Box 10/8

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Letters, pamphlets, booklets, fliers, cards, contracts, pocket notebooks, price lists, and other materials relating to farm equipment manufacturers and distributors, collected by C. N. Hollister of Chenango Forks, New York, an agent for the John Deere Plow Company of Syracuse, N.Y. Most of the letters are form letters describing products or policies, although there are two letters addressed to Hollister concerning specific orders. The rest of the items are advertising and promotional...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Typed transcript of diaries of the Loomis family of Ionia, Michigan; entries principally by Arthur Perkins Loomis, with some by his father, James Winship Loomis, or his wife, Carrie Sessions Loomis. The diaries describe farming operations, social life, and local and state politics. The transcription consists of approximately 450 typed pages, double spaced. Following the entries for 1912 there is an essay by Arthur Loomis on "Governors I have known" dealing with Michigan politics. There are...