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Book

Social life and customs of Kalamazoo from 1846 to 1860

Call Number

  • H 977.418 Q6 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[Kalamazoo, Mich.? : s.n.], 1950.

Physical Description

5 leaves ; 28 cm.

Notes

Cover title.

Typescript (carbon copy).

"January, 1950."

Contents

  • Kalamazoo: Customs ; Dress ; Town bell and clock ; Fireman's hall ; Public houses ; Mexican war ; Relief movements ; The Hollanders
  • Holidays and celebrations: Christmas and New Year's ; Fourth of July ; Quarter centennial celebration ; Opening of Atlantic cable ; Colored people's celebration
  • Recreation: Lectures ; Panoramas ; Music ; Theatricals and dramatic readers ; Dancing schools and dances ; Circuses, menageries, and novelties ; Balloon ascension ; Ladies' projects ; Sports ; Turkey shoots ; Swimming holes ; "Siphon".
  • (cont.) Temperance and Prohibition
  • Kalamazoo County Agricultural Society and fairs
  • Kalamazoo Town Agricultural Society for Improving the Breed of Horses
  • The Young Men's Literary Association
  • The Ladies' Library Association
  • The Young Men's Library Association
  • The Ladies' Mount Vernon Society of the Union
  • The religious movement: "The sabbath" ; Churches ; Convertions ; Union Congregational Society ; Sabbath School Association / Spiritualism ; The "Great Revival of 1858" ; Competitive forces
  • Bibliography.

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