Collection Overview
Title: Dirk H. Bratt and Family Collection, 1861-1977
ID: COLL/022
Creator: Bratt, Dirk H. (1877-1932)
Extent: 6.0 Boxes. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Date Acquired: 00/00/1977
Abstract
Correspondence between relatives and friends in the USA and in the Netherlands, and the Dirk and Hattie (Boeve) Bratt family of Holland and Ellsworth, Michigan. Letters comment on daily routine and events in the community, church life, and farming; genealogical materials; business correspondence regarding land deals, crop development and sales; various legal documents, account books, log books, almanacs, journals, notes, essays, poems, newspaper clippings and pamphlets. A speech entitled "The History of the Christian Reformed Church in South Olive, Michigan," given at its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1910. There are also the minutes of the Men’s Society of the Atwood CRC, Atwood, Michigan, 1918, of which D. Bratt was the secretary.
Biographical Note
Son of Hero and Albertha (Gortworst) Bratt, Dirk H. Bratt was born 5 January 1877. Dirk married Egbertje (Hattie) Boeve. Together they had 12 children– Janna, Hendrick, Cornelia, Steven, William Stephen, Hero D., Egbert, Albertha D., Aaltje, Boy Dickson, Dorothy Ann, and [unknown] Bratt. They lived in Holland and Ellsworth, Michigan. Dirk passed away on 22 February 1932.
Administrative Information
Alternate Extent Statement:
3.0 cubic ft.
Acquisition Source:
Gift of the Bratt family, 1977.
Box and Folder Listing
- Series 1: Dirk H. Brat Papers --- 1886-1918
- Box 1
- Folder 1: The Genealogy of Annie Brat and Cornelius Van den Heuvel. Reports of Hero and Uncle John
- Folder 2-3: Notes of Dirk Brat
- Folder 4: Essays of Dirk Brat
- Folder 5
- Item 1: Minutes of SS Convention --- 16-Oct-12
- Item 2: History of South Olive CRC --- 26-Mar-05
- Folder 6: Journal of Dick Brat
- Folder 7: Newspaper clippings, poems
- Folder 8: Newspaper clippings
- Folder 9-10: Pamphlets
- Folder 11
- Item 1: Time and Account books --- 1896
- Item 2: Bijbelsche Almanac --- 1886
- Item 3: Expense Account --- 1901
- Series 2: Correspondence - Dirk Brat --- 1861-1911
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Correspondence -Civil War letter --- 1861-1879
- Folder 2: Correspondence -Dutch letters to Hero Brat --- 1880-1889
- Folder 3: Correspondence-W. Brat, Elsje --- 1890-1894
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- Jan.-Sept. 1895
- Folder 5: Correspondence --- Oct.-Dec. 1895
- Folder 6: Correspondence --- Jan.-May 1896
- Folder 7: Correspondence --- June-Dec. 1896
- Folder 8: Correspondence --- 1897
- Folder 9: Correspondence --- Jan.-May 1898
- Folder 10: Correspondence --- June-Dec. 1898
- Folder 11-17: Correspondence --- 1899-1905
- Folder 18: Correspondence --- Jan.-March 1906
- Folder 19: Correspondence --- April-Dec. 1906
- Folder 20-22: Correspondence --- 1907-1909
- Folder 23: Correspondence --- Jan.-May 1910
- Folder 24: Correspondence --- June-Dec. 1910
- Folder 25: Correspondence --- Jan.-March 1911
- Folder 26: Correspondence --- April-June 1911
- Folder 27: Correspondence --- July-Aug. 1911
- Folder 28: Correspondence --- Sept.-Dec. 1911
- Series 3: Correspondence - Dirk Brat --- 1912-1919
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Correspondence --- Jan.-July 1912
- Folder 2: Correspondence --- Aug.-Dec. 1912
- Folder 3: Correspondence --- Jan.-July 1913
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- Aug.-Dec. 1913
- Folder 5: Correspondence --- Jan.-March 1914
- Folder 6: Correspondence --- April-Dec. 1914
- Folder 7: Correspondence --- Jan.-June 1915
- Folder 8: Correspondence --- July-Dec. 1915
- Folder 9: Correspondence --- 1916
- Folder 10: Correspondence --- Jan.-Feb. 1917
- Folder 11: Correspondence --- March-June 1917
- Folder 12: Correspondence --- July-Sept. 1917
- Folder 13: Correspondence --- Oct.-Dec. 1917
- Folder 14: Correspondence --- Jan.-March 1918
- Folder 15: Correspondence --- April-June 1918
- Folder 16: Correspondence --- July-Sept. 1918
- Folder 17: Correspondence --- Oct.-Dec. 1918
- Folder 18: Correspondence --- Jan.-March 1919
- Folder 19: Correspondence --- April-June 1919
- Folder 20: Correspondence --- July-Dec. 1919
- Series 4: Correspondence - Family and Others --- 1920-1925
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Correspondence --- Jan.-June 1920
- Folder 2: Correspondence --- July-Dec. 1920
- Folder 3: Correspondence --- Jan.-June 1921
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- July-Dec. 1921
- Folder 5: Correspondence --- July-Dec. 1921
- Folder 6: Correspondence --- Jan.-Feb. 1922
- Folder 7: Correspondence --- March-June 1922
- Folder 8: Correspondence --- Nov.-Dec. 1922
- Folder 9: Correspondence --- Jan.-March 1923
- Folder 10: Correspondence --- April-June 1923
- Folder 11: Correspondence --- July-Oct. 1923
- Folder 12: Correspondence --- Nov.-Dec. 1923
- Folder 13: Correspondence --- Jan.-Feb. 1924
- Folder 14: Correspondence --- March-May 1924
- Folder 15: Correspondence --- June-Dec. 1924
- Folder 16: Correspondence --- Jan.-Feb. 1925
- Folder 17: Correspondence --- March-May 1925
- Folder 18: Correspondence --- June-July 1925
- Series 5: Correspondence --- 1925-1929
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Correspondence --- Aug.-Sept. 1925
- Folder 2: Correspondence --- Oct.-Nov. 1925
- Folder 3: Correspondence --- Dec-25
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- Jan.-Feb. 1926
- Folder 5: Correspondence --- March-April 1926
- Folder 6: Correspondence --- May-June 1926
- Folder 7: Correspondence --- July-Aug. 1926
- Folder 8: Correspondence --- Sept.-Oct. 1926
- Folder 9: Correspondence --- Nov.-Dec. 1926
- Folder 10: Correspondence --- Jan-27
- Folder 11: Correspondence --- Feb.-March 1927
- Folder 12: Correspondence --- April-June 1927
- Folder 13: Correspondence --- July-Dec. 1927
- Folder 14: Correspondence --- Jan.-Feb. 1928
- Folder 15: Correspondence --- March-May 1928
- Folder 16: Correspondence --- June-Aug. 1928
- Folder 17: Correspondence --- Sept.-Oct. 1928
- Folder 18: Correspondence --- Nov.-Dec. 1928
- Folder 19: Correspondence --- Jan.-May 1929
- Folder 20: Correspondence --- June-Aug. 1929
- Folder 21: Correspondence, --- Sept.-Dec. 1929
- Series 6: Correspondence, Documents, Newspaper Clippings --- 1930-1977
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Correspondence --- Jan.-June 1930
- Folder 2: Correspondence --- July-Dec. 1930
- Folder 3: Correspondence --- Jan.-June 1931
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- July-Dec. 1931
- Folder 5: Correspondence --- Jan.-March 1932
- Folder 6: Correspondence --- April-Dec. 1932
- Folder 7-9: Correspondence --- 1933-1935
- Folder 10: Correspondence --- 1936-1937
- Folder 11: Correspondence --- 1938-1939
- Folder 12: Correspondence --- 1940-1941
- Folder 13-17: Correspondence --- 1942-1946
- Folder 18: Correspondence --- 1947-1949
- Folder 19: Correspondence --- 1950-1951
- Folder 20: Correspondence --- 1952-1955
- Folder 21: Correspondence --- 1956-1957
- Folder 22: Correspondence --- 1958-1977
- Folder 23: Undated Letters and fragments
- Folder 24: Legal Documents
- Folder 25: Receipts --- prior to 1903
- Folder 26: Newspaper clippings