Postcards
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:
Rollo Mosher papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.433
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of posters, bulletins, notices and cards printed by Rollo Mosher and his father, who published the Wayland Record in Wayland, Michigan from the 1880s through 1953. The printed materials announce social and political events such as festivals, volleys and basketball games. Advertisements from stores in Wayland and West Gun Lake are also included.In addition, the collection contains a souvenir program from a field meet in...
Dates:
1900 - 1934
Roy C. Vandercook papers
Collection
Identifier: 00011
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters, newspaper clippings, legal documents related to Roy C. Vandercook and his various careers. Most significant in the collection is the bulk of correspondence concerning the Michigan National Guard and the 1913 copper strike. Vandercook was responsible for the majority of military action and exchanged a great deal of letters with Governor Woodbridge Ferris. Included are also letters discussing various phases of the U.S. occupation of the...
Dates:
1849 - 1957
Rule family papers
Collection
Identifier: 00216
Scope and Content
The Rule and Alward papers consists of photographs, postcards, Officer Training notes, a commencement program from Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University), and class notes. About half of the postcards were sent from Clifford Rule to Lela Alward during World War I while he was deployed in France. Many of the postcards are scenes from France, or of soldiers training. Some notable photographs include Notre Dame Cathedral with supports for protection during air raids,...
Dates:
1911, 1917-1919
Ruth Radimersky collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.451
Scope and Contents
The postcards in this collection were sent between 1935 and 1937 to Ruth Steidte from George Radimersky, a Foreign Language professor at Michigan State College (MSC, now Michigan State University). The postcards are primarily the MSC campus and include buildings and gardens. Postcards of other Michigan locations (Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, East Lansing, Lansing, Marshall, and Olivet) as well as several postcards of Madison, Wisconsin are also part of the collection. Many of the messages on...
Dates:
1935 - 1937
Sarah Van Hoosen Jones papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-1.1.3
Scope and Contents
The Sarah Van Hoosen Jones papers document her academic, agricultural, and civic accomplishments, and her interest in local Rochester history, but offer a very incomplete record of her activities as a farmer and a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions. In her master's thesis and scientific articles, she discusses theories of dairy farm management and animal genetics, but there is almost no information...
Dates:
1852 - 1972
Sidney Stevens collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.259
Scope and Contents
The Sidney Stevens collection contains an Michigan Agricultural College Bulletin from 1912 that advertises the college. The bulletin has photographs of the Agriculture Building, Engineering Hall, Wells Hall, Abbot Hall, Williams Hall, the Women's Building [Morrill Hall], the college band, the college post office, the forest nursery, the main dairy barn and a panoramic photograph of a vista near the main entrance of campus. There are also M.A.C. postcards of cannons in front of Wells Hall,...
Dates:
1912, 1914, Undated
South Africa postcard collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 591
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 400 postcard-sized artworks, including paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, beadwork, collages, and written statements. Most artwork was created by progressive women artists in South Africa. Most works are anonymous.
In addition to the physical postcards, in series one, there is additional digital material, including descriptions of the postcards and photographs of their original order, in series two.
Dates:
1989 - 1990
Southern Africa postcards and stereoscopic photographs.
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
Steven Stardevant collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.252
Scope and Contents
The Steven Stardevant collection consists of 18 postcards and photographs taken by Roscoe Ellsworth Brightup of Michigan Agricultural College football, military science, buildings, unidentified groups, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Dates:
circa 1900-1915
Towar family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.418
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials from both Jennie and James Towar. The correspondence of Jennie Towar Woodard is addressed to family members as well as correspondence from those family members. The bulk of this correspondence prior to the second World War came from her brother, James. The letters of the latter half of the collection are from nieces and nephews. In general, the letters are chatty and relate some of the social or economic condition of the times. One exception to this are the...
Dates:
1882 - 1956