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Record Group
Identifier: UA-28.47
Scope and Contents
The Coats and Davenport families collection contains correspondence between Emma Coats Davenport, her parents, and her husband describing day to day family life and life on the farm. The collection also contains letters from other friends and relatives. During the time Eugene and Emma lived at Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.) (now Michigan State University), the letters contain descriptions of campus life, people, and Eugene’s activities. Later after they moved away, there are the...
Dates:
1880-1900, 2023
Record Group
Identifier: UA-28.46
Scope and Contents
The collection contains an article on Leander Burnett by David and Marc Thomas, as well as their research notes, and copies of primary source material. Also included is an issue of The Lamplighter, the newsletter of the East Lansing Historical Society, with an article by David Thomas.
Dates:
1986, 1997
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00249
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.523
Scope and Contents
The Edward C. Hayhow collection includes an MAC scrapbook containing items relating to sporting events, student activities, and entertainment; dance cards; an athletic association membership ticket, letters addressed to Hayhow regarding the National Society of Scabbard and Blade, and Pi Delta Epsilon; MAC Horse Show and Football tickets; an “I helped send the Band to Indiana” tag; and an article pertaining to Varsity Debate activities. Photographs in the scrapbook include...
Dates:
1922 - 1925
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.365
Scope and Contents
The Edward J. Frost collection contains a photograph album of cyanotypes created by Edward J. Frost of Michigan Agricultural College. Frost made the cyanotype prints from negatives borrowed from M.A.C. Professor Rolla C. Carpenter. The images were taken circa 1888, and are of buildings, grounds, students, and interior shots of classrooms, greenhouses, library, museum and shops. Buildings include the Linton Hall, the Armory, the first Williams Hall, Chemical Laboratory/Physics and...
Dates:
circa 1888, Undated
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.67
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection contains material relating to the issues that interested Hill most as a teacher and researcher. He taught a number of courses on farm appraisal and agricultural finance, and his reference material appears here. Land tenure, especially the legal and moral implications of father-son partnerships and farm ownership transfers, were of special interest to him.In addition to this, there is also a scrapbook and some memorabilia from his college days at...
Dates:
1862 - 1972
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.516
Scope and Contents
The Eric Nies collection contains scrapbook pages, a diploma, and the Eric Nies Chronicle by Nancy Nies, American Iris Society. The scrapbook pages contain photos of cadets, photos of the basketball team and photo of the baseball team with Nies. There are also event and athletic tickets, a bath ticket, a cadet certificate, dormitory regulations, Intercollegiate Athletics Rules of Eligibility, a note of punishment, and an athletic mass meeting flyer. There are also loose photographs of...
Dates:
circa 1904-1907, 1915, 2006
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.339
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence from Frances Morehouse and Milton Townsend. Most of the letters are between Frances and Milton but a few of the letters are also from their relatives and friends. While professing their love for each other, Frances and Milton also talked about their day-to-day activities. Frances talked about her Home Economic classes, working on campus at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), and events she attended. She...
Dates:
1920 - 1923
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.441
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photocopies of letters written by William Fraser, Eugene Law, and Fred E. Miller to John C. Fraser, his wife Mrs. Eliza M. Fraser or John Fraser (father of William and John C.) The letters describe their life at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). They write about work, classes and activities. Other topics included the buildings, professors, weather, sports and politics.
Dates:
1866 - 1881
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.43
Scope and Content
The Guy Speeker papers contain gradebooks for mathematics and physics classes that Speeker taught at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Also included are letters of recommendation for Speeker, correspondence from Speeker as dormitory inspector and correspondence regarding World War I. There is a newspaper clipping about the resignation of M.A.C. President Jonathan Snyder and postcards of M.A.C. students and faculty.
Dates:
1912 - 1948
