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The Velvettes on Stage

The Velvettes on Stage

Color photograph of three women preforming on a stage. They are wearing dresses with gold-trimmed ruffles around the shoulder and neckline, they are all holding microphones. Three men can be seen standing behind them.

The Lloyd Tyson Collection

  • 2025.10
  • Collection
  • 1940 - 1970

This collection documents the social activities of Lloyd Tyson during the 1940s-1960s at work as a parts inspector at AC Sparkplug. The materials also depict him performing in factory choirs and as a cast member of the Flint Community Players. The materials include photographs, pamphlets and newspaper clippings.

Lloyd Tyson was born about 1912 in Flint, Michigan to George Tyson, a factory worker, and his wife Genia (Jenice). Lloyd had three brothers and lived with his family at 524 Mathewson Street. He was active in high school, where he graduated from Central High. In addition to playing the fleugel horns in the band, he was also an assistant editor for the yearbook and participated in theater, student council, the Belle Masque Club, the Hi-Y Club, and Delta Epsilon Alpha. On April 7, 1938, Lloyd married Ilene Smith of Coldwater, Michigan. They had a son named Dale.

Tyson, Lloyd C.

The Blue Notes

The Blue Notes

Black and white photograph of five man and a woman. Three men are sitting on cushions with their hands on their knees with instruments at their feet, two men sit upright behind them with their hands in their laps, and the woman stands behind them with her hands on their shoulders. They are a smiling, the men are wearing white suits, four with a tie and one with a bow-tie, and the mon is wearing a dress with a floral pattern.

Taystee Bread

Taystee Bread

Black and white photograph of women and children holding a sign that says "Taystee Bread". There are about eighteen people in the photograph arranged in two loose rows. Behind them a building and telephone pole can be seen. In front of the children holding the sign are four crates, each of which say "Taystee Bread" and have what are likely loaves of bread in them.

Susie C. Fisher Collection

  • 1965.70
  • Collection
  • 1918

The collection consists of several letters and one poem received by Susie C. Fisher from various men serving in U.S. Army in World War I. Letters do not provide details as to whether she was related to them or if they were friends or suitors. All were handwritten in either ink or pencil except one that was typed. Letter writers were Valeno Prince, who served in the headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force, Carl Paterson, who served in evacuation hospital no. 21, and Ralph Manwell, who served at an artillery school. All three served in France during the war. Every letter but one was mailed from France. The one exception originated from Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan. Letter writers mentioned training, operations of their units, and what France and its people were like, but wrote sparingly about combat.

The poem is a chilling account of how the Spanish influenza affected a person’s body. It is unknown when and where the poem was written.

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