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Postcards

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

Michigan Psychiatric Society records

 Collection
Identifier: 00251
Scope and Content

The records of the Michigan Psychiatric Society consist of membership directories, newsletters, meeting minutes, constitution and bylaws, publications, compiled histories of the organization, a scrapbook, regional mental health material, and national organization material. Also included are books about state asylums in Michigan, a book on the Medical History of Michigan, and the Primer of Psychology and Mental Disease published by the Oak Grove Hospital, Flint.

Dates: 1908 - 1995
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan Tuberculosis Association records

 Collection
Identifier: 00077
Scope and Contents This collection includes materials and records of the Michigan Tuberculosis Association from 1909 to 1966. Materials for the years 1925 to 1950 are quite complete, but they are sparse for the periods 1909 to 1924 and 1951 to 1966.A variety of types of materials make up the collection. There are official reports of the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees, as well as field workers' reports. There are numerous directives and correspondence on policy and functioning...
Dates: 1909 - 1966
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mildred Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00390
Scope and Contents The collection contains two exam blue books from German courses at the University of Michigan (1914-1915) of Mildred Nuechterlein. The examination books synopsize and analyze two unidentified German literary works.The collection also contains letters and postcards (1962, 1971-1979) addressed to Mildred Nelson. Letters from her friends provide an insight into the concerns and problems faced by the elderly in the 1970s, including illness, injury, mobility, finances, and social...
Dates: 1914-1915, 1962-1979, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Miller Dairy Farms records

 Collection
Identifier: 00145
Scope and Contents The Miller Dairy Farms records of their ice cream enterprise is comprised of 1 general account book from 1900-1904; 28 ice cream order books from 1910-1932; 10 receipt books from 1930-1948; 3 expense journals from 1943-1950; and various other account volumes from 1930-1945. There are receipts from 1902-1949; correspondence from 1910-1949; various financial papers from 1912-1945; and advertisements and customer lists. A 75th anniversary edition of the Miller's Farm News...
Dates: 1900 - 1979
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Miller Ice Cream collection

 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
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Mrs. C. M. Burdick collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00487
Scope and Contents Included in the collection are Mrs. C. M. Burdick's diaries (1925-1937), correspondence and a biographical sketch of R. E. Olds entitled "That Boy Ranny". Among the most interesting items in the correspondence is a letter from R. Shettler explaining his unhappiness with R. E. Olds over the affairs of the Reo Motor Car Company. There is also some material on Olds' interest in music. A few photographs of women who worked in the Reo Motor Car Company office are also in Mrs. Burdick's...
Dates: 1904 - 1957
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Mead's Cookies recipe

 Item
Identifier: MSS 47 small
Scope and Contents

Single vintage postcard. The front has two smiling women in bonnets inside a barrel. The barrel has white lettering saying: Country Lasses, Pure and Sweet.

The back of the postcard has a handwritten recipe for Mrs. Mead's cookies.

Dates: between 1900 and 1915?
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Nixon and Starr families papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00060
Scope and Contents of the Papers The collection contains the family papers of John W. Nixon, a pharmacist residing in Jennings, Missaukee County, Michigan. The papers include business correspondence, personal correspondence, and miscellaneous receipts and documents. Included among the family's business dealings were ownership of a grocery company in Potterville and later Levering, Michigan, run by John's son James R. Nixon; and, operation of a fruit grove in Avon Park, Florida. The collection also includes the...
Dates: 1897 - 1923
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Opera Company of Greater Lansing Inc. records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.86.1
Scope and Contents

The Opera Company of Greater Lansing, Inc. records consists of donation requests, flyers, invitations, posters, tickets and programs.

Dates: 1974 - 1995
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Paul D. Bagwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.6
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, speeches, records, newspaper clippings, photographs and printed material of the public and private career of Paul D. Bagwell. The collection also includes two scrapbooks.

Dates: 1938 - 1960
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections