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Agricultural equipment catalogs collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 495 large
Scope and Contents The Agricultural Equipment Catalogs collection consists of approximately 3,500 agricultural machinery sales catalogs, promotional brochures, price lists, owner’s manuals, and illustrated parts lists dating from the late 19th century through the 1940s. The major emphasis lies in tractors and threshers, but the entire range of farm equipment can be found in these catalogs, representing some 150 different manufacturers and suppliers—primarily Midwestern firms, with a limited representation of...
Dates: 1902-2014; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 508 large
Scope and Contents

The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival records (1976-2015) contain crew guides and handbooks, maps, banners, t-shirts, programs, brochures, posters, meeting minutes, correspondence, inventories, press clippings, as well as recordings and photographs taken during the festival. The collection gives an insight of the intense effort and amount of coordination it took to make the festival possible, and how it evolved and grew more complex with each iteration.

Dates: 1976 - 2015
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Travel guide and ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 351 large
Scope and Contents

This collection contains travel guides and ephemera from 1880-2007 covering regions, countries and cities from all over the world. It includes maps, sample itineraries, pocket guides, and picture books with text in several languages including Japanese, French, German, Swedish, Finnish and English.

Dates: 1880-2007
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections