Collections

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes informational materials published by government agencies, principally in the United States. Materials range in date from the 1910s-1980s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes informational materials published by government agencies. Publications range in date from the 1910s-1980s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes pamphlets and recipe booklets promoting companies and corporations, such as gas companies, insurance companies, and others. It also includes books for brides promoting the goods and services provided by advertisers within these books, as well as catalogs for household goods and some food products. Publications date from 1840-1994.

This collection includes pamphlets and recipe booklets promoting companies and corporations, such as gas companies, insurance companies, and others. It also includes books for brides promoting the goods and services provided by advertisers within these books, as well as catalogs for household goods and some food products. Publications date from 1840-1994.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional items related to table settings and tableware, including china, silverware, and place setting etiquette. The material dates from 1897 through the 1990s, with the majority of material dating from the mid-twentieth century.

This collection includes promotional items related to table settings and tableware, including china, silverware, and place setting etiquette. The material dates from 1897 through the 1990s, with the majority of material dating from the mid-twentieth century.

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.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials for a variety of products, credited to specific, individual authors of particular significance, such as Mrs. Rorer (Sarah Tyson Rorer). Publications date from the 1880s-1926.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials related to cereal products, dating from the 1880s to 1991.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials related to cereal products, with particular focus on breakfast cereal and similar products. Products and companies that are particularly well-represented include Quaker Oats, Shredded Wheat, Ralston Purina company, Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek Food Company, and Kellogg Cereals. Publications date from the 1880s to 1991, with concentrations from the 1920s-1940s and the 1970s-1980s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials related to household tasks from a variety of companies. Publications date from the 1870s-1990s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials related to housekeeping. Products featured include washing machines, stove polish, sewing machines, oven cleaners, vacuum cleaners, and hot water heaters. Publications date from the 1870s-1990s, with concentrations in the 1890s and 1920s-1930s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to gelatin and tapioca. Publications date from the 1850s-2000, with most materials from the 1910s-1990s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to gelatin and tapioca. Publications date from the 1850s-2000, with most materials from the 1910s-1990s. In addition to aspics, translucent desserts, and puddings, this collection also includes a number of items promoting gelatin-based ice cream recipes, particularly from Royal Baking Powder Company and General Foods Corporation (producer of Jell-O).

Collection includes 67 glass-plate negatives of farm families in Fork, Millbrook, and Hinton, Mecosta County, Michigan, as well as the Flint Post Office, Mill Pond, and Hall's Lake. Also documented are patent models of Michigan inventors William M. Hill and Newman G. Denney.

The creator is unknown. The collection is organized by size first. There are 50 glass-plate negatives, each measuring approximately 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches, #5-96 (scattered), in numerical order. Next, there are 17 glass-plate negatives, each measuring approximately 4.25 inches by 6.25 inches, which were not numbered originally, now labeled A-S, filed in alphabetical order.

The collection documents farm families in Fork, Millbrook, and Hinton, Mecosta County, Michigan, as well as the Flint Post Office, Mill Pond, and Hall’s Lake. The automobiles of doctors Franklin and Purdius are identified, as is Newman G. Denney, an inventor from Millbrook, Michigan, and some of his patent models for reels of Air Silk. Also included are front and rear views of dirigible headlights patented by William M. Hill, an inventor from Mount Pleasant, Michigan, on January 1, 1929. Two of the negatives are broken and one is fading.

Collection includes 45 glass-plate negatives of people, log cabins, maple syrup gathering, bicycles, horses and buggies, saws, steam engines, and Pierce School, 1907,1913, and undated, of Ionia County, Michigan, and a positive glass slide of Gaylord, Michigan, undated.

The collection includes 45 glass-plate negatives measuring approximately 4.5 inches by 5 inches each of Ionia County, Michigan, people, log cabins, maple sugar gathering, bicycles, horses and buggies, saws, steam engines, and Pierce School, 1907, 1913, and undated. Also included is one positive glass slide, measuring 3 inches by 4 inches, manufactured by Moore, Bond and Co., Chicago, with the caption of "Henry Goslow and his mill, Gaylord, Mich.," undated. People documented in the negatives include: D. C. Minturn, Joe Bliss, Wm. C. Petrie, and H. S., George, and Irene Sargent. There is one folder of biographical information from census records of the people in the negatives. The identity of the creator of the collection is unknown.

Most of the people named in the collection lived in Orange or Sebewa townships of Ionia County, Michigan.Pierce School was located in Orange Township.