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Ancient Order of Gleaners. Primrose Arbor (Calvin, Mich.)	Title: Ancient Order of Gleaners, Primrose Arbor record books Extent: 3 volumes Abstract: A fraternal society that provided benefits and funds to members in need. Primrose Arbor was a Black chapter of the Gleaners. Minutes of meetings, lists of members, and financial accounts.
Anderson, Faron, 1844 or 5-1864	Title: Faron Anderson papers Extent: 1 folder
Anderson, Godfrey J., -1981	Title: Godfrey J. Anderson papers Extent: 1 volume (86 pages) Abstract: "The 337th field hospital in north Russia, 1918-1919," a reminiscence of a soldier in the Allied intervention in Russia, 1918-1920, the "Polar Bear Expedition."
Anderson, Susan, 1870-1960	Title: Susan Anderson papers Extent: 2 linear feet Abstract: Graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School (attended from 1893 to 1897) and country physician in the Colorado Rockies from 1898 to 1960. Papers include correspondence from Dr. Anderson's family and friends, her medical licenses, pharmaceutical advertisements, ephemera from the University of Michigan, and family photographs.
Anderson, William K., 1896-1967	Title: William K. Anderson Papers Extent: 3 linear feet Abstract: Detroit, Michigan, businessman, founder of Detroit Power Squadron and officer with its parent body, the United States Power Squadrons. Series in the collection include United States Power Squadrons; Boating Organizations; Published and unpublished articles and speeches; World War II Activities; Personal and Miscellaneous; and Photographs.
Andresen, Rachel Josephine, 1907-1988	Title: Rachel Josephine Andresen papers Extent: 2 linear feet Abstract: Founder of Youth for Understanding, teenage exchange program. Papers include correspondence, newspaper articles, and subject files relating to Youth for Understanding; also photographs.
Andrews, Ernest Oliver.	Title: Ernest Oliver Andrews papers Extent: 0.1 linear feet Abstract: Papers of a soldier with the 339th Infantry in the Allied intervention in Russia, 1918-1920, the "Polar Bear Expedition."
Angell, Alexis C. (Alexis Caswell), 1857-1932	Title: Alexis C. Angell papers Extent: 25 items Abstract: Detroit, Michigan, attorney, professor at University of Michigan Law School, son of James Burrill and Sarah Caswell Angell. Letters written to his grandparents as a young man; also correspondence relating to his efforts to rewrite the biography of Thomas M. Cooley written by Henry Wade Rogers.
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916	Title: James B. Angell Papers Extent: 16.5 linear feet (in 17 boxes) Abstract: Papers of James Burrill Angell, the third President of the University of Michigan (1871-1909) and U.S. Minister to China (1871-1909) and Turkey (1897-1898). Includes correspondence, lectures and lecture notes, addresses and articles, subject files and personal materials, and photographs.
Angell, Robert Cooley, 1899-	Title: Robert Cooley Angell Papers Extent: 3.5 linear feet Abstract: Professor of sociology, University of Michigan; correspondence and other papers concerning Angell's work with UNESCO, American Sociological Society, and International Sociological Association; papers concerning published books and articles; unpublished manuscripts of writings.
Angell, Sarah Caswell, 1831-1903	Title: Sarah Caswell Angell papers Extent: 1 linear foot Abstract: Wife of University of Michigan President, James B. Angell and member of Collegiate Sorosis. Angell served as the president of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of Congressional Church. The Daughters of the American Revolution Ann Arbor chapter has been named after Sarah Caswell Angell. Collection includes Sarah Caswell Angell's diaries and letters concerning Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan life, her church activities, social life, the Daughters of the American Revolution activities, family affairs, and travels to Turkey and China.
Angelo, Frank.	Title: Frank Angelo Papers Extent: 16 linear feet Abstract: Managing editor of the Detroit Free Press, president of the Michigan Press Association, 1969, and national treasurer of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society. Activities and topical files; speeches; papers concerning work on Cooley High School Community Council, Detroit, Michigan, files concerning Detroit race relations and the Detroit riot of 1967; papers relating to Detroit Press Club; and photographs.
Angus, David L.	Title: David L. Angus Papers Extent: 4 linear feet Abstract: Professor of education at the University of Michigan. Biographical information; correspondence; writings and conference papers; course materials; files pertaining to education in China; and photographs.
Ann Arbor - Washtenaw Council of Churches.	Title: Ann Arbor - Washtenaw Council of Churches records Extent: 2 linear feet Abstract: Bulletins, minutes of committees, correspondence, news clippings, and other materials relating to the activities of the organization; also minutes, 1928-1953, of Ann Arbor Ministerial Association.
Ann Arbor Anti-Substance Abuse Task Force.	Title: Ann Arbor Anti-Substance Abuse Task Force records Extent: 1.5 linear feet Abstract: Task Force established by the Ann Arbor City Council on May 16, 1988 in response to a perceived growth in drug use and abuse in Ann Arbor. Letters and memoranda of Terry Martin, Task Force Chair, agendas and meetings of minutes, collected data and final report to council, and other assorted clippings and documents.
Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (Ann Arbor, Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (Ann Arbor, Mich.) records Extent: 38 linear feet Abstract: Community organization awarding grants and scholarships to support civic initiatives in the Ann Arbor, MI area. The collection includes administrative records, grant files, scholarship records, and photographs.
Ann Arbor Art Association.	Title: Ann Arbor Art Association Records Extent: 2.5 linear feet Abstract: Constitution, by-laws, minutes of meetings, reports, membership lists, scrapbooks, correspondence and exhibit materials.
Ann Arbor Bicentennial Commission (Ann Arbor, Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor Bicentennial Commission records Extent: 1 linear foot Abstract: Minutes, publicity, and project files relating to the city's observance of the nation's bicentennial.
Ann Arbor Book Festival.	Title: Ann Arbor Book Festival records Extent: 5 linear feet
Ann Arbor Camera Club.	Title: Ann Arbor Camera Club records Extent: 1 linear foot Abstract: Organization established to "promote growth in the appreciation and skill in the making of photographs of all kinds." Newsletter ("The Wide Angle News"); by-laws, membership materials, scattered correspondence, and contest material.
Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce.	Title: Ann Arbor Chamber Of Commerce records Extent: 4 linear feet Abstract: Organizational records and photographs.
Ann Arbor Charter Commission (Ann Arbor, Mich. : 1953-1955)	Title: Ann Arbor Charter Commission (Ann Arbor, Mich. : 1953-1955) records Extent: 2 linear feet Abstract: Commission established to recommend revision of the Ann Arbor, Michigan, city charter. Correspondence, petitions, 1949, requesting appointments of commissioners, minutes, financial statements, and drafts of proposed charter at various stages of revision, also recommendations of the League of Women Voters.
Ann Arbor Community Center.	Title: Ann Arbor Community Center Records Extent: 0.5 linear feet Abstract: Organization established to promote civic, cultural, and recreational interests and activities of Ann Arbor's African American community. Administrative reports, informational brochures, collected information, and photographs.
Ann Arbor Cooperative Society.	Title: Ann Arbor Cooperative Society Records Extent: 3 linear feet Abstract: As its name implies, the Ann Arbor Cooperative Society was a cooperative corporation that offered its members a wide range of services. These included a credit union, legal and tax preparation services, home insulation and maintenance services, memorial advising and planning services, vacation property, discount ticket sales to amusement parks, and bulk purchasing. The records of the Society reflect its diverse activities, and include minutes, financial statements, audits, manager's reports, by-laws, news sheet, correspondence, and subject files relating to cooperative projects.
Ann Arbor Dance Theatre.	Title: Ann Arbor Dance Theatre records Extent: 0.5 linear feet Abstract: Ann Arbor, Michigan local repertory dance company. Bylaws, board minutes (fragmentary), newsletters, programs, and chronological files; also photographs.
Ann Arbor Film Festival.	Title: Ann Arbor Film Festival records Extent: 4 linear feet (in 5 boxes and 1 oversize folder) Abstract: The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America. The collection consists of programs, posters and flyers, news clippings and articles about the yearly festival.
Ann Arbor Garden Club.	Title: Ann Arbor Garden Club Records Extent: 1 linear foot Abstract: Reports of the club's presidents and treasurers, committee reports, constitution and by-laws, membership records, and bulletins, 1930-1965.
Ann Arbor Golf and Outing Club.	Title: Ann Arbor Golf and Outing Club records Extent: 3 linear feet Abstract: Correspondence, meeting minutes, lists of members and scrapbooks.
Ann Arbor High School (Mich.). Washington Club.	Title: Ann Arbor High School Washington Club photograph collection Extent: 2 oversize items Abstract: The Ann Arbor High School Washington Club organized a yearly trip for students to visit Washington (D.C.) and New York (N.Y.). Includes group portraits of students in front of Mount Vernon and the U.S. Capitol.
Ann Arbor Hills Association.	Title: Ann Arbor Hills Association records Extent: 4 linear feet Abstract: Ann Arbor neighborhood association. Correspondence, constitution, bylaws, minutes, financial records, and other working papers.
Ann Arbor Junior Chamber of Commerce (Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor Junior Chamber of Commerce records Extent: 14.3 linear feet Abstract: Ann Arbor chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, a young adult community service organization; minutes, project files, budgets, newsletters, photographs, and related material.
Ann Arbor (Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor (Mich.) records Extent: 13 linear feet (in 14 boxes) Abstract: The records of the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan include council proceedings (1834-1919); assessment rolls (1830, 1839, and 1958-1959); scrapbooks relating to city government (1904-1951); and records and photographs detailing the city’s waste management and recycling program beginning in the 1980s. Miscellaneous materials include plats of the wards, 1912; election returns, 1847-1852; records of the former city of East Ann Arbor and the Village of Ann Arbor (Lower Town); and minutes of the Ann Arbor Park Commission (1905-1956). Also of interest are files concerning the Ann Arbor Railroad and the city’s street railway and interurban system.
Ann Arbor (Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor (Mich.) government publications Extent: 3 linear feet Abstract: Scattered publications of various city offices.
Ann Arbor (Mich. : Township)	Title: Ann Arbor Township Records Extent: 11 linear feet Abstract: Township record books, 1845-1902; registers of births, 1906-1943; registers of deaths, 1897-1912; poll books, tally sheets, and statement of votes from polls within township; records relating to surveys, repairs, etc. of township roads; reports and compiled statistics pertaining to township schools; property assessment roll books; and other miscellaneous records.
Ann Arbor (Mich.). City Engineer's Office, Collector.	Title: Maps of the University of Michigan Campus Extent: 12 maps Abstract: 12 maps of the University of Michigan campus collected by the Ann Arbor City Engineer’s Office.
Ann Arbor (Mich.). Fire Department.	Title: Ann Arbor (Mich.) Fire Department records Extent: 2.5 linear feet (in 3 boxes) Abstract: Minute books of the Fire Department and of related voluntary fire companies; also other administrative records, including records of expenditures and salaries, and records detailing individual fires; and record books, 1876-1899, of city poor relief (then administered by the Fire Department); also photograph.
Ann Arbor (Mich.). Human Rights Commission.	Title: Ann Arbor Human Rights Commission Records Extent: 12 linear feet Abstract: Agency of the city of Ann Arbor established in 1957 as the Human Relations Commission to investigate and deal with issues of racial discrimination in housing and employment. The name of the agency was changed in 1970 to the Human Rights Commission. The scope of the Commission came to include complaints of discrimination against women, gays, and the disabled. The record group provides substantial documentation of issues of racial discrimination in employment and housing in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the period of 1957 to 1993. Included are files relating to the establishment of the commission, minutes (through 1993 with some gaps), memoranda (1968-1970), topical files, early case files (1965-1970), and student intern projects and reports of members of the community practice program within the University of Michigan School of Social Work.
Ann Arbor (Mich.). Planning Commission.	Title: [Ann Arbor Planning Commission publications] Extent: 5 linear feet Abstract: Publications of the Ann Arbor Planning Commission including annual reports, capital improvement budgets, and planning studies and reports.
Ann Arbor (Mich.). Planning Commission.	Title: Ann Arbor (Mich.) Planning Consultants Reports Extent: 3 linear feet Abstract: Reports and studies produced for the Ann Arbor Planning Commission on a variety of topics including transportation, housing, downtown and neighborhood development, waste water control, and the city's planning process.
Ann Arbor (Mich.). Sesquicentennial Commission.	Title: Ann Arbor Sesquicentennial Commission records Extent: 3 linear feet Abstract: Agency established to plan and coordinate activities in celebration of Ann Arbor, Michigan's, sesquicentennial. Minutes, printed matter, and administrative files of Douglas Crary, commission chairman; scrapbook relating to celebratory events and projects; and photographs.
Ann Arbor Private Hospital (Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor Private Hospital (Mich.) records Extent: 23 linear feet Abstract: Hospital established by University of Michigan professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Reuben Peterson; until July 1917, it was called Peterson Hospital. Bound case files, miscellaneous statistics, correspondence, research material, and reprints of articles written by Peterson.
Ann Arbor Public Schools.	Title: Ann Arbor Public Schools Records Extent: 25 linear feet (in 26 boxes.) Abstract: The records of the Ann Arbor Public Schools, cover the numerous districts and schools that developed and then gradually merged into an area school system which today encompasses twenty-one elementary schools, five middle schools, and three high schools with a school population of 16,724 (as of May 17, 2005).
Ann Arbor Rotary Club.	Title: Ann Arbor Rotary Club records Extent: 4.6 linear feet Abstract: Ann Arbor chapter of national service organization; administrative files, topical files, and publications.
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair (Ann Arbor, Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor Street Art Fair records Extent: 2.8 linear feet (in 3 boxes) Abstract: Corporation administering the summer juried art fair in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The art fair is the oldest of three fairs that comprise the annual Ann Arbor art fairs. Minutes, bylaws, financials, and other materials relating to the administration of the art fair; also press materials, artists' evaluations, scrapbooks documenting development and history of the fair, and photographs and slides of the fair and the work of the artists.
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.	Title: Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Records Extent: 6 linear feet Abstract: This record group contains the records of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Women's Association for the Ann Arbor Symphony, and partial records for the Michigan Civic Orchestra Association. The record group includes administrative and functional records, photographs, and audio/visual concert recordings.
Ann Arbor Thrift Shop Association (Michigan)	Title: Ann Arbor Thrift Shop Association (Michigan) records Extent: 2.5 linear feet (in 4 boxes) Abstract: Philanthropic organization established to aid the needy through the resale of merchandise. Minutes of board and general meetings, financial records, constitution and by-laws, history, and photographs.
Ann Arbor Woman’s Club (Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor Woman’s Club (Mich.) records Extent: 3 linear feet Abstract: Minutes of meetings, annual reports, secretary and treasurer's books, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous clippings, budgets and newsletters.
Ann Arbor Women Artists	Title: Ann Arbor Women Artists records Extent: 7.5 linear feet Abstract: Formerly known as the Women Painters' Group and affiliated, 1951-1960, with the Ann Arbor Art Association and the Women's City Club. In 2002, the name of the organization was changed to Ann Arbor Women Artists. Historian's books containing yearbooks, newspaper clippings, membership lists, officer reports, and exhibition material.
Ann Arbor Young Men’s - Young Women's Christian Association (Mich.)	Title: Ann Arbor Young Men’s - Young Women's Christian Association (Mich.) records Extent: 2 linear feet Abstract: Minutes of board meetings, membership and treasurer's records, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Urban Area Transportation Study Committee.	Title: Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Urban Area Transportation Study Committee Publications Extent: 0.2 linear feet Abstract: Annual reports and serial publications the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Urban Area Transportation Study Committee on issues related to planning transportation systems in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti and Huron River corridor area.
Anna Botsford Bach Home.	Title: Anna Botsford Bach Home records Extent: 2 linear feet Abstract: Ann Arbor retirement home for women; administrative records and photographs.
Anonymous	Title: Anonymous University of Michigan student photographs Extent: 1 envelopes Abstract: Anonymous photographs of various locations around Ann Arbor, Mich., particularly the University of Michigan campus.
Anonymous	Title: Anonymous woman's diary Extent: 1 volume Abstract: Diary of a seamstress and housewife living in Western Michigan.
Anonymous.	Title: Anonymous construction photographs collection Extent: 1 envelopes Abstract: Previous owner of this collection has been identified as "Mr. Cooper." Photos (and negatives) of various construction sites at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Anonymous	Title: Anonymous Ann Arbor, Michigan photograph collection Extent: 1 envelopes Abstract: Images of the interior of University Hall at the University of Michigan, the Frieze Memorial Organ, and an unidentified house, probably in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Anonymous.	Title: Anonymous photograph album Extent: 1 albums (3 envelopes in folder)
Anscomb, William Boden, d. 1907	Title: William B. Anscomb photograph collection Extent: 1 envelopes Abstract: University of Michigan alumnus who received his A.B. in 1906. Consists of snapshots of Ann Arbor (Michigan) as well as University of Michigan buildings and views.