This book, published in 1915, was digitized in 2008 to fill a need for classroom support regarding an important out-of-print book on Michigan History. Accessibility and searchability for students, colleagues, and researchers are the primary goals.

More information (metadata) about the book and the digitization is below.

The 2 digital versions of the book are in Acrobat pdf file format. The large file is the complete book including all the photographs ansd illustrations. An optional smaller file without the photographs is also available. Both files are searchable.

Link to complete version, (8.7 MB pdf file)

Link to version without illustrations, (1.6 MB pdf file)

Usability features of the pdf files. The primary feature is the searchability by text within the Acrobat software. You may download to your computer the pdf file of your choice for educational and research use, not commercial usage. (See copyright note below)

More information about the digitization

You may just click on the link to open the file within your browser. When open in Acrobat you can search the entire document of 371 pages by using the 'Find' window in the Acrobat tool bar. Search by word or phrase. For the next occurrance of your search word click on the right arrow to the right of the 'Find' window. One important note is that the hand-drawn tables starting on page 317 are not searchable because they could not be captured in the optical character recognition (OCR) software.

Metadata

Author: Michigan. Freedmen's Progress Commission; "Warren, Francis Herbert, compiler"

Subjects: Freedmen--Michigan--History; Freedmen--Michigan--Social conditions; African Americans--Michigan--History; African Americans--Michigan--Social Conditions; African Americans--Biography; Michigan--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American; African American soldiers--History--19th century; African American businesspeople--Michigan; Landowners--Michigan--History; African Americans--Mortality--Michigan

Keywords: Detroit; Lincoln Jubilee Chicago; politics; business; occupations; homeowners; property owners; Michigan Day Program; Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris; Thaddeus W. Taylor; death rate

Examples of metadata about the digital version of the book found in the 'Properties', 'Description' of the pdf file header.

Copyright 2008 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, for the digital version all rights reserved. The digital version is available for educational use under 'Fair Use' guidelines. For additional permission and further information contact the WMU Libraries, Digitization Center, lib-dc@wmich.edu

The original item is a book is a non-circulating volume in the WMU Archives and Regional History Collections, Kalamazoo, Michigan. (Link to web site)

Link to WMU Libraries catalog record.