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• A Gallery of Pen Sketches in Black and White of Our Michigan Friends "As We See 'Em.", by Newspaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men, by Evening News Association (Detroit) (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Michigan Biographies (2 volumes, 1924), by Michigan Historical Commission
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Volume II (L-Z): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• General History of the State of Michigan (Detroit: R. D. S. Tyler and Co., 1873), by Charles R. Tuttle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• History of Barry County; With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men (Grand Rapids, MI: Reed-Tangler Co., ca. 1912), by William W. Potter, Ford Hicks, and Edward Butler (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Herring Lake, With an Introductory Legend, The Bride of Mystery, by John Harris Howard (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• A Century of Conquest, 1852-1952: St. Alphonsus Parish, Dearborn, 1952 (Kingsport, TN: Printed by Kingsport Press, 1952), by Maurice W. Geary (page images at HathiTrust)

• "This is a War for the Utter Extinction of Slavery": The Civil War Letters of James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, Hospital Steward, 1st Michigan Colored Infantry (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2020), by James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, ed. by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• History of Livingston Co. Michigan, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: Everts and Abbott, 1880) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Many Moons: Petoskey, Michigan Centennial, 1852-1952 (Petoskey, MI: Petoskey Public Schools, 1952) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (third local volume of a Michigan history set, ca. 1928; for earlier two statewide volumes, see Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes), ed. by George N. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Past and Present of Washtenaw County, Michigan; Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. co., 1906), by Samuel W. Beakes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes (2 statewide volumes plus a third local volume that varies per set; third volume in this set dedicated to Washtenaw County; Dayton, OH: National Historical Association, ca. 1924-1926), ed. by George N. Fuller and Byron Alfred Finney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Our Golden Jubilarian: Father A. X. M. Sharpe (special issue of the Sacred Heart Guardian; Dearborn, MI: Sacred Heart Parish, 1949) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aunt Sally, or, The Cross the Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan (Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858), by Isaac Williams (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by Christopher H. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Into the Latter-day Light: An Autobiography (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1929), by John J. Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Margaret A. Leary (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Bark Covered House, or Back in the Woods Again, by William Nowlin
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Gutenberg text

• Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1998), by Pamela Allara (PDF at Brandeis)

• John Singleton Copley in America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Carrie Rebora Barratt, Paul J. Staiti, Erica E. Hirshler, Theodore E. Stebbins, and Carol Troyen, contrib. by Morrison H. Heckscher, Aileen Ribeiro, and Marjorie Shelley (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Maine Remembers Those Who Served: Tributes From the Pine Tree State (electronic edition, with reader-contributed tributes), by Maine (illustrated HTML with commentary at maine.gov)

• "Nebraskans" 1854-1904 (Omaha: Bee Pub. Co., 1904) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Notable Men of Wisconsin (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Illustrated Atlas of Winnebago County, Wisconsin (Madison, WI: Brant and Fuller, 1889), by George A. Randall (page images with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Chronicles in Cartoon: A Record of Our Own Times (as published in 15 installments in The Windsor Magazine, 1906-1907), contrib. by Bertram Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (4 volumes; London: H. Graves and Co., 1899-1901), by Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin, contrib. by Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)