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Ferry family. Ferry family (Dexter Ferry) photograph series.

Title: Ferry family (Dexter Ferry) photograph series. ca. 1880-ca. 1960.

Photographs, including stereograph cards, showing farm activities from the Greenfield Farm in Illinois, 1880s-1890s; photos of the D. M. Ferry Company building in Detroit; interior views of the different rooms of the family home at 31 Winder Street in Detroit, ca.1900; photographs and photograph albums of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. from the period when he was a student at Detroit Home and Day School, Lawrenceville School, and the University of Michigan, 1889-1896; other Ferry family portraits, including Dexter M. Ferry, Sr.; and photographs showing military convoy coming from Camp Holabird to Detroit in the 1920s.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85778223 View

Ferry family. Ferry family (Dexter Ferry) papers, 1758-1989 (bulk 1855-1959).

Title: Ferry family (Dexter Ferry) papers, 1758-1989 (bulk 1855-1959).

Biographical and genealogical papers; files relating to business and real estate interests, notably the Ferry Seed Company (later Ferry-Morse Seed Company), and the National Pin Company; files relating to family's Republican Party activities, especially Dexter M. Ferry's 1900 Michigan gubernatorial campaign, and the work of Dexter M. Ferry as member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 1901-1904; and papers detailing numerous family philanthropic concerns, mainly with the Detroit Institute of Art.

ArchivalResource: 22.5 linear ft. (24 boxes) and 2 oversize volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81575563 View

Ferry-Morse Seed Company. Ferry-Morse Seed Company records, 1879-1950.

Title: Ferry-Morse Seed Company records, 1879-1950.

Company ledgers (1879-1946), advertising posters (1890-1918), original artwork (1896-1906), photographs, realia, and sales notebooks.

ArchivalResource: 156.1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60251768 View

Bertrand H. Farr (Firm). Trade catalogs of seeds, 1860-1929.

Title: Trade catalogs of seeds, 1860-1929.

Trade catalogs, price lists, advertisements of seeds, gardening equipment, and other ephemera relating to gardening.

ArchivalResource: 51 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498822 View

McMillan, James, 1838-1902. James McMillan papers, 1881-1920.

Title: James McMillan papers, 1881-1920.

Includes papers of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company.

ArchivalResource: 146 linear ft. ( 199 boxes, 148 volumes, 5 large manuscripts, 2 microfilm reels)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51498177 View

J. Walter Thompson Company. San Francisco Office. San Francisco Office Records, 1949-1999 and undated.

Title: San Francisco Office Records, 1949-1999 and undated.

The JWT San Francisco Office Records span the years 1959-1999, and includes advertising proofs, commercial artwork, print schedules, marketing plans, manuals, company history materials, correspondence, Creative Library catalogs and audiovisual materials (audio cassettes, VHS video cassettes and videotapes). Also included are the papers of Harry A. Lee, a JWT executive involved in the development of JWT's Pacific Rim business during the 1960s. Companies represented in the collection include California Raisin Advisory Board, Dean Witter, Ferry-Morse Seed Company, Labatt's, Morris Plan, and Schlage. JWT offices touched on in the collection include New York, Manila (Philippines) and Tokyo (Japan). Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

ArchivalResource: 1800 items, (5.8 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/698262125 View

Ferry Family (Dexter Ferry) papers, 1758-1989, 1855-1959

Title: Ferry Family (Dexter Ferry) papers 1758-1989 1855-1959

A pioneer Detroit, Michigan family, established the Ferry Seed Company and other business enterprises, active in civic and cultural affairs. Papers document the family and its business, cultural, political and philanthropic activities.

ArchivalResource: 23.5 linear ft. (25 boxes) and 7 outsize volumes.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-90118?rgn=main;view=text View

Furay, Mort, 1910-. Oral history interview with Mort Furay, 1960.

Title: Oral history interview with Mort Furay, 1960.

In 1959, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University conducted oral history interviews with Michigan labor leaders who played a key role in the development of unionism in the automobile industry. Major subjects covered were: UAW organizing efforts, sit-down strikes of the 1930's, and policies of the Union during World War II.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 33 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32321330 View