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Selected Primary and Secondary Sources by Historical Eras:
Pre and Post Civil War Era | Progressive Era |
Depression Era
| Post-WWII Boom | Post-Modern Era


Progressive Era

Associated Charities of Detroit, Detroit Community Union, the Council of Social Agencies of Metropolitan Detroit, and United Community Services 1891-
Finding aid online at Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs.

Frederick R. Schmalzriedt student notebooks, 1893-1899. (7 volumes. High school student in Detroit. Notes on his classes).
Notes at the Bentley Historical Library.

Immanuel United Church of Christ (Detroit, Mich.) 1894-
Collection and finding aid in the Bentley Historical Library.

Emma Augusta Stowell Fox papers, 1894-1945. (Detroit author and teacher of parliamentary practice for women's organizations. Letters exchanged between Mrs. Fox and various women and women's organizations (particularly state federations of women's clubs) concerning club activities; also letter, 1903, from Jane Addams; and photographs).
Collection at the Bentley Historical Library.

Newberry State Hospital, 1895-1910.
Register of patients at the State Archives of Michigan See Mental Health Records Circular 12

Newberry State Hospital, 1895-1937
Trustees Report 1920, Trustees Minutes 1895-1902 Trustees Reports 1914-1937.
At the State Archives of Michigan See Task Forces Councils, and Boards Circular 43

Upper Peninsula Asylum for the Insane at Newberry, 1895.
At the State Archives of Michigan See Mental Health Records Circular 12

Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs 1895-1935
History of Organization at the State Archives of Michigan See Women, Records Relating to Circular 35

Visiting Nurse Association of Huron Valley, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1896-1982.
(Formerly the University Hospital Circle of the King's Daughters, founded 1896; and the Ann Arbor Public Health Nursing Association, formed in 1980 after merging with the Ann Arbor Visiting Nurse Association and the Ypsilanti Visiting Nurses Agency, founded 1941. Correspondence, minutes, annual reports, financial records, secretary's record books, scrapbooks, and subject files.)
Repository: Bentley Historical Library

Charles M. Braidwood notebooks, 1896 and 1898. (Student at Almont, Michigan, High School, later at the Detroit College of Medicine. Notes on class lectures.)
Notes at the Bentley Historical Library.

Bethel A.M.E. Church (Detroit, Mich.) 1897-
Finding aid online at Bentley Historical Library.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit 1899- (Formerly the United Jewish Campaign & the Jewish Welfare Federation & the United Jewish Foundation).
Finding aid online at Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs.

[Good read: Lunbeck, Elizabeth. (1995). The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.
"Lunbeck has found a fascinating archive [at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital] and she has read it meticulously.... The story of the men and women who transformed psychiatry from a nineteenth-century hodgepodge of moralism, religion, and charlatanism to a twentieth-century human science ... is told here with more detail, more immediacy and more insight than ever before."--The New York Times Book Review. GRADUATE LIBRARY Call No: RC 437.5 .L891 1994]

Kalamazoo State Hospital Board of Trustees Minutes 1903-1921
At the State Archives of Michigan See Task Forces, Councils, and Boards Circular 43

Feeble-minded & Epileptic Home, Board of Minutes 1904-1919
At the State Archives of Michigan See Task Forces, Councils, and Boards Circular 43

William J. Norton papers, 1906-1987. (Detroit social worker, executive vice president of the Children's Fund of Michigan, and chairman of various relief commissions during the depression.Materials relating to his welfare activities, his interests in mental health and the work of the American Red Cross, and his general interest in the field of social work; also papers detailing his activities with the Prismatic Club of Detroit.)
Collection and finding aid in the Bentley Historical Library.

Frank Murphy papers, 1908-1949. (Extensive material on Detroit and Michigan politics, Philippine Islands in the thirties, sit-down strikes of 1937 and New Deal politics, Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and international affairs; also photographs and other visual materials.
Finding aid online at the Bentley Historical Library.

Goin' north : Black Detroit and the great migration, 1910-1930.
Exhibit (1991) of photographs and documents produced by the Bentley Historical Library in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan.

Ogenaw County TB Sanatorium, 1910-1915
At the State Archives of Michigan See Confidential Records Circular 57

George Murphy papers, 1911-1961. (Materials concerning Detroit politics, 1935-1961, campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt for presidency in 1932, grand jury investigation of Detroit street railways, 1936, arbitration of labor disputes, 1936-1941, and investigation of Charles Street housing project in Detroit, 1939-1940; also interview, 1957, concerning Frank Murphy and his role in sit-down strike of 1937, and other materials relating to public careers and personal affairs of Murphy family, particularly in relation to Detroit politics and Philippine Islands).
Finding aid in the Bentley Historical Library.

International Institute (YWCA branch for immigrant women) 1911-
Finding aid online at Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs.
Includes case records which can be used if names are not cited.

Industrial Home for Girls 1911-1926
At the State Archives of Michigan See Women, Records Relating to Circular 35

Second Baptist Church (Detroit, Mich.) 1911- (includes files of pastors Robert L. Bradby, Sr. and Allan A. Banks, Jr. detailing in part with their efforts in finding employment for members of Detroit's black community, especially with the Ford Motor Company)
Finding aid online at Bentley Historical Library.

Lucia I. V. Grimes papers, 1912-1949. (Suffragist, leader of the Michigan Branch of the National Woman's Party, and candidate for the Michigan legislature in 1924. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, periodicals and other materials concerning her activities in the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, the Legislative Council of Michigan Women, the National Woman's Party, and the Republican Party; also photographs).
Collection and finding aid in the Bentley Historical Library.

Americanization Committee of Detroit (Mich.) 1914-
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports and other materials concerning the assimilation of the foreign-born residents of Detroit and the committee's educational programs on behalf of the city's immigrant population during World War I and after.
At the Bentley Historical Library.

Michigan Farm Colony for Epileptics at Caro, 1914.
At the State Archives of Michigan See Mental Health Circular 12

In Search of Clara Swieczkowska (1892-1986) Detroit Social Worker and Community Activist

American Council on Alcohol Problems, 1916-1969. (Formerly the Anti-Saloon League of America. Correspondence, reports, minutes, legal files, speeches by temperance leaders, and bills concerning the prohibition question. Also include papers, 1934-1956, concerning the National Temperance Prohibition Council; pamphlets on temperance; and photographs.)
Online Finding at the Bentley Historical Library

Detroit Urban League 1916-
Finding aid online at Bentley Historical Library

Merrill-Palmer Corporation 1918-
Finding aid online at Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs .
See also Esther McGinnis papers, 1948-1950. (Detroit director of the Merrill-Palmer School. Materials relating to the National Conference on Family Life, 1948, and the White House Conference on Youth, 1950).

Selected Local Records by Historical Eras:
Pre and Post Civil War Era | Progressive Era |
Depression Era
| Post-WWII Boom | Post-Modern Era
A. Digital archives | B. Archival Repositories |
Part I: General Library Sources for the Literature Review
Part II: Subject-Specific Databases for the Literature Review

*Selected Local Records by Historical Eras were based on

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library.
Joseph Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library
Michigan State University Libraries American Radicalism Collection
State Archives of Michigan, Lansing (717 West Allegan, Lansing, Michigan)
Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

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