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Culinary Ephemera: Children, 1905-1999

1.5 Linear Feet (2 small manuscript boxes and 1 oversize box.)

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials related to preparing food for or with children, dating from 1905-1998.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials related to preparing food for or with children. A number of publications from flour companies, such as Gold Medal and Pillsbury, focus on baking; while fruit companies such as Ocean Spray and the California Tree Fruit Agreement promote fruit or fruit-juice recipes; and a handful of publications feature a broader array of recipes. A few publications promote healthy food choices for children. Three items in box 307 are picture books from the 1920s promoting Royal Baking Powder and Royal Gelatin, which also include recipes using those products. Materials date from 1905-1998, with most items dating from the 1920s-1950s.

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Culinary Ephemera: Fruits, Vegetables, and Nuts, 1885-2003

12 Linear Feet (22 small manuscript boxes and 2 oversize boxes.)

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Publications date from 1885-2003, with most materials from the 1920s-1980s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to fruits, vegetables, and nuts in fresh, dried, canned, frozen, and juiced forms. Publications date from 1885-2003, with most materials from the 1920s-1980s. Although a few vegetables appear, such as corn, potatoes, and mushrooms, the bulk of this collection consists of publications promoting fruit (especially cranberries, bananas, citrus fruits, pineapple, and raisins), and nuts (especially coocnuts, almonds, pecans, walnuts, and peanuts).

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Hull Family Papers, 1869-1984 (majority within 1869-1960)

1 phonograph record — 3 oversize volumes — 4 linear feet

Letterbook (1869-1872) of George Hull, Livingston County, Michigan, farmer and businessman, relating to his grocery business, and letters (1888-1899) to his son Lawrence then attending Lawrenceville School in New Jersey relating to the family's fruit farm at Pleasant Lake; papers of Lawrence's wife, Eliza Darling Hull, student at the University of Michigan; papers of Lawrence and Eliza's son Leroy relating to World War I service; papers of Lawrence and Eliza's daughter Isabelle MacFarlane Hull; diaries of Leroy's wife, Frances Ball Hull, 1915-1919 and 1947-1957; papers of Leroy and Frances's son George M. Hull; papers of Leroy and Frances's daughter Jean Hull Ruhman; photographs; and scrapbooks.

The Hull Family Papers consists of nine series: Family Materials, George L. Hull and Isabelle M. Hull, Lawrence C. Hull and Eliza Darling Hull, Isabelle MacFarlane Hull, Dr. Leroy Hull and Frances Ball Hull, George M. Hull, Jean Hull Ruhman, Audio-Visual Materials, and Scrapbooks. The collection contains letters, diaries, photos, clippings, and ephemera. The strength of the collection lies in its documentation of life in nineteenth-century southern Michigan, the World War I correspondence of Dr. Leroy Hull, the World War II correspondence of George M. Hull, and the 1950s travel correspondence and photographs of Jean Hull Ruhman.