Saginaw's Changeable Past
Saginaw's Changeable Past

Author: Jeremy W. Kilar

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Foreword: Placement of the term "changeable" next to the word "historical" in this book's title may appear repetitive to the insightful reader. Indeed history is an ongoing process. Communities grow, populations vary, and economies rise and fall. History captures and interprets the change that goes on around us. Yet in Saginaw "change" is the password that opens the door to understanding the community's past. Few cities have undergone such extensive economic fluctuations, physical restructuring and demographic changes as Saginaw. The exploitation of "inexhaustible resources," first by the Indians, fur traders and later lumbermen marked earlier changes. This bounty did not last forever; after 30 years of transition something even better came along. By combining text, documents, remembrances, and quotations with a pictorial narrative one can look back at Saginaw's changeable past. New faces and new technologies will likely bring additional challenges, but by looking at the past Saginaw's citizens can be reassured that the accomplishments and adaptability of earlier generations has prepared the community well for the changeable future.

Negotiating Relief
Negotiating Relief

Author: Susan Stein-Roggenbuck

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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In Negotiating Relief, Susan Stein-Roggenbuck examines Michigan's implementation of the New Deal relief programs and the state's reorganization of welfare in 1939. Local officials, social workers, and recipients were key players in the Michigan debates over how best to administer relief. The book sheds important light on the profession of social work and public welfare, and the development of nonfederal relief at the state and local levels after 1935. Guided by fiscal localism and a firm belief in home rule, local officials fought to retain control of relief. Stein-Roggenbuck argues that while significant changes occurred in welfare policy as a result of the New Deal, many continuities remained. Among those was the responsibility of families to provide financial support. Often forgotten were those on general relief--individuals who did not fit the federal programs such as Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) and Old Age Assistance (OAA). General relief became a third track of welfare. Drawing on newspaper records, county and city board minutes, social welfare agency records, federal records, and case file records, Negotiating Relief gives voice to the numerous groups involved in welfare debates, particularly the recipients of relief. This book adds to our understanding of the local implementation of welfare policy in both rural and urban areas.

Wicked Bay City, Michigan
Wicked Bay City, Michigan

Author: Tim Younkman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-05-30

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1439656592

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Join author Tim Younkman for a wild ride into Bay City's wicked side. From unscrupulous lumber barons to Hell's Half Mile, Bay City history casts a sinister shadow. Pope Leo XIII was forced to intervene when rioting Catholic immigrants seized St. Stanislaus Catholic Church and battled one another in the city's streets. The police discovered prostitute Lou Hall nearly beaten to death in the Block of Blazes. And respected publishing mogul Edwin T. Bennett's secret life led to the death of a young woman in a Bay City hotel room.

Enterprising Images
Enterprising Images

Author: John Vincent Jezierski

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780814324516

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The story of the most prolific African American photographers in North America. From its beginnings in York, Pennsylvania, in 1847, until the death of Wallace L. Goodridge in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1922, the Goodridge Brothers Studio was the most significant and enduring African American photographic establishment in North America. In Enterprising Images, John Vincent Jezierski tells the story of one of America's first families of photography, documenting the history of the Goodridge studio for three-quarters of a century. The existence of more than one thousand Goodridge photographs in all formats and the family's professional and personal activism enrich the portrait that emerges of this extraordinary family. Weaving photographic and regional history with the narrative of a family whose lives paralleled the social and political happenings of the country, Jezierski provides the reader with a complex family biography for those interested in regional and African American, as well as photographic, history.

Saginaw County
Saginaw County

Author: Gregory Lynn Branch

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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From the Dust Jacket: Once called the "Manufacturing and Jobbing Center of Northern Michigan," Saginaw County continues to shine as a key player in the state's economy. It's a major agricultural center and ground zero for two of Michigan's most important cash crops: dry beans and sugarbeets. Saginaw is a center for automotive research and production-which is still, far and away, the country's largest employer. The area is home to manufacturers of everything from silicon chips to surgical tools. Author Greg Branch, creative director at Princing & Ewend, a Saginaw-based advertising and communications firm, takes the reader on a captivating tour of Saginaw, an area with a rich heritage and a prosperous future. The images of photographer Gary C Bublitz add sparkling color and texture to the insightful narrative. Then, in Part II of the book, the writers at Princing & Ewend take readers behind the scenes with profiles of the area's leading entrepreneurs and businesses. Three hours out of Mackinaw City. Two hours north of Detroit. The middle of the mitten. Where many waters meet to form one great horizon. Where many industries meet to forge a strong and diverse economy. Where many lives meet to build a great community. That's Saginaw County. Enjoy the ride.