Digitized Collections

Walker was a professor of law at the University of Michigan. His collection includes the original draft of the act to establish the Catholepistemiad and other documents related to the founding of U-M.

A 1914 scrapbook created by the Delta Delta Delta sorority’s Iota chapter at the University of Michigan.

The final office copy of Douglass Houghton’s 1837-1841 field notes is available to view in the HathiTrust Digital Library.

George and Marion Blydenburgh were missionaries to China from 1920-1931. Their papers describe life in China and George’s work as superintendent of Nanchang General Hospital, Jiangxi Province.

Selections from the detailed student journals, medical practice, and estate of 1845 U-M graduate George Washington Pray.

Photographs from the records of Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel. They cover the years 1855-2004, but most come from the mid-20th century.

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).

Images that document the archaeologist’s field work in the Basin of Mexico and in Peru.

Hudson was a Detroit businessman whose grandfather founded Hudson’s department store.

The bullet-damaged diary of Lucius Shattuck, a Civil War soldier from Plymouth, Michigan who served as an officer in Co. C, 24th Michigan Infantry and was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A photo album documenting American missionary and educator Muriel Treman’s travels and work in China from 1919-1950.

Selected papers of the Quaker abolitionist and physician whose Schoolcraft home was part of the Underground Railroad. Materials document his medical practice and political involvement in the Liberty and Republican parties.

A photo album documenting Orville Frazier and family members in the late 19th- and early 20th-century.

A sampling of manuscripts, letters, photographs, and personal items, drawn from the collections of various Michigan poets housed at the Bentley.

Drawings, photographs, and teaching materials from the 1940s through the 2000s by this noted Michigan-based modern architect, professor, and dean of the U-M College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Digitized documents from the DAAS records, including text, photo, and audiovisual material related to the department.

Warren Petoskey is an Odawa and Lakotah elder as well as a writer, musician, dancer, and founder of Dawnland Native Ministries, an outreach program for those affected by American Indian boarding schools. His collection gives an overview of his life and work.

Selected material and images about hunting and fishing from William Mershon, a conservationist, sportsman, lumberman, and businessman from Saginaw, Michigan.

An image database of drawings by this modernist architect held by libraries at Columbia University and the University of Michigan.