Scope and Contents This donation from Louise Kertesz comprises materials related to the composition and publication of The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser. It includes correspondence, research notes, photocopies of reviews and critical studies of Rukeyser’s works, programs, photographs, and recordings of conversations between Rukeyser and Kertesz.This collection of documents sheds new light on Rukeyser’s life and work. In her correspondence and wide-ranging conversations...

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The Michael Davis papers contain research files and publication materials related to his book America's Favorite Homes, published in 1988 with Wayne State University Press.

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The records date from 1990 through 2018, with the bulk of the records in the 1990s and 2000s. Roughly half of the collection is made up of administrative records including documents related to EMWP programs, grants and other funding, site surveys, and annual reports and evaluations. The rest of the collection is projects/presentations created as part of EMWP’s summer institutes, anthologies, copies of the EMWP newsletter, and some handouts and resources for teachers.

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The Association for Computing Machinery Conference was held at Eastern Michigan University in 1994. The Manual consists of Conference materials that were bound and distributed to attendees.

Abstract Publications, reviews, and biographical material of Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British author, intellectual, and mystic, best known for his works Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. The collection includes published articles and essays by Huxley, reviews and commentary on his works, biographical material on his life, a small amount of correspondence, and information concerning...

Abstract Annabelle Sumera who died in 2005 was a 1942 graduate of Michigan State Normal School and 1964 teacher of the year. She was a longtime resident, a principal, and elementary school teacher in Birmingham, Michigan before retiring to write poetry and childrens books, rhymes, and short stories. The Annabelle Sumera Book Collection range from 1970 to 2005 and contains clippings, two childrens books authored by Sumera and two compilations of essays, poems and rhymes...

Abstract The Alma Weidmann Swanson Memory Book documents the experience of Alma Marie Weidmann Swanson, a student at Michigan State Normal College from 1924-1926. She was originally from Detroit and studied Physical Education. Weidmann was involved on campus as a member of the Physical Education Club, and Pi Kappa Sigma. During her time at Michigan State Normal she enjoyed an active social calendar including football games, dances and multiple friendships, displayed by...

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The Bicentennial Celebration Banner collection is composed of fabric banners used in Eastern Michigan University campus celebrations of the American Revolution Bicentennial.

Abstract The Association of Arab American University Graduates collection contains the records of the Association of Arab American University Graduates (AAUG), a cultural and intellectual organization pertaining to the critical issues affecting the Arab peoples in North America and the Arab region, (1967-2007), the papers of Abdeen Jabara and Mujid Kazimi and records pertaining to the Symposium on Zionism in Baghdad that took place in Iraq in November, 1976. The AAUG...

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This collection includes photographic materials representing the people found in the Biography File Collection, primarily faculty and staff of the University. Photographic formats include black-and-white prints, color prints, prints within scrapbooks, Polaroid prints, color slides, black and white negatives, and color negatives. Materials are arranged in the collection alphabetically by last name.