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Souvenir album related to Marquette Prison in Marquette, Michigan, including images of inmates, guards, and interior and exterior views of the complex. Of note are images of men standing inside and outside of cells, a guard tower, and a heavily chained prisoner in a hunched position. Also present is a postcard tucked inside the first page showing a man identified by a handwritten caption as "Mr. Jesse Young, Storekeeper under Warden Carrigan." Includes 11 photographs and 1 postcard. Volume 13 x 20 cm.

Souvenir album related to Michigan State Prison in Jackson, Michigan, including images of inmates performing daily tasks and laboring on various job sites (such as a canning factory, granite works, sawmill, clay pit, and three separate prison farms) as well as interior views of prison and factory spaces. Also present is a fold-out panoramic view of the prison and a portrait of prison warden Harry L. Hulbert. Includes 56 photographs. Volume 22 x 14.5 cm.

Photograph album related to an unidentified family that appears to have been associated with the Benton Harbor Baking Co. of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Of note are images of delivery trucks in St. Joseph, Michigan, bearing the logo of "City Bakery," the Benton Harbor Baking Co. bakery, a postmortem portrait of an older man in his casket, a wedding, and an unidentified memorial. Includes 84 photographs. Volume 18 x 29.5 cm.

Photograph album related to an unidentified family based in Fostoria, Ohio. Contents consist of images taken in Ann Arbor and Adrian in Michigan as well as Fostoria, Freemont, and Oberlin in Ohio. Captions identify many people and places represented. Of note are images of an automobile with the words "In case of fire, break glass; Fostoria, Ohio; Noah's Ark by Heck" painted on, portraits of a young woman in commencement garb, a steamboat on Lake Michigan, and portraits of various people. The name Ollivine Suddoris and date of August 1925 is written in white ink inside the album's front cover. Includes 56 photographs. Volume 14.5 x 21 cm.

Promotional album of real photo postcards documenting aspects of the Detroit Silver Fox Farms of Rochester, Michigan. Of note are images of administrative buildings, fox pens, live foxes, women wearing fox stoles, and company president F. W. Craft with his pet fox. Also present are several charts demonstrating potential growth designed to encourage investment as well as a production chart detailing output from 1922 to 1924. Includes 28 real photo postcards. Volume 9.5 x 17.5 cm.

Photograph album related to an unidentified family based in Saginaw, Michigan. Images date from January 1929 to February 1933 and are arranged chronologically. Many are captioned. Of note are pictures of the unidentified compiler's home and Christmas tree, a woman playing a stringed instrument, people ice skating, storefronts and other buildings coated with ice following a winter storm, Easter decorations, the "West Side Fire, Hamilton Square" of March 10th 1929, floods, portraits of various people, zoos, trips to Columbus, Ohio (one in which the woman who took all or most of the album's photographs is included in a wedding photo with her face out of frame), scenes in Shawnee, Ohio, and the Sunken Gardens outside of Columbus, scenes at Niagara Falls, an "Aerocar," snowstorms in Saginaw, a "Policeman's Ball," Mother's Day celebrations, "Cook's Grove," a Goodyear picnic and parade at Chippewa Lake in which the Goodyear Blimp makes an appearance, the Saginaw County Fair, Rose Island, Houghton Lake, a Boy Scout Jamboree, Bay City, and Traverse City. Also present are a series of time exposure experiment photographs as well as "card board set up" and "electric" exposures, colorized images, and night photographs. Includes approximately 530 photographs and 9 travel notes. Volume 18.5 x 28 cm.

Photograph album containing assemblage of loose images taken by Olin J. Baker of scenes in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Of note are images of homes, the Kent County World War I memorial, a textile factory and woodworking factory, the Grand Rapids Art Gallery, the dining area of a restaurant, a basketball court, cars, a theater, church pews and an altar, three wolves on a snowy incline, and a Christmas shop display with dolls. Includes 52 photographs. Volume 20 x 28 cm.

Photograph album documenting the Corduroy Rubber Co. of Fuller, Michigan. Most images have captions. Of note are views of laboratory spaces, abrasion machines, tensile machines, the machine used to test "tire cord," display boards used presentations at the 1939 Round Table Club and Engineer's Club, a "cord twist tester, machinery in the "curing room," "safety shots," a coal silo, "Banbury" machines, and downtown Grand Rapids window displays. Also present are images of the process of receiving, storing, cutting, and curing rubber for tires, a "maintenance outing," a bowling banquet, the women's and men's company softball teams, the horseshoe team, a fashion show, and newspaper photographs of a victory garden presumably supported by the Corduroy Rubber Co. Includes 80 photographs. Volume 20 x 28 cm.

Photograph album containing images of the dedication ceremonies associated with the dedication of the B. C. Cobb Plant of the Consumers Power Company in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 28th 1949. Of note are pictures of company leaders giving speeches, an outdoor ceremony with military personnel raising an American flag, a tour of the plant, and what appears to be a press conference with banners present that read "Helping Michigan Go Forward." Includes 16 photographs. Volume 21.5 x 28.5 cm.

Souvenir folding envelope album containing photomechanical reproductions of images of facilities, machinery, and operations of the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Envelope mailed on March 3rd 1955 to "Mrs. R. B. Ornstein" in Spokane, Washington, from Kalamazoo. Also present is a pasted note reading "Mom, I'm fine. Have just finished the Upjohn tour, leave for Chicago tonight. Will try to find time to write you a letter. Love, Russ." Includes 14 photomechanical prints. Item 10.5 x 15.5 cm.