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- Trade Card for Holmes & Avery, Booksellers and Stationers, during University of Michigan Commencement, 1852 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans often saved the informative little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1852
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Trade Card for Holmes & Avery, Booksellers and Stationers, during University of Michigan Commencement, 1852
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans often saved the informative little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Teacher E. Lucile Webster and Principal Mark Stroebel with Edison Institute Schools Sixth Grade Graduating Class, June 16, 1961 - Henry Ford established the Edison Institute schools in 1929 on the grounds of Greenfield Village, his open-air museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The schools embraced Ford's "learn by doing" philosophy with an emphasis on hands-on learning. This photograph shows the 1961 sixth-grade graduating class in the village's Martha Mary Chapel.
- June 16, 1961
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Teacher E. Lucile Webster and Principal Mark Stroebel with Edison Institute Schools Sixth Grade Graduating Class, June 16, 1961
Henry Ford established the Edison Institute schools in 1929 on the grounds of Greenfield Village, his open-air museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The schools embraced Ford's "learn by doing" philosophy with an emphasis on hands-on learning. This photograph shows the 1961 sixth-grade graduating class in the village's Martha Mary Chapel.
- Martha Firestone with Her Father, Harvey Firestone, Jr., at Martha's Graduation from Vassar, April 20, 1947 -
- April 20, 1947
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Martha Firestone with Her Father, Harvey Firestone, Jr., at Martha's Graduation from Vassar, April 20, 1947
- Mortarboard Cap Tassel From Robert H. Casey's High School Graduation, 1964 - The donor wore this tassel upon graduation from Oliver Perry Morton High School in Hammond, Indiana, in June, 1964. He proudly hung it on the bulletin board in his freshman dorm room at Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana. But, by his sophomore year, he felt this was juvenile display, so he boxed the tassel up.
- June 01, 1964
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Mortarboard Cap Tassel From Robert H. Casey's High School Graduation, 1964
The donor wore this tassel upon graduation from Oliver Perry Morton High School in Hammond, Indiana, in June, 1964. He proudly hung it on the bulletin board in his freshman dorm room at Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana. But, by his sophomore year, he felt this was juvenile display, so he boxed the tassel up.
- Invitation to Commencement Exercises at Vassar, Sent by Martha Parke Firestone to Her Parents, April 1947 -
- April 20, 1947
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Invitation to Commencement Exercises at Vassar, Sent by Martha Parke Firestone to Her Parents, April 1947