Box 2
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Original newspaper issue of above, plus oversized photocopy
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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
Did Michigan Have a John Smith-Pocahontas Tale? Rix Robinson, what is truth about his Indian wife? Dan Hager. GR Press, July 14, 1968. Original clipping & photocopy
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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
A Short dissertation on a tough old man / by Fred N. Kerwin. GR Press. Dec. 17, 1972. Original clipping and photocopy.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
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
"In the Shadow of the Scaffold : the story of how E.M. Miller … charged wit the murder of NEGA, and Indian Princess, was saved from hanging in the public square of Grand Rapids by the abolition of capital punishment in Michigan" / by Frank M. Sparks. Grand Rapids Herald. Sept. 10, 1916, pt. III, p. 4.
File — Box: 2, 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:
1890-1980, no date
Letter to [John] Ball, Mar. 29, 1846, from Robinson in Detroit. R1:A1.6
File — Box: 2, 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:
1834-1846
Letter to Wm. Chubb. May 18, 1834, from Robinson, at the Mouth of the Grand River. R1:A1.7
File — Box: 2, 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:
1834-1846
Letter to Dennis Robinson (Brother), Sept. 23, 1844, in Scipio, Cayuga Co., N.Y. Has irreparable damage to an original document: Lamination. Found with Old collection documents, folded. R1:A1.8
File — Box: 2, 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
Warranty Deed, June 23, 1847, between Chief Noonday (Naw-o-quay-ghi-shick) and Ope-Go, witnessed by Rix Robinson & Thomas Harmon. Old Collection N3
File — Box: 2, 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:
1840-1847
Kent Lore is Enriched : Rix Robinson students believe they have pinpointed site of his early trading post. GR Press, July 14, 1951. Includes hand drawn map. Original clipping & oversized photocopy
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Robinson's Trading Post Archaeological Dig Data & Research. Dig done by GVSU, Summer 1967 in Ada. 2001.045
Dates:
1829-1984
Getting history from an old trash pile. GR Press. Flair. Sept. 9, 1976. Original clipping.
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Robinson's Trading Post Archaeological Dig Data & Research. Dig done by GVSU, Summer 1967 in Ada. 2001.045
Dates:
1829-1984