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American Tool & Die Works
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3938
Scope and Contents
“Precision Tools and Dies” is a general informational/ advertisement booklet for the American Tool & Die Works company located in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1937 to roughly about 1955. This booklet provides a map displaying the company’s wide variety of distribution around the area of Kalamazoo, reaching as far as Indiana, Ohio, and various cities in the northern and eastern areas of Michigan. The booklet also contains some images, including the building of the company, and several of the...
Dates:
ca. 1950
Auction Catalog Collections
Collection
Identifier: 04-exws_auctioncatalogs
Abstract
Collections of catalogs from major international auction houses (Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's) pertaining to auctions that took place primarily in the early twentieth through the late twentieth century. The majority of the catalogs are for manuscript, book and jewelry sales, but a third collection recording auctions of a variety of other items is currently under development.
Dates:
1815-1997; bulk 1920-1997; Other: Date acquired: 2000
B.F. Freeland Sons Company
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3810
Scope and Contents
The B.F. Freeland Sons Company’s main products were galvanized steel stock tanks, used to provide water to livestock. The catalog advertises several different kinds of stock tanks, with prices, dimensions, diagrams, and a few photographs of their products in use. In addition to the stock tanks, the catalog advertises a few different types of stock feed boilers and cookers, as well as other pieces of farm equipment, such as tank pumps and barn ventilators.
Dates:
1916
Bond Supply Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4030
Scope and Contents
The Bond Supply Company, founded by Fred J. Bond c1873-1938, began in 1912 in Kalamazoo located on the southwest corner of North Rose and Eleanor Street. In the 1912 city directory, the company stated that it was "Manufacturers and Jobbers, Plumbing, Steam, Mill Well Supplies." The Bond Supply Company, a wholesale firm, was the successor of the Quinn Manufacturing Company located at the same site which employed Fred Bond. Over the years, Bond served as Secretary and General Manager joined by...
Dates:
Publication: 1913
Clarage Fan Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3901
Abstract
The collection is composed of a series of company newsletters titled the Clarage Air Line, and publications date from 1948 into the late-1960s.
Dates:
1948-1960
Dort Drivers Today and Tomorrow
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-4048
Scope and Contents
Brochure has black and white illustrations of Dort automobiles; information on the Model 14 Fourseason and the Model 19 Fourseason (touring, roadster, coupes, and sedans); and a price list for the automobiles in the brochure.
Dates:
Publication: 1920-1923
F.T. Marple Lumber Company Catalog
Item — Box: 1 of 1
Identifier: RH-A-4315
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of one catalog dated 1927, from the F.T. Marple Lumber Company located in Kalamazoo, Michigan from approximately in 1920 to 1929.The catalog is approximately 100 pages filled with black and white pictures, house plans and information of houses shown in pictures that can be built by the F.T. Marple Lumber Company which advertises as a building supplies company and help you decide what you need and pricing for a new home. Most pages are front and back in...
Dates:
1927
General Gas Light Company Pamphlet
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3936
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of a pamphlet as an advertisement from the General Gas Light Company located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Published in 1928, it promoted their Humphrey Radiantfire, an indoor gas heater which could fit in the fireplace. The pamphlet advertised 24 radiators which came in various colors such as brown, bronze, black, rich maroon, green, wrought iron, pierced hearth and various shades of brass. Other products advertised included 6 brass fenders...
Dates:
1928
Henderson-Ames Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3541
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of design templates, catalogues, and correspondence from the Henderson-Ames Company located in Kalamazoo Michigan, which was in business from 1893 to 1993.
Dates:
1890-1911
Hugh J. Moser Graphic Design Collection
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_moser
Abstract
Pamphlets, guides, serials, samples, packets, and catalogs collected by Upjohn Company graphic designer Hugh J. Moser (1925-2009) relating to the field of graphic design / commercial art from the mid to late twentieth century. Materials on budgeting, estimating, creative process, layout, design, illustration, photography, typography, platemaking, paper, ink, printing processes, die cutting, embossing, binding, finishing and specialty printing.
Dates:
1929-1990; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1950-1990; Other: Date acquired: 2010-04-29
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- American Tool & Die Works (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- American Tool & Engineering Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- B. F. Freeland Sons Company (Sturgis, Mich.) 1
- Berlin, Lucia 1
- Black Sparrow Press 1
- Blackburn, Paul 1
- Blake, Trevor 1
- Bond Supply Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Boutilier, Nancy, 1961- 1
- Bowles, Jane (Bowles, Jane Auer), 1917-1973 1
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
- Bromige, David 1
- Bukowski, Charles T. 1
- Christensen, Paul, 1943- 1
- Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. 1
- Clarage Division of Zurn Industrial (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Clarage Fan Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Clarage Foundry and Manufacturing (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Clarage and Sons (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Clark, Tom (Thomas Willard), 1941- 1
- Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
- Coleman, Wanda 1
- Comstock Manufacturing Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Cooney, Seamus 1
- Corman, Cid 1
- Cossery, Albert, 1913-2008 1
- Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
- Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002 1
- Dorn, Edward 1
- Dort Motor Car Company 1
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
- Edwards, Paul, 1950- 1
- Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996 1
- Enslin, Theodore 1
- Eshleman, Clayton 1
- Estelle Doheny Collection 1
- Everson, William, 1912-1994 1
- F. T. Marple Lumber Company 1
- Faas, Ekbert, 1938- 1
- Fante, John, 1909-1983 1
- Field, Edward, 1924- 1
- Frank, Thaisa 1
- General Gas Light Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972 1
- Grossinger, Richard, 1944- 1
- Hanka, Ladislav 1
- Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943 1
- Henderson-Ames Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Jaffe, Sherril, 1945- 1
- Joel Oppenheimer, 1930-1988 1
- Kalamazoo Carriage and Harness Manufacturing Company 1
- Kelly, Robert, 1935- 1
- Koller, James 1
- Kromdyk & Son (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Kromdyk, Peter, 1859-1935 1
- Kromdyk, Roy P., 1884-1961 1
- Lally, Michael, 1942- 1
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 1
- Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 1
- Lifshin, Lyn 1
- Loy, Mina 1
- Lupina, Paula 1
- Malanga, Gerard 1
- Martin, John 1
- Montale, Eugenio, 1896-1981 1
- Morris, Wright, 1910-1998 1
- Morrow, Bradford, 1951- 1
- Moser, Hugh J. (Hugh Jefferson), 1925-2009 1
- Mrabet, Mohammed, 1940- 1
- Mudd, Harvey, 1940- 1
- Myles, Eileen 1
- National Gas Light Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 1
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- 1
- Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 1
- Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990 1
- Owens, Rochelle 1
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company 1
- Palmer, Michael, 1943- 1
- Parker, Tyler 1
- Pfizer Inc. 1
- Pharmacia & Upjohn 1
- Pommy-Vega, Janine 1
- Purdy, James, 1914-2009 1
- Rakosi, Carl, 1903-2004 1
- Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976 1
- Roditi, Edouard 1
- S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm) 1
- Sanders, Ed 1
- Sanford, John B. 1
- Saroyan, Aram 1
- Schuyler, James 1
- Shelnutt, Eve, 1943- 1
- Smith, Fred, 1933- 1
- Sorrentino, Gilbert 1
- Sotheby's (Firm) 1
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- Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 1
- Spicer, Jack 1
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