Adrian, Michigan photograph collection, circa 1900
0.1 linear feet
This collection consists of photographs relating to life and activities in Adrian, Michigan, chiefly composite photos of buildings, residences, and street views.
0.1 linear feet
This collection consists of photographs relating to life and activities in Adrian, Michigan, chiefly composite photos of buildings, residences, and street views.
3.5 Linear Feet (7 small manuscript boxes)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to various kinds of fat used in cooking, including lard, margarine, vegetable oils, and shortening. It does not include materials specifically focused on butter, which are part of the Culinary Ephemera: Dairy collection. Publications date from 1889-1990s, with most materials concentrated in the 1900s-1950s. Brands and products of particular note include Wesson Oil, Oleomargarine, Spry shortening, and Crisco shortening.
7 linear feet
The Michigan Masonic Publications collection includes programs, flyers, handbooks, newsletters, bylaws, directories, rituals, and miscellaneous publications of a variety of Masonic organizations in Michigan. Statewide bodies and local bodies in Southeastern Michigan are most strongly represented. Although materials printed as early as the 1850s are found in the collection, the bulk of items date from the 1950s through 1970s.
Histories of organizations and proceedings of the major orders in Michigan, as well as a few reference works relating to freemasonry in general, are cataloged separately in the Michigan Historical Collections printed works catalog.
4.00 Linear Feet (8 small manuscript boxes.)
.5 Linear Feet
1 folders (one folder in a manuscript box with other single-folder collections)
Corporal Arthur J. Lowell, Company "D", 35th Infantry, U.S. Army, wrote these ten letters to Iva Hutchinson between February 14, 1900 and January 10, 1901. Lowell writes of going into the mountains to "clear out insurectos," the number of dead and captured, the use of water torture on Filipino prisoners, eating bats, his plan to translate into English the history of the Philippines that had been written on shells, the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, and a continuous thread concerning when he would be returning home. Also included are two letters from Will Hutchinson to his sister Iva Hutchinson. These are dated September 8, 1899 and May 27, 1900.
10 Linear Feet
This collection contains ephemera material that documents a variety of products, companies, services, and subjects that are otherwise unable to be categorized into another subject area. It includes booklets, catalogs, pamphlets, order forms, price lists, and other promotional material.
13 Linear Feet (13 oversize drop-front boxes)
The collection is comprised of 72 nineteenth century cookie cutters--as well as a few molds and presses--made from a variety of materials such as tin, wood, plaster, and clay.
1 envelope
The collection includes street scenes and private dwellings.
1 folder
The Willow Run Photograph Collection consists of an interior photograph of the Willow Run Bomber Plant.