Culinary Ephemera: War, 1916-1945
3 Linear Feet (6 small manuscript boxes)
3 Linear Feet (6 small manuscript boxes)
6 Linear Feet
The Papers Series consists of materials related to sound design, composition, and the production of plays and musicals Schreier worked on throughout his career. Many of these materials were originally in binders; those materials were rehoused, with all titles and labels transcribed and/or included in the folders. Materials are arranged in order of project and production date.
The Audiovisual Materials Series consists of CDs, floppy disks, and hard drives. These contain scores, sound palettes, and samples Schreier has used for productions, including some productions not represented in the paper materials. Materials are arranged in order of project and production date. Materials relating to personal projects, or else not affiliated with specific projects are located at the end of the series.
The Epherma Series contains a single playbill and guest pass, from 1994 and 2002, respectively.
26.5 Linear Feet — 26 records center boxes and 1 oversize flat file
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.
.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.
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.
22.5 Linear Feet — 45 manuscript boxes — Some papers are damaged or fragile (e.g. wrinkling, chipping).
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.
4.5 Linear Feet — 9 manuscript boxes
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.
3 Linear Feet (The collection is comprised of six manuscript boxes. )
8 linear feet
Don Werkheiser, like many of his peers, received little recognition for his ideas and efforts during his lifetime, even among the relatively small circle of individualist anarchists within which he interacted. The papers consist mainly of various iterations of his Mutual Option Relationship philosophy and methodologies for realizing it, as well as his thoughts on the numerous social, economic, and political problems that he saw in contemporary American society. There is also correspondence with friends and associates in his intellectual and ideological sphere. The ephemera in the collection--consisting of newspaper clippings; pamphlets; and extracts from periodicals, books, and monographs, are significant because of their subject area (mainly freedom of speech), their relative obscurity, and also Werkheiser's extensive annotations. These materials are supplemented by a very small number of photographs.
The Don Werkheiser Papers (8 linear feet) have been divided into six series: Writings, Correspondence, Other Activities, Works by Others, Photographs, and Ephemera. Originally included with the Don Werkheiser Papers was a large collection of books and pamphlets by Theodore Schroeder, an important influence on Werkheiser, as well as published works by other authors. These have been removed and cataloged separately.
There is a significant amount of material in the Don Werkheiser Papers having to do with Theodore Schroeder. In addition to championing free speech causes, Schroeder developed a system of psychological thought which he named "evolutionary psychology." He was also interested in erotogenic interpretations of religious practices, and his writings on this topic generated much controversy in his day. Werkheiser was profoundly influenced by evolutionary psychology and other areas of Schroeder's thought, especially his advocacy of free speech. This is indicated not only in Werkheiser's own writings, but also in his substantial files of material by and about Schroeder and in a small amount of correspondence between the two, and between Schroeder and others. (As a point of clarification, Schroeder's evolutionary psychology appears to be entirely unrelated to the discipline of the same name established by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby in the 1990s.)
There is also a substantial amount of material related to the School of Living (mainly the one in Brookville, Ohio) and the ideas associated with it: decentralism, cooperative living, monetary and tax reform, alternative education, permaculture, wilderness and farmland preservation, and the environment. Its founders, Ralph Borsodi and Mildred Loomis, are also well-represented in the collection--particularly Loomis, who was a close friend of Werkheiser's. (As another point of clarification, the School of Living's journal-newsletter, Green Revolution, is unaffiliated with--and even in direct ideological opposition to--the Green Revolution in agriculture begun in the mid-1940s that encouraged large-scale chemical applications as a means to boost agricultural productivity.)
Other important influences on or associates of Werkheiser represented in the collection are Georgism and Henry George (on which Werkheiser wrote extensively), Laurance Labadie, Ralph Templin, and Arnold Maddaloni. There is also some material by the science fiction writer Robert Anton Wilson.
10 Linear Feet (10 record center boxes )
This collection documents Dorothy L. Tyler's life and professional career, including her literary endeavors, primarily through her diaries, literary manuscripts, and materials for two unfinished monographs. The collection is of interest to researchers of Detroit history, the Merrill Palmer Institute, literary life at the University of Michigan in the 1920s, Robert Frost, and sculptor Carl Milles. Researchers of women's literary and social history will also find the collection interesting.
The Tyler collection consists of ten boxes of material, two of them diaries and day books. It is divided into the following series:
I. Diaries & Travel Journals
II. Photographs
III. General correspondence
IV. General writings
V. Publications
VI. Miscellaneous clippings, receipts, and reviews
VII. Research for unfinished book on Carl Milles
VIII. Research for writings on Robert Frost
IX. Oversized material
Tyler's diaries and travel journals give a full account of most of her life. She wrote a page or two in her diary almost every day for decades. The diaries record daily activities, as well as her thoughts and ideas about college life, current art and literature, world events, travel, sociological changes in Detroit, and events at the Merrill Palmer Institute. They document her strenuous efforts to remain actively engaged in literary life, even while employed in a demanding professional position. The travel journals document (with text and photographs) a trip to Ireland in 1938, a trip to England in 1960, and a trip to Europe in 1967.
General correspondence included in the collection is incomplete, but includes letters from several major publishing houses to whom Tyler submitted her Hopwood manuscript, Relic of Hilda.
The writings series includes several full-length novels, short stories, novellas, and volumes of poetry. It also includes short poems that she filed interleaved with her diary entries. The sheer volume of poetry and the many rejection slips indicate the extent of her efforts until at least 1971 to place her poems in literary publications of quality.
The collection contains extensive research material for Tyler's projected biography of Swedish sculptor Carl Milles, who was at the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1931-51. There are some original files from Milles' legal representative and executor, LeRoy W. Dahlberg of Detroit, as well as Tyler's correspondence with a number of Milles friends and associates, notes on each of his sculptures, her draft manuscript, and several shorter articles she wrote about Milles.
Tyler's research and writing on Robert Frost is documented in the last series, which includes correspondence with his friends and associates, a scrapbook of photographs and clippings, and research files and notes.
20.0 Linear feet (34 manuscript boxes and 6 postcard boxes)
The Douglas Pappas Archive documents the modern Lincoln Highway Association, as well as the personal interests of Douglas Pappas with his travel albums/scrapbooks and postcard collection. The collection is arranged into four series: Lincoln Highway Association, Publications, Travel Albums/Scrapbooks, and Postcards.
The Lincoln Highway Association series contains business records, ephemera, and manuscripts that date from their charter conference planning in 1992 to 2004. In the business records there are newsletters relating to local chapter activities and research, reports, member lists, conference planning materials, pamphlets, and various correspondence. There is a great deal of correspondence between Douglas Pappas and Keith Hixon in the New York/New Jersey folders. A bumper sticker, charter conference flyers, and general flyers make up the ephemera in this series. There are several pages of handwritten notes from Douglas Pappas on yellow lined paper.
The Publications series includes the official quarterly journal of the Lincoln Highway Association entitled The Lincoln Highway Forum, which spans from 1993-2004. There are also other printed materials relating to the Lincoln Highway and Lincoln Highway Association that cover 1913-2003. The official membership rosters of the modern Lincoln Highway Association from 1993-2003 are within this series. There are guides and maps relating to the Lincoln Highway, as well as news clippings and articles. Most of this material is copied from the original and there are some printed from websites.
The Travel Albums/Scrapbooks series encompasses the years 1985-1999 and contains postcards, maps, souvenirs, photographs, and typed commentary documenting travels by Douglas Pappas on roads across the United States. In order to make the collection easier to use there are archivist supplied volume numbers given to each unique photo album/scrapbook. In total there are 34 travel albums/scrapbooks that make up this portion of the collection. Each travel album/scrapbook is different in that it follows a certain trip, a particular region of the United States, a single highway, or multiple numbered highways. They are in a chronological arrangement beginning with specific 1980s, general 1980s, then specific 1990s, general 1990s, and undated. The scrapbooks/photo albums provide a unique perspective and commentary. There are roadside attractions, monuments, landmarks, postcards, and buildings that are documented in this series.
The postcard collection spans from 1917-1971 and focuses on United States numbered highways 1 through 101, as well as a specific concentration on the Lincoln Highway. There are 6 postcard boxes that make up the entire collection with one devoted to the Lincoln Highway. The collection is arranged by highway number and then by state; a unique number was given next to each state in the finding aid detailing the amount of postcards within that state's section. The subjects on the postcards include buildings and landmarks along the numbered highways. Hotels, motels, motor lodges, inns, bridges, tunnels, restaurants/cafes, attractions, monuments, landscapes, and general greetings are the main topical areas.
For a related collection, the records of the original Lincoln Highway Association can be found in the Transportation History Collection at the University of Michigan Special Collections Library.