Box 1
Container
Contains 24 Results:
Biography of Rix Robinson : read at Ada Pioneer Picnic, Aug. 16, 1921 by Mary F. Robinson of Ann Arbor. 4 pgs. c. 1 4 page typed original. / c. 2 Usage copy of 4 pg. original. Formerly M92.R56R5 00.[2669].1
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Biographical citations.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Legends and Tales of Rix Robinson : early Michigan Fur Trapper, State Senator, lawyer, Banker, Draft Dodger and Friend to the Indians / compiled & edited [citations] by Mark von Destinon, Aug. 1997. 1999.082.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Obit. Jan. 13, 1895. GR Eagle.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Clipping with two images: Rix Robinson left, second wife, right.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Typed transcription of a letter, Aug. 24, 1921, from artist Frederick Stuart Church to Rebecca Richmond, RE Rix Robinson, plus a photocopy of same. See Coll. 094 (C6:A1.66) for the original, which was legal sized, but is now in two pieces in letter-sized sleeve.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
First in County, in a dense forest ... Rix Robinson was Kent's earliest White man. Grand Rapids Press. Nov. 22, 1909. Clipping attached to white paper, plus photocopy of same.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Log-Cabin Inventor, Hiram Moore, beat the world and had combined harvester and thresher working in Grand Rapids territory in 1838. Has graphic illustration of Rix Robinson by Ray Barnes drawn from old etching. (copy) Aug. 14, 1921.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1890-1980, no date
Letter to John Ball, Mar. 10, 1846, from Robinson in Detroit. R1:A1.5
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1834-1846
Letter to James Lyman, Grand Rapids, Dec. 11, 1839 from Robinson in Detroit. Forwarded Mar. 25, 1840. Accompanied by a typed transcript, with historical notes on the same sheet. 1987.011.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1834-1846