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Student Organic Farm Newsletter UA 12.3.49
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-01166
Dates:
2003 - 2009
Sylvan H. Wittwer papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.154
Scope and Contents
The collection contains articles written by Sylvan Wittwer including "Effective Management of Human and Physical Resources for International Agricultural Research," "Improving Storage Qualities of Crops by Treatment with Maleic Hydrazide," "Plasticulture," "Protected Cultivation of Horticulture Crops Worldwide," and "The Greenhouse Effect." Also included is a letter from Hubert H. Humphrey thanking Wittwer for his service on the Office of Technology Assessment's advisory panel on basic...
Dates:
1976 - 1995
Taiwan Project records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.9.5.19
Scope and Contents
The records of the Taiwan project include adminsitration files and correspondence, reports, correspondence and vouchers related to MSU personnel,and correspondence related to Taiwan participants. There is also background material related to aid organizatons to Taiwan, Taiwan agricluture, education. There is also background material about the Taiwan Provincial University and National Taiwan University. Also included are two photoalbums showing MSU and Taiwain faculty, students and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959-1965
Tanzania Marketing Project records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.9.5.18
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the report Agricultural Marketing in Tanzania, Background Research and Policy Proposals by Herbert Kriesel, Charles Laurant, Carl Halpren, Henry Larzelere, June 1970.
Dates:
1970
The Grange Visitor publication
Collection
Identifier: c-00520
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the Grange Visitor, a publication of the Michigan Grange. The publication covers meetings, notices, and discusses social problems faced by farmers and was published at different locations. This collection contains volumes 11, 18-21; 1885-1886, 1893-1896 with large gaps.
Dates:
1884 - 1896
Thomas Wright diary
Collection
Identifier: c-00009
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the diary of Thomas Wright (1831-1841) as it was published in the Tecumseh Herald in 1955, with a brief history of Tecumseh, Michigan. Wright's diary chronicles his relocation in 1831 from Massachusetts to Michigan, where he bought a farm. Earliest entries in the diary detail his journey across Lake Erie in a crowded boat that carried 250 passengers "of every age and condition".
Dates:
1955
Town family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00132
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of letters between Oka and Sarah Ann while he was in Lansing, Michigan. Sarah Ann's letters deal mainly with family matters and the farm. In his letters, Oka describes Lansing and the politics of the Constitutional Convention and the legislature.Their son, Carlton, married Nellie Faling and the couple settled in Clam Lake, Michigan (now Cadillac), where they ran a store. A series of letters from Nellie to her family in 1875-1876 describes their...
Dates:
1830 - 1932
Treiber family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00151
Scope and Contents
The Treiber papers consist of correspondence, family history, and teaching certificates. John Treiber's letters to his wife, which make up the bulk of the collection, were written in 1872 and 1873 when he was sailing on the Great Lakes and working as a lumberjack in Oconto, Wisconsin. Mary Treiber's letters from family and friends (1869-1889) discuss everyday matters such as sick babies, sharecroppers, and family activities. Correspondence from Marion Howell of Lansing describe life in the...
Dates:
1863 - 1889
UA 1.0 Michigan Board of Agriculture Report
Record Group — Volume: Michigan State Board of Agriculture volumes
Identifier: Serial-00463
Scope and Contents
The Michigan Board of Agriculture Reports document that activities of ths Michigan State Agricultural Society which was formed to provide information to farmers.The Society went on to manage the Michigan Agricultural College. This responsibility was later turned over to a newly created State Board of Agriculture. Because of this yearly reports of the college appear in these volumes. Information about MSU includes, finances, enrollment, research acitivies, as well as reports by individual...
Dates:
1849-1859, 1864-1957
University Farm collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.135
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials related to the College Farm at Michigan State University. The records include daybooks, which log tasks students worked on along with the location, date and time spent. Also included is a stock register listing the names, descriptions and ownership histories of the animals at Michigan Agricultural College (now known as Michigan State University).
The collection contains many photographs of horses, including Belgians, Clydesdales, and Percheron. The...
Dates:
1860 - 1976