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Clarence H. Suelter collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.227
Scope and Contents
The collection contains information about different science programs at Michigan State University compiled by Suelter. Some of the materials are photocopies. There is substantial information relating to Robert C. Kedzie, as well as historical overviews of many natural science programs.
Also included are an exhibit catalog for Sesquicentennial Celebration: The Natural Sciences at Michigan State University, 1855-2005 which Suelter created and ...
Dates:
1876 - 2014
Elton B. Hill papers
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
Faith Kedzie Dutton book
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.12
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the book A Boy's View of Michigan Agricultural College in the 1890s. The book uses issues of The Eagle to look at life at Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C., now Michigan State University) in 1892-1893. The Eagle was a small newspaper published by Dutton’s father, Roscoe Kedzie, when he was a teenager living with his grandfather, Robert C....
Dates:
1982
Gerald Baldwin collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.271
Scope and Contents
The Gerald Baldwin scrapbook contains autograph and memory pages, Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) event programs and dance cards, a class rivalry poster, newspaper clippings pertaining to various class events, and basketball, football, and hockey schedules. There are also photographs of the campus, football circa 1917-1921, military on campus in 1918, and the 1921 JHop dance. Also included is a M.A.C. pin.
Dates:
circa 1917-1921
Kristine Vogel papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.161
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one copy of the site project paper entitled "Shaping Michigan State University," a group research project for IAH 201, authored in part by the donor. The paper documents the history of MSU, its buildings, campus, role of women and minorities and the effects of war. The paper is divided into five chapters, each dealing with an issue that affected Michigan State University. Chapter 1 covers “Creation, Construction, and Infrastructure,” Chapter 2 covers “Education...
Dates:
1994
Lauren Pringle Brown papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.153
Scope and Content
The collection contains track and cross country meet results, NCAA programs, and newspaper articles. Also included is a scrapbook put together by Brown containing newspaper clippings and other memorabilia about track events Brown participated in and coached. Also in the collection are records from the MSU Alumni Association including presidential correspondence, Alumni Association Board minutes, and programs for events such as the Annual Smoker, football outings, golf outings and...
Dates:
1927 - 1962
Madison Kuhn collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.107
Scope and Contents
The Madison Kuhn collection consists of materials accumulated by Kuhn during his tenure as University Historian. This collection, which was drawn from his reference files, constitutes only a small portion of the total documentation which he donated to the Archives. A large number of manuscript materials have been transferred, based on their provenance, to other University Archives collections.
This collection deals largely, but not exclusively, with the history of Michigan State...
Dates:
1827 - 1966
Mayo family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.1
Scope and Contents
Over fifty Civil War letters of Perry Mayo, written to his family in Calhoun County, Michigan, from June 1861 to May 1864, constitute the bulk of this collection. They include vivid descriptions of battles, marches, military personnel and camp life, together with observations on the conduct of the war. Also in this collection are numerous and fragmentary attempts at genealogy, with related correspondence which, in addition to Mayo, include such family names as Angell, Bryant,...
Dates:
1861 - 1966
Robert L. Christensen papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00572
Scope and Contents
The papers of Robert L. Christensen consist of "The Third Leg of the Stool Kenyon Butterfield and the Smith-Lever Act of 1914" by Robert L. Christensen and computer printouts of a photo of the S.S. Kenyon Butterfield and a brief history of the ship."The Third Leg of the Stool Kenyon Butterfield and the Smith-Lever Act of 1914" follows Kenyon L. Butterfield's career in the promotion of agriculture extension. Also included is information on Seaman Knapp who also advocated...
Dates:
1995, undated
Robert Maleczka papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.317
Scope and Content
This collection includes the digital files for the presentation titled No one was killed or seriously hurt in the process - chemistry during the early days of MSU, the pioneer land grant college given by Robert Maleczka.
Dates:
2012