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- Allen Electric Company is featured in this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar describes the genesis of the company, when Gerald H. Allen had the idea to create a cheaper test machine for car generators aimed specifically at Ford. B.E. Bertholet, the sales promotion manager at Allen Electric, discusses the company's new automatic battery charger and explains the role that the Allen Electric education program played in the war effort.
- Date Issued:
- 1947-09-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Africana Librarian Joe Lauer is interviewed by Peter Limb about Lauer's career at Michigan State and the development of the Africana Collection at the MSU Libraries. Lauer discusses the history of the International Library within the MSU Libraries and how MSU's involvement with the University of Nigeria at Nsukka during the 1960's created a demand by faculty for more books about Africa. Lauer talks about his own interest in African Studies, how he came to work at Michigan state and describes projects that he has been involved in over the years, both at MSU and on a national level. Lauer and Limb, who is also an MSU Africana Librarian, also discuss the challenges and rewards associated with Africana librarianship, focusing specifically on collection development and cataloging. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This is a recording of the 28th annual Tri-Cities Historical Museum's Heritage Dinner and meeting, held November 5, 1987. Guest speaker Wilbur Rykert gives an account of the life of Rix Robinson, one of Grand Haven's early settlers who gave the city its name. Rykert presents Robinson's early life, his political career, his fur trading business that included the Grand, Kalamazoo, and Muskegon Rivers. Robinson's successful relations with local Native American tribes are also highlighted. According to historian Wallace K. Ewing, "In 1821, he helped with a treaty between the U.S. Government and the Pottawatomie Indians. Another treaty in 1836 ceded all land north of the Grand River to the U.S. Government. Respected by both Native Americans and Whites for his fairness, intelligence, and knowledge of the wilderness, Rix was credited with founding West Michigan ... In 1821 he married Pemissquotoquay, "Flying-Cloud Woman," the daughter of a Chief of the Pere Marquette Indians [Chief Hazy Cloud]." Rykert also gives a general overview of Michigan history in the 1800s.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Globe Knitting Works is featured in this installment of "Western Michigan at Work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar gives a history of the company, which was started by Norwegian immigrant E.A. Clemmons in 1897, and describes the process by which garments are made at Globe Knitting. Edgar Charles, one of the knitters, describes his duties and the working conditions while Jane Radich, who works in the cutting department, explains how the cutters shape and form the knitted fabric into garments.
- Date Issued:
- 1947-09-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Betty Fisher was employed as civil service secretary in the Grand Haven Coast Guard office for many years. She remembers the early Coast Guard picnics for the crew and their families and gives details about local Coast Guard history, including stations and office headquarters. She also recalls the day that the USCG Cutter Escanaba came to town in 1932. In 1939, Betty went to work in Chicago for the Coast Guard and later to Cleveland, Ohio, during World War II but returned to Grand Haven to become a life-long resident. In 1967, she retired as secretary from Challenge Stamping and Porcelain.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- William H. Taft speaks about abolishing war throughout the world in 1912 as a Republican Party candidate running for re-election as President. He speaks in Beverly, Massachusetts, on October 1, 1912. He refers to the United States as a "country independent of entangling alliances."
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Don Stevens, former Michigan State University trustee and AFL-CIO board member, reminisces about his childhood, family, farming, his early education, and his experiences with labor unions and union organizing. Stevens talks about his early work life, hearing about unions during the auto sit-down strikes in 1936 and 1937, listening to radio preachers condemn unions, and failed attempts to unionize a laundry where he worked and later success in organizing dairy and retail workers in the Grand Rapids area in the 1940s. Stevens also discusses CIO leadership during the war, union political efforts regarding health and safety, unemployment insurance, higher wages, and seniority rights and his own involvement in the growing union movement and labor organizing. Stevens is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Part one of four.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-02-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Brundage Company is featured in this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar focuses throughout the segment on the father-son nature of the Brundage Company, stressing the good relationship between H.F. Brundage and his sons, while exploring the history of the company. Dunbar also interviews Miles Batterson, the head of the cost department at Brundage, about why he chose to work at Brundage after completing his degree and how his college degree has aided him in his work.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-11-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Blood Brothers Machine Company is featured on this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar describes the company's transformation from a bicycle manufacturer to an automobile manufacturer, and its transition to making automobile parts after automobile manufacturing proved to be too costly. Dewey Kemp, assistant purchasing manager, and C.E. Wood, sales manager, discuss their products and manufacturing process, as well as the company's contribution to the war effort during World War II.
- Date Issued:
- 1947-11-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection