Collections : [University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center]

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 for eggs and meat products. Publications date from the 1890s-2004, with most material concentrated between the 1930s-1990s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials for eggs and meat products, many published by egg-producer or meat-producer organizations, such as the American Egg Board and the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Products featured include pork, ham, sausage, bacon, beef, ribs, steak, extract of beef, veal, lamb, turkey, chicken, and lunchmeat. Publications date from the 1890s-2004, with most material concentrated between the 1930s-2000s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes material related to non-edible kitchen products and household activities, including appliance manuals, catalogs, housekeeping guides, product promotions, and cook books. Publications date from the 1700s to 2005, with the majority of material dating from the mid-twentieth century.

This collection includes material related to non-edible kitchen products and household activities, including appliance manuals, catalogs, housekeeping guides, product promotions, and cook books.

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 promotional materials relating to flour (primarily wheat flour); leavening agents such as yeast, baking powder, and baking soda; and some material focused generally on baked goods. Publications date from 1864-2002, with most materials dating from after 1900.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials from various hotels, restaurants, and supermarkets. Materials date from the 1880s-2000.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to paper, plastic, and foil goods in food preparation and storage. Publications date from the 1900s-1990s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes materials promoting pasta, rice, other grain and cereal products, and legumes. Publications date from circa 1890s - circa 1990s, with the bulk of material published after 1930.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes materials promoting pasta, rice, other grain and cereal products, and legumes. Rice is particularly well represented. Publications date from circa 1890s - circa 1990s, with the bulk of material published after 1930. Corporate authors of particular note include General Mills, Inc., General Foods Corporation, and Uncle Ben's, Inc.

J. Herbert Newport was a designer of automobile bodies from the 1930s through the 1970s, employed designing custom bodies for Duesenberg automobiles as well as bodies and parts for companies such as DuPont, General Motors, Studebaker, and Nash. The collection documents his design work through drawings and photographs and the Duesenberg phenomenon, which continues to the present day with car collecting and restoration, through correspondence, photographs, advertisements, and ephemera, drawings, and various research materials.

The Newport collection has been divided into eleven series: J. Herbert Newport, Correspondence, The Duesenberg, Duesenberg Models, Ephemera and Print, Photographs, Albums, Drawings, Painting, Audio Materials and Realia.

The records of the Charles Ellet, Jr. papers include correspondence, court documents, technical drawings and plans, general orders, reports, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, notebooks, diaries, photographs, and ephemera.

The papers of Charles Ellet, Jr. (1810-1862) span the years 1827-1954. The papers documents Charles Ellet, Jr.’s important contributions as a civil engineer to 19th century public works projects: building wire suspension bridges, canals, and railroads; conducting the first government funded survey of the lower Mississippi River Delta; constructing and commanding the U.S. Ram Fleet; and his contributions to economic transportation theory. The papers are arranged into seven series: Correspondence; Subject Files; Technical Drawings and Plans; Newspapers; Photographs; Notebooks; and Artifacts.

The bulk of the Charles Ellet, Jr. papers contain correspondence, dating 1838-1863. The papers also contain technical drawings and plans, newspaper clippings, legal documents, survey notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, survey reports, publication drafts, general orders, ephemera, and building specifications for canals, locks, and railroads. The Correspondence series creates an intimate portrait of his family life and professional career; including notable correspondence with Lot Clark, Charles Davis, Edwin Stanton, Benjamin Wright, Charles B. Stuart, Joseph Cabell, and John Roebling. The Subject Files series records his professional contributions, containing organizational documents and records related to his work developing public works projects, lobbying for river improvements, the legal dispute surrounding the Niagara Falls Suspension bridge, and his command of the U.S Ram Fleet during the Civil War. The Technical Drawings and Plans series consists of survey drawings and maps for the construction of railroads and canals, with significant material from his survey of the Lower Mississippi River Delta. Missing from the Technical Drawings and Plans series are plans for the U.S. Ram Fleet. The Newspapers series contains many clippings relating to the Ellet family genealogical history, and the U.S. Ram Fleet’s service during the Civil War. The Notebooks series consists primarily of survey books from his survey of Philadelphia County, 1840-1841. The Charles Ellet, Jr. papers also contain family papers illuminating the life and military career of Charles Rivers Ellet and Alfred W. Ellet.

Through the steadfast preservation, collection, and promotion of Charles Ellet, Jr.’s life and work, Mary Virginia Ellet sold the Charles Ellet, Jr. papers to the University of Michigan’s Transportation History Collection in 1936.