Box 1
Container
Contains 24 Results:
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
Grocery account for W.A. Roberts. Oct. 1, 1840. R1:A4.1
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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:
1840-1847