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Collection
Identifier: MSS 314 large
Scope and Contents
The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker culinary ephemera collection contains thousands of food and cookery related publications produced primarily by companies in the United States from the late nineteenth century up to the present. The collection provides a rich resource to study the evolution and history of advertising, food products, individual companies, technology, food preparation, and food production. It was organized, described, and donated in 2005 by Shirley Brocker Sliker, who...
Dates:
1850-2010
Collection
Identifier: c-00287
Scope and Contents
This collection contains deeds, mortgages, and leases dealing with land and property in Cass and Leelanau Counties, Michigan, owned by the Spalding family of Dowagiac, Cass County.
Three letters addressed to Erastus H. Spalding in the years 1851-1852 discuss the production of flour for the New York market, and property transactions in Michigan. Also included is a memorandum (1849) giving specifications for the alteration of a state road in Cass County.
Dates:
1846 - 1875
Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.127
Scope and Contents
The Food Industry Institute records contain the report “Meat Alliances to Build Demand” from the Meat Alliance Task Force (ca. 1993), the report “Strategic Meat Department Management Beyond Gross Margins” (1993), and schedule for the short course Food Protection Quality Assurance Technology (1990).
Dates:
1990 - 1993
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00957
Collection
Identifier: 00110
Scope and Contents of the Records
Efforts covering a sixty-year span to improve farm markets through the pooling of farm commodities, the organization of growers and shippers, promotional marketing and advertising, and bean research are documented in letters, newspaper clippings, articles and legal documents in the collection. In these records are correspondence, memoranda and articles on state and federal agricultural subsidy programs and restrictions. There also is the Wickes Corporation merger, documented through notes,...
Dates:
1906 - 1980
