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Collection
Identifier: MSS 492
Scope and Contents
One postcard showing a person identified as "Rex" in a dress and wig, next to them and sitting on a post is a person identified as Loren Nelson Omans. Both are posing in front of a house with trees in the background. On the verso is a canceled stamp dated "4 pm 1912 Detroit MI" and a note in pencil signed as "Love from Rex," the postcard is addressed to Mrs. J. O. Power of Addison, Mich. The postcard also contains an ink annotation: "Rex in dress, Nelson Omans on post." One black...
Dates:
approximately 1912-1920
Collection
Identifier: MSS 523 small
Dates:
approximately 1930-1939
Collection
Identifier: MSS 517 small
Collection
Identifier: MSS 844
Scope and Contents
The Miller Ice Cream Collection traces the evolution of Miller Dairy Farms, located in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Contained within two boxes encompassing the years 1964 to 2007, this collection offers a comprehensive narrative. It includes an almost uninterrupted series of the Sundae School Newsletter, articles documenting the triumphs of Miller Dairy Farms, as well as training materials for the ice cream stores, such as the Original Award-Winning Presidential Ice Cream Sundae Poll....
Dates:
1964-2007
Collection
Identifier: MSS 561 small
Scope and Contents
11 postcards and 7 stereoscopic photographs of life in Southern Africa. Topics covered include gold mining, African villages and people, agricultural laborers, politicians, and De Beers Mines in Kimberly, South Africa. Countries covered include South Africa, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and many unknown locations. The photographs are from approximately 1900-1910. Many of the stereoscopic photographs are dated 1901 and printed in England.
Dates:
approximately 1900-1910
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 477
Scope and Contents
William G. Lockwood collection of Romani Ethnology and Gypsy stereotypes contains several thousand books and periodicals, numerous visual depictions, over a thousand sound recordings, and several hundred examples of sheet music exploring the representation of Romani and Gypsy stereotypes. The William G. Lockwood Collection of Romani Ethnology and Gypsy Stereotypes is as geographically diverse as the Roma themselves, with publications from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Dates:
1899 - 1998
