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Photographs (with some glass negatives) depicting public events associated with meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic organization in Detroit in 1891; also photographs of war bond rally in Detroit, including patriotic displays, ca. 1918; and photographs of downtown Detroit, including views of commercial buildings, modes of transportation, and people on the street. Some of the photographs are of Belle Isle

Materials related to the Van Leuven Browne Hospital School for Crippled Children and Browne's other initiatives for children with disabilities. Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and publications; includes copies of novels and magazines related to disabled children that were authored by Browne

Glass plate negatives of images taken while in different parts of the United States and Mexico; include images of St. Louis, Missouri; Mackinac Island and Les Cheneaux Islands in Michigan; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Emporia, Kansas; and Mexico. There are also portraits and other images of Tanner and other family. The collection also includes two videotapes of images from the collection made by Jack Kausch, 1987

Portraits of Hanks, Blair, and North family members; photos of George and Fred Blair's Florida pineapple plantations; photos of Blair family homes and pets; photographs of Portage Lake and activities of Blair family at nearby cottage, 1890s

This collection contains 11 glass plate negatives photographed by Matilda Inez Murphy Sprinkel, circa 1904-1910. Sprinkel and her husband Frederick Kemper Sprinkel were trading post operators and possibly Indian Agents on the Rosebud Reservation when she shot these photographs. It is possible that some of the photographs may have been shot by Frederick as well.

The Oliver Collection consists of approximately 2700 glass plate negatives and photographic prints taken mainly by amateur photographer William Letts Oliver and his son, Roland L. Oliver. Subjects include maritime and yachting scenes, views of California and San Francisco Bay area, University of California at Berkeley, mining, logging, the Bohemian Grove, and the Oliver family.

Views of the Alaskan coast and Yukon River scenes, some portraits of natives as well as many of the vessels active in Alaskan waters, circa 1895

The C.A. Robert Lundin, Sr. and Jr., Papers collection, 1854-1948, 1976, consist of papers containing materials related to the lives and careers of C. A. Robert Lundin, Sr. and Jr., both of whom were opticians at Alvan Clark & Sons in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. Materials include work notebooks, correspondence, photographs, printed material, photographs, and glass plate negatives.

The Harry Pidgeon Negatives collection consists of approximately 1550 glass plate negatives. The collection captures the adventures of Pidgeon on his two sailing adventures around the world, as well as on various trips across North America. Pidgeon's photographs document his time working in lumber camps in the Sierra, Alaska, and building his boat the "Islander" in Los Angeles, as well as while traveling the Mississippi River, Hawaii, Oceania (including Fiji, Samoa, New Guinea), South Africa, Panama, and the Caribbean.