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Allan S. Thompson photographs
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.424
Scope and Contents
The Thompson collection consists of 1,866 glass plate negatives and three lantern slides. There are also 573 contact prints in the collection of which 494 are from the plates. Some of the prints are 8x10 inches and others are 3 ½ inch squares. The prints of the 3 ½ inch images are noted in the finding aid with the notation “(print available) 3 ½.” A list of the 8x10 inch prints can be found at the end of the finding aid. Safety film negatives (4x5) have been made of all the negatives...
Dates:
1898 - 1913
David Van Dommelen collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.335
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a scrapbook for 1947-1948 and slides of the 1955 MSU Centennial parade. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, event programs, event and football tickets, sport schedules, student activity ticket books, dance cards, housing and fee receipts, and grade slips. Other items include a 1948 football program for the dedication of Macklin Field, program and ticket for Laurence Olivier in the movie Hamlet, pamphlet for the Ambassador Bridge, ephemera related to the...
Dates:
1947-1948, 1955
John "Jake" Ferris collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.474
Content Description
The collections contains the volume Jake's Journey: Memoirs of John N. Ferris of Milton, Indiana by John N. (Jake) Ferris, 2021 and the volume Genealogy of the Ferris Family of Milton, Indiana (Following the Male Line from Samuel in England and His Son, Zachariah, the American Immigrant)by John N. (Jake) Ferris, 2021.Also included is a video of digitized film with additional graphics and images and voice over. The video shows the activities surrounding MSU's centennial in 1955...
Dates:
2021
William A. Ball Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.306
Scope and Contents
The William A. Ball collection consists of color slides taken by Ball of the dedication of the Macklin Field in 1948. The dedication slides show the bands as well as dignitaries on the field. Other slides in the collection include flooding in Lansing and East Lansing in 1947, and a Lansing Memorial Day parade in 1947. One of the flooding pictures shows the MSC Band Shell with water around it.
Dates:
1947 - 1948