: I thought that, when after that fire, wasn’t there one in which you drove in on the tile floor. Do you suppose, I’m not real sure that’s right, but you know they had, what kind of a room would you call it? Mr. Russell: Foyer for a wagon. Mrs. Russell: No, down under their basement room was a cocktail lounge we’d call it now but it wasn’t back then. No. It was, but it was that type of place. They had entertainment there, evening gatherings. Mr. Russell: The saloon you mean? Mrs. Russell: …then after the fire. I thought I remember driving in there on tile floor. They just left the floor, the floor didn’t burn. Do you remember that or… Mr. Russell: No, I don’t recall that. END of Side I – cassette CD is at Track 2 24:16 Mrs. Russell: I had a funny notion that was about as… I can’t re, I don’t think I remember parking lots though very much. Interviewer: Where was the Livingston Hotel located? Mrs. Russell: The corner of Fulton and Division, the…. Mr. Russell: Southeast corner. Mrs. Russell: Southeast corner. Interviewer: Where Davenport business building? Mrs. Russell: Yes…it, where they used to be, that corner. �14 Mr. Russell: Yes, then after the Press building went in there and then Herald and …. Mrs. Russell: Well, they didn’t go in after the Livingston. They were there at the time the Livingston Hotel was there. Mr. Russell: Oh, the Livingston didn’t extend up as far as Sheldon then? Mrs. Russell: Oh, no. The Livingston’s about, a little bit bigger than the Davenport building, and I think maybe the Herald took part of it and got a little bigger and maybe build... Mr. Russell: Yes, I guess that’s right. It was ….. Mrs. Russell: But, that, I’m sure that the Press and the Herald were there be, right along with the Livingston. Interviewer: Where did you, where did you first live when you were married? Mr. Russell: On Oakwood Avenue, just north of Coit. And that was, right after we’d platted the farm out there. You see, we had the Comstock Dairy Farm; it was a hundred and sixty acres, which is Riverside Gardens now and we had joined with Charles Sligh and Jay Post who had frontage up on Plainfield and we were able to make our street extensions continuous from Plainfield down to Monroe, in accordance with the drainage areas, like Comstock Boulevard, now is the drainage area and Sligh Boulevard. And in that manner you didn’t run into these deadend streets and things of that kind when you were able to plat this in conjunction with the adjoining owners, Mr. Charles R. Sligh and Jay Post. And this was the first street that we’d extended from the city up North to the 3 Mile Road, which was the city limits at that time. And our house was one of the first, three or four that were built on that street to open the plat. And then subsequent to that, different sections in Riverside Gardens were put on as they could be absorbed in the market. Mrs. Russell: Oh, that was your business when I married you wasn’t it for a good many years. In fact you still have a few lots haven’t you? Very few. Mr. Russell: Oh, we’re down to about our last half dozen now but it’s pretty well developed up there now But when we were married there was all open fields and we had one of the first houses to be built on the plat; although preceding that, my grandfather had built a very substantial residence on Boltwood Drive and my father and mother Huntley Russell and Clara Russell built the large pillared house that’s still standing out there now, just off from Boltwood Drive. But at that time these two houses were separated by the streetcar line that came by the Wealthy-Taylor car line that ran through there to Comstock Park. �15 Interviewer: Well now, as I am not familiar with that area of town in terms of the names of the streets. As you drive on Monroe Avenue towards well out to the Riverside Park area, where the park is, there’s ….. Mrs. Russell: They gave Riverside Park to the city, they, his family did. Interviewer: Really? Mr. Russell: Yes, that was known in our family as the flats and, we used to have to, in order to raise any crops there at all which was mostly corn, we had to establish dikes, at the river bank to keep the flood water out of that area. And we had pumps operating there pumping it out if it broke at all. After, as time went on, we gave up that section for any residential purpose at all and turned into, dedicated it to the city as a park. And Riverside, Comstock-Riverside Park developed after that. Mrs. Russell: Your plat would be directly east of Riverside Park. Isn’t that right? Mr. Russell: Yes. Mrs. Russell: The one that Riverside Gardens, that he’s talking about, where we lived. We lived on one of those lots east of Monroe. Mr. Russell: So Riverside Park is the property west of Monroe and Riverside Gardens is the property east of Monroe, which is… Interviewer: I see. Mrs. Russell: (?) …and Mrs. Boltwood gave it to the city, isn’t that right? Mr. Russell: Yes, Mrs. Boltwood did. Mrs. Russell: Mrs. Boltwood; they were sisters - Mrs. Lucius Boltwood and Mrs. Huntley Russell. They did, they did quite a lot. Well, this platting was done with both of them together, wasn’t it? Mr. Russell: Yes. Mrs. Russell: It was in their names, of course. Interviewer: When out in there off of Monroe, there’s a large old home that is totally unlike any of the houses that are built in that area around it. It’s a huge home… Mr. Russell: With columns? Mrs. Russell: The columns? �16 Interviewer: Did the columns face to the south? Mr. Russell: No, they faced west. Mrs. Russell: Yes, west. Let’s see. Interviewer: Well maybe, maybe they do face west, and I just never…. Mrs. Russell: White is it, a white house, sort of? Mr. Russell: Green roof? Interviewer: Yes, right, right. Mrs. Russell: There’s a drive going in around it. Interviewer: I’ve never driven over to look at the house up close; I see it from the road Mrs. Russell: I think that’s his home. That was… Mr. Russell: Well, the house really faces west, but you approach it off from Boltwood Drive on the south. Mrs. Russell: Boltwood Drive. The south would be the entry you, you’d come in off, from the south. So you probably thought that was the entrance you see. It is the biggest house out there and it’s startling and it’s a very fine old home. It’s very beautifully built and is yet a beautiful house. His brother lives there yet. Interviewer: Oh, your brother still lives there? Mr. Russell: Charles Russell, yes. And this was originally built on a five acre plot and the old Comstock home was built on a five acre plot just to the west. And then would be platting and of course this acreage was absorbed in lots and the lots on which these houses stood were materially reduced in size. And it looks entirely different there now than it did when they were originally put in in eighteen ninety and nineteen ten. It was just the days of those two original houses. And, the farm buildings were at the juncture of Coit and Guild The dairy barn there had over two hundred head of cattle and they had ran a milk route out of there to supply milk to certain sections of the city. Mrs. Russell: Isn’t that the... .wasn’t that right on the edge of the property that is now Riverside School out there? Mr. Russell: Oh, where the dairy barn was? Mrs. Russell: The dairy barn? �17 Mr. Russell: No the Riverside School is east of there; up on the rise, up on the hill. Mrs. Russell: But I thought it went down to Coit. Doesn’t it, go way down to Coit? Mr. Russell: No. Mrs. Russell: Oh, I thought it did. Mr. Russell: When you look back and think of that as a farm and supplying milk to the city, it’s awfully hard to visualize now with all the houses and development that has taken place. But it was , it was a very good, dairy farm and the property that adjoined it to the north and east, the Nason farm, was subsequently purchased by the Charles Sligh; not Charlie Sligh, but his father, with whom we collaborated on platting the property back in the, we were working on this in the twenties, nineteen twenty. Mrs. Russell: You haven’t said anything about the waterworks. Mr. Russell: Well that was a double enterprise that my grandfather Comstock established to take care of the water necessities of the pavilion and the dummy, which required a large amount of water. Of course, that’s that was the motor powered thing they had to have plenty of water to create the steam to keep the dummy going. And in order to keep the dairy farm up; [to] keep plenty of water flowing to the cattle all the time, he established the water wheel in Lamberton Creek where it crosses Coit, and pumped out of springs in the immediate locality of where the stream comes down through there. And pumped up to a ten thousand gallon tank that stood just south of Northwood, it’s known as Northwood now, and east of Coit. And from there, this water was distributed to the dairy farm and to the North Park Pavilion. Then as the community grew up, more people, more houses built and so forth, they attached on to this water supply and [it was] known as the North Park Water Company. And it gradually grew and grew until at the time, the city came out there and took it over we had about a hundred and fifty customers that [we] were supplying out through North Park. And then when the city grew, the city limits was extended out there, then this company had to be taken over by the city and of course the mains reinforced and distribution enlarged and so forth. Interviewer: Gee, your Grandfather Comstock was into everything, wasn’t he? Mr. Russell: I guess he was. For one time he had a…. Mrs. Russell: You haven’t told… Mr. Russell: ….five farms around town... Mrs. Russell: Fran, I always thought that was interesting that during the Depression, what was that in ninety-three? �18 Mr. Russell: Oh, yes in ninety-three... Mrs. Russell: He issued his own script. He had the Grand Rapids Chair Company, which he’d built; the buildings still there on Monroe. And… Mrs. Russell: Baker Furniture now, isn’t it? Mr. Russell: Yes. Mrs. Russell: Or else taken over by the…. Mr. Russell: I think…. Mrs. Russell: …subsequent merger, I don’t know. Mr. Russell: But he originally built those buildings and, it was called Grand Rapids Chair Company for years. Then across the street, across Monroe, he had a store, a general store, at which his employees traded and they ran into this, financial difficulty in ninety-three, the panic, they were shy of cash, as everybody was, but my grandfather established script known as Comstock script, that he would pay his employees in the factory. And then they’d go across the street and redeem it for groceries in the grocery store. And in this manner he weathered the storm there for several months, I really don’t know the exact period. But it was an interim affair that helped him keep going. He could still manufacture, he could still pay his employees. Mrs. Russell: And they could still eat. Mr. Russell: And still eat. It was a sort of self-contained unit there that made it possible for him to operate during that period. I don’t believe it lasted so very long; but I don’t think it was an extensive as our nineteen-thirty depression; but I really don’t know because I wasn’t around at that time. But it was an interesting operation to be able to work this out with himself instead of just laying these fellows off… Mrs. Russell: I was resourceful. Mr. Russell: …paid ‘em in the script so they could still maintain their domestic operation of families and didn’t starve at all. But he was the mayor at one time, of the city. And he was also a Congressman in Washington, for one term, on the Whig ticket; and in his memoirs he was quite put out with the time that was wasted down there. So much time was killed in talk and not accomplishing things. Mrs. Russell: You must be talking about now (?) Mr. Russell: And this, well that book right in back of you that was a written, his memoirs and we typed them, had them typed and it’s quite, interesting, his…. �19 Mrs. Russell: They’re very historical accounts… Interviewer: I bet it is. Mrs. Russell: He was quite outspoken. He had definite ideas. Mr. Russell: But he… Mrs. Russell: I think there’s one of those in the library isn’t there? Interviewer: Think so? Mrs. Russell: They asked you for one. Didn’t I remember your giving them one? I think there is. Mr. Russell: Z.Z. Lydens said that he had some good leads out of that in writing this last history of Grand Rapids. Interviewer: Oh, yeah? Mr. Russell: He said he got some good information out of that. But, he wrote that at the time he was in Congress because he had so much time on his hands down there. I guess he was not much of a speaker and of course he didn’t have any priority, just being a freshman. And with so much time on his hands he started writing this and followed through and in good shape so it’s made a very interesting history for the family to refer to. Interviewer: That’s it’s a nice… Mr. Russell: But I think there’s a copy of that in the (library). End of Reel I (#31) Mr. Russell: ….That stuff was all by the boards Interviewer: Where did they bring these logs down from? Mr. Russell: Well, this is when they were still cutting within an eight or ten mile area say of North Park, up around Rockford and Belding, Belmont and those places. And they’d, well, they’re a good size log you know and they’d just pile ‘em on these, actually just runners there’s a front runner and a rear runner, and get a pole connecting them - then these logs would really form the body of the vehicle. And they’d be stacked up there in great shape and it would take a good sturdy team of horses, only during the winter of course when they had a good snow on the ground. And then they’d take a load down there and our bobsled would hook a ride on this team behind, go down the road perhaps a half mile or so and then catch another team coming back. �20 Interviewer: Were those logs white pine? Mr. Russell: Oh, I really don’t know the composition; it might have been. Might have been oak or elm or whatever was hanging around p there. You know these good sized trees we have out here… Mrs. Russell: Did they ever float them down the river? Mr. Russell: Oh, yes. Mrs. Russell: Do you know anything about that? Mr. Russell: Yes, they floated them down the river and held them with certain booms down at where the dam is now at, there’s one log jam I remember seeing just a little log[jam] at Leonard Street when they got jammed up there one season. And there was in the spring when the floods would come along, that was the time to dump ‘em in there and bring ‘em down to the saw-mill which was down where the, about where the Grand Trunk Freight House is. And then my grandfather ran this, saw-mill there and a lumber yard. Interviewer: That was another enterprise, huh? Mr. Russell: Well that was in connection with his furniture and so forth. Had to have lumber for furniture to make pails and tubs; you had to have the lumber for. Interviewer: Would you tell me that, we were talking before about the fact that the streetcars had mailboxes on them and people could mail letters on the streetcar. Would you tell me again why they had the mail boxes on the street cars? Mr. Russell: Well, because they were afraid of strikes at that time on the railroads, on the street railways. Mrs. Russell: Street Railway. Mr. Russell: And this, I can’t remember who was superintendent at that time, but he got the bright idea that if we just turned this into a federal operation that would circumvent the strike. And I think that was basically why it was done. Not necessarily for the convenience of the populace so much as it was because it’d keep the railroad going. But it was a very handy thing, particularly to us out there. That was quite… ours was the longest line in town. The WealthyTaylor line came out to Ramona and ended at North Park. That’s quite a distance, going down through town, way out there and back again. And, it was… Mrs. Russell: How far…? Mr. Russell: I think eight miles from end to end. �21 Mrs. Russell: How far out do you think it was developed out this way really, along the railway line? Mr. Russell: Well now you see I didn’t know so much about out here because I was always in the North End. I was always a North Ender, Mrs. Russell: Well I can, it seems to me that about at Plymouth the car would just tear through the greater part of swampland and they’d always pick up speed and go, I thought…. Mr. Russell: Well, that was because there was, there was a slight decline there and … Mrs. Russell: Then, then kept going. Mr. Russell: Let’s see take from the intersection of Wealthy and Lake Drive. There’s a slight decline which was, more accentuated at that time because it’s been filled quite a good deal there to bring the street up. Mrs. Russell I don’t think there were very many houses at all…. Mr. Russell: Oh, there weren’t, no… Mrs. Russell: It was barren land that I remember. Mr. Russell: It was swampy really. Mrs. Russell: Between that and Ramona but Ramona was there a long time ahead of any houses, wasn’t it? Mr. Russell: Oh, yes. Ramona was an amusement park for the benefit of the railroad to bring passengers out there, you see. Mrs. Russell: And what was that beer garden that was there, it was a very famous one that was there just about at the beginning of Ramona, too. What did they call it? A German name, a real German name. Mr. Russell: Oh, yes, that was, that was a good attraction there. Mrs. Russell: Hubers. Mr. Russell: Hubers Beer Garden. Mrs. Russell: Hubers Beer Garden and there was a big one. It was a great big, well it was under cover, it was a building and very popular. That was quite a place of entertainment… Mr. Russell: Basically beer that. �22 Mrs. Russell: ...too you know they’d not hard liquor but basically a beer garden that sort… that’s what it was, all it was, wasn’t it? Mr. Russell: And I don’t think… Mrs. Russell: I don’t think they had food, I think it was just a beer garden. But I remember it always there on the grounds, and it was right close to Ramona. Mr. Russell: And then after that there was the Phoenix Beer Garden which stands where the, which stood where the Yacht Club is now, that on that side of Lake Drive, or Lakeside Drive and between Lakeside Drive and the lake. That was very popular beer garden too for some time. Mrs. Russell: I don’t know that one. Mr. Russell: But you see when they had vaudeville out there, they got a lot of patronage out of Grand Rapids on the streetcars, those would be filled right up with, right up to the roof. Mrs. Russell: Do you remember the… Interviewer: In other words the streetcar owners in that, in those days, were they would devise ways of getting the people to ride that train as much as possible? Mr. Russell: Yes. Interviewer: That’s why he built up Ramona, just to get people taking that long trip back and forth, huh? Mrs. Russell: It was done by the railway company, wasn’t it? Mr. Russell: Yes, they owned the operation out there and …. Mrs. Russell: Do you remember the Honolulu Car that Mr. Hanchett had? Mr. Russell: Yes, he…. Mrs. Russell: …had all the wicker chairs in it. Mr. Russell: Private car, called the Honolulu. Mrs. Russell: He’d take his best friends out for a ride on the street cart and maybe take ‘em to Ramona (and), but it was quite a car. It was shorter and smaller than most of the cars and very nicely decorated. Of course it’d probably look funny now, but it was all wicker furniture and they called it the Honolulu car. That was known all over town. Mr. Russell: That was a result of his having taken a trip over to the Hawaiian Islands…. �23 Mrs. Russell: Oh, I didn’t know that. Mr. Russell: And he brought back a couple of Filipino servants with him, you know. Mrs. Russell: Well, well they were serving on it probably. Mr. Russell: Yes. Mrs. Russell: But I’ll bet that furniture all came from over there too cause it (?) Mr. Russell: But you see that, it was Ramona at one end of the line and then the best days with the West Michigan State Fair, or Comstock Park at the other end, gee that… Mrs. Russell: That was a flourishing line. Mr. Russell: This was a line…. Mrs. Russell; And skating in the winter, there was lots of skating on Reed’s Lake. And that a street railway… Mr. Russell: Streetcars were very… Mrs. Russell: Streetcar was very busy, it really was. Mr. Russell: Well just imagine having one go by every ten minutes, as we used to have. Gosh. Better than any bus or anything else you see [now]. But you had to walk from here to the line to get it, wherever you were. But when you look back on that, and think of how important streetcars were gee that old stuff just phased right out. Interviewer: Looking back and remembering the days when you were growing up and so on, compared to today which age seems to be more pleasant? A better age to live in? Mr. Russell: What do you mean is to whether you’d… Mrs. Russell: Prefer… Mr. Russell: ...Prefer this age or that age… Interviewer: Yes. Mr. Russell: Oh, what age, what age would? Mrs. Russell: I look back about high school and college as, I don’t know, we had such a lot of this kind of slow fun. It was slower paced. The whole thing had to be slower paced. You couldn’t go tearing around at ten things instead of one; you did one thing and made a lot of it. But when I think of your cottage down there at Ottawa Beach and the house parties that you had there and �24 the fun we had going down and fooling around on the beach, now that wouldn’t be any fun, I wouldn’t want to do it you know. Well, because the crowds, the cars and everything else, but then there wouldn’t be anybody around then. Mr. Russell: Well, let’s see… Mrs. Russell: What do you think? Mr. Russell: I think between fifteen and thirty about, those fifteen years that are between fifteen and thirty…. Mrs. Russell: Well I think I’ve ….much older than too. I think I’d pick that out too. Mr. Russell: Liquor wasn’t so important to you. You didn’t… Mrs. Russell: You didn’t have it. Mrs. Russell: It wasn’t a bit important. Mr. Russell: You didn’t have any drugs certainly. And … Mrs. Russell: No, we lacked that. Mr. Russell: We had bicycles and roller skates, ice skates and then just boating. Mrs. Russell: I think we always had boating, lots of sail boating, I, we had lots of fun sailing, of course. Mr. Russell: And the river was made much more use of then, with canoes and row-boats and shells. You know what a shell is, don’t you? Interviewer: Yes. Mr. Russell: Single or double and four and so forth. And we had, well the boat club, they had a two or three eights there, as well as singles and doubles and fours. Interviewer: Did they have the, what are those, waterfalls, in the river then? Down, down… Mr. Russell: Rapids? Interviewer: Well, they were the, where now they’ve got little, I don’t know what you call ’em, they’re not a dam, they don’t hold the water back but they…. Mr. Russell: Obstructions. Well they, they’ve been there only, I don’t think they’re more than twenty five years old, I think they’re fairly recent. Because, I can remember a period when during the summer the riverbeds looked pretty punk there, so many rocks and everything �25 showing it, dried out rocks and moss and so forth and there was a period when they built five obstructions you can’t call them dams you see just an obstruction, way across the river to hold the water back in pools. And I think that’s what we’ve got there now, haven’t we? I don’t think they’ve, I don’t think they’ve all been carried out. Of course, the big dam up above, (has) always been something there. Mrs. Russell: Well now, where it’s at. Where’s the big dam? Mr. Russell: Well the big dam is at Allen Calculator and right across a … Mrs. Russell: I can’t place there, I don’t know if… Mr. Russell: Well, you know where Sixth Street is? Sixth Street Bridge. Mrs. Russell: Oh. Mr. Russell: Newberry Street? Mrs. Russell: Yes Mr. Russell: Just south of there; halfway between there and Bridge Street. Mrs. Russell: Bridge Street? Mr. Russell. Now that dam has always been there; and you know there were canals of either side of the river, from that dam leading down parallel to Monroe. I can remember when it was open there; an open canal, flowing under Bridge Street and then over into Bissell’s. It supplied them with motor power and also to, that was a little bit before my time, Butterworth and Lowe Machine Shop, south of Bissell Plant. Then on the other side it went down to the mills, to the milling companies. Oh yeah, then also there was a mill on this side of the river too; the Valley City Milling the rolling milling company, just north, well right where the post office is. Then on the other side it was the Voigt Milling that’s just been closed but they were both operated by what was known as runnel(?) stone; the water coming down this canal and they’d then take so much of that water off of there and I don’t know how, what the runnel stone is but I just heard so much about it. Mrs. Russell: What is runnel stone? Mr. Russell: Well. Runnel stone is a measure of water power. Mrs. Russell: Oh. Mr. Russell: Carried thru the turbines, don’t you see, to in place of steam power. �26 Interviewer: Did either one of you go off to college, after high school or did you stay in Grand Rapids? Mrs. Russell: No, we both did. I went to Vassar, Vassar College out in Poughkeepsie, New York. And I graduated from there; I was there four years. And you went to the University of Michigan, didn’t you. Mr. Russell: Yes, but I couldn’t get my grandson in the…. Interviewer: Who, Bill? Mr. Russell: Bill, yes. Interviewer: Where did he go to school? Mr. Russell: He’s down to State now. Interviewer: He didn’t want to go to the University of Michigan? Mr. Russell: He wanted to, they wouldn’t take him in. Mrs. Russell: They delayed so long in deciding to take him in, I think he heard about May or something like that, April or May and by that time he couldn’t wait that long so in the meantime, he got set up here. We were very annoyed about it. Terribly annoyed. We’re heavy livers here in Michigan, heavy taxpayers, and it doesn’t make me feel generous toward ‘em at all. Because he was a good student, he wasn’t …. Mr. Russell: Well, they took him in down there at State, he’s nicely located there, and he’s only been there two weeks or so. INDEX A C Adams and Hart Agency · 7 B Baker Furniture · 18 Blodgett Hospital · 7 Blodgetts · 8 Blythefield Club · 2 Boltwood, Mrs. Lucius · 16 Bronson, C.J. · 10 Bronson’s Garage · 10, 11 Butterworth Hospital · 8 Central Grammar School · 5 Central High School · 4, 5 Comstock Dairy Farm · 15 Comstock, Charles.C. · 1, 2 Comstock, Clara E. · 1 Comstock, Nelson and Matter · 3 F Fountain Street School · 8 �27 G P Grand Island · 2 Grand Rapids Boat and Canoe Club · 2 Grand Rapids Chair Company · 18, 19 Grand Rapids Street Railway · 3, 21 Guild, Cornelia · 1 Phoenix Beer Garden · 23 Post, Jay · 15 H Hanchett, Mr. · 23 Heald, Henry · 5 Heritage Hill · 4 Hopson, Lucille I. · 1 Hopson, William C. · 1, 5 Hopson-Bennett Company · 6 Hubers Beer Garden · 22 Hydorn, Frankie M. · 1 L R Ramona Park · 21, 22, 23, 24 Reed’s Lake · 24 Riverside Gardens · 15, 16 Riverside Park · 15, 16 Riverside School · 17 Russell, Charles · 17 Russell, Francis · 1 Russell, Huntley · 1, 15 Russell, Mrs. Huntley · 16 S Lamberton Creek · 18 Livingston Hotel · 13, 14 Shriver-Weatherly · 5 Sligh, Charles · 18 Sligh, Mr. Charles R. · 15 Steinman, Mr. · 7 M U Mays (store) · 5 Michigan Soldier’s Home · 2 UBA Hospital · 7, 8 United Benevolent Association · 8 University of Michigan · 27 N North Park Pavilion · 1, 2, 3, 4, 18 North Park Water Company · 18 O Old Kent Bank · 9 V Valley City Milling · 26 Vassar College · 27 Voigt Milling · 26 W W.C. 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Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW92-7-16 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to 1st. Lieut. A. Porter Sinclair, 14th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1864-04-16 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Sinclair, A. Porter Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 14th (1862-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to 1st. Lieut. A. Porter Sinclair of Company K, 14th Michigan Infantry, paid April 16, 1864. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/47bc1a8e5425c33c66c48fe57c5a5943.mp4 662c6efa05430013ec4c47db41d5b579 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/46866d3a931b98b746cbd5afcc88ff94.pdf 80fc66e8de1cb25ab2697bc74f6b7532 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview Lloyd and Grace Smock World War II Total Time: 1:06:30 Early Childhood and Birth (0:00:17) • • • • • • • • • • Grace Morley (now Smock) was born in Wyandot, Michigan in 1925. (00:31) Lloyd Smock was born in Wyandot, Michigan in 1921. Grace had one brother and attended High School in Wyandot. Lloyd attended High School in Wyandot and his father worked as an accountant. Grace’s father worked as a pipefitter, and her mother worked as a homemaker. Grace and Lloyd attended high school in Wyandot. (0:10:30) Grace graduated high school in 1943 and Lloyd graduated in 1939. Lloyd attended Western Michigan College, and he was there when Pearl Harbor was attacked. (0:12:00) Lloyd joined up with the Air Force in February 1942, but he was not called up to active duty until February 1943. He was sworn into the inactive reserve in July, 1942. (0:13:40) Grace had tried to visit a Naval Station on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. She was not let in, and then heard about the attack on the radio. Training (0:15:30) • • • • • • • Lloyd took his basic training in Fresno, California. (0:17:17) He then attended on-the-site pilot training in Reno, Nevada at the University of Nevada. He had an instructor who was an Alaskan bush pilot. (0:18:28) He was then sent to Santa Ana, California where he took intense coursework. However, shortly before he was to graduate, he was eliminated from the program due to high altitude night blindness. (0:19:08) He was then sent to Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas, where he was approached about he Army Specialized Training Program. He applied and was accepted. (0:19:43) He was subsequently sent to Oklahoma A&M and then to Lehigh University for training. The training program sent two people to work on the Manhattan Project. He was not sent, however, and was assigned to the Signal Corp, specifically the 56th Signal Repair Company, with whom he worked on a base in Texas. (0:22:01) The main compliment of the 56th was a National Guard company from Minnesota. (0:22:29) Was then sent to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where he remained until the Battle of the Bulge broke out in Europe. The base was closed and all of the men were sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana for intensive infantry training. �• • • • • • • • • • (0:23:10) Half of the men at the camp were sent to Europe as replacements for the men lost at the Battle of the Bulge. The other half were reorganized and sent to TX and then to Boston where they were shipped to Europe as the 56th Signal Repair Company. Lloyd was in the latter group. (0:24:36) They shipped out of Boston, Massachusetts April 16, 1945 for Le Havre, France. He was sent on the USS Washington. They didn’t encounter any danger on the crossing. (0:26:05) They moved inland to Rouen, France once they landed, to Camp Lucky Strike. VE Day occurred while they were at the camp. Their main objective was to help attended to the American POWs that were being released from German prison camps. They did not deal with the hospital casualties, however. They worked primarily logistical support for the effort. (0:28:45) They also did some work destroying German stockpiles of electronics in Belgium. (0:30:50) Grace worked in personnel at a factory from 1943-1947, and she left the company when she was expecting her first child. (0:33:29) Lloyd was given orders to report to Marseilles, France where he boarded a ship to Manila, Philippines. (0:34:55) They sailed through the Panama Canal, and was around 600 miles south of Hawaii when the ship got word about VJ Day. Their ship circled for some time before they were given orders to continue sailing for the Philippines because they had many doctors and nurses on board to assist with POWs coming out of Japanese prison camps. (0:35:38) He was sent to a camp in San Fernando, north of Manila. There, he helped with warehouse sorting and helping to root out a couple of Japanese soldiers that were still hold up in the hills. (0:37:08) His unit was going to be part of the invasion of Japan if it would have occurred. (0:38:40) They were in the Philippines for 7 months, leaving in March 1946. They were shipped to Oakland, California and sent to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin by train for discharge. Post-War (39:13) • Lloyd was well received upon his return home. • (40:10) He was able to get work at Chicago and Southern Airlines in Detroit, Michigan, however he eventually went back to working at Wyandot Chemicals. • Lloyd and Grace met at a dance in 1946 and married in 1947. • Lloyd eventually got a job at a bank. • Grace worked in the legal business until 1976 when she began caring for her parents • (0:53:43) Lloyd joined the Masons in 1955 and Grace joined Eastern Star in 1954. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SmockLG Title A name given to the resource Smock, Lloyd and Grace (Interview outline and video), 2005 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Smock, Lloyd Smock, Grace Description An account of the resource Lloyd and Grace Smock were both born in Wyandot, Michigan. Lloyd served in the Army during World War II. He served in the 56th Signal Repair Battalion. His unit was initially sent to France and Belgium, however after VE day they were sent to the Philippines. Generally, they spent their time destroying enemy electronics stockpiles and equipment. When Lloyd returned, he met and married Grace. Lloyd worked at a bank and Grace worked in the legal business. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Collins Sr., Charles E. (Interviewer) Collins, Carol (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. Army World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2005-12-30 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4be56a8a81f6a21d96dffe3fa2c219e6.pdf d23cd698988ed82e153fe0da881af131 PDF Text Text �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil War and Slavery Collection Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Slavery--United States African Americans United States--Politics and government--19th century Description An account of the resource A selection of correspondence, diaries, official documents, photographs related to the American Civil War and to the institution of slavery, collected by Harvey E. Lemmen. The collection includes a selection of documents from ten states related to the ownership of slaves and abolition, correspondence and documents of soldiers who fought in the war and from family members and officials, diaries and letters of individuals, and a collection of mailing envelopes decorated with patriotic imagery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lemmen, Harvey E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472">Civil War and Slavery Collection (RHC-45)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/470">John Bennitt Diaries and Correspondence (RHC-43)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/471">Nathan Sargent Papers (RHC-44)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/478">Theodore Peticolas Diary (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/476">Civil War Patriotic Envelopes Collection (RHC-51)<br /></a><a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/479">Whitely Read Diary (RHC-52)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804-1897 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg; application/pdf Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image; Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1804-1897 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-45_CW16195 Title A name given to the resource Voucher to Lieut. Col. George Spalding, 18th Michigan Infantry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-02-25 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Army Spalding, George Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 18th (1862-1865) Description An account of the resource Voucher to Lieut. Col. George Spalding, 18th Michigan Infantry, paid Feb. 25, 1862. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Civil War and slavery collection (RHC-45): http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/472 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives