Archives & Regional
History Collections

East Campus
East Hall, #111
Phone: 269-387-8490
Fax: 269-387-8484
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WMU Archives & Regional History Collections

The Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collections consists of historical University, regional, and local governmental records.

The holdings total over 17,000 linear feet, making the WMU Archives the largest facility of its type in southwestern Michigan and one of the largest in the state.

Detailed finding aids exist for the manuscript collections. In addition to the manuscript collections, the unit has oral histories, census records, a research collection of books, magazines, and newspapers, and several large photographic collections.

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