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…
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,…
Collection of genealogical research on the Bates, Courtney, Banker, Beaumont family lines, amongst others, created by donor Janet Bates Courtney. In addition to genealogical notes, there are published works by members of the Bates family, as well as…
Finding aid for the Foote/Ferrell Family Records. The Foote family owned and operated a tannery in the Traverse City area during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection of documents primarily relates to a descendant of John…
Finding Aid of the Collection from Grand Traverse Archaeological Society from 1979-1998. The club's goals were the promotion of archaeological investigation and research, and acquainting the general public with the value of archaeological resources.
Collection of compact discs that contain digital copies of high school yearbooks from various schools in Grand Traverse County. Yearbooks are in Tag Image File Format (TIFF). These digital copies were created by the Oklahoma Correctional Institute's…
Collection created by Traverse City author and historian Lawrence (Larry) McConnell Wakefield as a product of his published work, Historic Traverse City Houses, 1890-1905 (published around 1978). Most of the residences profiled were in Traverse City,…
The collection contains papers and ephemera concerning the efforts of Ilse Adler in founding The Friendship Center and her employment through the Traverse City State Hospital.
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…