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Julius Steinberg, a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe was a prominent figure in the Jewish community and business world of Traverse City for more than two decades, with his work establishing a Jewish community, his popular dry goods store and his…

Finding aid of the Traverse City Musicale Collection. The Collection consists of scrapbooks and annual programs detailing the work and history of Traverse City Musicale, now known as Grand Traverse Musicale, from 1932-2013. The bulk of these records…

Finding aid for the Friendly Garden Club of Traverse City Records from 1923-2016. The collection is 12.5 linear feet with one flat storage box, and is held at the Traverse Area District Library, Woodmere branch as a part of the local history…

Finding aid for the Al Barnes National Cherry Festival Image Collection. Harry Alonzo “Al” Barnes was a photographer and historian in the Grand Traverse region who worked at the Traverse City Record-Eagle for the bulk of his career. This collection…

Armour Estate, “The Timbers,” Photograph Collection contains 82, 8x10" sheet film negatives and a small selection of prints of the Armour Estate, located on Long Lake in Long Lake Township, Michigan. The bulk of the images are of the interior of the…

The Vogel Dissertation Records include records created by, or collected by, Robert Vogel in the process of writing his unpublished dissertation about the history of settlement on Old Mission Peninsula. Inclusive dates: 1863-1995, Bulk dates:1962-1970

Finding aid for the Records of the Citizens for Libraries, Site Committee, 1995-1997. Collection is .25 linear feet, and is held at the Traverse Area District Library, Woodmere. Citizens for Libraries was a coalition of Grand Traverse Area citizens,…

A two linear-foot collection of aerial photographs (most 9” x 9”) of the Northwest Michigan Development District, including Emmet, Charlevoix, Antrim, Leelanau, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Manistee, Wexford, and Missaukee counties, taken in…

Carolyn Gay Taft was a lady farmer in the early 1900’s on Old Mission Peninsula. She owned a 40-acre plot in Section 9, S.W. ¼ of N.E. ¼, T29N-R10W. She was actively involved in farming from 1911 until the mid-1940’s. Because Carolyn’s primary job…

The H. K. Brinkman Family featured in this collection lived in Old Mission, Michigan. The collection consists mostly of materials relating to the businesses that H.K. started in the mid-1800’s, deeds to the properties that he owned, descendent…