Finding aid for Humphrey family papers
01278

Summary Information

Repository
Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection.
Title
Humphrey family papers
ID
01278
Date [inclusive]
1860-1963
Extent
7.0 Linear feet (14 boxes, 1 large manuscript)
Language
English
Language of Materials
In English.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection.

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research use.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

01278

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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials note

See also: Boyce family papers, 1841-1961. (OCoLC)472434759

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Humphrey family papers, 1860-1963 (OCLC Record)

[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436931047]

Boyce family papers, 1860-1963 (OCLC record)

[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/472434759]

Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

  • Correspondence
  • Diaries
  • Genealogies
  • Photographs

Personal Name(s)

  • Humphrey family -- Form subdivision--Archives;

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General Note

See finding aids for complete listing.

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Collection Inventory

Box 1 Humphrey Family Genealogy 

Martha Humphrey - correspondence from Henry Humphrey 1870 

Martha Humphrey - correspondence from Henry Humphrey 1871 

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Box 2 Martha Humphrey - correspondence from Henry Humphrey 

1872 

1860-69 

1870-71 

1872 

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Box 3 Martha Humphrey - correspondence 

1873-74 

1875-79 

1880-1899 

1900-1904 

1905-1910 

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Box 4 Martha Humphrey - correspondence 

1911-1918 

1919 

1920 

1921-24 

1925-1929 

1930-1935 

1936-1937 

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Box 5 Martha Humphrey correspondence 

on 80th and 84th birthday 

1927 & 1932 

re Cemetery Plot in Lansing 1920-1925 

School compositions 

Teacher Certificate 1865-71 

D.A.R. application 1900 

Works 

Christmas cards 

Financial papers & will 1926-1930 

Obituary, financial arrangements, 1930 

re death of Martha Humphrey and cemetery plot 1935-1945 

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Box 6 Henry Humphrey - correspondence from Martha Humphrey 

1863-70 

1871-72 

1873-79 

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Box 7 Henry Humphrey - Correspondence 

1883-99 

1900-1919 

Correspondence and work papers of Audit of Onaway - Alpena Telephone Co. 1912-1920. 

Work papers 

Patents 

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Box 8 Mary Humphrey 

Awards 1933-1957 

Biography 

Columns 1938-1957 

Notes for columns 

Correspondence 

Columns 1924-1954 

Correspondence 

- 1903-1939 

- 1940-1949 

- 1950-1959 

- 1960-1963 

- Operat 1944-1953 

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Box 9 

Mary Humphrey - Correspondence opera with Francesco Pelosi 1943-1959 

- Detroit Opera - Press Releases 

- Detroit Music - 1944-1952 

- Tuesday musicale 1952-1954 

- re recital of Marion Frank Leslie 1960 

- Mich. State Fair - Mich. Homecoming Comm. 1939 

- Gratiot Inn 1935-1953 

- Boston Symphony Press Releases 1952- 

- Radio scripts 1938-1939 

- Fyfe's Shoes Radio Ads 1938-1939 

- Works 

Philadelphia, La. Scala Opera Co. and New York City Opera Co. 1950-52 

Detroit Grand Opera Assoc. 1945-1952 

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Box 10 

Jennie Humphrey 

Correspondence 1874-1929. 

- 1930-1939 

- 1940-1962 

Cost sheets 

Death certificate 1962 

Jennie and Mary Humphrey 

Financial papers 1924-1950 

Postcards 1906-1961 

William Humphrey 

Military correspondence 1861-1867 

Correspondence 1861-1875 

Correspondence 1896-1927, Death certificate 1945 

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Box 11 

Dorothy Koch Bestor - Corres. with Mary and Jennie Humphrey 1929-19 

Gertrude Humphrey Koch - Corres. with Martha Humphrey 1907-1934 

Gertrude Humphrey Koch - Corres. with Mary and Jennie Humphrey 1930 

Theodore Wesley Koch - in Memoriam 1941 

Postcards - Mr. & Mrs. Henry Humphrey 

The Distaff Side and Andrew Jackson by Ralph J. Burton 

Patents for buttons, collar, neckwear 

Poetry 

Recipes 

Fragments 

Miscellaneous 

Newspaper clippings 

biography 

opera 

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Box 12 

Photographs 

Martha Humphrey Henry Humphrey 

Mary Humphrey 

Identified persons Unidentified persons 

Opera singers & musicians 

Opera & ballet 

Daguerreotype 

Unidentified man 

woman 

Schoolchildren with teachers 

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Box 13 

Photographs - Buildings 

Stereophonic slides 

Ad Chat, Oct. 1938 and Friendly Little Free Press, Aug. 1955, Sept.-Oct. 1955, and April 1956 

Printed material 

Ballet in Detroit 

Music in Detroit 

Tuesday Musicale 

Opera in Detroit 

Miscellaneous 

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Box 14 

A2 - Mary Humphrey 

A2 - Henry Humphrey 

A8 1868-1870 - Martha Humphrey 

A8 1963 - Mary Humphrey 

C12 1963 - Mary Humphrey 

D5 1864-77 - Martha Humphrey 

D5 1907-1931 - Jennie Humphrey 

N8 - Mary Humphrey 

Passport - Jennie Humphrey 

Pocket dictionary - Henry Humphrey 

Key to the City of Detroit - presented to Mary Humphrey December 12, 1959 

Printing Plate of "The Old Tie, Humphrey Tie" 

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LMS 

Photocopy of the Detroit Free Press Rotogravure front page April 20, 1919 

Adrian Centennial Celebration Proclamation 1825-1925 

Domination of William Humphrey as Warden of the State Prison 1879, 1881 

Appointment of William Humphrey as Warden of the State Prison 1875, 1877 

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