Local History Room Index

The Local History Room section of the database captures a wonderful variety of information not indexed in the other databases, including access to the clipping files, scrapbooks, pictures and short sketches in books, etc.

Indexed Local History Room Items

• Afro-American Journal and Directory, 1894
• Amazing Women of West Michigan, 2006
• American Biographical History…, 1878. (Kalamazoo County names only)
• American Women, 1939-1940 (Kalamazoo County names only)
• Art Work of City of Kalamazoo, 1894
• Artists in Michigan, 1900-1976
• Bench and Bar of Michigan, 1897
• Bibliography of Michigan Authors, by M. K. Goodrich, 1928
• Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1989 (Kalamazoo County names only)
• Biographical Sketches: Recollections of the Earliest Days and Pioneers of Albion, Michigan… (selected names only)
• Bird’s Eye View of Kalamazoo, Mich., 1883
• Bold Women in Michigan History, by Virginia Law Burns, 2006.
• Buildings of Michigan, Revised Edition, 2012 (Kalamazoo County entries only)
• A Chronological Souvenir of St. Luke’s Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1903
• Compendium of History and Biography of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, by David Fisher, 1906
• Cyclopedia of Michigan…, 1890
• Directory of Living, Black Scientists, 1983 (Michigan names only)
• Directory of Michigan Artists, volumes I, II and III
• A Drive Down Memory Lane: the Named State and Federal Highways of Michigan, 2004 (Kalamazoo County entries only)
• Eastside Voices: An Intergenerational Oral History Project, 2020
• Educators of Michigan, 1900
• Emancipated Spirits: Portraits of Kalamazoo College Women, 1983
• Eminent and Interesting Albionians, 1955 (selected names only)
• Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball, 2006 (entries for Kalamazoo Lassies and their players)
• Engaging the Wisdom, 2013
• First Ladies of Michigan, 1994
• Foreign Marriages and Intents to Marry, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
• General History of the State of Michigan…, 1874
• Guide to Manuscripts in the Bentley Historical Library (selected names only)
• Guide to the Manuscripts of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Supplement Number One, 1957(selected items)
• Hard Hats, Boots and Goggles, 1985
• Historic Women of Michigan, 1987
• Historical Catalogue of the Students of Kalamazoo College and of Kalamazoo Theological Seminary, 1851-1902.
• Historical Directory, by Robert E. Meader, c.1945
• Historical Record of the Michigan Daughters of the American Revolution, 1893-1930, vol. 1 (Kalamazoo citations only)
• History Detectives 2008 Oral History Project
• History of Allegan and Barry Counties,… 1880
• History of Calhoun County, Michigan, 1877
• History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1880
• History of Michigan, by Charles Moore, vols. 2-4, 1915
• A History of the Michigan State Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1895-1953, and Supplement 1953-1966
• History of the Sixth Circuit, 1976
• History of the Kalamazoo Rotary Club, 1945 (portraits only)
• History of the University of Michigan with Biographical Sketches, 1906
• History of the Woman’s Club Movement in America, 1898 (Kalamazoo County items only)
• History of Van Buren County, Michigan, by O. W. Rowland, 1912 (vol. 2)
• History Room Michigan File
• History Room Name File
• History Room Photograph File
• History Room Pictures in Books Index (personal names only)
• History Room Scrapbooks: Art, Authors, Biography, Famous Visitors, Historic Sites, Military Service, WMU Personnel, and World War, 1939-1945
• History Room Subject File
• Homes of Yesterday: Climax-Scotts Area, 1992
• An Honor Roll Containing a Pictorial Record of the War Service of the Men and Women of Kalamazoo County, 1917-1918-1919
• If Only the Walls Could Talk; The Architectural Heritage of Cooper, Michigan, by W. Ward Christlieb,  2000.
• Illustrated Atlas of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1890
• Kalamazoo Academy of Medicine: Bicentennial Program and Other Papers, 1976
• Kalamazoo and Southwest Michigan: Golden Memories, 2001
• Kalamazoo Christian High School: 50 Years of Christian Education, 1941-1991
• Kalamazoo City Directory, 1876 (sketches about local businesses and institutions at front of volume)
• Kalamazoo College Index, 1917 (yearbook)
• Kalamazoo County (in Historic Michigan, by George N. Fuller, 1928)
• Kalamazoo County and the Civil War, by Gary L. Gibson, 2021 (only Chapter 5, The Black Community)
• Kalamazoo County Probate Records, 1831-1857
• Kalamazoo Gazette, Centennial Edition, 1937
• Kalamazoo high school and college yearbooks in progress (see the yearbook page for a complete list)
• Kalamazoo Illustrated, 1892
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts local artist files
• Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., 1853 (map)
• Kalamazoo Leads the World, 1887 (selected names only)
• Kalamazoo Lost and Found, by Houghton and O’Connor, 2001
• Kalamazoo: Nineteenth-Century Homes in a Midwestern Village, by Peter J. Schmitt, photographed by Balthazar Korab, 1976
• Kalamazoo, the Debt-Free City…, by Ford F. Rowe, 1939
• Kalamazoo, the Place Behind the Products, 1981 and 1998 editions (selected names and subjects)
• Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR (Kalamazoo County members only)
• Livingstone’s History of the Republican Party…, by William Livingstone, 1900
• Made for You in Kalamazoo: Directory of Streets and Business Advertising, 1920 (photos only)
•  Map of Kalamazoo, McKenzie & Simmons, Lith., c1859
• Medical Memoirs of 50 Years in Kalamazoo, by Rush McNair, 1938
• Men of Michigan, 1904 (Kalamazoo County names only)
• Men of Progress, 1900
• Michigan Authors, 3rd edition, 1993
• Michigan Biographies…, 1924
• Michigan’s Centennial Family Farm Heritage, 1986 (Kalamazoo County entries only)
• Michigan: A Centennial History of the State and Its People, 1939 (Kalamazoo County names only)
• Michigan Federation of Labor…Year Book, 1908 (Kalamazoo County entries only)
• Michigan Manual, 1925-2005 (Kalamazoo County legislators only)
• Michigan Mortality Schedule, 1850 (Kalamazoo County names only)
• 1860 Michigan Federal Mortality Schedule Abstracts (Kalamazoo County names only)
• Michigan One-Room Schoolhouses, 2008 (Kalamazoo County entry only)
• Michigan  Pioneer Collections (memorial reports and biographical sketches for Kalamazoo County)
• Michigan Through the Centuries, 1955
• Michigan Women: Firsts and Founders, volumes 1 & 2
• Michigan’s Historic Railroad Stations, 2012 (Kalamazoo only)
• Michigan’s Own: The Medal of Honor, Civil War to Vietnam War, 1987
• More than Petticoats: Remarkable Michigan Women, 2007
• Obituaries from the Schoolcraft Express, 1917-1972
• Oshtemo Township Reconnaissance Level Historic Resources Survey
• Our Line (Kalamazoo Laundry Co. newsletter), 1929-30
• Parkview Hills, by Barbara Walters, 2008
• Pictorial Souvenir of the Police Department, 1914
• Picturesque Kalamazoo, Craig, 1890
• Picturesque Kalamazoo, Labadie, 1909 (selected names only)
• Portage and Its Past, by Grace J. Potts, 1976
• Portrait and Biographical Record of Kalamazoo, Allegan and Van Buren Counties, Michigan, 1892.
• Portrait and Biographical Album of St. Joseph County, Michigan, 1889
• The Prairie School: Design Vision for the Midwest, 1995 (names of architects known to have buildings in Kalamazoo)
• The Presbyterian Pulpit: A Volume of Sermons by Ministers of the Synod of Michigan, 1898 (Kalamazoo County items only)
• Progress in the Practice of Medicine, 1930-1990, Interviews by C. Allen Alexander, M.D.
• Real World War II Stories, compiled by Marlene Ailes, 2000.
• Richland from its prairie beginnings, by Eugene C. McKean, 1981 (historic houses only)
• Social Changes in Western Michigan, 1930-1990, Interviews by C. Allen Alexander, M.D.
• Souvenir Silver Jubilee St. Augustine’s Church Kalamazoo, 1894
• Standard Atlas of Kalamazoo County, 1910 (photographs only)
• Stewards of the State, 1987
• Sun Pictures in Kalamazoo, 1977 (photographs and names of photographers)
• Telling the Kalamazoo Community Race Story, 2010
• The Story of the Twenty-Fifth Michigan, 1897 (Civil War)
• This Place Called Portage, by Larry Massie (Heritage Firms and Organizations only)
• Under the Oaks…, by William Stocking, 1904
• Views in Kalamazoo, Michigan (New York Daily Graphic poster, 1878)
• Walking Through Time, 1981
• Who’s Who in Michigan, 1936
• Women With a Vision, by Grace Potts, 1979
• World War I & II records
• World War II Memories: A Collection of Essays from Residents of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1999
• World War II Memories, by the Members and Friends of First Presbyterian Church, Richland, Michigan, 2005
• Yes, There were Germans in Kalamazoo, 1979

Last updated 4 September 2019.