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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)

• 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

• 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

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• 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)
• Memorials of a Half-Century in Michigan and the Lake Region, by Bela Hubbard (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Souvenir: National Grange in Michigan (1902), ed. by Ellsworth A. Holden (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, by John T. Blois (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Archaeological Atlas of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1931), by W. B. Hinsdale, illust. by Edward J. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inaugural Proceedings at the Dedication of the New Capitol of Michigan, at the City of Lansing, on the First Day of January, 1879 (Lansing: W. S. George and Co., 1879), by Michigan Board of State Building Commissioners
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Capitol of Michigan, on the 2d Day of October, 1873, at the City of Lansing, by Michigan Board of State Building Commissioners (page images at MOA)

• Among the Wolverines, by Augustus C. Schooley (page images at loc.gov)
• Journal of a Trip to Michigan in 1841 (1904), by Lansing B. Swan (page images at loc.gov)
• A Tour From the City of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, Made Between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818, by William Darby (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (multiple formats at loc.gov)

• Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1863/4 (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• The Backwoods' Bride: A Romance of Squatter Life (London: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1861), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ghost in the Tower: An Episode in Jacobia (1921), by Earl H. Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wilby's Dan (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1904), by William Wallace Cook, illust. by C. B. Falls (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, by John T. Blois (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1863/4 (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Michigan Family Field Trips: Fun Sites for Kids (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Ellyce Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detroit and the Pleasure Resorts of Northern Michigan, by Detroit Lansing and Northern Railroad Company (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• A Summer Holiday: A Brief Description of Some of the Most Popular Summer Resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the Routes By Which They Can be Reached, by Chicago and North Western Railway Company (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
• 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)
• Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men, by Evening News Association (Detroit) (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Old Mackinaw, or, The Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings, by W. P. Strickland (page images at MOA)
• Proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Capitol of Michigan, on the 2d Day of October, 1873, at the City of Lansing, by Michigan Board of State Building Commissioners (page images at MOA)
• The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)

• Preliminary Check List of Michigan Imprints, 1796-1850 (American Imprints Inventory #52; 1942), by Michigan Historical Records Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Printing in Michigan, With a Bibliography of the Issues of the Michigan Press, 1796-1850 (Chicago: John Calhoun Club, 1931), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

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