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   Bass, C. Robert Bell, Haley Cox, Wendell Ellison, Robert L. Gray, Ida Hayes, Raymond A. Kidd, Foster Rhinehart, Joe A. Wortham, Parker

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2. Bottle, Amalgam Alloy - Clear glass bottle of Detroit and Michigan Dental Depot Watling White Alloy with aluminum cap. Red, yellow, and silver label.

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3. Brochure - Light gray bifold brochure for Detroit Health Care for the Homeless (DHCH) is subtitled "Serving the medical and dental needs of Detroit's homeless since 1985." The cover photo shows Dr. Roger May (according to his embroidered white dental jacket) seated, with another man looking at Dr. May and smiling in a reclined exam chair. Dr. May wears a white disposable mask and white gloves. The inside of the brochure discusses the program under headings Our Mission at DHCH, The Services We Offer, and Who is Eligible? There are three more black and white photos inside, On the back, there's a poem about being homeless by an anonymous writer, a list of CHCH's funding sources, and the DHCH board of directors.

   1991

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4. Brochure - Souvenir program of the 34th annual convention of the National Dental Convention, which was held in Detroit, Michigan, Aug 11-15, 1947. This 80 page souvenir program has a staple-bound blue-green cover with orange print that bears the title and the oval seal of the National Dental Association. The booklet printing is all black and white, and features writing by and about members and leadership of the National Dental Association, often with head shots or group shots of the people named. There are also images of Detroit buildings and landmarks and advertisements of different sizes, from many local and some national advertisers. Some of the entists photographed here were featured in Dr. Harris' 1992 article, "Michigan's Black Dental Heritage." The cover shows some yellowing and discoloration. A loose note tucked in plastic inside says "Donated by the family of the late Dr. Ira Whitby." The note is on the front of a card on cream colored stationery with navy trim around the edge. On the top border there's a rust mark in the shape of a paper clip. Inside the program: Page 2 features a black and white aerial photograph of Detroit's Rackham Memorial Building (100 Farnsworth Street, to disambiguate from other Rackham namesake buildings). An essay called "Yesterday and Today" by Haley Bell, DDS describes the history of black citizens and black businesses in Detroit on page 3 and is continued on page 13. Page 4 includes a photograph of a plaque commemorating Horace B. Rackham with a round inlay of his bust in bas relief. Page 5 includes copies of typed letters on official letterhead, offering well wishes for this convention from Edward J. Jeffries, Jr., the Mayor of Detroit, and from Michigan Governor Kim Sigler. Page 9 has a romantic description of Detroit and a cityscape photo with City Hall in the foreground. Page 7 (numbers are out of order) features a letter from Dr. Robert H. Thompson, president, welcoming attendees and discussing the progress the group has made since its founding in July 19, 1913. Thompson is pictured in a photograph. He writes that the program "clearly demonstrates the efforts being put forth by the Negro members of the dental profession of America to keep abreast with modern dental science and practice." Another letter on page 11 is from Dr. William L. Postles, Convention Chairman, welcoming attendees to the Wolverine State. Dr. Postles' letter is accompanied by a photograph of him. Page 12 features a full-page group photograph of the Wolverine Dental Society. No names are given for this photograph. 15 men in suits and ties stand in the back row (Two of their pictures are collaged in from another photo), and a sixteenth person's face barely visible on the right edge. Seated in front of them are 11 suited men. Many are smiling, some more serious. Opposite this photo on page 13 is a note from Chairman of the Citizen's Committee John C. Dancy. Page 13 also features the end of Dr. Bell's essay from page 3. Page 15 begins a series of head shot portraits: Dr. E. W. Taggart, President-Elect, Dr. R. A. Dixon, Vice-President, Dr. W. M. Springer, Chairman, Executive Board, and Dr. M. L. Walton, Secretary, Executive Board. Page 17 has a group shot of five men seated around a desk, captioned "Editor of Bulletin of National Dental Association, Dr. S. J. Lewis and his staff." Beneath this are two single portraits, one of Dr. William D. Giles, Chairman, Committee on Program National Dental Association and another photo, ofDr. M. R. Dean, Chairman, Committee on Publicity, National Dental Association. Page 19 features prose titled "Detroit... the City Beautiful" printed over a photograph of first Michigan Governor Stevens T. Mason's memorial statue looking out into the city's skyscrapers. Page 21 features a detailed list about conference locations, different places throughout the city, membership fees and registration information, and a credit to the official event photographer, Robert Moseley, a dental student who "will have headquarters in the Rackham Building." Images from Detroit's "finer residential section" are featured on pages 23, 25, and 27. Page 28 has a large photo portrait of Dr. Rayford W. Logan, Professor of History, Howard University. Logan was guest speaker for the public meeting on August 12. Page 29 has one large group photograph, captioned "President of Ladies' Auxiliary and Group of Her Committee Chairmen." Standing at back are Mrs. Mary Bell, Mrs. Thelma Biram, Mrs. Jeanetta Whitby. Seated are Mrs. Velma Malone, Mrs. Alberta Bowman, President, and Mrs. W. O. Terrell. Then more photographs of notable buildings: Page 31 shows two churches and two fraternity houses, the Second Baptist Church and St. Matthew's Episcopal, and Kappa Alpha Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha. On 33, four building photographs: The YMCA and YWCA, Ebenezer A.M.E. Church and Central Tennis Club. Page 35 pictures three "Typical Detroit Business Establishments," Porter's Dry Cleaners, Wayne Diagnostic Hospital, and the home office of the Michigan Chronicle. After page 36, the next four page numbers have been omitted with white-out but there are five pages of the actual event program. These pages, the centerfold, might have been removed to produce the photocopy of the program that went into Dr. Harris' 1992 article in the Journal of the Michigan Dental Association. Page 43 continues on with more photographs of Detroit businesses. One has a sign that says "Dining Room" and a house address of 232, another building's sign says "Great Lakes Mutual Life Insurance." Page 44 issues a welcome to the National Dental Association and lists the names of 14 MDs, along with their address and phone numbers, alma maters (all specified went to either Meharry Medical College or Howard Medical College) and their years of gradation. Those doctors listed are William J. Arnold, MD, Robyn J. Arrington, MD, Thomas A. Brown, MD, Roland H. Chapman, MD, E. L. Dickson, MD, G. F. Jackson, MD, M. R. Palmer, MD, Jos. T. Thomas, MD, J. B. Green, MD, T. E. Cunningham, MD, J. L. Henderson, MD, John A. Ziegler, MD, Walter Harmon, MD, and J. W. Edwards, MD. Page 46 bears the header Ladies' Auxiliary of the National Dental Association, with four headshot photographs: Mrs. Richard Layne, President, Mrs. L. M. Lister, President-Elect, Miss Queenie May Williams, Regional Vice-President, and Mrs. Isola Graham, State Vice-President. Opposite, on page 47, more photographs of women from the Ladies' Auxiliary. A single photograph of Alberta H. Bowman, President Ladies' Auxiliary of Wolverine Dental Society, is next to her letter of welcome, titled "Detroit Greets You!" Below is a group photo of women all in dresses or skirt suits, many dressed up with brooches or earrings, standing behind or seated on or in front of a long sofa in front of a wallpapered wall with blinds over three visible windows. "First row, sitting: Zelma Sparks, Bessie Sheppard, Lydia Johnson, Dorothy Thompson, Iris Cox. Second row, sitting: Lillian Jackson (Vice-President), Alberta Bowman (President), Winifred Elliott (Corr. Sec'y), Thelma Biram (Auditor), Nayola Catchings (Asst. Sec'y), Velma Malone (Treasurer). Third row, standing: Ernestine Postles, Anna Brown, Beatrice Terrell (Parliamentarian), Jennetta Whitby, Carrie Johnson, Queenie May Williams, Mamie Alexander. The ones not present: Mary Bell, Lois Brown, W. Bryant, Mamie Conally, Lydia Goggins, Isola Graham, Veora Hayes, P. Johnson (inset), J. Marlowe, L. Spann, L. Crosswaithe. Page 48 shows the social calendar for the week. Page 50 and 51 are photos of men from the Wolverine Dental Society: On 50, Officers and Committee Chairmen-Wolverine Dental Society. Dr. Corey Sparks, Recording Secretary. Dr. D. H. Brown, Senior Member. Dr. Winifred Orr, Badges. Dr. Haley W. Bell, Exhibits. Dr. James W. Collins, President (Collins' photograph is larger, and at the center of the composition). Dr. Thomas N. Malone, Entertainment. Dr. Paul Alexander, Sports. Dr. Walter Willis, Membership and Reception. Dr. Richard P. Bowman, Program and Souvenir Program. Dr. Charles E. Whitby, Housing. Dr. J. A. Marlowe, Vice-President. Dr. Harvey Shaw, Facilities. On 51, Subsidiary Committee Chairmen-Wolverine Dental Society. Dr. James Catchings, Entertainment. Dr. Ira Whitby, Vice-President and Budget. Dr. Andrew Jackson, Publicity. Dr. John T. Pinder, Membership. Dr. Powell Johnson, Entertainment. Dr. Freeman Sheppard, Radio. Dr. Wendell Cox, Exhibits. Dr. James L. Elliott, Registration. After a few pages of advertisements, a bold type on page 56 announces "In Memorium" for Dr. Edwin A Williams, Dr. R. R. Stuart, and Dr. William M. Howard. Beneath is a photograph of an aerial view of Detroit's Belle Isle. Page 60 has a list of the officials and state officials of the National Dental Association. Page 61 features photos and brief biographies of Dr. Perry and Dr. James L. Elliott. Page 70 lists the Past President's Council: D.A. Ferguson, C.A. Dunston, S.J. Lewis, J.M.C. Ramsey, I.M. Lawrence, W.B. Reed, G.H. Butcher, A.O. Reid, H.A. McAllister, E.D. Downing, M.D. Wiseman, C.W. Dorsey, J.L. Davis, R.E. Beamon, S.C. Hamilton, Waldo J. Howard, J.L. Baxter, Leon A. Reid, W.O.Claytor, and D.H. Turpin. Below this, the four who are deceased are specified: D.A. Ferguson, C.A. Dunston, J.L. Davis, and R.N. Beamon. Page 73 has a list of 46 exhibitors and their booth numbers, more than half are from outside of Michigan. Page 77 has three more photographs of local homes, and page 80 features a full page illustrative map of Detroit with the Detroit River and a little slip of Windsor, Canada at the bottom. Upward from the river, Woodward Avenue splits the page layout into left and right halves, going all the way north to West Grand Boulevard. A key inset on the left lists buildings of note, and a key at right lists hotels, transportation terminals, and hospitals.

   1947

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5. Device, Massage - The Renu-life ozone violet ray health generator is in its original black leather box with a metal hinge and a lenth of flat plastic used as a long handle. Inside the box (labelled as SMD0010.0001a), the purple-velvet lined lid boasts five attachments with differently shaped glass bulbs, three end in rounded shapes, like different sized dooknobs, one ends in a smaller button shape, and the fifth bulb ends by going outward by either side, like a handle on a simple crutch. The top right corner of the lid of the box has a diagonal purple ribbon with the brand name, RenuLife, in decorative silver print. At the bottom of the lid's interior is a black and silver-colored metal label, crediting the Beasley-Eastman Laboratories, Inc. of Detroit Mich. The label lists Model: r. (possible lower case r - it's hard to read) No 75591 Volts 110 Watts 30 and says Made in the USA Pat Sept 30, 1919. The bottom of the box features a control knob, which connects to a red-stained wooden platform. On the wood, in a cicle around the knob, is a RenuLife logo in gold script, flanked by golden arrows. On the bottom half of this circle of gold script, its a voltage control knob allowing users to dial from "strong" to "mild" voltage. Below this, in a purple velvet-lined compartment, is the attached black thread-wrapped electrical cord and a second black cord that leads to the black Bakelite handle, into which one of the bulbs can be inserted. In this compartment is one more piece, a loose silver-colored metal attachment. This piece is about the length of a pencil, and it's made of two hollow tubes, one slightly wider than the other, which are joined in the middle by a black band. SMD0010.0001b: Metallic silver rod with black plastic connector in the middle. The rod on one side of the plastic connector is larger than the other in diameter. SMD0010.0001c: Clear glass tube that graduates into a larger bulb. Filaments inside of glass tube and metallic silver base. Ozone generator. SMD0010.0001d: Clear glass tube SMD0010.0001e: Clear glass tube SMD0010.0001f: Clear glass tube SMD0010.0001g: Clear glass tube

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6. Microscope - A wooden box with a hinged lid and two hooks that swing up to latch the box. Inside is a gold microscope. The lens pulls out to reveal the logo of L. Black & Co., opticians from Detroit, Michigan. On the base of the microscope is a handle which controls which way the mirror turns.

   c. late 19th century

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7. Print, Photographic - Pasikov, Stanley

   Photograph: 8x10, B&W showing Dr. Stanley Pasikov, Detroit dentist, working chair-side on a patient, dated June 19, 1960. Typed caption sheet is attached, with source info: "From News Department/Ford Motor Company/Detroit" "After completing his service with the Air Force, Dr. Stanley Pasikov now is in dental practice in Detroit. A product of Detroit Central high school, Dr. Pasikov attended the University of Michigan." Dr. Pasikov was a 195...

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8. Scraper, Tongue - Yellow and black cardboard and plastic box picturing an illustration of a man and a woman smiling with a background of daisy-like flowers. Text reads, "Oolia Tongue Cleaner--The final touch for perfect oral hygiene--for breath that's springtime fresh! Try it once...you'll use it always." Back of box pictures an illustration of a woman using the tongue cleaner and information/direction text. Inside of box is a metal u-shaped band.

   1960

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9. Sterilizer - Pelton & Crane Company (Detroit, Michigan) Indestructible Instrument Sterilizer model number 211 White ceramic dial centered on the low edge of the front that changes settings from off, low, medium, to high. There's a white ceramic handle on the left side of the metal box, and on the opposite side a black handle (maybe plastic?) knob on the right works a lever to open the lid. The fabric cord is frayed and in poor condition.

   ca. 1927

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10. Tester, Dental Pulp - Hartz Company pulp tester which was Dr. Harold Slocum's first pulp tester. The machine is housed in an attached wooden box with a metal handle on the top. On the front side of the box is a a hooked closure and a metal label. The label reads "Sick Room Supplies. Surgical Instruments, Drugs, Physicians' Supplies. The J. F. Hartz Company. Cleveland Detroit Toronto. Large metal cannister may be missing from this apparatus; on the black-painted inside surface, paint worn away where missing cannister rested. Paper instructions from the J. F. Hartz Co are pasted into the inside lid. Voltamp and wire connecting two prongs. Three additional objects or groups of objects are stored below the main apparatus; 2 metal pieces that are shaped like a key; an alligator clip with a red cord attached to plastic rod with a metal needle type tip; and another alligator clip with a red cord attached to a metal cylinder.

    1898

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11. The Making of The University of Michigan: 1817-1992 - Peckham, Howard H.; Edited and updated by Steneck, Margaret L. and Nicholas H.

    Adams, C.K. Adams, Henry Carter Angell, James B. Audubon, J.J. Bowdoin, Alpheus Felch Cady, Calvin B. Cooley, Mortimer E. Cooley, Thomas M. Davis, Joseph B. Denison, Charles S. Dewey, John Emerson, Ralph Waldo Everett, Edward Ford, Corydon L. Frieze, Henry Simmons Greene, Charles E. Haven, Erastus O. Huber, G. Carl Hutchins, Harry B. Jenney, William L.B. McLaughlin, Andrew Montieth, John Novy, Frederick G. Palmer, A.B. Pal...

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