OUSC. Special Collections

Issues of the Oakland Press on microfilm and in print for the period 1835 to 2007.

Meeting minutes, agendas, and some supporting documentation for the Pontiac Historic District Commission from 1986 to 1989.

Analog and digitized recordings of 39 interviews of longtime Pontiac Black residents, conducted between fall 1975 and early 1977, as well as recordings of multiple conferences and lectures related to Black studies and Black politics in the 1970s.

The Riley-Smith Crusades Collection consists of documents, photographs, and recordings acquired along with Jonathan Riley-Smith's personal library of thousands of monographs, periodicals, and other publications. It documents a small fraction of Riley-Smith's work as a researcher and professor. There are also a few items regarding his personal life. Of particular interest are the nearly 1,000 slides documenting crusades history Riley-Smith took during tours of the Middle East.

LGBTQ ephemera (mailings, flyers, and other materials) from the Detroit area, Michigan, and the United States, collected by Robert Gaylor from the 1960s to the 2000s.

LGBTQ periodicals from the Detroit area, Michigan, the United States and beyond, collected by Robert Gaylor from the 1960s to the 2010s.

Active collectors of Rochester history memorabilia with deep roots in the Rochester Avon area; members of numerous local and Michigan historical organizations and authors of publications and tours on local history. Harvested over decades, their collection includes their personal research files as well as books, periodicals, photos, manuscripts, posters, objects, and other items documenting the history of the greater Rochester area.

Copies of Avon Township 19th-century records, typed and assembled by Sally Cieslik in 1987.

Personal papers of John J. Snook (1842-1923) -- a farmer, poet, and Civil War veteran -- and his family, who lived in Rochester, Michigan.

Maps and photographs of the Western Knitting Mills buildings in Rochester, Michigan, from 1896 to the 1950s.

A large collection of materials related to the history of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, created by William Springer. The collection includes materials from the 1850s and 1860s as well as later memorabilia and scholarship. Books; pamphlets and ephemera; Lincolnook memories; Lincoln Lore; catalogs and bibliographies; manuscripts; scrapbooks; graphics; historical newspapers; Frederick L. Black papers; Bernhardt Wall collection; artifacts.