Dutch Americans -- History -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Dutch Immigrant Papers Collection
Collection
Identifier: COLL-078
Abstract
The Dutch Immigrant Letter Collection includes a wide spectrum of Dutch immigrant experience-Protestant, Catholic, and secular-and it is the only major collection of its kind. To assemble the Immigrant Letter Collection the archives conducted four major manuscript collection campaigns in the Netherlands and the United States between 1976 and 1990. These efforts accumulated at least eight thousand items-letters, travel accounts, immigrant memoirs, and photographs.
Of the 4,970 letters...
Dates:
created: 1786-[ongoing]
Found in:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Albertus C. Van Raalte Collection
Collection
Identifier: COLL-300
Abstract
Critical writer in the Afscheiding (church secessionist) movement in the Netherlands; founder and leader of the colony of Holland, Michigan; business entrepreneur; minister of the Reformed Church in America; and advocate for education, as founder of Hope College and Western Theological Seminary at Holland, Michigan. The collection includes correspondence, sermons, essays, speeches, articles, business papers, and personal memorabilia.
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Dates:
created: 1829-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1834-1876; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1962
Found in:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Dirk B.K. Van Raalte Collection
Collection
Identifier: COLL-301
Abstract
Civil war veteran; Michigan legislator; businessman; and son of Albertus C. Van Raalte. The collection includes correspondence, school notebooks, notes, business papers, books, and personal memorabilia.
Dates:
created: 1845-1925; Other: Majority of material found in 1860-1910; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1962
Found in:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library