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.