Collection

Arthur H. Sarvis Papers

• 1958 (Creation)

2.5 Linear Feet

This collection consists of various papers and documents on Flint Michigan during the 1950’s. The first two boxes hold information on the Flint Centennial held in 1955. They include contracts as well as letters from various committee members of the time. Also included are schedules for the event, including a visit from Richard Nixon, a script for the performance written by George Montgomery, and information about the various committees for the Flint Centennial celebration.

Also included in this collection are programs for the National Science fair, Flint Junior Colleges Pre-convention as well as program dedications to the Cady B. Durham Natatorium, the Robert T. Longway Planetarium, and the F.A. Bower Theater. Programs for an opening night theater production at the F.A. Bower Theater is also included.

The National Science Fair is included in this collection with various newspaper clippings, letters from various individuals involved as well as programs for the event. A celebration of the 38 millionth car made in Flint Michigan by General Motors is featured in this collection. Black and white photos of various stages of the Chevy Impala Sport Coupe are included with program booklets and letters of invitation to various people to attend the celebration.

Information on Flint's Golden Committee include a GM calendar of events as well as financial information, information of the pioneer picnic. There are also pioneer picnic photos. Newspaper cutouts on cardstock are included as solicitation lists for various Flint businesses for the Golden Committee. Costume and prop requirements, float information and correspondence are also included. As well as information for the Highway US-23 from Fenton to Clio.

Included in this collection are street decoration proposals and sketches for the Flint Golden Milestone Celebration. General Motors booklets with information on the Golden Milestone, as well as various General Motors facts and information.

Telegrams for the Flint Centennial as well as the Flint Golden Milestone celebration are typed and still legible. The Golden Milestone pageant parade with lists of those participating. Photos from the celebration show the parade as well as the celebration itself.

Past practices described the contents of this collection individually. Each item received an object ID number and was treated as a distinct artifact. Records have been reunited, but their original order may have been lost.

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Collection is housed in 6 Hollinger boxes. Each piece of the collection is in an acid free folder. The collection is predominantly carbon paper. Also included are photographs connected to photobook backing.

The collection consists of loose carbon copy papers. Sheets are in good shape and have little to no damage to them. Some sheets have stains on them, as well as creasing and folded edges. Staples as well as metal paper clips have left stains and rips on the pages. The collection of Flint Salutes GM booklets as well as Look magazine have been bent from storage in their boxes.

Red pencil as well as regular pencil color is used to cross out various things as well as make notes on some of the carbon paper. Notes are handwritten in blue as well as black ink, some in pencil. Correspondence is typed on letter paper. Green folders are included with typed paper inside. Words on each sheet of paper are legible, while some of the cursive notes are legible.

General Motors booklets are browning with age but are still legible. The booklets are bound in loose paper but are still together. Reference materials in regards to General motors are also browning with age as well as dirt.

A few photos showing the Flint Golden Milestone parade are attached to photobook sheets, glued down, removal would result in ripping the photos.

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• English

A downloadable PDF finding aid is available.

This collection was donated by Arthur H. Sarvis on January 28th 1966. It was received by Roger Van Bolt.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd edition

Rachelle Gonzalez-Brown, intern
July 14, 2022

Jonathan Kirkwood, Archivist
April 10, 2024

• Events
• Letters
• General Motors

• Bower, F.A. (Subject)
• Carter, Robert A. (Subject)
• Clark, Gilbert (Subject)
• Crawford, James (Subject)
• Crawley, Arthur L. (Subject)
• Cummings, Everett (Subject)
• Durham, Cady B. (Subject)
• Fauth, Gerry (Subject)
• Firestone, Louis (Subject)
• Friley, George (Subject)
• Gerkowski, Raymond (Subject)
• Gray, Raymond A. (Subject)
• Hardy-Brown, Helen (Subject)
• Herrick, Robert (Subject)
• Hiller, Ola B. (Subject)
• Houston, Guy V. (Subject)
• Jolly, Lucille C. (Subject)
• Kapp, Edward Jr. (Subject)
• Kelly, Osmund (Subject)
• Kennedy, Cecil J. (Subject)
• Kinley, Harold (Subject)
• Knopf, Elmer (Subject)
• Longway, Robert T. (Subject)
• McNaught, Waldo E. (Subject)
• Mobley, Charles A. (Subject)
• Montgomery, George (Subject)
• Page, Keyes G. (Subject)
• Sahrbeck, Charles (Subject)
• Sarvis, Arthur H. (Subject)
• Scott, Walter E. (Subject)
• Shattuck, Scott (Subject)
• Stern, Alfred (Subject)
• Tanner, Eloise M. (Subject)
• Walters, Marie (Subject)
• Wiles, Ivan L. (Subject)
• Young, Clarence (Subject)