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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Pioneer and Historical Society 2004
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local WilsonLeClaire, Virginia
Summary: Compiled collection of materials on Anthony "Bundy" Brief, widely considered the most famous professional sports player to come from Traverse City, Michigan. He played professional baseball from 1912-1928, with the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Browns.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 921 BRIWright, C. S.
Summary: Cradled in the East and West Arms of the Grand Traverse Bay, Traverse City is nationally known as the Cherry Capital of the World, and locally known as a four-season playground with a rich agricultural heritage and a thriving, urban vitality. Since settlers first populated the area in the late 19th century, the Traverse City community has cherished and cultivated its natural resources, from the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.46 WRISchrader, Robert Ellis
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: R.E. Schrader 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.464 SchraderAnderson, W. S., (William Stacy)
Summary: A compilation of persons known to the Traverse City and Grand Traverse region containing photos and short essays including association with persons and their occupations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: unknown 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.464 AndersonMiller, Chris
Summary: Tracing the history of the Traverse City State Hospital from its founding, this book presents its growth, development, decline, and the efforts to preserve this historic site.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2005
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 362.2 MIL1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.2 MIL
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 362.2 MILBollinger, Donna Stiffler.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Village Press 1975
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 BOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local BollingerCapps, Richard B.
Summary: A sanitary survey of Traverse City incorporated into a 1930 historical view of Northern Michigan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Medical School 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 361 CappsFirestone, Kathleen
Summary: Tells the history of Greiliville, Michigan on Grand Traverse Bay
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Graphics 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 FIRFidler, Richard
Summary: "Gateways to Grand Traverse Past identifies magical places and tells the stories connected with them. Watch out! After reading this book the very ground you walk becomes living history."--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Horizon Books 2011
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local FidlerArnold, Jennie Auburnia Waterman
Summary: Jennie Arnold was a historian of Traverse City, Michigan. Born in 1893 at East Jordan, Michigan, she is best remembered for having campaigned to save the historic Grand Traverse County Courthouse from demolition in the mid-1970s. She also owned and operated a bookstore. Volume includes her reminiscenses, titled "Writings," as well as newspaper clippings, images, and letters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 921 ARNSummary: This silent film showcases the people and places of Traverse City, Michigan in 1940, featuring local churches, schools, businesses, families and social gatherings. In the film, The Traverse City Exchange Club invites famous Hollywood director "Gary Owens" to preside over a Movie Queen contest in which the winner will receive a Hollywood contract. The film was originally produced as a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Center of Traverse City 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 917.7464 WERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE'RE1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 We're
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local We'reSteffens, Roy H.
Summary: Roster of Michigan Civil War veterans, Grand Traverse County, 1970. Information included: soldiers name, the unit name, birth and death dates (if known), and the name of the cemetery buried.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Steffens 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R NEL 317.74 SteffensMacLeod, Marty
Summary: Perry Hannah & his neighbors interweaves an engaging narrative with over six hundred photographs into a vibrant tapestry of life in early Traverse City. Local historian Marty MacLeod accompanies readers street by street through Central neighborhood, inviting you into homes and lives and peeking at contemporary events and places of interest-with just a hint of turn-of-the-century tittle-tattle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press, 0000
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Fidler, Richard.
Summary: Describes the social, political, environmental and moral issues of the regions' history. The author writes about how poor people in Grand Traverse County were cared for, past forays into dissension as well as patriotrism, crime and justice and humans' effect on Grand Traverse Bay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area Historical Society 2009
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local FidlerFidler, Richard.
Summary: Why does Grand Traverse County usually vote Republican? How did it come about that "A view of the Bay is worth half the pay?" How did the Ku Klux Klan gain a foothold locally? Where were the women of Grand Traverse in the nineteenth century? These and other questions are answered in discussions focused on important historical events, artifacts, and institutions of the Grand Traverse area....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Fidler 2008
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local FidlerSteffens, Roy H.
Summary: Roster membership for the Grand Army of the republic copied from the original records on file in the Bureau of Records, Lansing Michigan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of Records 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 369.15 SteffensSondee, Ronald W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rotary Club of Traverse City 1976
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Wakefield, Lawrence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Village Press 1977
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Village Press 1977
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2006
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Summary: An A-to-Z tour de force, from Arnold's Bookstore, Brady's, and Cone Drive through the locally filmed Zombie movie. Land mines and cigar rolling, life-sized cartoons, casketmakers, and an experimental submarine—it's all part of Old Towne's fascinating story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Union Street Books 0000
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Wakefield, Lawrence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Village Press 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.464 WAKTompkins, Molly.
Summary: This book was written by two high school seniors as a community service project, in order to record the 60 year history of the ski area Hickory Hills in Traverse City, Michigan, and preserve the community-owned area for future generations. The book is based on more than seventy interviews and extensive research, and enhanced by numerous photographs shot by local photographer Jack Bensley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Preserve History 2011
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