| Local
Information Database
Data Indexed as of 26 December 2007
For the date of the most recently input Kalamazoo Gazette,
please inquire at either the Reference Desk or the Local History
Room Desk.
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Kalamazoo Gazette
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| 1970-2007 |
Complete subjects and personal
names (except Circuit Court sentencings and public notices,
which begin in 1984). 1969 is in progress. |
| 1960-1969 |
Births, deaths, marriage licenses, divorces,
engagements, weddings, wedding anniversaries, obituaries, selected
other personal names, and some subjects |
| 1940-1959 |
Weddings and obituaries, selected
other names, no subjects |
| 1938-1939 |
Obituaries only. 1937 in progress |
| 1857-1888, 1890, 1891 |
Obituaries only (only a few
exist for 1863 & 1864, none for 1865). 1889 is in progress. |
| 1834-1856 |
Complete personal names. Complete subject index
available on microfilm.
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| Other area newspapers |
| Climax Cereal |
1900-1911 selected names
1912 in progress
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| Vicksburg Commercial |
19 April 1879 – 26 Aug 1879 obituaries only
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Local Magazines |
| Magazines: |
- Applause
- Builder/Architect
- Business Digest/Insight
- Business Direct
- Encore
- Greater Guide
- Guide
- Kalamazoo Magazine
- Kalamazoo Review
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MiBizSouthwest
- Museography
- Welcome Home
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Local History Books and Files |
| History Room: |
- American Biographical History..., 1878. (Kalamazoo County
names only)
- American Women, 1937-1938 (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)
- 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 Michigan Artists, 1997 I & II
- Educators of Michigan, 1900
- Emancipated Spirits: Portraits of Kalamazoo College Women, 1983
- Eminent and Interesting Albionians, 1955 (selected names
only)
- First Ladies of Michigan, 1994
- Guide to Manuscripts in the Bentley Historical Library
(selected names only)
- 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
- History of Allegan and Barry Counties,... 1880
- History of Calhoun County, Michigan, 1877
- History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1880
- History of Van Buren County, Michigan, by O. W. Rowland,
1912 (vol. 2)
- 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
- An Honor Roll Containing a Pictorial Record of the War
Service of the Men and Women of Kalamazoo County, 1917-1918-1919
- Illustrated Atlas of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1890
- Kalamazoo Academy of Medicine: Bicentennial Program and
Other Papers, 1976
- Kalamazoo College Index, 1917 (yearbook)
- Kalamazoo County (in Historic Michigan, by George N.
Fuller, 1928)
- 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 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
- Medical Memoirs of 50 Years in Kalamazoo, by Rush McNair,
1938
- Memorial reports and biographical sketches for Kalamazoo County
from Michigan Pioneer Collections
- Men of Michigan, 1904 (Kalamazoo County names only)
- Men of Progress, 1900
- Michigan Authors, 3rd edition, 1993
- Michigan Biographies..., 1924
- Michigan Centennial History, 1939 (Kalamazoo County names
only)
- Michigan Federation of Labor...Year Book, 1908
(Kalamazoo County entries only)
- Michigan Manual (Kalamazoo County legislators only)
- Michigan Mortality Schedule, 1850 (Kalamazoo County names
only)
- 1860 Michigan Federal Mortality Schedule Abstracts (Kalamazoo
County names only)
- Michigan Through the Centuries, 1955
- Michigan Women First and Founders, 1992
- Obituaries from the Schoolcraft Express, 1917-1972
- Pictorial Souvenir of the Police Department, 1914
- Picturesque Kalamazoo, Craig, 1890 (selected names only)
- Picturesque Kalamazoo, Labadie, 1909 (selected names
only)
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Kalamazoo, Allegan and
Van Buren Counties, Michigan, 1892.
- Standard Atlas of Kalamazoo County, 1910 (photographs
of people only)
- Stewards of the State, 1987
- This Place Called Portage, by Larry Massie (Heritage
Firms and Organizations only)
- Under the Oaks..., by William Stocking, 1904
- Who's Who in Michigan, 1936
- Women With a Vision, by Grace Potts, 1979
- World War I & II records
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