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Edna Ferber, Writing

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Description: Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen.
Poster

20th Annual Creative Writing Contest

Date: 01 08 1971
Description: Poster advertising the 20th Annual Creative Writing Contest, held from February 15-22.
Manuscript

Participate!

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Description: Large sheet of paper used to gather ideas for the creation of the Mifflin Street Co-op mural. The top says: The mural project is underway--and we need your...
Photograph

Exhibit of Student Work

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Description: Display of student work including drawings, maps, and essays.
Book or Pamphlet

Ojibway Characters

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Description: A chart of characters used in Ojibway/Ojibwa picture writing.
Manuscript

Earth Day Stationery

Date: 1972
Description: Letter from Martha MacMillan of Farmington, Michigan to the group Women for a Peaceful Christmas written on stationery bearing an Earth Day logo.
Manuscript

Seventies Stationery

Date: 1972
Description: Letter from Carol Lampe of Fairfield, Connecticut to Women for a Peaceful Christmas written on colorful stationery with a writing surface in the shape of a...
Photograph

Richard Barthelmess Writing

Date: 1917
Description: A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some...
Postcard

Detroit Skyline Postcard

Date: 1930
Description: The front and back of a postcard featuring a drawing of the Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario that was sent by Alice and Floyd Quinney during t...
Postcard

The Cowboy

Date: 1946
Description: Front of a postcard from Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family depicting mounted cowboys herding cattle on the range. The sky above the sc...
Postcard

The Cowboy

Date: 1946
Description: Back of a cowboy postcard sent by Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family. A Curt Teich Art Colortone published by Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denv...
Poster

Gettysburg Address

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Description: The text of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln with an oval portrait. The oval around the portrait is embossed.
Poster

Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Description: A facsimile of the handwritten document by Abraham Lincoln, with additional decorations, published for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission...
Photograph

Druggist Office

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Description: A druggist sits at a desk in Havana, Cuba making notes in a ledger. Beside and behind him are bookshelves full of books and other drug related ephemera.
Photograph

Naval Students in Classroom

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Description: Naval students sit together at long tables and write messages while listening to earphones at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). In the background a m...
Photograph

Man and Woman at Desk

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Description: A man is reading at a desk, while a woman writes on a pad of paper seated nearby in an office at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
Manuscript

Fur Trade Engagement in French

Date: 03 14 1812
Description: A fur trade engagement for Charles St. Antoine dit Vacher, written in French.
Photograph

Interview with a Star

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Description: Irene Norman, film editor of the "Milwaukee Sentinel," interviewing the film star Bebe Daniels.
Photograph

Lew Wallace Monument

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Description: Monument of Lew Wallace (1827-1905), Union general in the Civil War and author of 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.'
Photograph

Adlai Stevenson

Date: 10 08 1955
Description: Adlai Stevenson is seated in a room with several other men.

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