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.

Records of the collection primarily reflect the business activities of members of the Atwood family, and of them mostly J.B. Atwood and Island Mill Lumber. These predominantly come in the form of correspondence written to Atwood and the mill and reflect transactions, negotiations, and other matters. Little correspondence comes from Atwood. Correspondence that is personal shows relations between family members and that they were often lending money between one another. The correspondence and other records stretch from 1867 to 1911, but the bulk of it is from between 1869 to 1876, which may have been a very active time for J.B. Atwood and Island Mill Lumber.

An unrelated document is a small booklet printed by General Motors in 1911 about its operations.

Unrelated to the other contents is a yellow legal pad with previous processing notes written on its pages. These notes offer details on specific letters. It has been retained because of its potential value to researchers and staff alike.

These documents represent the academic and career accomplishments of Beatrice Welzel who worked for the Central Foundry Division of the General Motors Corporation.

Bea Munson was born in 1910 in Flushing, Michigan. She graduated from Flushing High School in 1927. She began working at the General Motors Corporation the same year. According to census records, she married George Welzel, a salesman in the hardware industry. Their son, George P. Welzel, was born in October of 1949. The family resided in Saginaw. She celebrated 25 years at General Motors in 1952. She died in 2008.

The collection includes letters from the General Manager J.H. Smith, a history of the Central Foundry Division written by the Public Affairs office, a certificate of achievement and a booklet explaining employee benefits document life as a General Motors employee in the Central Foundry Division-Financial Department. The collection also features pamphlets, photographs, souvenir programs, seating charts for the Annual Quarter Century Banquet, buttons, a souvenir coin, a ruler and a GM branded Table of Frequently Used Units card.