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Culinary Ephemera: Refrigerators and Freezers, 1860-1991

5.5 Linear Feet (10 small manuscript boxes and 1 oversize box.)

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes culinary-related items relating to refrigeration and freezing. Most items promote particular brands of refrigerators, freezers, and ice cream freezers, and often provide instructions or recipes relating to the use of those products, especially frozen desserts. Publications date from 1860-1991, with most from the 1890s-1950s.
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Culinary Ephemera: Soups and Bouillion, Circa 1900-1999

1 Linear Foot (2 small manuscript boxes)

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional items related to soups and bouillon. Publications date from circa 1900-1999, with most items from the 1940s-1980s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional items related to soups and bouillon. Publications date from circa 1900-1999, with most items from the 1940s-1980s Notable products include Campbell's soups, Steero bouillion cubes, and Lipton soup mixes.

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Culinary Ephemera: Spices, Extracts, and Salt Products, 1886 to 1994

3.5 Linear Feet

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional items related to herbs and spices, flavoring extracts, and salt products. Publications date from 1874 to circa 1999, with most items from the 1920s-1960s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional items related to herbs and spices, flavoring extracts, and salt products. A small number of baking powder promotional items are also included in this collection. Publications date from 1874 to circa 1999, with most items from the 1920s-1960s. Particularly well-represented are publications from Joseph Burnett & Co., R.T. French Company, McCormick & Co., Inc., C.F. Sauer Co., D.&L. Slade Co., Spice Islands Company, Diamond Crystal Salt Company; Morton Salt Company; and Worcester Salt Company.

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Culinary Ephemera: Stoves, 1880-1997

7.5 Linear Feet (15 boxes)

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to cooking and heating stoves, dating from 1880 to 1997. The collection is divided into five series, with Series 1 containing general material, Series 2-4 containing material related to specific kinds of stoves, and Series 5 containing oversized material.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to cooking and heating stoves, dating from 1880 to 1997. The collection is divided into five series, with Series 1-4 arranged based on content and Series 5 containing oversized material.

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David Cope Papers, 1907-2023 (majority within 1980s-2000s)

26.5 Linear Feet — 26 records center boxes and 1 oversize flat file

David Cope is a poet in the Objectivist tradition and the founder of Nada Press, a small press which publishes the literary magazine and other poetry. Cope, a University of Michigan graduate and lifelong Michigan resident, taught literature and writing at Grand Rapids Community College and Western Michigan University. The collection documents Cope's writing, editing, and to some extent teaching and other spheres of Cope's life, through correspondence, manuscripts, notes, printed material, photographs, and videotapes.

David Cope made his first donation of papers to the Special Collections Research Center in 1987. Since then he has continued to make frequent contributions. The David Cope Papers cover Cope's writing and correspondence from the 1970s to the present, as well as his editing and teaching activities. In addition to offering insight into Cope's work, the collection details some of the activities and thoughts of friends and fellow writers and poets; in particular, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Cohn, Antler, and Jeff Poniewaz. Not currently well-documented are the more personal aspects of Cope's life--especially his family life--except for those details made available through his writings and correspondence.

The David Cope Papers are divided into eight series: Correspondence and Name Files, Writings, Editing Materials, Teaching and Education Materials, Publicity Materials, Personal, Photographs, and Audio/Visual. A small selection of books from Cope's library have been removed from the collection and have been cataloged individually. They are shelved by call number in Special Collections and can be requested through the Library's catalog.

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David Hebb Photographs, 1979-1989

1.75 Linear Feet — 1 Manuscript Box 1 Folder — Most of the collection seems well stored in individual sleeves, however some photographs protrude from the side due to them being larger than the sleeves they are housed in. Some contact sheets have folds in them. The original 35mm negatives for some of the photographs are also present. Small 4x5 photographic prints are stored in sleeves, while larger prints are housed as-is except when deemed necessary for individual sleeves.

The David Hebb Photographs focus on American diners and roadsides from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s (specifically, 1979-1989). This collection includes many photographic prints as well as the original 35mm negatives (accompanied by contact sheets in many cases). Includes some prints from unknown photographers.

A collection of photographs, contact sheets, and negatives photographed by David Hebb between 1979 and 1989. Hebb focuses on diners, drive-ins, and other miscellaneous street views in the Northeastern United States.

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David Porter Papers, (majority within 1960-1980)

.5 Linear Feet — 1 manuscript box — Archival material separated out from larger donation from the late David Porter. — Papers are fragile and sometimes torn. Rusty staples have been removed where possible.

Research materials created and collected by the political scientist David Porter during the course of his doctoral research in Algeria.

The bulk of the papers is Porter's own handwritten notes, but also includes materials he saved from other sources (such as local newspapers) and typewritten proposals presented by Porter to his dissertation committee. The papers remain in Porter's original order. Porter's research focused on socialist and anarchist forces in Algeria immediately following independence. Materials are in both French and English.

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Dennis Cunningham Papers, 1967-2019

22.5 Linear Feet — 45 manuscript boxes — Some papers are damaged or fragile (e.g. wrinkling, chipping).

Dennis Cunningham (1936-2022) was a lawyer who practiced law in Illinois, New York, and California. One of the founding members of the People's Law Office in Chicago, Illinois, he specialized in public interest and civil law centered on injustice perpetuated by the government with cases on environmental activism, police brutality, civil disobedience, prisoners' rights, and political injustice. Notable clients include Akil Al Jundi, Judi Bari, and Fred Hampton. This collection covers his career as a lawyer from 1967-2019 in 45 manuscript boxes. The collection is arranged into two main series, case/subject files and professional files. Materials are arranged alphabetically within series and primarily include court documents, notes and annotations, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Court documents (motions, briefs, appeals, affidavits), correspondence, police records, ephemera, photos, tweets, transcripts, notes, and newspaper clippings relating to the career of lawyer Dennis Cunningham.

The Dennis Cunningham Papers covers Cunningham's professional career from 1967-2019 in 45 manuscript boxes totaling approximately 22.5 linear feet.

This collection consists primarily of court and trial documents, drafts and annotations, correspondence, notebooks with commentary on cases, transcripts, research materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and various ephemera collected during Cunningham's career.

Strengths of this collection include coverage of most of Cunningham's career with notable cases from his time in Chicago, New York, and California. More extensive collections feature materials covering not only the trial but behind-the-scenes processes such as meetings, research and notes, and settlements or payment. The collection also features a variety of notebooks detailing Cunningham's comments on cases and his challenges with the Bar Exam in the State of California.

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Detroit Streetcar Collection, 1891-2011

4.5 Linear Feet — 9 manuscript boxes

The Detroit Streetcar Collection documents the history of passenger rail transportation in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area during the late-19th century until the mid-20th century. The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, maps, articles, streetcar rosters and equipment reports, and newsletters. Photographs make up the majority of the collection and depict urban street scenes, streetcars in use and stationary streetcars, and route construction.

The Detroit Streetcar Collection documents the history of passenger rail transportation in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area. The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, maps, articles, streetcar rosters and equipment reports, and newsletters. Photographs make up the majority of the collection. The photographs include depictions of urban street scenes, streetcars in use, stationary streetcars, specialized equipment, constructions of rail lines and bridges, repair shops and train yards, and disassembly and former routes. Research contains materials documenting various streetcar types, equipment and parts, routes, timelines, and maps. Published materials include articles and newsletters, advertisements, and flyers and brochures.

The Detroit United Railway (DUR) and the Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR) are the main transportation services depicted in the collection. Railroads spanning the state of Michigan are also represented in the collection, as are other forms of public transportation such as buses and trolleys.

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Don Stewart IWW Collection, 1890-2000

3 Linear Feet (The collection is comprised of six manuscript boxes. )

This collection documenting the history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and of labor organizing in North America was assembled by Don Stewart, owner of the Vancouver bookstore MacLeod's Books since 1973. The collection is arranged into five series. Organizational Records comprise records of the central IWW administration, such as general convention minutes (1913-1969 with gaps), general executive boards letters and minutes (1959-1964), financial statements (1918-1944 with gaps), membership cards, and documents from the general defense committee relating to IWW prisoners during World War I. Reflecting the IWW's internal structure, Constituent Unions Records are organized by industrial trade numbers and include administrative documents and organizing literature. Constituent Unions Records also include a few folders relating to the Western Federation of Miners, which pre-dates IWW's founding in 1905 The Colorado Coal Strike Archive is a set of letters, telegrams between labor organizers, bulletins to workers, and other documents relating to the Columbine Mine Massacre of 1927. Topical Literature contains general ephemera by the IWW and literature related to the IWW and labor unions, including a transcript of the play "The Wobblies" by Ronald Weihs and a memorial booklet for Carlo Tresca. Finally, International Material contains foreign print materials about IWW or labor more generally. It also contains records and letters from the Canadian division of IWW in the Vancouver area, including letters from Fred Thompson and Pete Seeger.